Welcome
Stephen Aron, Calvin and Marilyn Gross Director and President and CEO, Autry Museum of American West
Opening Remarks
Richard West, Jr. (Cheyenne), Former President and CEO, Autry Museum of American West, and Founding Director of Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Keynote
Theresa Ambo (Luiseño, Tongva), University of California, San Diego
Ancestral Basket Weaving and Cultural Revival in Coastal Southern California
Dr. Yve Chavez (Gabrieleno/Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians), University of Oklahoma
Basketry and Cultural Revitalization Across Borders
Dr. Daisy Ocampo Diaz (Caxcan), Assistant Professor of History, California State University, San Bernardino
Making Museum Collections Useful
Bruce Bernstein, Senior Scholar, School for Advanced Research and Tribal Heritage Preservation Officer, Pueblo de San Ildefonso
Rekindling Culture and Fire
Christina Gonzalez (Chumash) and Alice Lincoln-Cook (Karuk), California Indian Basketweaving Association
Revitalization of living off the land through Native American Foodways
Reagan Wytsalucy (Diné/Navajo), Assistant Professor and San Juan County Extension Director, Utah State University
Hopi Basketry and Foodways
Ruby Chimerica (Hopi)
Indigenous Resilience is Climate Resilience
Thomas Kenote (Menominee, Anishinaabe), Program Officer, NDN Collective
Plants, Inspiring the People; Reflections on Hualapai Ethnobotany and Basketry of the Grand Canyon
Carrie Cannon (Kiowa), Ethnobotanist, Hualapai Department of Cultural Resources