What does it mean to claim possession of or belonging to (a) land? This symposium will ask questions surrounding land as territory versus as private property; private versus public land; wild versus settled; owning the land versus being of the land; and nonhuman personhood. We will explore these ideas through discussions of policy, legal, indigenous, and aesthetic points of view.
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Jacob Price
Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Dr. Price has a background in Latin American literary studies. From his past research on Cold War Central American environmentalisms, his current research investigates how video games present and reconcile ecological crisis in Latin America.
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Forrest S. Cuch is an enrolled member of the Ute Indian Tribe. He was born and raised on the Uintah and Ouray Ute Indian Reservation in northeastern Utah. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in the Behavioral Sciences from Westminster College. Forrest has held many challenging jobs during his 38-year career having worked for several Indian tribes in various capacities to serving as director for Utah Division of Indian Affairs. Currently retired, he provides lectures on healing trauma, Native American History, and conservation.
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Dezi Lynn is a member of the Diné Nation who started teaching Special Education in an elementary
school in her hometown of Page, Arizona. This teaching position motivated Dezi to obtain a Master of Education focusing on Indigenous Epistemologies. After teaching
in Arizona and Alaska, Dezi relocated to Utah and began teaching at Utah Valley University in 2011. Dezi currently works with the National Indian Education Association as the Educator Initiative
Manager. She leads efforts to support and retain educators that serve Native students.
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Walter D. Dabney served in the National Park Service at several parks including, Yosemite, Mt. Rainier, Grand Teton, and Everglades National Parks. Dabney was selected to become the National Park Service Chief Ranger stationed at the Department of Interior in Washington, D.C. In this post for five and a half years, he had national level policy promulgation and oversight for all ranger related programs. In 1991 Dabney was selected as the General Superintendent for the Southeast Utah Group of parks which included Canyonlands and Arches National Parks and Natural Bridges and Hovenweep National Monuments. Dabney moved to the Texas Parks and Wildlife as the Director of State Parks in 1999 after having spent 30 years with the National Park Service. After 43 years of park work, he retired in 2010.
