“Red Cents in Indian Country: Native Claims to Things” Conference

November 24-25, Borrego Springs, CA
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Presentations include:
Larry Nesper, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Early 20th century community life at McCord and Skunk Hill: An ethnohistorical perspective on traditionality, authenticity, and affluence

Matthew Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law, Tribal Sovereignty As Property

Bruce Granville Miller,University of British Columbia, The Only Good Indian is a Capitalist and Other Dilemmas in a Resource Extraction Province

Kate Spilde, SDSU, The Politics of American Indian Surplus in the Indian Gaming Era

Travis Tanner, UC Irvine, Sioux Disappointment

David Kamper, San Diego State University, “Rich Indian” Managers and Tribal Labor Relations

Eve Darian-Smith, UCSB, Polarizing Identities, Galvanizing Opinions: Exploiting the rhetoric of equality in the appropriating of Indian casino revenue in California’s budgetary crisis

Angela R. Riley, Southwestern School of Law, A Wealth of Knowledge

Carole Goldberg, UCLA Returning Ancestral Indian Lands:  Too Rich for Just Desserts

Jessica R. Cattelino, UCLA, Settler and Indigenous Commensuration

Audra Simpson, Columbia University, Contemporary Liberalism, Indigenous Politics and The Political Economy of Tears

Duane Champagne, UCLA, The Effects of Changing Land and Market Relations on Political Process Among American Indians