10:00-5:00                                                                                            
Registration and Refreshments

 

11:15-1:00                                                                                            

1. Media and Material Culture
11:15-1:00
Chair: Gabrielle Tayac, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Papers:
Angela Haas, Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State University, “Wampum as Hypertext: An American Indian Intellectual Tradition of Multimedia Theory and Practice”
Dustin Tahmahkera, Bowling Green State University, “Custer’s Last Sitcom: Decolonized Viewing and American Television”
Anthony Deiter “New Media Technologies”
Kenneth Mello, Religion and ALANA/U.S. Ethnic Studies, University of Vermont, “Wabanaki Baskets, Cultural Identity, and the Ways in Which Material Culture Counters Native Invisibility”

2. Native American Autobiography and Theory
11:15-1:00
Chair: Amanda Cobb, Division of Research and History, Chickasaw Nation
Papers:
Steven B. Sexton, English, University of Oklahoma, “Living Writers, Living Texts: How Rhetorical Studies Can Enhance Native American Literary Studies”
Dustin Gray, English, University of Oklahoma, “A Native Rhetoric: Samson Occom and the Language of (Con)(Sub)version”
Michael Snyder, English, University of Oklahoma, “Gerald’s Game: Radical Singularity and Postmodern Subjectivity in Vizenor’s Ojibwe Memoir”
Veronica Pipestem, English, University of Oklahoma, “Sovereign Selves and American Indian Nationalism in Young Bear’s Black Eagle Child”

3. Current Issues in Cherokee Language Education
11:15-1:00
Chair: Frederick White, English, Slippery Rock University
Papers:
Durbin Feeling, Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, “Principles of Translation: A Look at Various Types of Translations”
Sherrie Holcomb, Curriculum Development, Cherokee Nation and Wyman Kirk, Cherokee Education Degree Program, Northeastern Oklahoma State University,
“Insights & Prospects in Language Revitalization Efforts at the Cherokee Nation”
Candessa Tehee Morgan, Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, “Sequoyah’s Legacy: The Cherokee Syllabary as Learning Tool”
Bobbie Gail Smith, Cherokee Nation, TBA
Comment: Fred White

4. Representations
11:15-1:00
Chair: Rhonda H. Taylor, Library and Information Science, University of Oklahoma
Papers:
Phoebe M. Farris, Visual and Performing Arts, Purdue University, "Visual Power: 21st Century Native American Artists/Intellectuals"
Gregory Gagnon, Indian Studies, University of North Dakota, “Strawmen, Accuracy, and Natives in Children’s Literature”
Stuart Christie, English. Hong Kong Baptist University, “Duncan MacDonald, Exposé Journalism, and the Nez Perce War”
Marian Aitches, History, University of Texas at San Antonio, “Writing Ojibwe Sovereignty: Lois Beardslee’s Rachel’s Children”

5. Educational Strategies Now and Then
11:15-1:00
Chair: Dawn Marsh Riggs, History, Purdue University
Papers:
Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and Buck Woodard, Anthropology and American Indian Resource Center, College of William & Mary, “Indian Boys at the Brafferton: Creating ‘Go-Betweens’ for the Empire”
Alice Smith, Robert Boeckmann, Robin Morales, Allen Pearson, Psychology, University of Alaska Anchorage, “Correlates of Alaska Native Identity and Self Esteem:
Tradition and Place in Times of Change”
Pamela Louderback, Education, Northeastern State University (Oklahoma), “Comparison of the Predictive Validity of Traditional Intellectual Measures on Academic Achievement”
Michael Simpson, University of Wisconsin-Madison,“Sherman Alexie’s The Business of Fancydancing and American Indian College Students”

 

1:15-3:00                                                                                             

6. Celluloid Skins: American Indian Studies and Filmmaking—The New Texts
1:15-3:00
Chairs: LeAnne Howe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Dean Rader, University of San Francisco
Presentations:
Carol Cornsilk, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, “You Say, We Say: Preserving Indigenous Voice in Documentary Filmmaking”
Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dean Rader
LeAnne Howe

7. Indigenizing Evaluation: New Tools and Techniques Grounded in Time Honored Traditions
1:15-3:00
Chair: Grayson Noley, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Oklahoma
Papers:
Michael Yellow Bird, Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas, “Decolonizing Research & Evaluation Through Critical Thinking Centers”
Nicole Bowman, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bowman Performance Consulting, “Self-Determination Through Evaluation”
Marie Steichen, Kansas State University, “Influence by Design and Environmental Justice: An Indigenous Evaluation Framework With Consequences for Life and Death”
Brenda Brandon, Haskell Indian Nations University, “Building Bridges of Empowerment: Culturally Competent Evaluation Applied to Tribal Superfund Outreach Process”

8. Literature I
1:15-3:00
Chair: Alan Velie, English, University of Oklahoma
Papers:
Ken Melichar, Piedmont College, “James Welch and Native American Literary Criticism”
Raja Sekhar, English, Acharya Nagarjuna University, India, “Fourth World Literature:  Representation & contestation in N.Scott Momaday's 'The Ancient Child' &  Narendra Jadav's 'Out Caste'”
Laura Furlan Szanto, English, The University of South Dakota “The Chicago Lakota in Susan Power’s Roofwalker”
Brewster E. Fitz, English, Oklahoma State University, “Can Evil ‘only be explained in the Lakota tongue’?  An Allegorical Reading of Charging Elk’s Trial, Imprisonment and Pardon in James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk.

9. Performative Culture
1:15-3:00
Chair: John Troutman, Center for the Americas, Wesleyan University
Papers:
Paula Conlon, Music, University of Oklahoma, “Iglulik Inuit Drum-Dance Songs: A Glimpse into Inuit Culture”
Kimberli Lee, Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures. Michigan State University, “Peter LaFarge: Story within Song” 
Chie Sakakibara, Geography, University of Oklahoma, “’No Whale No Music’: Climate Change and its Impact on Iñupiat Cultural Identity”
Ashley Hall, Native American Studies, University of California-Davis, “The Ute Bear Dance: Performance as an Act of Self-Determination”

 

3:15-5:00                                                                                             

10. Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages
1:15-3:00
Chair: Martha J. Macri, Native American Studies, University of California-Davis
Papers:
Martha J. Macri, “Teaching Methods / Learning Methods”
S. Tatsch, Native American Studies, University of California-Davis, “Indelible Identity”
Robin C. Thomas, Native American Studies, University of California-Davis, “Repatriating California Indian Languages”
Robert Harelson, Native American Studies, University of California-Davis, “Taitaduhaan; Our Ancestors, Our Language, Alive”
Shirlee Laiwa, Native American Studies, University of California-Davis, “Hooked on Pomo: A Personal Account of Native Language Studies at University of California- Davis”
Cecilia Tolley, Native American Studies, University of California-Davis, “Healing, Connecting, Appreciating through Native American Language Study”
Comment: Frederick White, English, Slippery Rock University

11. In the Wake of Ethnic Cleansing, In a Context of Imperialist Nostalgia:  The Futures of Indigenous Studies as Forecast from Illinois
3:15-5:00
Chair: Andrea Smith, American Cultures, University of Michigan
Papers:
Jodi Byrd, American Indian Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "Traversing a Sea of Islands:  From American Indian Studies to Indigenous Studies"
D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark, American Indian Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "Backward Looking, Forward Moving:  From Fourth World to Indigenous Critical Theory"
M. Sakiestewa Gilbert, American Indian Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "'How Will We Benefit from Your Research?' Indigenous Intellectual Property and the Academic's Responsibility to Native Communities"
Debbie Reese, American Indian Studies, University of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign, "Application of Indigenous Scholarship: Does your work benefit Native children?"
Comment: Philip Deloria, American Cultures, University of Michigan

12. Can the Subaltern Speak? Revisited: Gender, Colonialism, and the
Politics of History in Noenoe Silva’s Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
3:15-5:00
Chair: J. Kehaulani Kauanui Anthropology and American Studies, Wesleyan University
Participants:
Michelene Pesantubbee, Religion and American Indian and Native Studies, University of Iowa
Dale Turner, Government and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College
Comment:
Noenoe K. Silva, Political Science, University of Hawaii-Manoa

13. Does Region Matter?
3:15-5:00
Chair:  Eric Gary Anderson, English, George Mason University
Papers:
Tol Foster, American Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill "Native Regionalism:  Are We Ready for It?"
Eric Gary Anderson, "'On Native Southern Ground"
Lindsey Claire Smith, English, Oklahoma State University, "Place and Prophecy in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead"
Comment:  Chadwick Allen, English, Ohio State University

14. History and Memory I
3:15-5:00
Chair: Jessica R. Cattelino, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Papers:
Jennifer Denetdale, History, University of New Mexico, “The Navajo Long Walk:
American History, Diné Memory, and Nation-building”
Scott Manning Stevens, English, University at Buffalo, “Integrationism: Historiography and Indigenous Narratives”
D. Rae Gould, Anthropology, University of Connecticut, “Indian in New England:
Historical and Archaeological Research at the Hassanamisco Reservation,Grafton, Massachusetts”
Drew Lopenzina, English, Sam Houston State University, “‘This Indian Land’: Sustaining Native Space in Eighteenth-Century Natick.”
           
15. Native American Popular Genre Writing
3:15-5:00
Chair: Valerie Lambert, Anthropology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Papers:
Amy Ware, American Studies, University of Texas-Austin, “Radio Free Rogers: Will Rogers and Cherokee Techno-Artistic Innovation in the Early Twentieth Century”
Daniel Justice, English, University of Toronto, “(Re)Imagining Indians: Indigenous Speculative Fiction and the Question of Accountability”
Malea Powell, Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State University, Reading Native Romance Novels: Re-educating a Mass Readership, one kiss at a time”
James Cox, English, University of Texas-Austin, “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way): Todd Downing’s Indigenous Mysteries”

6:00   Opening Night Reception and Program
         Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

Friday, May 4

7:30-12:00 Registration

7:30-8:15 Continental Breakfast

8:00-5:00 Book Exhibit open, Scholars Room, Oklahoma Memorial Union

8:15-10:00                                                                                            

16. Creating New Tools for Researchers : A Longitudinal Data Set for Indigenous Peoples in the US and the Determinants of their Educational Attainment: A Workshop
8:15-10:00
Presenters: Randall K. Quinones Akee, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, School of Education, Indiana University-Bloomington

17. Native Men on Native Masculinities (Prompted by Native Women)
8:15-10:00
Chair: Kim Tallbear, American Indian Studies, Arizona State University
Papers:
Vicente M. Diaz, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan. “The ‘Man’s Thing’: The Testicularization of Traditional Micronesian Seafaring.”
Lloyd L. Lee, Native American Cultures, Arizona State University, “Navajo Male Views on Life: ‘What does manhood mean for you?’”
Ty P. Kawika Tengan, Ethnic Studies and Anthropology, University of Hawai`i-Manoa “’Where are the brothers?’ Questioning Hawaiian men in the movement(s)”                   

18. Doing Indigenous Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
8:15-10:00
Chair:  Hokulani Aikau, Political Science, University of Hawai‘i-Manoa
Papers:
Kozue Uehara, Sociology, University of Hawai‘i-Manoa, “The Search for Autonomy: The Residents’ Movement against the construction of oil camps in Okinawa, the post-Reversion Period”
Jackie Lasky, Political Science, University of Hawai‘i-Manoa, “Sovereign Spaces: Power & Resistance in Waiähole-Waikäne, Hawai‘i”
Chihiro Komine, American Studies, University of Hawai‘i-Manoa
“Intersecting Colonialisms: Okinawa and Hawai‘i”
Ululani Oliva, Political Science, University of Hawai‘i-Manoa, “Hawaiian and Christian Gender Systems: Their Origins and Consequences on Contemporary Native Hawaiians”          

19. Institutionalizing Indigeneity
8:15-10:00
Chair: Clara Sue Kidwell, Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma
Papers:
Roger C A Maaka , Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Native Studies: Opportunities and Challenges”
Roberta Hill, English and American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“Integrating our Knowledge:  Interdisciplinarity and Decolonization”
Chris Andersen, Native Studies, University of Alberta, “Native Studies in the Classroom: Some Thoughts on a Pedagogy of Studying ‘the Local’ Using Primary Evidence”
Russell Thornton, Anthropology, University of California-Los Angeles, “Native American Studies as an Endogenous Discipline”

20. Literature III
8:15-10:00
Chair: Michael Green, American Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Papers:
Nadine Attewell, Macalester College, “Fantastic Indigeneities”
Joseph Bauerkemper, American Studies, University of Minnesota, “Framing Indigenous Literary Nationhood”
Punyashree Panda, Bhanja Bihar, Berhampur University, India, “Culture, Politics and the Construction of Dialogs in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine and Thomas King’s Green Grass; Running Water”

10:15-11:45                                                                                         

21. Plenary Panel: An Association for Native American and Indigenous Studies?
10:15-11:45
Chair: Robert Warrior, Native American Studies and English, University of Oklahoma
Presentations:
K. Tsianina Lomawaima, American Indian Studies, University of Arizona
Jean O’Brien, History and American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota
Ines Hernandez-Avila, Native American Studies, University of California-Davis
Jace Weaver, Religion and Institute of Native American Studies, University of Georgia
J. Kehaulani Kauanui, American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Robert Warrior

11:45-1:15 Lunch Break

1:15-3:00                                                                                             

22. Native Feminisms Without Apology I
1:15-3:00
Chair: J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Anthropology and American Studies, Wesleyan University
Participants:
Joanne Barker, American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University
Jennifer Denetdale, History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Dian Million, American Indian Studies, University of Washington
Lisa Kahaleole Hall, Comparative American Studies, Oberlin College

23. What is this “Black” in Studies of American Indian Culture?
1:15-3:00
Chair: Circe Sturm, Anthropology and Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma
Papers:
Brian Klopotek, Ethnic Studies and Anthropology, University of Oregon, “Of Shadows and Doubts: Indians and Blacks and the Legacy of Jim Crow”
Robert Keith Collins, American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University, “On the Black Part of Being Indian: Evidence from Choctaw Life Histories”
Tiya Miles, American Culture, Afroamerican & African Studies, and Native American Studies, University of Michigan, “Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing Women’s History in the 19th Century Cherokee South”
Comment: Sharon P. Holland, African American Studies, Northwestern University

24. Native Studies Research in the UK
1:15-3:00
Chair: Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Indigenous Studies and Education, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Papers:
Jacqueline Fear-Segal, University of East Anglia, England, “Catching Shadow History: photos. and fragments from the life of a stolen Apache child”
Deborah L. Madsen, University of Geneva, Switzerland, "Contra Trauma: Memorialization, Re-Memory, and the Poetry of Gerald Vizenor"
Stephanie Pratt, University of Plymouth, England, “Visualising the Indian ‘king’/Constructing the Indian Chief: new models for interpreting the American Indian portrait from Tomochichi to Sitting Bull”
David Stirrup, University of Kent, England, “(Re)Claiming Terrain: Mediating Space in Contemporary Ojibwe Fiction”
Rebecca Tillett, University of East Anglia, England, “Readings of Resistance: the Intersections of Postcolonial and Native Studies”

25. NAGPRA and Its Discontents
1:15-3:00
Chair: Jace Weaver, Religion and Institute of Native American Studies, University of Georgia
Papers:
Jace Weaver, TBA
Carole Goldberg, University of California, Los Angeles, TBA
Irv Garrison, Anthropology, University of Georgia

26. Reckoning Indigeneity
1:15-3:00
Chair: James Riding In, American Indian Studies, Arizona State University
Papers:
Sean Teuton, English and American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, ”Indian or Indigenous?: Allotment, Land, and Identity in Native American Studies”
Alice Te Punga Somerville, English, Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand, “Maori: Indigenous vs Pacific?”
Sheryl Lightfoot, Political Science, University of Minnesota, “Indigenous International Relations?”
Dr Susaimanickam Armstrong, English, University of Madras, India, “The Notion of Indigeneity in the Indian subcontinent”

3:15-5:00                                                                                             

27. Prescribing Mental Health for Native Americans: A Postcolonial Predicament
3:15-5:00
Chair: Alison Ball, Child and Family Center, University of Oregon
Papers:
Joseph P. Gone, Psychology and Native American Studies, University of Michigan, “Minding Culture, Mending Selfhood: Reclaiming Ethnopsychology and Ethnotherapeutics in a First Nation Treatment Setting”
Tassy Parker, Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, “Incarcerated Native American Adolescents: Reclaiming Our Youth at Risk”
Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart, Columbia University School of Social Work, “Historical Trauma Theory and Research: Challenges in Describing and Researching the Impact of Massive Group Trauma Among Native Peoples”
Discussant: Alison Ball

28. Native Feminisms Without Apology II
3:15-5:00
Chair:
Andrea Smith, Native American Studies and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan
Participants:
Renya Ramirez, American Studies, University of California-Santa Cruz
Audra Simpson, Anthropology and American Indian Studies, Cornell University
Noenoe K. Silva, Political Science, University of Hawai`i-Manoa
Mishuana Goeman, English and American Indian Studies, Dartmouth College

29. The Indigenous Professors Association: An Antidote for Colonization
3:15-5:00
Chair: Michael Yellow Bird, Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas
Papers:
Stephan Casanova, St. Cloud State University, “Transnational Indigenous Studies: Linking IPA and NACCS Scholarship in Developing Decolonization Strategies for Native Communities”
Sean Teuton, English and American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The New IPA: A Call for Intervention and Advocacy”
Michael Yellow Bird, “A BROWN PAPER on a proposal to assist Indigenous leaders and communities to debate their participation in the Iraq war and restore ‘traditional’ principles of Just War”

30. Indigenous Peoples and Afro-American Peoples in Latin America: Contested Identities, Disputed Sovereignties
3:15-5:00
Chair: Stefano Varese, Native American Studies, University of California-Davis
Papers:
Guillermo Delgado, Latin American/Latino Studies, University of California-Davis, “Indigenous Intellectuals and Universities: Space for Contestation”
Melissa Gormley and Bettina Ng’weno, African American and African Studies, University of California-Davis, “Ethno-Education: Transforming Education in Brazil and Colombia”
Dina Fachin and Silvia Soto, Native American Studies, University of California-Davis, “Re-Imagined Communities: The Cultural Reconceptualization of Territorial Identity in the Costa Chica of Oaxaca, Mexico”
Stefano Varese, “Other Ways of Knowing: Notes on Trans-cultural Dialectics”

31. Encountering History
3:15-5:00
Chair: Theda Perdue, History, University of North Carolina
Papers:
Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, American Studies, University of Minnesota, “To Pillage and to Plunder: Anishinaabe Acts of Sovereignty”
Evan Haefeli, History, Columbia University, “First Contact: Reflections on the Defining Moment of Indigeneity”
Linda LeGarde Grover, American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota-Duluth,
“’Only Authentic Indian Stand on the North Shore’: A Case Study of Ojibwe Tradition, Compromise and Survival in Northeastern Minnesota”
Joshua Reid, Native American Studies, University of California-Davis, “Reading a Colonizer’s Diary: Applying Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s ‘Interpretive Encounters’ Analytical Framework to the Diaries and Writings of James Gilchrist Swan”

5:00-5:30 Reception

5:30-7:00 Open meeting to discuss issues related to the creation of an academic association for Native American and Indigenous studies

Saturday, May 5

 

7:30-12:00 Registration