Dr. Lomawaima, Ph.D., retired professor at the Center for Indian Education at Arizona State University and co-author of To Remain an Indian: Lessons for Democracy from a Century of Native American Education, will be a Visiting Lecturer. She will discuss how federal Indian policy and practice has shaped Native American education and the experiences of Native people from the turn of the twentieth century to today with an emphasis on how Indigenous sovereignty has been both affirmed and restricted throughout that time.
Dr. Angelina Castagno, Ph.D, professor of Educational Leadership and Foundations at Northern Arizona University, will be a Visiting Lecturer. She will provide guidance on culturally responsive Indigenous curriculum development and instruction based on the 23 principles in the Culturally Responsive Assessment of Indigenous Schooling (CRAIS) tool that she developed with colleagues at Northern Arizona University’s Institute for Native-serving Educators.
Isaac Salcido, Tribal Education Director, Gila River Indian Community (GRIC), will be the point of contact for all events occurring on the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) reservation including the tour and use of space at the Huhugam Heritage Center (HHC) and a presentation from the GRIC Tribal Education Department staff on the history and contemporary life of GRIC. Mr. Salcido will oversee the tribal education department staff who will provide the presentations and connect the Program Director and Academic Co-Directors to the appropriate HHC staff.
Lucia Leigh Laughlin, Director of Learning and Public Engagement at the Heard Museum, will be the point of contact for all events occurring at the Heard Museum including an opening meet and greet night for workshop attendees, a tour of the Away from Home exhibit including access to the Heard Museum’s archives, and the closing celebration dinner. Ms. Laughlin will work closely with the Program Director and Academic Co-Directors to ensure events run smoothly and contribute to the workshop’s overall objectives.
Alexander Soto, Director of Labriola National American Indian Data Center at Arizona State University Library and Vina Begay, Librarian and Archivist at Labriola National American Indian Data Center at Arizona State University Library will be Guest Facilitators. Their participatory workshop will focus on respecting cultural protocols and decolonizing and indigenizing the way we think about archival materials including community-based knowledge such as songs, dances, and photos. Director Soto will work closely with the core project team to coordinate all learning to occur at the Labriola Center.
Dr. Casie Wise, Ed.D, Senior Program Director at the National Indian Education Association, will be a Guest Facilitator. Dr. Wise will facilitate an experiential learning activity called the Blanket Exercise and an interactive presentation on recognizing the impacts of boarding school era historical trauma that introduces teachers to a free healing-centered curriculum created in partnership with the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.