1. JEFFREY P. SHEPHERD, PH.D. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO JPSHEPHERD@UTEP.EDU HTTP://FACULTY.UTEP.EDU/JPSHEPHERD THE 6 TH ANNUAL GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA MARCH 14 & 15, 2011 “Building Relationships and Respecting ‘The People’: Method, Ethics, and Decolonial Paradigms in Indigenous Studies Research”

2. Overview of Discussion Part I: Working with “The People” Amat Whala Pa’ Part II: Cross-Cultural Research and Thoughts on Decolonization Part III: Community Based Projects Concluding Remarks

3. Modern Reservations in the U.S.

4. Reservations in Arizona

5. Profile of the Community >Grand Canyon Landscape >Yuman Language Group >12 Bands >6 Million Acres >1883 Reservation >Today, 1 million acres, 2,500 people >Tourism, ED., Government

6. Part I: Working With “The People” Land Claims Supreme Court (1941) and the Santa Fe Railway Lucille Watahomigie Collaboration with the Cultural Resources Department Cooperative Projects Proposal to the Hualapai Council Dissertation Defense

7. Continued… Book Manuscript Hualapai History Review Board San Francisco Peaks Grand Canyon National Park and Boundary Curriculum Photo book

8. Part II: Ethics & Cross-Cultural Research Doing “good work” and Beyond… Complex issues History of Academic Research Cartography, Anthropology, Ethnography Perils and Pitfalls of History Positionality and critical self-reflection Privilege and politics

9. Continued… Hard Questions:  Do Indigenous peoples want histories written about them?  Will researchers yield some power?  Intellectual resource mining History and Historical Trauma Historical Silences Impact of Doing History Disciplines and Dichotomies

10. Continued… Indigenous intellectual traditions Native/Indigenous/First Nations Studies Programs A Unified Intellectual Discipline? Decolonization/Decolonial Work  Terminology  Uprooting, Building, and Creating

11. Solar / Wind Power on the Navajo/Dine Nation (Navajo Green Economy Commission) PART III: Community Based Projects Solar Power Language and History Research and Treaties

12. Concluding Remarks Self-Reflection Humility, Support, and Collaboration Scholarship for Social Justice

13. Questions? Courtesy of the Mohave Museum of History and Arts