The Eighth Annual Charles Town International Maroon Conference:

TOWARD A BORDERLESS INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY

Tun Tun by Colonel Frank Lumsden

June 23-26, 2016 Asafu Yard, Charles Town, Portland, Jamaica In Loving Memory of Colonel Frank Lumsden, 1942-2015

THEMES AND FORMAT The Eighth International Maroon Conference aims to build a global indigenous community without borders. This year’s conference will present papers and workshops committed to a vision of crosscultural engagement, exchange, and creativity, directed toward unity among diverse indigenous peoples to provide models for collective sustainability and persistence for the world at large. We dedicate the Conference to the legacy of the recently deceased Colonel Frank Lumsden, leader of the Charles Town Maroons. This year we will also focus on the experience of Indigenous Peoples. Gloria Simms, Gaa’man Mama G, will present a keynote address on the cultural legacy of Nanny, the great Maroon leader. Mama G recently portrayed Nanny in a documentary film by Roy Anderson entitled Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess, and we will screen the film with its director and producer in attendance. We will also host an interactive exhibition with select objects from the Jamaican African Women’s Museum, a cultural and educational project soon to appear in Kingston. The Charles Town International Maroon Conference explores the issues, values, and practices of Maroons and Indigenous peoples around the globe. Offering a unique combination of scholarly panels and cultural events, it brings together descendants of Maroons and Indigenous Peoples with scholars interested in Maroon heritage and indigenous cultures.

SCHEDULE THURSDAY JUNE 23 Quao Day

10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Local celebration of Ancestor Quao with student presentations, Taino ancestor remembrance, museum tours, and performances

6:30 p.m.

Reception for conference participants, Goblin Hill Villas, Port Antonio Performance by the Charles Town drummers and dancers to celebrate Quao

FRIDAY JUNE 24 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Maroon Resistance • Dr. Paul Youngquist, University of Colorado Boulder “Dreaming in Creole” • Fela Uhuru (Bobby Seals), PhD Cand., California Institute of Integral Studies “Maroon Inter-Subjectivity & the Dialectics of Marronage in the Brazilian Context” • Dr. Jean Purchas-Tulloch “`All Men Come to the Hills Finally’: From Marronage to Mais, Marcus, Marley!”

2:30 – 3:15 p.m. Maroon Methods • Patrick Nichols, PhD Candidate, Georgia State University “Early Colonialism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Foundations of Jamaican Marronage” • Dr. Isis Semaj-Hall, Independent Scholar “A Literary Ambush: How Jamaica’s Maroons Thrive in the Print and Power of Marlon James” • Dr. Frances Botkin, Towson University “Bad-Ass Jack Mansong: The Baddest Man Around”

FRIDAY CONTINUED

3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Maroon Freedoms • Dr. Ana Ozuna, Hostos-CUNY “Subversion, Rebellion and Marronage in The Book of Night Women” • Rebecca Schneider, PhD Candidate, University of Colorado Boulder “‘He says he is free’: Freedoms Invoked in Eighteenth-Century Runaway Ads” • Dr. Michelle Thompson, City University of New York “Accompong Maroons in the Post-Emancipation Era: The Acquisition of Cooks’ Bottom”

4:45 – 5:45 p.m. Indigenous Communities • Dr. Annette Stone Blake, The Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations “A Cross-Cultural Program for Youth in Global Indigenous Communities” • Lisa Veronique Betty, PhD Candidate, The New School “The Historic and Current Use of Social Enterprise in Food System and Agricultural Markets to Dismantle the Systemic Weakening of African Descended Communities” • Professor Robert Benson, Ball State University “Sacred and Profane Invasions: The Spanish Presence and its Impacts on Two Indigenous Cultures of California and Jamaica”

6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Live music and old hits at the River Park Film Screening, Roy Anderson’s Akwantu, Asafu Yard

SATURDAY JUNE 25

2:00 – 8:00 p.m. Wellness Village

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Maroon Sovereignties Marcus Goffe, Attorney-at-Law “The Caribbean Court of Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in CARICOM: The Maya Leaders Alliance v. The Attorney General of Belize” Sharon White et al., University of the West Indies “The Charles Town Model: A Case for Endogenous Development” Michael Grizzle, Chief, Trelawny Town-Flagstaff Maroons and Nyankopong State “Maroon Sovereignty: Past, Present, and Future”

3:30 – 4:15 p.m.

Nanny of the Maroons Karla Gottlieb, Director, Community Initiatives, Opa-locka Community Development Corporation “The Use of Science in Queen Nanny’s Military Strategy” Dr. Birte Timm, Independent Scholar “From Nana Asafu to Nanny of the Maroons: Cultural Heritage and the Construction of a National Identity”

4:15 – 5:30 p.m.

Gaa’man Gloria,“Mama G,” Simms Plenary Panel: Indigenous Maroon Women

Cecily Jones, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Gender Studies and Development, UWI Introduction and Greetings Beverley Carey, Historian and Author of The Maroon Story, descendant of the Moore Town Maroons: A Presentation Gaa’man Gloria “Mama G” Simms, Maroon Indigenous Women Circle and the Tunyahan Project “Restoring and Reclaiming our African Matriarchal Sovereignty”

5:30 – 6:00 p.m.

Maroon Indigenous Women Workshop

6:00 – 6:30 p.m.

An Historical Reenactment

8:00 p.m.

Film Screenings Roy Anderson’s Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess Michael Flores’s I Had to Do It Karen Mafundikwa’s Jersumarema

SUNDAY JUNE 26

QUAO VICTORY DAY CELEBRATION, ASAFU YARD, CHARLES TOWN

12:00 p.m.

Ceremony for the Interment of Colonel Frank Lumsden, Charles Town Cemetery

1:00 p.m. Procession of Gaa’ man, Colonels, and Chief • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Tribute to Colonel Frank Lumsden Welcome from the Charles Town Maroons Greetings from the Moore Town Maroons Greetings from the Scots Hall Maroons Greetings from the Accompong Maroons Greetings from the Trelawny Town-Flagstaff Maroons Greetings from Gaa’man Gloria “Mama G” Simms Greetings from the Surinamese Maroons Greetings from Indigenous Peoples Presentations and Performances Discussion on the Cannabis Industry Performance by Philip Supersad and the Akwaaba Drummers Performance by Akinsanya Palmer

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Hikes Crafts Wellness Village and Baliblu Herbal Teas Museum Tours

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Charles Town Maroon Council Marcus Goffe, Attorney-at-Law Michael Lumsden, Lumsden and Associates Richard Lumsden, Economist Dianne McIntosh, Sociologist Sharon White, University of the West Indies Flavius Laidley, Slowly Jamaica Event Planners Dr. Frances Botkin, Towson University Dr. Paul Youngquist, University of Colorado Boulder Evan Williams, Red Bones Blues Café and Design Collaborative

SPONSORS Charles Town Maroon Council Institute for Gender and Development Studies (UWI Mona) Jamaica Tourist Board The CHASE Fund Reggae to Reggae Radio.TV ListenMi Caribbean Limited UNESCO League of the Maroons Redbones Blues Café Design Collaborative, Kingston Slowly Jamaica Event Planners Lumsden and Partners Goffe Law, Attorneys-at-Law Towson University University of Colorado Boulder ReggaetoReggae Radio.TV

Program Design: Towson University Division of Marketing and Communications