Joseph E. Trimble is a Professor of Psychology and a Research Associate in the Center for Cross-Cultural Research at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Colorado State University and a Research Associate for the National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. From 2000-2001, he was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University.Throughout his thirty-five year career, he has focused his efforts on promoting psychological and sociocultural research with indigenous populations, especially American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Ryan Heavy Head, Akáyo’kaki, is an instructor of Kainai Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Red Crow College, on the Blood Indian Reserve, Alberta, Canada. He is presently serving as the acting Coordinator of the Kainai Studies program, and is an Ai’sopowahtsi’si (asking-questions, or “principal researcher”) for their SSHRC-sponsored Itsinikssiistsi Project. Heavy Head came to Red Crow College with a decade-long background in repatriation negotiations for the Blackfoot Confederacy, and has also worked on repatriation contracts for the Hupa Tribe of California and the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon. Heavy Head holds a Masters degree in anthropology from the University of Lethbridge, and principal transfer rights in the Niitsitapi knowledge discipline of Iiaohkiimiiksi.

Colloquium Speaker
Narcisse Blood [iitsitssko’pa]; translation meaning emplaced-for-a-reason,tribal elder
Panel Discussant

 Narcisse Blood, Ki’naksaapo’p, Iitsitssko’pa, was a previous Coordinator of the Kainai Studies program at Red Crow College, and has been recognized as an Eminent Scholar (K.Ph.D.) by Red Crow College. He is also an Iitsitssko’pa (emplaced-for-a-reason, or elder) for their SSHRC-sponsored Itsinikssiistsi Project. Blood currently teaches for the Kainai Studies program, the Department of Education at Lethbridge University, and the International Indigenous Studies Department at the University of Calgary. Blood has served as Chair for the Mookaakin Cultural and Heritage Foundation of the Blood Tribe [2003] and served on the Blood Tribe Chief and Council. Last year, Blood served as Speaker for the State of the Nations Symposium; his lecture was entitled, "Defending Rights: An Indian World View on the Environment." He has principal transfer rights in the Niitsitapi knowledge disciplines of Iitskinaiksi and Ninnaimsskaiksi.

Marvin Calf Robe, Kiitokiiaapii, is currently a student of Kainai Studies at Red Crow College. He has led workshops locally and abroad in issues surrounding Blackfoot culture. Calf Robe is currently taking part as an Aokstaki (reader/counter, or research assistant) in the Itsinikssiistsi Project, a study of Blackfoot storytelling and traditional oral education at Red Crow College. Earlier this year, Calf Robe was a presenter of the program "New Perspectives on Knowledge Production: Aboriginal Research" sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council [SSHRC of Canada]. Calf Robe has secondary transfer rights in the Niitsitapi knowledge discipline of Iiaohkiimiiksi.