We focused on the following questions over the three-day convening:

• What does long-term, sustained support for your work life look like? Feel like?

• Reflecting on your trajectory, what are ways FNPA could support you (and by extension, your kinship networks) in relationship-making and protocol forms?

• Is touring your work (or Indigenous artists getting to tour work) important to you? What aspects of touring require care for you? How can FNPA help? What does international touring bring up for you? (Opportunity, need, exchange, impact, climate, other?)

• In what ways would you be interested (or not) in relationship building, collaborating, or working with non-indigenous arts presenters in current and future Decolonization tracks? What are the opportunities/challenges you see?

Participants in the September 2022 convening included: 

DB Amorin, Ximena Balmori, Oz Bartosek, Kunu Dittmer-Bearchum, Aqqalu Berthelsen, Andre Bouchard, Ed Bougeois, Siobhan Brown, IV Castellanos, Autumn Chacon, Timothy White Eagle, devynn emory, Maura García, Jasmine GoodSpeed, Elisa Harkins, Kevin Holden, Anthony Hudson, Emily Johnson, Suzanne Kite, Claudene Martinez, Rachael Nez, SJ Norman, Ronee Penoi, Joseph M. Pierce, Reuben Roqueni, C. Renee Roybal, Athena Shephard, brooke smiley, Carlee Smith, Quita Sullivan, Vicky Holt Takamine, Chloe Alexandra Thompson, Allison Akootchook Warden, Robbie Wing

The Convening schedule included meetings between FNPA’s Indigenous guests and Network track attendees, a First Foods Justice Conversation and Walk with local Indigenous food sovereigntists and community, a feast with the local community, a lecture as part of TBA’s NIGHT SCHOOL: What's on the Earth is in the Stars, and What's in the Stars is on the Earth by Suzanne Kite, a reception with Decolonization Track participants; a Decolonization Track reflection and next steps meeting, and an Indigenous public art walk with David Harrelson, Oregon Arts Commissioner and Cultural Resources Department Manager for The Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde. 

FNPA also sponsored 2021-22 Knowledge of Wounds: They Can Never Burn The Stars featuring Chloe Alexandra Thompson and DB Amorin, curated by Joseph M. Pierce and S.J Norman.

Additionally, FNPA produced ALL IN: a performance gathering hosted by First Nations Performing Arts at PICA's TBA Festival.

ALL IN performing artists included:

Dakota Camacho (Matao•CHamoru)

Kunu Bearchum (Northern Cheyenne & Ho-Chunk Nation)

Allison Akootchook Warden / AKU-MATU (Iñupiaq)

Autumn Chacon (Diné, Chicana) with Jess Abeita

Kevin Holden (Diné, Irish, German, and Norwegian)

Ed Bourgeois (French, Iroquois, Algonquian, Italian, Scottish)

Chloe Alexandra Thompson (Cree) and Oz Halo (descendant of Quileute and Rroma)

Indigenous participants were paid for their participation in the convening.