CONSEJO INTERNACIONAL DE TRATADOS INDIOS

International Indian Treaty Council Conference

October 3 ^rd  - 6^th ,  2003

Sac and Fox Indian Nation, Oklahoma  

Provisional Agenda and Speakers List

Thursday October 2:  

ARRIVALS, set up camps

Friday October 3^rd: 

Lighting of the sacred fire ceremony, sunrise, Sac and Fox Nation

8 - 10 AM: Continental Breakfast will be offered

8 AM – 12 noon: Registration and camp set up,

9 AM – 12 noon: Youth caucus meeting, Sac and Fox Tribe Community Center

12 noon – 1 PM:  Lunch

1 – 2 PM:  Opening ceremony, welcome, protocols, Sac and Fox Indian Nation, speakers tba

2 - 2:30 PM:  Welcome to the Conference, IITC and Conference Organizing Committee

Presenters: James Main Sr. (greetings and thanks to hosts); Bill Means (introduction to IITC), Francisco Cali and Andrea Carmen (welcome, greetings and overview of conference) and Jackie Warledo (conference logistics and introduction of committee members)

2: 30 to 3 PM:  Break

3 - 6 PM:  Panel and round table discussion: Oil, Gas and Mining: Impacts and organizing strategies to protect Indigenous lands from Oklahoma and around the world (co-sponsored by IITC and Indigenous Environmental Network oil campaign)

Moderator/Presenter:  Clayton Thomas – Muller, (Cree Nation, Canada, IEN Oil Campaign Coordinator); other presenters: Faith Gemmill (Gwich’in Steering Committee, Alaska), Earl Hatley (Oklahoma), Manny Pino (Pueblo, New Mexico), Saul Vicente Vasquez (Zapoteca Nation, Oaxaca Mexico), Tom Goldtooth (Dineh/Dakota Nations, IEN National Coordinator), Earl Tulley (Dine CARE)

6 – 7  PM:   Dinner

7:30 – 9:30:  Oklahoma and guest presenters cultural program, presenters tba, moderator, Dennis Jennings

Saturday,  October 4th

7:30 – 8:30 AM:  Breakfast

9 – 11 AM: Panel and round table discussion:  Right to Food and Food Sovereignty, sharing strategies for restoring and defending traditional food systems from the local to international levels (co-sponsored by IITC and Heifer International North America Indian Nations Program)

Moderator/presenter: Carol Kalafatic, (Quechua, IITC Right to Food Program Coordinator); other presenters: Paul Smith (Oneida, Heifer International), Francisco Cali (Mayan Kachiquel, Guatemala), Fred Dubray (Lakota, Inter Tribal Bison Cooperative), Thakiwa Foundation Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma (rep tba), Rebecca Adamson (Eastern Cherokee, President, First Nations Development Institute) 

11 – 12:30: Workshop/Training: Building Organizing Skills and Capacity for Restoring and Defending Our Sovereignty and Self-determination, Jackie Warledo moderator; Presenters: Jo Kay Dowell (Quapaw Nation, Oklahoma); Chaz Wheelock (Oneida Nation), Pu’uhonua “Bumpy” Kanahele (Sovereign  Nation of Hawaii)       

12:30 – 2:00 PM:  Lunch

2 – 4 PM:  Youth panel and roundtable:  Building Youth Capacity and Leadership

 Moderator/Presenter: Heath St. John (Apache/Lakota), other presenters: Sherri Norris (Osage Nation, IITC Bay Area Youth Program Coordinator), Sammie Ardito (Leechlake Anishinabe, IITC youth mentee), Heather Lighting Milton (Cree/Stoney/Blackfoot/Ojibway, Canada, IEN Youth Coordinator), Taira Ten Tomas (Kuna Youth Movement, Panama), Amalia Anderson (Mayan), Oklahoma Youth Speaker tba

4 – 4:30 PM:  Break

4:30  - 6 PM Traditional honoring for Our IITC Oklahoma Relatives and Leaders, Presenters  tba

6 – 11 PM:  Sac and Fox Community Pow Wow; dinner will be provided during the pow wow for registered conference participants,

Sunday, October 5th

7:30  - 8:30  Breakfast

9 – 10:30:  Panel and discussion, Report back on Recent International Work and Developments: Cancun (WTO), Intersessional Working Group on the Draft Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, OAS Declaration. 

Moderator/Presenter: Francisco Cali (Mayan Kachiquel, Guatemala, IITC Board President); other presenters:  Andrea Carmen, (Yaqui Nation, IITC Executive Director); Petuuche Gilbert, (Council member, Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico), Alberto Saldamando (IITC General Counsel)

10:30 AM – 12:30: Panel and discussion, Protecting and Defending our Sacred Sites; campaigns and organizing strategies around Indian country and around the world

Moderator/Presenter, Hinewirangi Kohu (Maori Nation, Aotearoa/New Zealand); Other Presenters:  Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne & Hodulgee Muscoge, President, Morning Star Institute), Mickey Gemmill (Pit River/Wintu cultural leader), Sarah James (Gwich’in Nation, Arctic Village, Alaska); Laurie Weahkee (Pueblo Nation, SAGE Council New Mexico), Black Mesa Water Coalition (rep tba) 

12:30 – 2 PM:  Lunch

2 - 5:30 PM:  Discussion/strategy/networking groups on key issues: (moderators tba)

1) Land and Treaties; 2) Cultural Rights and Sacred sites; 3) Sovereignty and Self Determination; 4) International standard setting, Indigenous Rights; 5) Prisoners Rights and Criminal justice; 6)  Environment and Bio-diversity: oil, gas, forests, dams, mining, etc.; 7) Community Health issues; 8) Right to Food and Food Sovereignty; 9) Indian to Indian business and trade, sustainable investing in Indian Country;  10) Youth Organizing;  11) Children’s Rights and Indigenous Women;   12) others tba  

5:30 – 6 PM:  Break

6 – 7 PM:    Dinner

7:30 – 10 PM:  videos, story telling, informal sharing  

MONDAY October 6

7:30 – 8:30 AM:  Breakfast

9 – 11:30 AM:  Moderators: Andrea Carmen and Ron Lameman

11:30 –  12:30: Closing and thanks, Lenny Foster for IITC and Sac and Fox rep, tba

                                        12:30 – 2 PM: Lunch and Departures