THURSDAY, APRIL 28:
9:00am - Location: Ecumenical Center
Opening Ceremony/Opening Remarks
-Susan Daniels, Inter-Tribal Student Council
-Randy Cornelius
10:00am - Steve Dodge, Tribal Environmental Liaison, USEPA
-Environmental Sovereignty issues, tribal environmental
ordinances, Clean Air and Water Acts
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
1:00pm - Location: Rose Hall Auditorium
Al Gedicks, Professor of Sociology, UW-LaCrosse
Mr. Gedicks is the former Director of the Center for
Alternative Mining Development Policy. He is also the
author of THE NEW RESOURCE WARS: NATIVE AND ENVIRONMENTAL
STRUGGLES AGAINST MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS, and the
producer/director of the recent documentary film, Anishinaabe
Niijii.
3:00pm - John Griffin and Ken VanZile, Mole Lake Sokaogon Chippewa
Community
Mr. Griffin is the Environmental Specialist for the Sokaogon
Chippewa Band, and Mr. VanZile is a Tribal Council member
involved with environmental issues. Their joint presentation
will include up-dated information with respect to the
proposed Exxon mining project in the Mole Lake/Crandon, WI
area.
5:00pm - Open for discussion groups.
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1994
9:00am - Location: Ecumenical Center
Jackie Smith, Environmental Manager, Oneida Tribe of Indians of
Wisconsin
10:45am - Walt Bresette, Native Rights Activist, Community Organizer,
Environmentalist, Lecturer and Author
Mr. Bresette is a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior
Chippewa Indians in Northern Wisconsin. He is a community
organizer, focusing on native rights and environmental issues.
He has lectured extensively in the U.S. and Canada. Walt is
co-founder of the Lake Superior Greens, the Wisconsin Greens,
the Witness for Non-violence, the Midwest Treaty Network, and
Anishinaabe Niijii...a mining watchdog group. He is an
alternative member of the Indigenous Environmental Network
Board and is an Advisory Board member of the Superior Radios
Network. In 1993 Mr. Bresette co-authored, with Rich Whaley of
Greenpeace, WALLEYE WARRIORS, the story and analysis of treaty
rights confrontations in Northern Wisconsin in the aftermath of
the Doyle Treaty Rights Decision of 1983. The book has been
awarded the Wisconsin Council of Writers August Derleth
Booklength Non-fiction award as the best work submitted in
that category.
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
1:30pm - Panel, Menominee Tribal Delegation
-Hilary Waukau, Vice-chairman, Menominee Tribal Legislature
-Kim Menominee, Menominee Land Use Office
-Louis Hawpetoss, Menominee Planning Office
-John Koss, Menominee Planning Office
Note: The Menominee Tribe, along with the Mole Lake Sokaogon
Chippewa, the Forest County Potawatomi and the Stockbridge-
Munsee, the four Nations who share the Wolf River watershed,
have joined together, forming the Nii Win Inter-Tribal Council,
in opposition to the Exxon Crandon mine project.
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
1:00pm - Location: Ecumenical Center
Menominee Tribal Singers and Dancers
-Woodland songs and dances
3:00pm - Denise Sweet, White Earth Chippewa, Assistant Professor,
Humanistic Studies, Literature and Language, and American
Indian Studies
-Denise will be presenting readings of original poetry
and other works developed for the conference.
6:30pm - Location: Phoenix Sports Center
Second Annual Spring Renewal Pow-wow
Grand Entry at 6:30pm