Future-Making: Land, Law, and Indigenous Resilience

This day-long symposium invites scholars, students, and the public to learn from and be in conversation with Indigenous experts in ecology, technology, and governance to better understand the practice and potential of place-based problem-solving in contemporary Indigenous communities.

The hands-on workshop with experts from Virginia Indian Tribes allows participants to see how local makers are reinterpreting ancestral tools and techniques to address present-day needs. A panel discussion with leaders and experts from Virginia Tribes and U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico borderlands highlights points of connection and divergence in communities that navigate complex, dynamic relationships with settler colonial nation-states.

Free to attend with registration.

11:00 AM–1:00 PM Indigenous Tools and Techniques Workshop at Morven's Meeting Barn

1:00–2:30 PM Box lunches provided at Morven

3:00–4:30 PM Panel discussion at the Meeting Barn

5:00–6:00 PM Reception at the Main House

Panel speakers:

Karen Divers, Senior Advisor to the President for Native American Affairs, University of Minnesota

Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan, Tohono O'odham Nation Education Development Liaison, NSF

Diane Shields, Chief of the Monacan Indian Nation

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Indigenous Political and Social Thought Committee Members

Kody Grant, UVA Tribal liaison

Savannah Baber, Virginia Humanities

Joseph Lilly, Native American Student Union representative

Willow Lovecky, Native American Student Union representative

Raven Adams, community member, Virginia Tribal Education Consortium (VTEC) Algonquian language group

Allison Bigelow, UVA faculty, ex-officio