Indigenous Politics Mini-Conference
Mini-conference
Co-Sponsored by Indigenous Studies Network
Participants:
(Mini-Conference Organizer) Laura E. Evans, University of Washington
Proposed Participants and Paper Titles:
Panel I: Roundtable: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Politics, and Political Science: Critical Histories and New Directions
Chair: Kennan Ferguson University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Participants:
- Kouslaa Kessler-Mata, University of San Francisco
- Kevin Bruyneel, Babson Colleg
- Tulia Falleti, University of Pennsylvania
- Nathaniel Shils University of Pennsylvania
- Sheryl Lightfoot, University of British Columbia
- Marcela Torres Wong, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Mexico
Panel II: Self-Definition is Self-Determination: Indigenous Political Identity
Chair: Thomas Klemm, University of Michigan
Discussants:
- Edgar Franco Vivianco, University of Michigan
- Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College
Voting Reservations: The Identity Politics of Land
- John Burnett (presenting co-author), University of California, Riversid
- Loren Collingwood, University of New Mexico
- Sean Long, University of California, Riverside
Towards a Decolonial Quantitative Social Science: Indigenous Self-Identification in the 2019 Native Hawaiian Survey
- Ngoc Phan (presenting co-author), Hawaii Pacific University
- Kevin Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Like Water Slipping Through Cracks in a Basket: Teaching and Learning Yurok at Hoopa Valley High School, California
Mneesha Gellman, Emerson College
What are ‘Indigenous problems’ represented to be in the long-term care policies in Taiwan’?
Wasiq Silan, University of Helsinki
Panel III: Indigenous Political Participation: Harnessing Influence and Affecting Change
Chair: Andrew Szarejko, University of Cincinnati
Discussants:
- Mneesha Gellman, Emerson College
- Tessa Provins, University of Pittsburgh
Native American Voting in the 2020 Election
- Gabriel Sanchez, (presenting co-author), University of New Mexico
- Raymond Foxworth, First Nations Development Institute
Voting by Mail: A Comparison Between the Access of Rural White and Reservation Populations in Arizona
- Jean Reith Schroedel (presenting co-author), Claremont Graduate University
- Joseph Dietrich, Claremont Graduate University
- Kara Mazareas, Claremont Graduate University
- Melissa Rogers, Claremont Graduate University
Politics of Coalition Building: An Examination of the Indigenous and Black Movements in the U.S.
- Danielle Hiraldo (presenting co-author), Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona
- Miriam Jorgensen, Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona
Diplomacy as Representation: Congress, Indian Nations, and Legislative Success
Kirsten Matoy Carlson (solo author), Wayne State University
Panel IV. Indigenous Autonomy and Sovereignty: Practices of Governance
Chair: Laura E. Evans, University of Washington
Discussants:
- Kouslaa Kessler-Mata, University of San Francisco
- Nina McMurry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Historical Failure of the IHS and the Restoration of Healthcare Sovereignty
- Dr. Joseph Dietrich (presenting co-author), California State Polytechnic University, Pomona,
- Jamaica Baccus-Crawford, Claremont Graduate University
- Kara Mazareas, Claremont Graduate University
- Dr. Jean Reith Schroedel, Claremont Graduate University
The Search for Native American Political Development
Thomas Klemm, University of Michigan
‘Indigenous’ Land Rights and Contentious Politics in Africa: The Case of Uganda
Matthew Mitchell, University of Saskatchewan
Urban Autonomy: Moving Toward a Cosmopolitan Idea of Indigeneity
Elizabeth Camacho, Arizona State University
Per-capita payments and tribal governance
- Paasha Mahdavi (presenting co-author), University of California—Santa Barbara
- Adam Crepelle, Southern University Law Center
- Dominic Parker, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Panel V: Native Lands, Native Waters: The Politics of Climate Change and Native Nations
Chair: Arturo Chang, Williams College
Discussants:
- Rick Witmer, Creighton University
- Ngoc Phan, Hawaii Pacific University
Indigenous Influence in Global Climate Governance
Fernando Tormos-Aponte, University of Maryland — Baltimore County
Political Recognition, Resource Access, and Indigenous Environmental Governance in America
Clifton Cottrell (solo author), University of Maryland, Citizen of the Cherokee Nation
The Determinants of Governmental Responses to Climate Change? An Examination of Indigenous Nations
Tessa Provins, University of Pittsburgh
Climate Policies of Native American Casino Industry
- Laura E. Evans (presenting co-author), University of Washington
- Nives Dolsak, University of Washington