2022 Annual Indigenous Student Seminar

Participants of the 2022 Indigenous Student Seminar in front of the Hoover Tower. Pictured center in the front row are Daniel Stewart (left), professor of entrepreneurship at Gonzaga University and the seminar’s director; and Terry Anderson (right), Hoover’s John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow and cochair of the Renewing Indigenous Economies Project.

Key organizers and speakers of the Indigenous Student Seminar (left to right): Deanna Kennedy, associate dean and professor of business at the University of Washington–Bothell; Donn Feir, associate professor of economics at the University of Victoria (Canada); Dominic Parker, Hoover’s Ilene and Morton Harris Visiting Fellow and cochair of the Renewing Indigenous Economies Project; Monica Guenther, the wife of Terry Anderson, and Anderson, Hoover’s John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow and cochair of the Renewing Indigenous Societies Project; Mark Trahant, editor at large of Indian Country Today; Daniel Stewart, professor of entrepreneurship at Gonzaga University and director of the Indigenous Student Seminar; and Wendy Purnell, who works in partnership with Anderson and Parker to formalize networks of scholars and tribal leaders from around the world.

Terry Anderson, Hoover’s John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow and cochair of the Renewing Indigenous Economies Project introduces Mark Trahant, editor at large of Indian Country Today, who gave evening keynote remarks on Thursday, August 11. Anderson began the four-day seminar with a presentation on his new book, Renewing Indigenous Economies (Hoover Institution Press, 2022) coauthored with Kathy Ratté, which describes how tribes, prior to European contact, historically protected private property and prospered from networks of trade they had forged across the continents of the Americas, and ways to restore this prosperity today.

Mark Trahant, editor at large of Indian Country Today, gave evening keynote remarks on Thursday, August 11, about weaving a narrative of excellence for Indigenous communities that can inspire current and future generations of Native Americans to achieve prosperity and build meaningful lives.