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 The purpose of this conference is to bring together scholars who work in the field of Indigenous Studies to share research and explore the possibility of creating an academic association to support our work. The possible creation of a new association will be the topic of both a plenary session at 10 AM and an open business meeting at 5:30 PM on May 4.

Such an association, the steering committee believes, needs to arise from a critical mass of scholars who will give it shape and mold its agenda. At the same time, the steering committee has articulated a set of principles to guide its work. It is committed to facilitating a process that will result in an association that:

• is scholarly
• is interdisciplinary
• is governed by individual members
• has annual meetings that rotate among institutional hosts or other locations
• is open to anyone who does work in Indigenous/Native/American Indian studies
• has a program committee that takes primary responsibility for sending out an open call for papers and setting the agenda for annual meetings

Some existing organizations are concerned with similar issues. The steering committee is open to working with these and other groups who share a similar vision for the sort of academic association that can legitimate and institutionalize the work of our field.

This meeting has received generous support from the Chickasaw Nation Division of History, Research, and Scholarship, Choctaw Nation, the OU Departments of Anthropology, History, and English and OU offices of American Indian Student Services and International Student Services

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