Each year, the Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAISA) organization holds a conference that involves faculty and students from colleges and universities (tribal and non-tribal), community-based scholars and elders, and professionals working in the field. Attending the annual NAISA conference has become a great opportunity for IPinCHers to get together with their colleagues and to connect with Indigenous community members, scholars, and students from around the world.This was the case at this year鈥檚 NAISA conference, held last week in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
IPinCH Project Ethnographer, , organized the IPinCH-focused session, 鈥淲ho 鈥極wns鈥� Indigenous Knowledge?鈥�, chaired by Project Director, .
George provided an overview of IPinCH with his talk, entitled 鈥淭he IPinCH Project 鈥� In Theory and Practice,鈥� while Alexis spoke on 鈥淚PinCH Project Ethnography: Critical Reflections on Researchers Conducting Projects on Indigenous Heritage and Intellectual Property Issues.鈥� Bonnie Newsom discussed, 鈥淒eveloping a Community-Based Infrastructure for Protecting Intellectual Property: Strategies and Tools from the Penobscot Nation in Maine.鈥� The three other presentation, given in abstentia, were by, 鈥淏uilding Connections, Protocols, and Toolkits from Comparative Community-Based Research,鈥� Charles Arnold, 鈥�',鈥� and , 鈥淵ukon First Nations Heritage Values and Heritage Resource Management.鈥�
The room was packed during this session and there was much interest in the work that IPinCH is doing.
Other panels at the conference included IPinCH team members: speaking about 鈥淭he Politicization of Aesthetics on the Central Northwest Coast,鈥� on 鈥淐omposing from the Sky: New Works in Northwest Coast First Nations Dance,鈥� and with his paper, 鈥溾�楧ear Bob鈥�: The Mutual Politics of Robert K. Thomas and Sol Tax in Action Anthropology.鈥�
An informal IPinCH dinner gathering was held with Jennifer Kramer (Associate), Darren Ranco and Bonnie Newsom (of the ), as well as Alexis, and George.
IPinCH also had an information booth again this year, showcasing our new poster, brochure, a selection of our publications and the first of our Fact Sheet series.
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