Teach-In: NYC Stands with Standing Rock

Friday, October 28, 2016 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Join NYC Stands With Standing Rock for a report back from the frontlines and the launch of a new teaching tool, the Standing Rock syllabus. This event is free and open to all.

6:30 Introductions - Elsa Hoover (Anishinaabe)
6:40 Videos on Oceti Sakowin Sovereignty
6:50 Report Back from Standing Rock - Samantha K’_alaag’aa Jaat (Haida-Tlingit-Iñupiaq)
7:05 Intro to Settler Colonialism - Anne Spice (Tlingit)
7:20 US Indian Policy, Sovereignty & Treaty-Making - Professor Karl Jacoby
7:35 First Women, Then the Nation: Gendered Violence & Settler Colonialism - Lou Catherine Cornum (Diné)
7:50 Break
8:00 Gender & Indigenous Lifeways - Crystal Migwans (Anishinaabe)
8:15 Resources, Infrastructure & Settler Colonialism - Professor Manu Vimalassery
8:30 Contemporary Indigenous Activism, Solidarity & Struggle - LJ Amsterdam
8:45 Environmental Racism & Dispossession - Teresa Montoya (Diné)
9:00 Questions & Discussion