Virtual Conference
Where you can watch the presentations at your convenience
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Video from all previous conferences are available. Dvds of individual speakers are $15 each. The 9 dvd sets, which includes all speakers and all panels of each Conference are $135, which includes shipping and handling. send your request, and payment by check or money order to; NEBCC P.O. Box 12340 Albuquerque, NM  87195

2006 Speakers:

John Mohawk, a Turtle Clan Senecca farmer from the Cattaraugus Reservation (Iroquois), former editor of Akwesasne Notes, once the largest Indian publication in the US and Canada, was an assistant professor of American Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo and associate professor director of Indigenous studies in the Center for the Americas. Click here for Video.

Winona LaDuke, an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) of the Mississippi band Anishinabeg who lives and works on the White Earth reservations. She is program director of the Honor the Earth Fund, she works as a national level advocate to raise public support and create funding for frontline native environmental groups. She was a Green Party vice presidential  in 1996 and 2000 national elections and is the founding director for the White Earth Land Recovery project. Click here for Video.

Ohki Simine' Forest, a Canadian Mohawk vision holder who has lived in Chiapas, Mexico since 1986 collaborating with the indigenous Maya Zapatista people in resistance. She is founder of the spiritual and social justice organization, Red Wing Councils, and author of  Dreaming the Council Ways: True Native Teachings from the Red Lodge. Click here for Video.

2007 Speakers:

Debra Harry: A Northern Paiute from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, Debra serves as the Executive Director of the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism (IPCB), a U.S.-based non-profit organization created to assist indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, and cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology. She is also the producer of the new documentary film, “The Leech and the Earthworm,” which examines the globalized hunt for genes within indigenous territories and bodies. Ms. Harry is a doctoral candidate at the University of Auckland, School of Education, where she recently contributed an essay to a new book: Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age. Click here for Video.

Clayton Thomas Muller: Of the Mathais Colomb Cree Nation (Pukatawegan) in Northern Manitoba, Canada, Clayton works to promote indigenous self-determination and environmental justice. As a recognized youth leader in the aboriginal community, he co-founded the Aboriginal Youth with Initiative (AYII), as well as the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Youth Council. Mr. Muller was also the architect behind the National Assembly of First Nations National Youth Advisory Council and served as the council’s national spokesperson. Click here for Video.

Martin Bourque: Executive Director of the Ecology Center in Berkeley CA where he has developed a strong linkage between local community based municipal environmental services like recycling and farmers’ markets, and the policies that make them mainstream parts of everyday life around the country. He has been instrumental in bringing the concept and practice of Zero Waste to the vanguard of the waste and consumerism movement, and has forwarded important sustainable food and farming efforts. Click here for Video.

      Gary Paul Nabhan, Ph.D., is a writer, lecturer and world-renown conservation scientist. He is the outgoing Director of the Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University.  Dr. Nabhan co-founded Native Seeds/ SEARCH and became a leading voice for conserving and renovating native plant agriculture in the Americas. Click here for Video.

Thomas Linzey is a cum laude graduate of Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and is a three time recipient of the Schools’ Public Interest Law Award, a 2003 recipient of the Law School’s Young Alumni Award, a 2003 finalist for the Ford Foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World Award, and a 2004 recipient of the Pennsylvania Farmers Union’s Golden Triangle Legislative Award. He has served as an independent candidate for Attorney General, receiving over 65,000 votes statewide, and is the co-founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit law firm that provides free and affordable legal services to community groups and over three hundred local governments. Click here for Video.

The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers: A global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our mother earth and all her inhabitants for the next seven generations. Click here for Video.

2008 Speakers:

Galen D. Knight PhD: Integrating Indigenous Wisdom, Nutrition, Environment and Immune Support. A new understanding of what causes cancer and other diseases and how traditional life ways can remediate these conditions. Click here for Video.

Debra Harry:
Protecting Cultural Heritage in a Biotech Age Click here for Video.

Allen Richardson:
The effects of GMOs on local small farmers Click here for Video.