For over  four decades, UCR's Native American Student Association and Native American Student Programs have hosted the annual Medicine Ways Conference. Featured guests from across the nation are invited to partake in this event and admission is free to our students, faculty, staff, and community. This year's Medicine Ways Conference theme is  "Healing Through Traditions". 

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Agenda:

8:30- 9:30 (SSC Lobby/MPR)

• Registration & Breakfast

9:45– 10:30 (MPR)

• Welcome, Blessing, & Birdsongs
  • NASP & NASA, Michael & Will Madrigal

10:45– 11:15 (MPR)

• Keynote - Searching for the American Dream From San Carlos, Arizona
  • Earl Sisto

11:25– 12:15 (SSC 229)

• MAATHAAW: The Fire Within Us
  • Andrew Pittman

12:25– 1:30 (MPR)

• Lunch

1:40 – 2:30 (SSC 329)

• How We Heal Using Traditional Practice: Access, Accountability, and Incarceration
  • Shannon Rivers

2:40 – 3:30 (SSC 229)

• Keeping Traditions in Land Based Education Systems
  • Tashina Miranda Ornelas

3:30– 4:00 (MPR)

• Closing

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Medicine Ways Conference

Saturday, May 11, 2024

Student Success Center

8:30AM -4:00PM

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