American Indian Transracial Adoption Research
September 13, 2016. Reading. “Lifescapes and Landmines of American Indian Transracial Adoption.” CASA of Hill County.
April 27, 2015. Workshop Presenter. Part I: Qualitative Research – Asking the Right Questions. Part II: Qualitative Research – Understanding the Conversations. Texas Association Against Sexual Assault: Transforming Communities.
January 28, 2015. Guest Presenter. “Keeping a Chair at the Table: The Importance for Place-Savers for transracially adopted Native children.” National Indian Child Welfare Association’s Webinar Series.
November 12, 2014. Invited Keynote Speaker. “American Indian Transracial Adoption as Assimilation.” Commemoration of Native American Month, APHIS, USDA, Fort Collins, CO. Will be telecast throughout the U.S. to other APHIS departments.
September 25, 2014. Invited Keynote Speaker. “Lifescapes and Landmines of American Indian Transracial Adoption: A Personal Story – Why ICWA is Needed.” Seminar: The Michigan Family Preservation Act Changes the Game: Turning ICWA from Chess to Checkers. Grand Rapids, MI
April 28, 2014. Invited Keynote Speaker. “Lifescapes and Landmines of American Indian Transracial Adoption: A Personal Story.” Child Protection Services Conference. Missoula, MT
April 25, 2014. Invited Keynote Speaker. “Being Indian, Living White: Experiences of American Indian Transracial Adoption. Trauma Informed Court and Legal Presentation for Indian Children and Parents. Casey Family Foundation. Missoula, Montana.
December 6, 2013. Invited Opening Remarks. “Lifescapes and Landmines of American Indian Transracial Adoption: A Personal Story.” Casey Family Foundation, Judges Conference. Grand Rapids, MI
October 27, 2013. Invited Opening Remarks. “Lifescapes and Landmines of American Indian Transracial Adoption: A Personal Story.” Casey Family Foundation, Judges Roundtable. Traverse City, MI
October 3, 2013. Invited Final Remarks. “Lifescapes and Landmines of American Indian Transracial Adoption: A Personal Story.” Casey Family Foundation All-Staff Meeting. Seattle, WA.
September 19, 2013. Invited Keynote Speaker. “Lifescapes and Landmines of American Indian Transracial Adoption: A Personal Story”. Casey Family Programs Summit, Making the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 Work. Great Falls, Montana.
September 17, 2013. Workshop co-presenter. “Writing Diversity.” Colorado State University Diversity Conference. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
February 7, 2013. Invited Lecturer. Bourdieu and Child Placement: Why the Indian Adoption Project Didn’t Pan Out. Colorado State University, Anthropology Connections. Fort Collins, CO.
October 19, 2012. Invited Lecturer. American Indian Transracial Adoption: Assault on Indigenous Cultures. Salish Kootenai College. Pablo, MT.
October 17, 2012. Invited Lecturer. American Indian Transracial Adoption: Assault on Indigenous Cultures. University of Montana, Missoula, MT.
October 17, 2012. Radio Interview. Issues of American Indian Transracial Adoption. Walla Walla University, Satellite campus, Missoula, MT. Listen to the Montana Public Radio Interview from my Home page.
March 23, 2012. Invited panelist. Transracial/Transnational Adoptee Pedagogy: Interventions, Reclamations, and Re-Authorship. Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture. Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA.
November 9, 2011. Invited Speaker. Outcomes of American Indian Transracial Adoption. Women at Noon Series, Native American Heritage Month. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
November 28-December 3, 2010. Invited Consultant/Guest Lecturer. Transracial adoption as an American Indian assimilation Program. Theaterlinks. Kreffeld, Germany
November, 2010. Invited Panelist. Geertz and Bourdieu from the Inside: Theoretical Constructs of American Indian Transracial Adoption. Presidential Panel Presentation: Native Voices, Disciplined Practices, Self-Determination in Ethnographic Representation by American Indian Anthropologists Past and Present. American Anthropological Society. New Orleans, LA.
November 9, 2010. Invited Keynote Speaker. “Fragmenting Families, Fragmenting Society: American Indian Transracial Adoption.” Workshop Presenter: “Outcomes of American Indian Transracial Adoption.” American Indian Council. Kansas City, KS.
September 24-26, 2010. Invited Panelist. Canadian Adoption Summit, Stratford, Ontario, Canada. “American Indian Transracial Adoption: Borders within Countries.”
March 23, 2010. Invited Speaker. Denver Center for Crime Victims. “Outcomes of American Indian Transracial Adoption”.
September 23, 2009. Presenter. Colorado State University Diversity Conference, Fort Collins, CO. “A Collision of Identity: Issues and Outcomes of the Indian Adoption Project (1958-1967).
July 26, 2008. Invited Panelist. Red Thread Celebration – A China Adopteen Conference. Denver, CO. “American Indian Transracial Adoption”.
April 28-May 1, 2008. Invited Speaker. University of Wisconsin, Platteville, WI. “The Stolen Generation: 1943-1978”.
February, 2008. Presenter. Texas/Southwest Society of Popular Culture Conference. Albuquerque, NM. “After the Indian Adoption Project: A Search for Identity”.
November, 2007. Invited Panelist. Native American Awareness Month. Fort Collins Public Library, Fort Collins, CO. “Walking in Two Worlds; Belonging to Neither: American Indian Transracial Adoption”.
November, 2007. Presenter. Native American Awareness Month. Native American Student Services, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. “Impact of Transracial Adoption on Native Communities.”
April, 2007. Seminar Presenter. Colorado Injury Control Research Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, “Violence and American Indian Transracial Adoption”.
April, 2006. Presenter. Annual Conference for the Society for Applied Anthropology. Vancouver, B.C., “After the Indian Adoption Project: A Search for Identity”
Adoption and Literature – Lectures and Readings
October 7, 2011. Panelist. American Indian Transracial Adoption in Literature. Western Literature Association Conference, Missoula, MT