2025 Indigenous Peoples Day
In 2025, ĢӰ Boulder students, staff, faculty and members of the Boulder community were invited to participate in a community celebration and observance of Indigenous Peoples Day through campus programs on October 13 through 15.
Keynote and Moderated Discussion
“Stepping Forward, Rooted Deep: Honoring Indigenous Legacies and Envisioning Global Futures”
Oct. 13, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom
Keynote Speaker
Lily Gladstone
Award-winning actress and advocate
Blackfeet and Nez Perce Tribal Nations
LILY GLADSTONE is the first Native American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Her starring role in Martin Scorsese’s KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON opposite Leonardo DiCaprio earned her the 2023 Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture and the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Award for Female Actor in a Leading Role. She was also named Best Actress of 2023 by the New York Film Critics Circle and The National Board of Review, to name a few.
Lily can most recently be seen in Andrew Ahn’s reimagining of Ang Lee’s THE WEDDING BANQUET for Bleecker Street. Selected previous film work includes Erica Tremblay’s FANCY DANCE for AppleTV+; her breakout role in Kelly Reichardt's CERTAIN WOMEN, for which she was named Best Supporting Actress of 2016 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association; and a starring turn in Morrisa Maltz's THE UNKNOWN COUNTRY, which garnered her the Outstanding Lead Performance Award at the 2023 Gotham Awards. She is currently in production on THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR opposite Michael B Jordan, who is also directing.
On TV, Lily can most recently be seen opposite Riley Keough in Hulu’s limited series “Under The Bridge.” Her performance earned her nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited/Anthology Series at the 2024 Emmys, Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series at the 2025 Independent Spirit Awards, and Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series by the Screen Actors Guild. Past TV includes recurring roles on Sterlin Harjo’s acclaimed FX series “Reservation Dogs", HBO’s “Room 104” and Showtime’s “Billions.”
Panel Discussions
Tuesday, Oct.14
Kittredge Multipurpose Room B
Panel 1: "Earth and Extraction: Environmental Justice from a Native Lens
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
This panel will explore the contradictions between "extractive" and "reciprocity-based" approaches to resource management, care of the land, and environmental justice. The panel will include discussion of ways in which resource extraction approaches are especially impactful in negative ways on indigenous peoples (including even "green economy" models). It will also consider the extent to which traditional indigenous models of reciprocity towards the land (widely popularized by authors such as Robin Wall Kimmerer for example) can be extended more broadly to practices of land and resource management. We will ask what "environmental justice" looks like, for both people and for the land.
Panelists:
Lindsey Schneider,
Yadira Rivera,
Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand
Catered Lunch: 12 to 12:45 p.m.
Panel 2: "Reimagining Care: Indigenous Health and Housing Crisis"
1 to 3 p.m.
This panel will look at ongoing challenges to the health and well-being of indigenous peoples, especially in the United States. This will include both mental and physical health, and both direct issues such as health care services and indirect issues such as housing and transportation challenges. Systems of internal colonization have wide-ranging effects on health outcomes. More recently, policies of the Trump administration are having negative effects on indigenous health as well. Yet indigenous communities are resilient, and are continuing to look for positive responses and improvements in well-being, often in ways that challenge traditional Euro-American concepts of well-being and the associated remedies that are often proposed.
Panelists:
Carol Kaufmann,
Steve LaPointe,
- Michelle Sarche, &