Agenda

National Tribal Tobacco Conference –   

Reclaiming and Restoring Traditional Tobacco in Today’s World

Day 1, June 27, 2024

TIME

SESSION 

8:00 - 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast and Check-In Opens

8:30 - 8:40 a.m.

Welcome

8:40 - 9:15 a.m.

Tobacco Ceremony and Youth Presentation with Indigenous Peoples Task Force

9:15 - 10:15 a.m.

Keynote: Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson

10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m

Break

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 

Cross Cultural Panel 
Rod Lew (APPEAL), Carol McGruder (AATCTLC), Yaneth Rodriguez
(USC), Lou Moerner (LMC)
Moderator: Claradina Soto

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Session I – Youth Based Programming

Breakout Sessions 1:
Dr. April Go Forth and Youth
Breakout Session 2:
Youth Tobacco Retail Scan

2:30 - 2:45 p.m.

Break

2:45 - 4:15 p.m.

Sessions II - Traditional Tobacco

Creating Connections Circle of Cultures Grantees

Native American Youth Association and Family Center - Ben Sanford 

4:15 - 4:30 p.m.

Closing of Day

4:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Seed Exchange/Cultural Exchange/Barter Evening

Day 2, June 28, 2024

TIME

SESSION/ACTIVITY

7:00 a.m. 

Sunrise Ceremony

8:00 – 8:30 am

Breakfast 

8:30 - 8:35 a.m. 

Welcome, Prayer, Housekeeping

8:35 - 10:00 a.m.

Matt Pierce, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Seedkeeping and the future generations

 Linda Black Elk and Ahán Heȟáka Sápa

10:00 - 10:15 a.m.

Break

10:15 – 11:00 a.m.

10:20 – 10:40 a.m. Maximillion Marmon – Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
10:40 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Wyatt Pickner– Smokefree Native Text,
American Indian Cancer Foundation
Moderator (Dana Carroll)

10:50 - 11:00 a.m.

Q&A

11:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m.

Breakout session 1: Native Young Adults and Cannabis - Claradina Soto

Breakout session 2: California Tribal Coordinating Center - Ravena
Soto 

12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Breakout Session 1: Rocky Mountain Tribal Leaders Council: Ada Bends, Sonya Big Leggins, Charleena Penama

Breakout Session 2:  Native Imagery and Tobacco Products - Dr. Anna Epperson 

2:00 - 2:15 p.m.

Keynote: Reflection Session

2:15 - 2:30 p.m.

Closing Ceremony and Adjourn

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