Eyapaha:

Chris Eagle Hawk

 

Opening Prayer:

Chief Arvol Looking Horse - 19th Generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle of the Lakota Dakota Nakota Oyate

 

Keynote:

Dr. Timoti Karetu - Dr. Karetu is Chairman of Kohanga Reo in New Zealand, Executive Director of Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo, chairman of Aotearoa Traditional Maori Performing Arts Festival, and a former professor at the University of Hawaii. He was also Inaugural Commissioner of Maori Language (a government assignment), and has written many books and other forms of literature on Maori language and the arts.  Dr. Karetu is a founding father of the successful effort to revitalize the Maori language.

 

Guest Speaker:

Ryan Wilson - National Alliance to Save Native Languages

 

Documentary Presentation:

Jennifer Weston - Cultural Survival

 

Breakout Sessions:

-Darlene Speidel/Cy Standing (Wodakota Education Services)

-Kimberlee Campbell (LLEAP University of South Dakota)

-Gary McCone (National Museum of Language)

-Jan Ullrich (Lakota Language Consortium)

-Daphie Pooyak

-Tony Alexis (Native Networks, Inc.)

-Earl Bullhead

-Liz Letendre/Sherry Letendre (Alexis Nakota Sioux Education Department)

-Jim Green/Rosalie Little Thunder

-Delphine Red Shirt

-Clifford Canku (North Dakota State University)

-Peter Hill

-Albert White Hat

-Vern Lambert/Lorrain Greybear (Candeska Cikana Community College)

-Nicky Bell/Dave Posthumus (Red Cloud Indian School

-Armik Mirzayan (University of South Dakota)

-Kelly John Fontaine

-Wilmer Mesteth

-Miranda Eastman/Nick Hernandez (Oceti Sakowin Education Consortium)

-Marilyn Circle Eagle/Helene Circle Eagle (Cheyenne Eagle Butte School)

-Brian Dodge (Little Wound School)

-Dennis Ghost/Bryan Charging Cloud (Cankpe Opi Owayawa)

-Faith Spotted Eagle

-Noella Eagle

-Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Education Department

-Thunder Valley CDC/Oyate Omniciye

-Sacheen Whitetail-Cross (LLEAP-Sitting Bull College)

-Sisokaduta

- Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council