Symposium (cont’d)
Plan to attend the 8th Annual Sequoyah Research Center Symposium, October 16-18, 2008. As part of the educational outreach, we hold an annual symposium. Each autumn, the Center invites the public to hear presentations regarding contemporary tribal issues presented by Native American speakers. This year’s symposium will feature several presentations on current topics of interest in native communities. All events will be held at the Donaghey Student Center at UALR in Little Rock, Arkansas. We at the Sequoyah Research Center intend to provide all symposium attendees with an informative and memorable forum for discussion and dialogue amongst some of the foremost individual artists, intellectuals, and professionals from all areas of contemporary Native America. Speakers include the following:
Donna Akers, Ph.D. Vicki Black Bishop Kathleen Ratteree
Linda LeGarde Grover Elgin Jumper Dan Lewerenz
Patricia Wade Dr. J. Diane Pearson Warren Petoskey
Richie Plass Dr. Loriene Roy Frederick White
Dustin Tahmahkera Jennifer K. Wagner
Other speakers, moderators, and facilitators include the following:
Paul DeMain (Oneida), Cristina Azocar (Upper Mattaponi), Selene Phillips (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe), John Sanchez (Apache), Patty Loew (Bad River Ojibwe)
Hotel Information
The conference hotel this year is the Little Rock Hilton, Arkansas 72201, located on University Avenue and is less than a mile from UALR.
RATES:Room rate for the hotel is $106 (taxes not included) *
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PARKING is available at the Hotel. Self-parking for registered guests is complimentary.
SHUTTLE SERVICE from and to the airport is complimentary.
*When you call for reservations, the direct onsite telephone number is (501.748.4702).
If for any reason you do not connect, call 501.664.5020 and be sure to ask for the Front Desk before
asking for the UALR-SRC conference rate.
Symposium Pre-registration Form:
Sequoyah Research Center Symposium
October 16-18, 2008
There is no registration fee, but we can plan more effectively if we know who will be attending the symposium.
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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Voices of the Present, Education for the Future
Sequoyah Research Center Symposium
October 16, 17, and 18, 2008
Note: All sessions will be in the Donaghey Student Center at UALR. Registration, book sales, display tables, and breaks will be in DSC room B.
The New Faces of an Ancient People
Thursday, October 16, 2008
6:00-7:00 25th Anniversary of the SRC-ANPA Reception at the Little Rock Club,
400 W Capitol Ave., Little Rock, AR
Friday, October 17, 2008
8:00-11:45 Registration, Book Sales
8:25-8:30 Welcome Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., Director, Sequoyah Research Center
8:30-10:00 Session One - Researching and Writing about Indian Country
Moderator: Patty Loew (Bad River Ojibwe)
J. Diane Pearson, Ph. D. (U. C. Berkeley), “The Nez Perces in the
Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival”
Cristina L. Azocar, Ph.D. (Upper Mattaponi), San Francisco State
University, “Journalistic Accuracy in Reporting on Indian Country”
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Session Two - Tribal Writers
Moderator: Loriene Roy (White Earth Anishinaabe)
Frederick White (Haida), Slippery Rock University, “Feathers on Water,”
a collection of recent poetry
Elgin Jumper (Seminole) Poetry Reading
11:45-1:00 Lunch on your own
1:00-5:00 Registration, Book Sales
1:00-2:30 Session Three - The Power of Words
Moderator: Kim Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe)
Richie Plass (Menominee/ Stockbridge-Munsee), “Anatomy of a Protest”
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:15 Session Four – More than beads and feathers
Moderator: Robert Sanderson (Sequoyah Research Center)
Dustin Tahmahkera (Comanche), “42 Indians and 1 Guitar: Songs on
Representations of Redface.”
Dr. Loriene Roy (White Earth Anishinabe) "We Shall Remain": An
American Experience Series Focuses on American Indian History.
4:15-4:20 Break
4:20-5:00 Session Five – Tribal Storytelling
Moderator: James Parins (Sequoyah Research Center)
Warren Petoskey (Waganakising Odawa), “One American Indian’s
Journey”
Linda LeGarde Grover (Bois Forte Band Lake Superior Chippewa)
“The Indian at Indian School”
5:00-6:00 SRC Advisory Board business meeting
Saturday, October 18, 2008
8:00-11:45 Registration/Book Sales
8:30-10:00 Session One – Indigenous history and pre-history
Moderator: Selene Phillips (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe)
Donna Akers “Challenging the Victors' History: Indian Removal in US
History.”
Patricia Wade (Chickaloon), Editor, The Chickaloon News, “Ya Ne Dah
Ah: a collection of ancient legends”
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:45 Session Two – Issues in Indian Identity
Moderator: Richie Plass (Menominee/ Stockbridge-Munsee)
Jennifer K. Wagner, J.D. (Pennsylvania State University), “Redefining
Native Americans in a Post-Genomic Era: Legal Implications of Genetic
and Genomic Ancestry Tests”
John Sanchez (Yaqui-Apache), Pennsylvania State University, “A
question of Blood; American Indian Identity and DNA testing”
Kathleen Ratteree (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “Wahupta Ska
Pejuta Hemp and Treaty Abrogation”
11:45-1:00 Lunch with Dr. Bill Wiggins Lunch is provided by the SRC with a talk
about American Indian Art by Dr. Wiggins
1:00-5:00 Book Sales
1:00-2:30 Session Three – 21st Century Indian Affairs
Moderator: Paul DeMain (Onieda)
Dan Lewerenz (Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska), “The Cherokee
Nation Freedom of Information Act: Context and Analysis for an Open-
Records Law in Indian Country”
Vicki Black Bishop (University of Georgia), “Native American Indian
Higher Education: Trends, Issues, and Challenges in the 21st Century”
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.Biographies of Presenters, Moderators, and Facilitators
Speakers, Moderators, and Discussion Leaders
Donna Akers, Ph.D. (Choctaw) is an enrolled tribal member of the Choctaw Nation and received her Ph.D. in 1997 from The University of California, Riverside. Since then, she has directed the Native American Studies program at California State University, Northridge, and most recently taught for five years at Purdue University. Dr. Aker's book Living in the Land of Death: The Choctaw People, 1830-1860 (Michigan State University Press, 2004) depicts the story of Choctaw survival and the evolution of the Choctaw people in Indian Territory in the 19th century. Her second book, entitled Grandma Was an Indian Princess, focuses on the day-to-day lives of five Native women and their instrumental roles in the preservation and evolution of indigenous culture. Dr. Akers teaches courses on Native American history and culture, including Native American Women, The Image of Native Americans in the American Popular Culture, Contemporary Issues in Indian Country, and Comparative Indigenous Cultures. Dr. Akers has been at University of Nebraska for the past 4 years and is an Associate Professor in the Dept of History and Native American Studies.
Cristina L. Azocar, Ph.D. (Mattaponi) is the director of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism (CIIJ) and an assistant professor of journalism at San Francisco State University. Azocar earned her doctorate in Communication Studies at the University of Michigan in 2001. Her research and teaching focuses on portrayals of people of color in the news. She received her master's degree in Ethnic Studies and her bachelor's degree in Journalism from San Francisco State University. Dr. Azocar's interest in diversity in the news media spans more than fifteen years, and began with her concern about negative representations about Native Americans. Dr. Azocar serves on the board of the Native American Journalism Association and is a former president, the California Society of Newspaper Editors, Grade the News, the Sequoyah Research Center’s American Native Press Archives. The Journalism Association of Community Colleges honored her as the Journalism Educator of the Year for 2005.
Vicki Black Bishop is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia. In addition to the Institute’s general requirements for a Ph.D., which she has completed, she has also completed the requirements for interdisciplinary Graduate Certificates in Native American Studies from the Institute of Native American Studies, Women’s Studies from the Institute of Women’s Studies and the Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies Graduate Certificate Program from the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy. Prior to beginning her doctoral education, she enjoyed a long career as a nurse and nursing educator. When she decided to pursue a Ph.D., she chose higher education and focused her program on Native American Indian higher education. Her qualitative dissertation research focuses on issues, trends, and challenges in Tribal Colleges and Universities.
Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe) is a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she teaches Creative Writing, Native American Literature, and American Nature Writing. An enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe who grew up on the White Earth Reservation, Blaeser is the author of Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition, a critical study, and three collections of poetry: Trailing You, winner of the first book award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, Absentee Indians and Other Poems, and Apprenticed to Justice. She is the editor of Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry. Blaeser's poetry, short fiction, essays, and critical works have been widely anthologized in national and international collections such as Force Majeure; Earth Song, Sky Spirit; Reinventing the Enemy's Language; Narrative Chance; Women on Hunting; The Colour of Resistance; This Giving Birth; Dreaming History; Eating Fire, Tasting Blood; As We Are Now, Returning the Gift, Talking on the Page, Other Sisterhoods, Unsettling America; Skins; Sister Nations; Nothing But the Truth; After Confession; Here First; Imaginary (Re-) Locations; and Blue Dawn, Red Earth. Selections of her poetry has been translated into several languages—Norwegian, French, Spanish, and, most recently, into Indonesian. A recent long essay, "Cannons and Canonization: Native Poetics through Autonomy, Colonization, Nationalism, and Decolonization" is included in Columbia History of Native American Literature of the United States. Blaeser lives with her husband and two young children in the woods and wetlands of rural Lyons Township in Wisconsin and is currently at work on a verbal and material collage tentatively titled Tinctures of a Family Tree.
Paul DeMain (Oneida) a member of the Wisconsin Oneida Nation, is a well-known newspaperman, CEO of Indian Country Communications, Inc., and managing editor of News From Indian Country, an award winning national newspaper with news about Native Americans published and sold throughout the United States, Canada, and 17 other countries. In 2002 his fellow journalists presented him with the Wassaja Award, the highest award for
journalism excellence given by the Native American Journalists Association.
Linda LeGarde Grover (Ojibwe) is an enrolled member of the Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. Her reservation (called Bois Forte or Nett Lake) is in northern Minnesota about an hour’s drive south of the Canadian Border. She is a professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, where she has done qualitative research on the effects of federal and state Indian education policy on Ojibwe children, families, and communities.
Elgin Jumper (Seminole) a member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida as well as a member of the Otter Clan, is a poet, a short story writer, an essayist and an artist. He is the author of Nightfall, a chapbook of poetry. He is currently involved in creative writing and other artist workshops at the Broward Community College (South Campus) in Pembroke Pines, Florida, Where he is contributor to Pan Ku,’ a BCC publication and publishes his poetry and essays regularly in The Seminole Tribune, a tribal publication.
Dan Lewerenz (Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska), is a former correspondent for The Associated Press in Cheyenne, Wyo., and former president of the Native American Journalists Association. Dan joined the AP in Kansas City, Mo., after graduating from Kansas State University; he worked as a reporter in AP bureaus in Helena, Mont., and Columbia, S.C., and was correspondent in State College, Pa., for four years before moving to Wyoming. Dan was elected to NAJA's board of directors in 2002, and served as chairman of the education committee and vice president before being elected president in August 2004. Currently, Dan is a Law and Graduate Student at the University of Wisconsin Law School and School of Journalism & Mass Communication.
Patricia A. Loew (Bad River Ojibwe), Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Life Science Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a producer for WHA-TV (PBS) and host of In Wisconsin, a weekly news and public affairs program that airs statewide on Wisconsin Public Television. She is the author of dozens of scholarly and general interest articles on Native topics and has produced several award-winning documentaries, including No Word for Goodbye, Spring of Discontent, Throwaway Future, and Nation Within a Nation. Her latest documentary, Way of the Warrior, will air nationally on PBS Nov. 1, 2007. Loew is author of Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal and Native People of Wisconsin, a fourth-grade textbook currently used by 15,000 Wisconsin school children.
J. Diane Pearson, Ph. D. holds the first Ph. D. in American Indian Studies awarded by the University of Arizona, Tucson; she is qualified in American Indian law and policy, cultural and social anthropology, and American Indian Education. She teaches Native American studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley. She has served as a consultant in self-determination and economic development, a research analyst, and a coauthor of "Final Report: Impact Evaluation of Stop Grant Program for Reducing Violence against Women among Indian Tribes," Tribal Law and Policy Program, American Indian Studies Programs, University of Arizona. In addition she has taught a wide variety of classes on American Indian-related topics to a wide variety of audiences. She is also co-director of the Center for Advanced Study in Native America, and has recently published her new book, “The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival.”
Warren Petoskey (Waganaskising Odawa) writes about himself: “My great great grandfather's name was Biidaasige which means ‘One Who Brings the Light.’ He was born in 1797 and walked on in 1894. In 1954 his granddaughter, my Great Auntie asked me to carry the name. This is not uncommon in traditional ways. My grandfather, Cyrellius Petoskey, was a product of Carlisle Industrial School and my father, Warren, was a product of Mt. Pleasant Boarding School, and the residuals my grandfather passed down because of his experience. I am 63 years of age. My wife's name is Barbara, who was born in Desloge, Missouri. Her relatives came to Arkansas from Indian Territory. Together we have seven children and thirteen grandchildren. We will soon celebrate our 42nd year together. My wife is Choctaw and Cherokee. I am Waganakising Odawa of the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians. I am a Native Artisan, Musician, free lance writer, spiritual traditional counselor, and presenter regarding the issues we struggle with regarding our experience with the boarding schools, orphanages and foster care system in the U.S."
Selene G. Phillips , Wabigonikewikwe, is a member of the (Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe Nation). She holds a Ph. D. from Purdue University in American Studies with emphasis in Native American studies, communication law and journalism. She has been a humanities scholar for the Great Plains Chautauqua Society with which she presented a first-person characterization of Sacagawea. Her chapter, “Surviving Cultural Suppression: Sharing and Transferring Ojibwe Identity in Lac du Flambeau,” documents how cultural identity is socially constructed for Ojibwe people, especially Ojibwe women, on the Wisconsin reservation. It appears in From Generation to Generation by Wendy Leeds Hurwitz. Her research on the precursor for one of today’s premier Native American newspapers, News From Indian Country, appears in the book, Papers of the Thirty-first Algonquian Conference. Her other research interests focus on Native American newspapers, First Amendment issues and communication law. She has taught classes in communication law, popular culture and journalism at Purdue University and as a visiting professor in the School of Communication at the University of North Dakota. She has served on the Indiana Governor’s Native American Council; of the Indiana University School of Journalism Alumni Association Board; as a contributing editor to the Community Times in Lafayette, Indiana; and on the Lafayette YWCA board of directors. She co-founded Clean Air Now Lafayette, an environmental organization dedicated to fighting air and noise pollution, and she worked with the UNITY Journalists of Color, Inc. mentor program. She currently serves on the American Native Press Archives National Advisory Board. Previously she has worked as a television news anchor, a radio and television news reporter and producer, a communications specialist for Purdue University's Affirmative Action Office, a business writer and publicist for Purdue University’s News Service, and a vocational counselor and job developer for the American Indian Business Association. She is an assistant professor at the University of Louisville.
Richie Plass (Menominee/ Stockbridge-Munsee) is from northern Wisconsin. He is a contributing writer to several tribal newspapers across the country. He is a published poet, actor, educator, activist, and musician. He taught Native American Studies at Kent State University and continues to make speeches and presentations at various universities. He co-hosts a weekly two-hour radio program in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on which contemporary and traditional Native American music is the featured line. He is a traditional dancer and an emcee and has been arena director at various powwows.
Kathleen Ratteree is a third year graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison working towards her Ph.D. in medical anthropology and a certificate in Global Health. Kathleen’s interests include cancer disparities among the Lakota Sioux of western South Dakota; the interface of indigenous healing practices and Western biomedicine; and tribal law. Most recently, Kathleen has worked as a research intern at the Rapid City Regional Hospital’s Cancer Center Institute, and has attended a Lakota language immersion course at the Oglala Lakota College Pejuta Haka campus on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Kathleen plans to continue her dissertation fieldwork in this region.
Dr. Loriene Roy, (White Earth Anishinabe) is Immediate Past President of the American Library Association (ALA). With a membership of 68,000, ALA is the oldest and largest professional organization in librarianship in the world. She is Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, where she joined the faculty in 1987. Roy received a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MLS from the University of Arizona. She co-edited Library and Information Studies Education in the United States (London, Mansell, 1998) and Getting Libraries the Credit They Deserve: A Festschrift in Honor of Marvin H. Scilken (Lanham, MD, Scarecrow, 2003) and published over 100 articles, chapters, documents, and short stories. She has given over 400 formal presentations in the United States and internationally and currently serves on the advisory boards for the International Children's Digital Library, Web Junction, the Sequoyah Research Center, and the Knowledge River Center for the Study of Hispanic and American Indian Library and Information Resources. She is the Director and Founder of "If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything," a national reading club for Native Children. Dr. Roy is Anishinabe (Ojibwe) and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation (Pembina Band). She is Principal Investigator for Honoring Generations, a scholarship program for Native students specializing in tribal librarianship, funded through the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. In March 2005 Roy was selected by Library Journal as a "Mover & Shaker" and recognized as a 'rebel' in the field of librarianship. She is the Chief Editor for Greenwood’s “American Indian Experience” and advisor and consultant on WBGH-Boston’s American Experience series, “We Shall Remain.”
John Sanchez (Yaqui/Apache) Professor John Sanchez is formerly with The American University, in Washington, DC, where he served as the Director of the American Indian Leadership program and taught American Indian Leadership and Politics. Under his leadership President Clinton's panel on race initiatives recognized this program as one of the five top programs in the country. Now an Associate Professor at Penn State University he teaches in The College of Communications where he specializes in News Media Ethics and American Indians in the News Media. Sanchez also continues to work in Washington, DC and in Indian Country as a consultant in education and diversity initiatives specifically as it relates to American Indians. Professor Sanchez's research interests are focused primarily at the intersection of contemporary American Indian cultures and the American News Media and he publishes his research in American Indian journals, Teacher Education journals, and Communication Studies journals. He is the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award at Penn State. Professor Sanchez is currently working on a book about American Indian Identity in the 21st Century and as a co-editor for a textbook on American Indians in the Media.
Dustin Tahmahkera Numunuu (Comanche) and Anglo received his Ph. D. (2007) in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State. After serving last year in 35- below wind chill as the interim director of American Indian Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato, he is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Native American House at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is transforming his dissertation "Representations of Redface: Decolonizing the American Situation Comedy's (Mis)Leading 'Indians'" into a book manuscript. You can check out his latest ramblings on redface at BradyBraves.blogspot.com and even request your own Brady Bravin' Injun name at tahmahkera@gmail.com.
Patricia Wade (Chickaloon) has worked for Chickaloon Village since 1995 as Editor of The Chickaloon News. She also visits schools in the Mat-Su Borough through the JOM Program to tell Ya Ne Dah Ah Stories (ancient legends) that have been passed down since the beginning of time. Her son, Dimi Macheras, has illustrated the stories and created a PowerPoint presentation on them. Their new technique combines the old ways of storytelling with modern technology to add a new dimension of excitement. Patricia
is a Tribal Citizen of Chickaloon Village.
Jennifer K. Wagner, J.D. is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University. She received her J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law and is a practicing attorney and member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Her research interests include anthropological genetics; property, privacy, and international human rights law; and her dissertation work is on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic and genomic ancestry testing.
Frederick White (Haida) is from the Eagle Clan of the Haida Nation, Massett Band. He currently teaches composition, linguistics, and literature in the English department at Slippery Rock University, PA. His poetry has appeared in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, The West Wind: A Literary Magazine, and Haida Laas. His play, entitled Higher Education, has been published as part of an Azusa Pacific University collection on diversity entitled, In Search of Unity. His research interests are vast, but they focus on literary, linguistic, and cultural issues, especially those related to the Haida. These issues include Haida culture, history, language revitalization, literature, education, and contact narratives.
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