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’26 Conference Schedule

Tues. July 7 - Morning
Location: Lame Deer High School Carl Bement Memorial Hwy Lame Deer, MT 59043
8:30 – 9:00	Registration & Breakfast Commons Area
9:00 – 10:00	Welcome and Keynote Setovaatse Medicine Bull & Sam Chestnut Library
10:00 – 12:15	Cultivating Land and Water as Pedagogy: Indigenous Storywork and Healing Shanny Spang Gion Music Room
12:15 – 2:00	Break for Lunch

Tues. July 7 - Afternoon
Lame Deer High School
2:00 – 3:50	Sweat Lodge Experience Setovaatse Medicine Bull Main Entrance	Ahtove – A Teaching Resource about Northern Cheyenne Culture Dr. Mary Beth Henning & John Bennett Library
2:00 – 3:50
4:00 – 4:50	The Montana Empowerment Center: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How. Sandy Taylor Music Room
5:00 – 7:00	Dinner and Keynote Decolonizing Autism: “They are Sacred” Documentary by Dr. Grant Bruno Circle Talk Commons Area & Music Room

Wed. July 8- Morning
Lame Deer High School
8:30 – 9:00	Breakfast Commons Area
9:00 – 10:50	History Walk @ Deer Medicine Rock Gary LaFranier Main Entrance
11:00 – 12::50	Plants, Birds, and Their Stories and the Importance of Outdoor Education Linwood Tall Bull and Randall Tall Bull Music Room
1:00 – 1:50	Break for Lunch

Wed. July 8 - Afternoon
Lame Deer High School
2:00 – 3:50	Creating Safe and Connected Learning Spaces for Indigenous Students and Alternative Discipline Dr. Brooke Beaverheart Gondara, Jen Murphy & Crystal Hickman Music Room	4 Elements of Collective Healing Father David Bailey Library
4:00 – 4:50	Northern Cheyenne Tribe v Hollowbreast – A Documentary Sam Chestnut Music Room
5:00 – 7:00	Dinner and Keynote The Buffalo Hide Model: A path to truly De-colonizing Education Matthew Johnson Music Room

Thurs. July 9 - Morning
Lame Deer High School
8:30 – 9:00	Breakfast Commons Area
9:00 – 10:30	Northern Cheyenne Star Stories: Preserving Indigenous Knowledge Through Planetarium Storytelling Dr. Elaine Westbrook & Wallace Bearchum Commons Area
10:30	Closing Remarks & Evaluation Eva Flying & Sam Chestnut Library