INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ STRUGGLES TO DEFEND SACRED PLACES:

9:00 – 9:30am

Opening prayer (Welcoming Remarks

§ Andrea Carmen, IITC Executive Director

§ Morning Star Gali, IITC Community Liaison Coordinator

§ Introduction of participants

9:30 – 10:10

Andrea Carmen, Executive Director, IITC: Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples at the UN and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

10:10 – 10:30

Questions and discussion

10:30 – 10:40

Break

10:40 – 11:15

Alberto Saldamando, IITC General Counsel: The United Nations structure and using the UN to defend human rights

11:15 – 11:45

Julie Cavanaugh-Bill and Carrie Dann: Using the UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination to defend the rights of the Western Shoshone

11:45 – 12:00 noon

Questions and discussion

12:00 – 1:30 pm

Lunch on your own

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Panel and Roundtable: Current struggles to defend sacred sites and cultural rights: threats, successes and current strategies, from the local to the international levels: Radley Davis, Mark Lebeau, Manny Pino, Carrie Dann and Corrina Gould

Moderator: Morningstar Gali

3:30 – 3:45

Break

3:45 – 5:00 pm

Open discussion: How can we work together and use Human Rights to address Sacred sites Violations and other Situations Facing Indigenous Peoples? How can we support these struggles?

Moderator: Morningstar Gali

5:00 – 5:30

Closing remarks, Alberto Saldamando, Manny Pino, Andrea Carmen, Radley Davis and all

5:30 – 7:00 pm

Dinner provided for all participants

7:00 – 7:15

Evening Program opening, All Nations Drum, and invocation

7:15 – 7:30

Introduction of Honoring on behalf of IITC, Andrea Carmen

7:30 – 7:45

Honoring Human Rights Defenders Presentations, Radley Davis, IITC Board member, Pit River Nation, California

7:45 – 9:15

Evening Keynote Speakers:

Carrie Dann and Manny Pino

“Human Rights and Sacred Responsibilities, defending the Sacred Places that give us life”

9:15 PM

Closing drum, thanks and adjourn