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Celebrating Sámi and Dakota (fore) mothers

1/2/2017

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​Place: Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Villavägen 6, Uppsala, KWB - seminar room in the basement . Thursday, February 9,  15-17  
 
Celebrating Sámi and Dakota (fore) mothers:  
a conversation with Kim TallBear and May-Britt Öhman
 
In 2017 Sweden as a colonial nation turns 493 years. Colonisation of the Americas started 525 years ago. 2017 is also the centenary for the first Sámi congress, held in Tråante/Trondheim 1917, February 6-9.  
The congress was organized by a Sámi women’s association, founded Elsa Laula Renberg. Although the Swedish state has done, and still does, its best to erase Sámi culture and tradition, Sámi have never been silent. Sámi women have long been in the forefront to claim space, challenging genocide and erasure and to educate and empower other Sámi. There are several examples, the earliest known being the Sámi woman Margareta in the 13th century.  As a celebration of Sámi and other Indigenous women’s incessant work to uphold, strengthen and nurture Indigenous cultures we will have a conversation about our (fore) mothers and how they inspire us in our own work and lives.
Dr. Kim TallBear will talk about how her mother's work as an Indigenous planner in both Dakota reservation-based communities and in multi-tribal urban communities paved the way for her own planning career and her subsequent approach to academic work that centers research for social change.
Dr. May-Britt Öhman will talk both about Sámi women that she is not directly related to and a couple of her own foremothers, and their work for claiming space and challenging colonization.
Chair: Dr. Gunilla Larsson, Technoscience research group, Centre for Gender Research; Chair of Uppsam – the association for Sámi related studies in Uppsala; Sámi Land Free University, Lule/Forest Sámi.
Commentator: Dr. Doris Leibetseder, Researcher, Centre for Gender Research


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Kim TallBear was raised by her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother in Flandreau, South Dakota and in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate. She is also descended from the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. www.kimtallbear.com
May-Britt Öhman was raised in Luleå and Jokkmokk, in the Lule river valley, Julevädno, although she lived with her parents in Uppsala and in Stockholm until she started school. She is Lule and Forest Sámi, PhD and researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, founder of the Sámi Land Free University.  
www.maybrittohman.com and www.samelandsfriauniversitet.com
 
The seminar is organized by the Technoscience research group, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Uppsam – the association for Sámi related research in Uppsala and the Sámi Land Free University. 
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Káfastallat meets Tipi confessions - Tråante 2017, Wednesday, February 8, 15 - 18 

1/2/2017

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 Káfastallat meets Tipi confessions.  Tråante 2017, February 8, 15.00-18.00
Location - Tråante city centre -
exact location will be sent to registered participants. I centrala Tråante - information om exakt plats sändes till anmälda deltagare.

Come and listen to stories/confessions and/or tell/perform/yoik/sing/show your own stories on relations, relationships, “land-water- body” connections, sexualities, dreams, desires, visions, hopes…  
This is an explorative first meeting between Káfastallat
- the Sámi research network promoting relaxed conversations (around coffee)  regarding Sámi issues, led by May-Britt Öhman and the Tipi confessions
, organised by Kim TallBear.

Please see description below. Limited number of participants, maximum 30 person in total.
Sign up at https://goo.gl/forms/XSyTrrtZ8beEvYGw1   latest by Tuesday Feb.  7th  at  6 pm Tråante time.
Talks/performance/jojk/video clips are welcome. Format and language is your choice. Time limit 10 minutes.  Anonymous contributions are warmly welcomed – send in or bring along, up to 200 words.
Contributions will be made by Kim TallBear, May-Britt Öhman, Stefan Mikaelsson and we have space for some more contributions. Also, you can send in stories that you would want to be read out loud, anonymous or non-anonymous.

Káfastallat means drinking coffee together in Lule Sámi and relates to an activity among Sámi (and others) the everyday casual conversations which are an important and integral part for maintenance and development of (Sámi) culture and social/kinship/intellectual/scientific relationships. Káfastallat is about developing relaxed conversations regarding important issues and research led by Sámi in relation to Sámi/Indigenous realities, aspects of livelihood, methodologies and Decolonization and Indigenization. We emphasize in particular the wish/need to develop safe and nurturing spaces for Sámi for these discussions.  Káfastallat is a supradisciplinary gender and Indigenous methodology research network led by Dr. May-Britt Öhman, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University and Sámiland Free University; Dr. Astri Dankertsen, Univ. of Nordland and Dr. Sanna Valkonen, Sámi research, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi.  Funded by NOS-HS - Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences.Co - sponsored by the departments/ universities in the network. Being a supradisciplinary gender and Indigenous methodology research project we address the ex-academia partners as co-researchers. We collaborate with Sámi associations, parliaments, reindeer herders, activists, yoikers and artists, as well as with Sámi allies, scholars, policy and decision makers within the majority societies.


 

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Kim TallBear was raised by her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother in Flandreau, South Dakota and in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate. She is also descended from the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. www.kimtallbear.com
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May-Britt Öhman was raised in Luleå and Jokkmokk, in the Lule river valley, Julevädno, although she lived with her parents in Uppsala and in Stockholm until she started school. She is Lule and Forest Sámi, PhD and researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, founder of the Sámi Land Free University. maybrittohman.com samelandsfriauniversitet. com
An ongoing decolonial sexualities storytelling and variety show for stage, Tipi Confessions is co-founded and co-produced by Kim TallBear (www.kimtallbear.com). Based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and we also host shows in other cities across Canada. Tipi Confessions is a series of sexually themed storytelling and variety performances, associated workshops, and outreach to diverse constituencies. Modeled on the original Bedpost Confessions™ show in Austin, Texas, the well attended Austin and Canada shows promote sex positivity via performance. Stories are explicitly political, feminist, humorous, and/or educational. Performances fit our mission of ethics, education, and entertainment around sex, sexuality, and gender. They are racial, gender, sexual orientation, and ability inclusive. Tipi Confessions solicits works from Indigenous and non-Indigenous performers focused on sexual themes related to life, culture, history, and sometimes struggle.  We have organized a show for feminist scholars and activists working on sexual decolonization on Canada’s prairies, a show for Indigenous masculinities scholars and Indigenous cultural and language activists working on behalf of Indigenous men’s decolonization, and we are organizing with activists and scholars in Saskatoon a Valentine’s 2017 show for a Queer Indigenous activist event there. We envision the Sámi Confessions gathering as spanning multiple languages and with a focus on human-environment intimacies, and including not only stories and confessions but perhaps also Sámi yoiks. In general, “land-body” connections will be centered in this work. Especially younger feminist and queer thinkers are theorizing the relationships between violence to the land and violence to Indigenous women’s and other marginalized bodies. The intersections between environment and sexuality are fertile ground for this kind of storytelling.

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