Please see the post immediately below this one for the map and location of events. For questions, please contact Les Ridingin (ridingin@uta.edu).
3-4 PM Forum: “Being Indigenous at UTA”
Moderators: NASA President, Sampson Dewey; Past President, Kristy Willis; VP, Stephen Silva Brave
Anticipated Participants include current students, as well as a 1980’s alumna (community leader, Peggy Larney, OK Choctaw) and past NASA leaders from the 1990s and early 2000s
4-5 PM Presentation of the Land Acknowledgement and Site Dedication
The Acknowledgement reading and dedication will be introduced by Samson Dewey and Kristy Willis.
Amber Silverhorn-Wolfe, Education Services Administrator, Wichita and Affiliated Tribes
Diana Parton, CEO of Prolora LLC, citizen of the Caddo Nation
Site Dedication read by Dr. Jennifer Cowley, University of Texas at Arlington President
Speakers
Dr. Jennifer Cowley, UTA President
Dr. Tamara L. Brown (UTA Provost, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs)
Dr. Nichole Prescott (Myaamia/Miami Nation of Oklahoma, UT System Office of Academic Affairs)
Amber Silverhorn-Wolfe (Education Services Administrator, Wichita and Affiliated Tribes)
Diana Parton (CEO Prolora LLC, Caddo Nation)
David Hopman (UTA Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture)
Darryl Lauster (recorded, UTA Professor, Art)
Sampson Dewey (Paiute, NASA President)
Dr. Ken Roemer (former NASA Advisor, Emeritus UT System Academy of Dist. Teachers)
Dr. Les Riding In (Pawnee/Osage, NASA Advisor, Chair of Acknowledgement Committee,
CoLA Assistant Dean)
Mayoral Proclamation, Arlington Mayor Jim Ross (Cherokee)
Cutting of the Banner Explained by NASA Past Presidents Dr. Robert Caldwell (Choctaw-Apache) and Stephanie Vielle (Blackfeet)
Unveiling the Monument/Plaque Performed by Sampson and past NASA Presidents and leaders
5-6 PM: Central Library, 6th floor Events and Displays
Native Foods Tasting: Kristy Willis (OK Choctaw); Pauline Longfox (MS Choctaw)
Exhibit “Native Now”: Contemporary artworks by Native artists & Artifacts display
Exhibits created by Leah Mccurdy, Senior Lecturer, Art; Morgan Chivers,
FabLab Librarian; Ashley Lemke, Associate Professor, Sociology-Anthropology
Slide Show: The transformation of the roundhouse and courtyard; NASA events.
Created by Stephen Silva Brave (Lakota), NASA Vice President
6 PM Central Library, 6th floor: “Native Circles: Sustaining the Homeland,” Dr. Farina King, (Diné) Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology and Culture, University of Oklahoma
