2002 Sequoyah Research Center Symposium - Celebrating Indigenous Lives

Concurrent Session A:  Libraries and Librarians

Moderator:  Kathy Sanders, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

1. Rhonda Harris Taylor (Choctaw), University of Oklahoma, “’I was ever mindful of our Indian people back home’:  Profiling 25 Years of the American Indian Libraries Newsletter”

2. John Berry (Choctaw), University of California, Berkeley, “The Invisible Americans in Library Land:  Practical Concerns and Issues”

Concurrent Session B:  Cultural Preservation and Revitalization

Moderator:  Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., University of Arkansas at Little Rock

1. William Welge, Oklahoma Historical Society, “Oklahoma’s Tribal Music Oral History Project”

2. Ted Isham  (Muscogee [Creek]), “Revitalizing Muscogee and Euchee Languages through the Muscogee Nation News”

Concurrent Session C: The Spirit of Annie Mae.

Paul DeMain (Oneida), Hayward, Wisconsin

Concurrent Session D:  Canadian First Nations Literature

Moderator:  Linda Burridge, Brandon University

1. Samuel Corrigan, Brandon University,  “One People, Two Paths: Aboriginal Literature in Canada and the United States"

Concurrent Session E:  Indigenous Peoples and National Historic Trails

Moderator: Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., University of Arkansas at Little Rock

1. Selene Phillips (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe), Purdue University, “Sacagawea and the Lewis and Clark Expedition:  Two Hundred Years Later in Children’s Literature”

2. Jack D. Baker (Cherokee), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, “The Trail of Tears National Historic Trails Project”

Concurrent Session  F:  Tribal Writers

Moderator:  James W. Parins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

1. John Luke Flyinghorse, Sr. (Hunkpapa Lakota), Wakpala, South Dakota, “WATEHICA—That Which You Hold Dear”

2. Glen McGuire (Pawnee), Tulsa, Oklahoma, “Write on, Read on,and Marath-on”

Concurrent Session G:  Researching and Writing about Indian Country

Moderator: C. Fred Williams, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

1. Patricia A. Loew (Bad River Ojibwe), University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Dances with History:  How NOT to Do Qualitative Research in Indian Country”

2. Robert J. Conley (United Band of Keetoowahs), Tahlequah, Oklahoma, “Writing Sequoyah”

Concurrent Session H:  Community and Culture

Moderator:  Evelyn Conley (Cherokee), Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma

1. Linda Sue Warner (Comanche) and S. G. Briscoe (Choctaw), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “Tradition and Culture in an Urban Indian Environment”

2. Julie Moss (United Band of Keetoowahs), Tahlequah, Oklahoma, “Indigenous Community Projects”

Readings by Participants:

Historic Arkansas Museum