Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Loosemore Auditorium
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Special Guest: Dennis Banks
Movie: We Shall Remain: Episode V – Wounded Knee followed by a firsthand discussion with Dennis Banks.
Dennis Banks (Ojibwe) is one of the co-founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM). AIM began in Minneapolis in 1968 to prevent police brutality against urban Indians. It grew rapidly during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Banks took a leading role in the decisions leading to the takeovers of Alcatraz Island and Bureau of Indian Affairs Office in Washington D.C., to bring attention to the poor living conditions American Indians endured throughout the United States. In 2004, he authored Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement.
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
L.V. Eberhard Center, 2nd Floor, Auditorium
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Movie: The Business of Fancydancing (Written & directed by Sherman Alexie)
Special Guests: Paul Collins, Jennifer Gauthier, Shannon Martin
Friday, November 13th, 2009
L.V. Eberhard Center, 2nd Floor
5:15 p.m.: Traditional Native American Ceremony
5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.: Journey to Forgiveness: Implications for Social Change
Special Guests: Hunter Genia, George Martin, Shannon Martin
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Seating is first come/first serve – overflow seating in the Eberhard Auditorium and DeVos Center)
Special Guest: Sherman Alexie
Title: Without Reservations: An Urban Indian’s Comic, Poetic & Highly Irreverent Look at the World
Book signing after the keynote address. Books will be available for purchase at the lecture.
Mr. Sherman Alexie is an author, poet, and screenwriter. He was named one of The New Yorker’s 20 Top Writers for the 21st Century. The New York Times Book Review described him as “one of the major lyric voices of our time.” He has written several books, including Reservation Blues, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. He wrote and co-produced the film Smoke Signals.
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
L.V. Eberhard Center, Pew Campus
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Great Lakes History Conference
Theme: Indigenous Peoples of the Globe: Colonization & Adaptation
Panels/papers presented throughout the day related to this year’s theme by conference participants.
L.V. Eberhard Center, 2nd Floor
12:45 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Special Guest: Dr. Ned Blackhawk, Yale University
Dr. Ned Blackhawk is a professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. He holds graduate degrees in history from the University of Washington and the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of the award-winning study Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. Professor Blackhawk has written and lectured widely on issues regarding American Indian history. An enrolled member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada, he taught for ten years at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, before joining the faculty at Yale.
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
A reception follows the conference at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, including a special tour of the renowned Anishinaabe exhibit.
Turtle Talk 
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
L.V. Eberhard Center, 2nd Floor
5:15 p.m.: Traditional Native American Ceremony
5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.: Journey to Forgiveness: Implications for Social Change
Special Guests: Hunter Genia, George Martin, Shannon Martin