Knowing Is Doing: Working With and In Indigenous Nations

Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 1:00–2:30PM EDT / 10:00–11:30AM PDT & Phoenix (MST) / 11:00AM–12:30PM MDT (Albuquerque) / 12:00–1:30PM CDT / 5:00– 6:30PM GMT / 6:00–7:30PM BST / 7:00–8:30PM CAT, CEST & CMT / 8:00– 09:30PM EAT, EEST & IDT

This International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma webinar is held in recognition of United States Indigenous Peoples Day which is observed annually on the second Monday in October in various U.S. states and cities.  It is an opportunity for reflection on the multigenerational consequences of the historical treatment of Indigenous peoples. Our panelists are contributors to the scholarly book From the Skin: Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis and will share the work they are doing in their own communities as practitioner-theorists.  Their work demonstrates the capacity of Indigenous studies programs to serve and strengthen communities.

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Speakers:

J. Jeffery Clark (Diné)

Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, Jeffery’s research areas include Indigenous stories, decolonization, settler colonialism, and Indigenous futurity and imagination. In 2020-2021 he held the Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Fellowship at Yale University. Clark co-edited the volume From the Skin: Defending Indigenous Nation with Theory and Praxis, available through the University of Arizona Press. He is Kinłichíi’nii, born for Tséníjikiní, Mą’ii Deeshgiizhinii are his maternal grandfathers, and Tábąąhá are his paternal grandfathers.

Elise Boxer (Sisseton and Wahpeton Dakota and enrolled citizen of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes)

Associate Professor of History and Native American Studies at the University of South Dakota, Elise is co-editor of From the Skin: Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis. Her book, Mormon Settler Colonialism: Inventing the Lamanite, is with the University of Oklahoma Press.

Dr. Brittani R. Orona (Hupa)

A Hupa environmental, public humanities scholar and Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at University of California, Davis, Brittani concentrates on environmental justice, abolition ecology and geography in California and the American West, broadly. Her current book project details river and water rights struggles in Northwestern California in the Klamath River Basin in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is Hupa, and an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe.

Eric Hardy (Diné)

From the Diné Nation, born of the Tódich'ii'nii and for the Tł'ógi, Eric is the Senior Program Coordinator for the Labriola National American Indian Data Center. In his work, he advocates for the strengthening of Indigenous cultural resilience practices and the decolonization of Tribal communities. With a Bachelor’s in American Indian Studies (AIS) from Arizona State University (ASU) he will complete his Master’s in AIS at ASU in 2025.

Randi Lynn Boucher-Giago (Navajo)

An educator and leader with 15 years of experience. As the Dual Immersion Elementary Principal at Maȟpíya Lúta | Red Cloud Indian School, Randi Lynn oversees the Lakota Dual Immersion K-4 program. An enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, she grew up in Sisseton, SD, and Hard Rock, AZ. She earned her B.S. in AIS/HIS from Arizona State University (2008) and her Master’s in Education Leadership from the University of Minnesota-Duluth (2024).

Moderator:

Dr. Yael Danieli

A Clinical psychologist, traumatologist, victimologist and psychohistorian, Dr. Danieli is Founder, Executive Director and Senior Representative to the United Nations of the International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma (ICMGLT); Director, Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and their Children and Past-President, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.