An ethics consultation for a critically-ill international river

3^rd in a series of annual conferences on ethics, and the past and future of the Columbia River

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March, 2016  – Boise State University – Student Union Building

• Conference Overview
• Conference Film

Agenda

8:00     Registration

8:00     Welcome, Prayer, Overview

• Welcome – Tony Roark, Dean, BSU College of Arts and Sciences
• Invocation
• Introduction – John Osborn, Ethics and Treaty Project co-coordinator

Moderators

• Pei-Lin Yu, BSU Department of Anthropology (morning sessions)
• Pat Ford (afternoon sessions)

8:45     Panel 1.  Rivers of Our Moment

• Charlotte Rodrique, Burns-Paiute Tribal
  Chairwoman
• Martin Wells, Bishop, Eastern Washington-Idaho
  Lutheran Synod

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 10:15   Break

10:15    Panel 2.  Rivers Through Our Memory

• Silas Whitman, Nez Perce Tribal elder
• Pauline Terbasket, Okanagan Nation Alliance executive director
• Ted Howard, Shoshone-Paiute Tribes cultural resources director
  

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 12:15  Lunch provided

1:15     Panel 3.  Rivers of Our Vision

Focus:  Columbia River Treaty

• Leotis Mccormack, Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee
• Adam Wicks-Arshack, Voyages of Rediscovery

2:00     Focus:  Upper Snake and Hells Canyon Dams

• Danny Stone, Shoshone-Bannock Tribe, staff scientist
• Sammy Matsaw, Shoshone-Bannock Tribe, native scientist

2:45 Audience Q and A

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – 3 p.m.    Break

3:10     Panel 4.  Rivers as our Responsibility

• Rabbi Daniel Fink, Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel, Boise
• Charlotte Rodrique
• Martin Wells
• Pauline Terbasket

4:00 Adjourn