Here is the program:
Program
Thursday evening April 22, 2010
6:00 Reception and check-in, LookOUT! Gallery, Snyder-Phillips Hall
8:00 Keynote Address, “My People Will Sleep for 100 Years: Art, Activism and Visual Sovereignty,” Dr. Dylan A.T. Miner, Michigan State Residential College in Arts and Humanities, Snyder Phillips Hall Auditorium
Friday April 23, 2010
All events at Snyder Phillips Hall Auditorium unless otherwise noted
8:00 Breakfast and registration
8:30 Welcome and Introductions, Sakina Hughes, Michigan State History
8:45 Opening, Dr. Phil Bellfy, Michigan State Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures
Session 1: Structures of Early Colonialism
9:00 Ashley Wiersma, Michigan State History, “Re-envisioning the Origins of Orientalism and France’s Mission Civilisatrice in New France”
9:15 Deirdre McMurtry, Ohio State History, “The Post-Tridentine Trap: Exploring the Authority of Indigenous Laity in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century Missions, Canada and Beyond”
9:30 Richard Weyhing, Chicago, “Early America/Ethnohistory/Atlantic World; “’A Great French Chief of Many Voices:’ The Pursuit of Power and the Fragmentation of Authority in the Pays d’en Haut”
9:45 Discussion, Dr. Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State History; Director, American Indian Studies Program Graduate Student Consortium
10:00 Break
Session 2: Engaging Scholarship and Questioning Narratives
10:15 Libby R. Tronnes, Wisconsin-Madison History, “Displacing the Indigenous: The Storying of Aztalan in Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin”
10:30 Devon Miller, Michigan State Anthropology, “Telling Our Stories: An Ethnohistorical Approach to Social Reconciliation”
10:45 Sarah Dees, Indiana Religious Studies; “Disappearing Culture?: Tensions in Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Salvage”
11:00 Kelley Fayard, Michigan Anthropology, “Collaborative Research in One’s Own Community”
11:15 Discussion, Dr. Mindy Morgan, Michigan State Anthropology
11:30-1pm Lunch – box lunches available in first floor seminar rooms
Session 3: The Rhetoric of Indigeneity
1:00 Ernesto Todd Mireles, Michigan State American Studies/Xicano Studies, “Te Que Corre La Sangre De Indio Carbon’: The Myths of Mestizaje and Nation in Pancho Goes to College”
1:15 Nichole Marie Keway, Michigan State English; “The Piquancy of Particularity: Emersonian Savages and Speaking Beyond the Woods”
1:30 Andrea Riley Mukavetz, Michigan State American Studies, “The Practice of Making: Reflections of Indigenous Summer Camp”
1:45 Steven Williams, Iowa American Studies/American Indian & Native Studies, “Indians on the Redpath: Intercultural Representations of the ‘Indian’ on Chautauqua and Lyceum Stages”
2:00 Discussion, Dr. Kim Lee, Michigan State University Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures
2:15 Break
2:30 CIC AISC Social Networking, Justin Carroll, Michigan State History
2:45 Question and Answer on Social Networking and Sign-up
Session 4: Tradition: The Middle Grounds of Tradition and Transformation
3:00 Nicole Raslich, Michigan State Anthropology, “Shifts in Indigenous Language and Identity”
3:15 Sandra Garner, Ohio State Comparative Studies, “Rhetorics of Tradition: Troubling Tradition in the Lakota Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality”
3:30 Jonathon MeDrano, University of Chicago Development/Cultural Anthropology, “’Nin Kinigawabimin-Niiso-Icicahiya/Cultural Amalgamization’ The Transformation and Expression of Spirituality and Identity in the Native American Urban Contex.”
3:45 Discussion, Dr. Heather Howard, Michigan State Anthropology
4:00 Break
4:15 CIC AIS Student and Faculty Meeting
6:00 Dinner, Nokomis Learning Center with special guests, The Snowbird Singers
Saturday, April 24, 2010 All events at Snyder Phillips Hall Auditorium
8:00 Breakfast
Session 5: Land Use: Community Strategies of Place and Space
9:00 JoAnn Wallace, Michigan State Anthropology, “Prehistoric Land-Use Across Perry Mesa, Central Arizona”
9:15 Angela Parker, Michigan History, “Claims to Territory and Citizenship in a Time of Deluge: Narratives of Community Protest of the Pick-Sloan Plan’s Garrison Dam at Fort Berthold”
9:30 Stefan Johnson, Michigan State Anthropology; “Cree Autonomy: A Re-Examination of Domestic Dependency”
9:45 Discussion, Dr. John Norder, Michigan State Anthropology
10:00 Break
Session 6: Activism and Law
10:15 Ingela Sjogren, Växjö University, Stockholm History, “Indian Identity during the 1970s-‘Inside’ or ‘Outside’ the U.S.?”
10:30 Adrea Korthase, Michigan State Law, “Kennecott Eagle Mineral Project and the Need for a Michigan Religious Freedom Restoration Act”
10:45 Matthew Chin, Michigan Anthropology, “A Case for Shared Ethics: Moving Forward on Repatriation at the University of Michigan”
11:00 Wendy Shelly Greyeyes, Chicago Sociology, “Rise of American Indian Association Building: Transformations of Indian Associations from the Allotment Act to the Cobell Settlement”
11: 15 Discussion, Dr. Sheila Contreras, Michigan State Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures
11:30 Break
Session 7: CIC AIS Book Group Round Table
11:45 Aboriginal Alliances: Reality and Myth, Kathryn Magee Labelle, Ohio State History and Dr. Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State History
12:00 Paper Prizes
12:15 Closing, Adam Haviland, Michigan State American Studies
12:30 Lunch – box lunches available in first floor seminar rooms
Turtle Talk 