Indigenous Women's Voices Summit

Cultural Revitalization & Protection (Panel Discussion)

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The work of protecting, preserving, and revitalizing culture encompasses a rich and diverse set of strategies and platforms for crucial and creative assertions of sovereignty, self-determination, and cultural expression. Further, it is widely recognized that cultural revitalization is requisite for community wellness and the cultural integrity of modern Indigenous communities. Efforts glean from the past, but are not locked into a narrowly focused mandate to return to some idealized former time. Art, song, storytelling, ceremony, language reclamation, food sovereignty, land protection are all drawn on to celebrate, elevate, and reclaim cultural knowledge systems, re-establish relationship and reciprocity, advance healing and reconciliation, and provide the foundation for understanding the world.


  • Amethyst First Rider: Buffalo Treaty & Iinnii Initiative 
  • Tiffany Hope Cook: Three Sister’s Sovereignty Project
  • Trisha Moquino: Keres Children’s Learning Center
  • Kawenniiosta: Three Sister’s Sovereignty Project
  • Paulette Fox: Iinnii Initiative

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  • A screening of the short film Buffalo Lights & presentation: Community Performance Art: A Vehicle for Reclaiming Our Stories, Connecting to the Land & Activating Communities—Amethyst First Rider, Buffalo Treaty & Iinnii Initiative Leadership
  • Re-Birthing Sustainable Communities through the Assertion of Food, Energy & Cultural Sovereignty: Kawnniiosta Jock of Three Sisters Sovereignty Project 
  • The Ties that Bind Us: Language Reclamation as a Foundation of Cultural Revitalization & Preservation 
  • Moderator: Cristina Mormorunni (Métis/Sardo) Wildlife Conservation Society, Rocky Mountain Program.

The work of protecting, preserving, and revitalizing culture encompasses a rich and diverse set of strategies and platforms for crucial and creative assertions of sovereignty, self-determination, and cultural expression. Further, it is widely recognized that cultural revitalization is requisite for community wellness and the cultural integrity of modern Indigenous communities. Efforts glean from the past, but are not locked into a narrowly focused mandate to return to some idealized former time. Art, song, storytelling, ceremony, language reclamation, food sovereignty, land protection are all drawn on to celebrate, elevate, and reclaim cultural knowledge systems, re-establish relationship and reciprocity, advance healing and reconciliation, and provide the foundation for understanding the world.


  • A screening of the short film Buffalo Lights & presentation: Community Performance Art: A Vehicle for Reclaiming Our Stories, Connecting to the Land & Activating Communities—Amethyst First Rider, Buffalo Treaty & Iinnii Initiative Leadership
  • Re-Birthing Sustainable Communities through the Assertion of Food, Energy & Cultural Sovereignty: Kawnniiosta Jock of Three Sisters Sovereignty Project 
  • The Buffalo Way: A Pathway to Cultural Revitalization, Biocultural Conservation & Reconciliation—Kendall Edmo (Blackfeet Nation), Wildlife Conservation Society, Rocky Mountain Program & Tribal Historic Preservation Office 
  • Blending Art & Advocacy: The Transformational Power of Art—Lynnette Haozous (Chiricahua Apache, Diné, and Taos Pueblo), Artist/Advocate/Educator
  • The Ties that Bind Us: Language Reclamation as a Foundation of Cultural Revitalization & Preservation 
  • Moderator: Cristina Mormorunni (Métis/Sardo) Wildlife Conservation Society, Rocky Mountain Program.