Schedule

**This session will be live-streamed. Dr. Amanda Cheromiah (Laguna Pueblo), the Executive Director for the Center for the Futures of Native Peoples, lives, prays, and works in the heart of the beast - Carlisle, PA, which is a significant place of remembrance for Indigenous Peoples. Dr. Cheromiah will share about her role in Carlisle, at the CFNP, and how she navigates spaces as an Indigenous woman and descendant of the Carlisle Indian School. This session will include interactive art, storytelling opportunities for guests, and spaces to heal and process.

**This session will be live-streamed.

Healing is an act of resistance, remembrance, and reclamation. In this interactive session, Dr. Amanda Cheromiah and Dr. Joannie Suina, two Pueblo women leaders, will guide participants through Indigenous healing modalities that nurture well-being and resilience. Rooted in community and cultural strength, this session will explore practices such as mindfulness, breathwork, storytelling, and ancestral knowledge-sharing. A special focus will be placed on zine-making, a creative and accessible form of self-expression. What are Zines? Zines (short for magazines or fanzines) are self-published booklets that offer a space for personal storytelling, activism, and artistic expression. They have long been used by marginalized communities to share knowledge, uplift voices, and foster collective healing. Zine-Making as a Healing Practice Participants will have the opportunity to create their own zines as a form of reflection and healing. Through writing, drawing, and collage-making, attendees can explore personal and cultural narratives, process emotions, and celebrate resilience. No prior artistic experience is necessary—just a willingness to engage in creative expression. This session provides a welcoming space to connect, create, and heal together. Join us as we rise, remember, and reclaim our stories through Indigenous healing practices and zine-making.

**This session will be live-streamed.

**This session will be live-streamed. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School is a major site of memory for many Native peoples, as well as a source of study for students and scholars around the globe. The Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center website represents an effort to aid the research process by bringing together, in digital format, a variety of resources that are physically preserved in various locations around the country. Through these resources, we seek to increase knowledge and understanding of the school and its complex legacy, while also facilitating efforts to tell the stories of the many thousands of students who were sent there. Visit: https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/

**This session will be live-streamed. In their collaborative session, Jonathan and Chris will share how artist mediums have guided their journey of resisting and reclaiming their inherent right to be unapologetically Indigenous in academic and professional spaces. Jonathan and Chris have been married for almost 20 years, and over that time, they have completed their terminal degrees in their respective fields while living in a multi-generational home and raising their 13-year-old son. They will share how they leaned upon each other’s strengths in art to disrupt westernized ways of success and to assert how ‘family’ is the strongest bond to being unapologetically Indigenous.

**This session will be live-streamed. Without Arrows is an award-winning documentary that aired on PBS in January 2025. Without Arrows is the product of a collaboration between Delwin Fiddler Jr. and Jonathan Olshefski. They will show clips from the film and discuss the challenges they faced and how their relationship deepened while creating and exhibiting the film. Film synopsis: Filmed over the course of thirteen years (2011-2023), WITHOUT ARROWS chronicles the vibrance and struggle of a Lakȟóta family Delwin Fiddler Jr., a champion grass dancer from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, left his reservation as a young man to escape a trauma that splintered his family and built a new life in Philadelphia. A decade later he abandons it all and returns home to fulfill his mother’s ambition and carry on the legacy of their thiyóšpaye (extended family). Website: https://withoutarrows.com/