ÌÇÐÄVlog

The 15th Annual Rooted in the Mountains Symposium

Thursday and Friday, September 25 and 26, 2025.

Theme: Matrilineal Worldmaking (Vision of What’s Possible)
Kituwah Language: Di gi tsi/ de da li he li sdi sgv/ i de hv i
Translation: To acknowledge and give thanks to our mothers for our life/lives
Location: Bardo Arts Center on the Main Campus of ÌÇÐÄVlog University. 

Matrilineal worldmaking is a social system when kinship, inheritance, and identity are traced through the mother’s side of the family. In these societies, women often have more authority and autonomy than in patrilineal societies. Example: Individuals belong to their mother’s clan.

Registration will open by June 15th. 

Keynote Speakers
Katsi Cook (Mohawk) and Dr. Danielle Dominique Lucero (Isleta Pueblo)

Katsi Cook

Tekatsi:tsia’kwa Katsi Cook (Wolf Clan) was born, raised, and resides in the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe adjacent to Northern NY State, Ontario, and Quebec at the U.S.-Canadian border. Katsi is a traditional Mohawk midwife, co-founder, and Elder of the National Council of Indigenous Midwives (). She holds a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, from Ryerson University, Toronto, for her work in operationalizing the exemption for aboriginal midwives and healers from any regulation by the government in the province of Ontario. Katsi’s work demonstrates a lifelong career of advancing the superlatives of Indigenous Knowledge in her advocacy for American Indian/Alaska Native women’s health across the lifecycle, drawing from a Six Nations longhouse traditionalist perspective the idea that Woman Is The First Environment. Katsi's groundbreaking environmental health research of Mohawk mothers’ milk revealed the harmful intergenerational impact of toxic pollutants within the St. Lawrence River. Katsi founded the Spirit Aligned Leadership Program that supports the well-being and thriving lives of Indigenous women Elders, their emerging next-generation leaders, and the continuity of their ancestral knowledge and wisdom. 

Dr. Danielle Dominique Lucero

Danielle D. Lucero is an assistant professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Dartmouth College. She is a reproductive justice scholar who focuses on Indigenous feminisms, tribal sovereignty, and Pueblo Indian histories. She is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Isleta located in central New Mexico as well as Hispano with connections to the northeastern New Mexican town of Santa Rosa. She earned her PhD in Justice and Social Inquiry from Arizona State University. Danielle's current research explores the relationship between tribal sovereignty and reproductive sovereignty. Her work investigates the relationships between tribal enrollment, Pueblo women's experiences with reproductive and social labor, tribal governance/enrollment, and exploring the connections between identity, belonging, place, and gender. She specifically explores the historical and contemporary experiences of Pueblo women in the U.S. Southwest.  

 

Lodging

A nearby hotel will be available for booking at the participant's expense. Additional details will be provided soon.