b'REUBEN CROW FEATHER PAT SEKAQUAPTEWA , Hopi Standing Rock Sioux TribeJustice, Hopi Appellate Court, Affiliated Traditional Culture and Arts EducatorAssistant Professor, University of Alaska- Fairbanks, Department of Alaska Native StudiesReuben Crow Feather (Lakota) was raised in the Little Earth Community of Minneapolis,Pat Sekaquaptewa remains affiliated with the Minnesota, and currently resides in Santa Rosa,University of Alaska Fairbanks in the Department California. Reuben has traveled extensivelyof Alaska Native Studies & Rural Development throughout Turtle Island as a Traditional Dancer(UAF DANSRD), where her primary research and and Singer. Reubens educational backgroundteaching are focused on federal-Indian law, tribal is in Addiction Studies, incorporating traditionallaw and government, Native justice issues, and teachings into the curriculum. Reuben works withrural human and economic development. She Indigenous students in grades 7th-12th in thealso has served as a Justice on the Hopi Tribes Santa Rosa School District and he also workshigh court in Arizona for many years.She is the with incarcerated Native youth in MinnesotaPresident of the Nakwatsvewat Institutes Board of and California state detention centers. Reuben isDirectors, where she was the founding Executive passionate about planting the seeds of preventionDirector. She is also a co-founder and member and spiritual understanding within our Indigenousof the Board of the Directors of the Tribal Law Youth. & Policy Institute, where she was part of the first group of TLPI Tribal Healing to Wellness Court T&TA providers to Indian country and worked with the Hopi Tribal Court to launch the Hopi Youth Wellness Court. She also works with faculty at the University of Chicagos School of Law to train and supervise law clerks assigned to Alaska tribes and the Hopi Appellate Court.For more information about our illustrious keynote speakers, panelists, and other event personnel, visit our event website: https://tinyurl.com/TYConferenceBios 13'