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2003 Sequoyah Research Center Symposium
Voices from the Past, Education for the
Future
November 14-15, 2003
Donaghey Student Center
(Unless Otherwise Indicated)
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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8:00-11:45
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Registration
Meeting Room B |
8:45-9:00
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Welcome
Meeting Room A
Joel E. Anderson, Chancellor, University of Arkansas at
Little Rock |
9:00-10:00
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Session One: Indigenous Education Issues
Meeting Room A
Moderator: Robert E. Sanderson, University of Arkansas at Little
Rock |
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1. |
John Luke Flyinghorse (Hunkpapa Lakota),
Wakpala,
South Dakota, "Working from the bottom up...if we don't tell, will anyone know?" |
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2. |
Joyce McBryde (N’l’aka’pamux of Lytton First Nation), University of British Columbia, “Spirit of the Salmon” |
10:00-10:15
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Break
Meeting Room B |
10:15-11:15
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Session Two:
Indigenous Information Professionals
Meeting Room A
Moderator: Kathy Sanders, University of Arkansas at
Little Rock |
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1. |
Loriene Roy (White Earth Ojibwe), University of
Texas,
“Education Achievement for Indigenous Information Professionals,” Part I |
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2. |
David Jones (Maori), National Library of New Zealand, Wellington,
“Education Achievement for Indigenous Information Professionals,” Part II |
11:15-11:30
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Break
Meeting Room B |
11:30-12:00
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Session Three:
Meeting Room A
Introduction: Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
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1. |
Gus Palmer, Jr. (Kiowa), University of Oklahoma, “Telling Stories the Kiowa Way” |
12:00-1:15
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Lunch
Readings
Loriene Roy (White Earth Ojibwe)
Stuart Y. Hoahwah (Comanche) |
1:15-4:00
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Registration
Meeting Room B |
1:15-2:15
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Session Four: Cultural Issues and Indigenous Youth
Meeting Room A
Moderator: Sybil J. Hampton, President of the
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Little Rock |
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1. |
Solo Greene (Nez Perce), Lapwai, Idaho, “Success and Cultural
Wellness” |
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2. |
Richie Plass
(Menominee/Stockbridge-Munsee), Oneida, Wisconsin, "Mascots,
Native Youth, and Identity" |
2:15-2:30
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Break
Meeting Room B |
2:30-3:30
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Session Five: Reading and Teaching Indigenous Literature
Meeting Room A
Moderator: Stuart Y. Hoahwah (Comanche), University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
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1. |
Elizabeth Archuleta (Yaqui/Chicana), University of New
Mexico, “Securing Our Nation’s Borders?: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Interrogation of Identity, Law, and Citizenship” |
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2. |
Cheyelle L. Crow (Comanche/Choctaw/Cherokee) and
Kimberly Roppolo (Cherokee/Creek/Choctaw), McLennan Community College, “Teaching American Indian Literatures to American Indian Students: Learning Styles, Assimilation, and Pedagogy” |
3:30-3:45
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Break
Meeting Room B |
3:45-4:15
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Session Six:
Meeting Room A
Introduction: Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
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Jim Northrup (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), Stewart, Minnesota, “Fond du Lac Follies and Other Mysteries” |
4:15-8:00
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Dinner
River Market District, Downtown Little Rock |
8:00-10:00
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Readings by Participants
Historic Arkansas Museum
“Shinnob Jep” by Jim Northrup (Fond du Lac Band of Lake
Superior Chippewa)
“Sacagawea,” by Selene Phillips (Lac du Flambeau Band of
Lake Superior Ojibwe)
Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe), Frederick White (Haida), John Luke Flyinghorse (Hunkpapa
Lakota) |
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Saturday, November 15, 2003
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8:00-12:00
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Registration |
8:45-9:45
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Session One: Preserving Indigenous History, Writing Indigenous History
Meeting Room A
Moderator: James W. Parins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
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1. |
William Welge, Oklahoma Historical Society, “Oral History:
from Traditions, the WPA, and Contemporary Memories” |
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2. |
Patricia A. Loew (Bad River Ojibwe), University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Writing Native History for the Next Generation” |
9:45-10:00
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Break
Meeting Room B |
10:00-11:00
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Session Two: Language and Identity
Meeting Room A
Moderator: Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., University of
Arkansas at Little Rock |
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1. |
Frederick White (Haida), Slippery Rock University, “Learning
to Be Haida without the Language: Addressing Mainstream Assimilation and Haida Future” |
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2. |
Sammy Still (Cherokee), Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma,
“Cherokee Immersion Day Camps” |
11:00-11:15
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Break
Meeting Room A |
11:15-12:15
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Session Three: Indigenous Biography and Autobiography
Meeting Room A
Moderator: James W. Parins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
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1. |
Billie Jane McIntosh (Muscogee), Flagstaff, Arizona,
“The Martyrdom of Creek Chief William McIntosh: A Muscogee Family Story” |
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2. |
Ron Carpenter, University of Utah, “Wilma Mankiller’s
Autobiography in High School Curricula” |
12:15-1:15
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Lunch
Meeting Room B
Introduction: James W. Parins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
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1. |
Paul DeMain (Oneida), News from Indian Country, “Researching
a Family Tree: The Hunt for 1,600 Oneida/Ojibwe Morrison
Descendants” |
1:15-2:15
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Session Four: Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignty
Meeting Room A
Moderator: Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., University of Arkansas at Little
Rock |
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1. |
Ginny Carney (Eastern Band Cherokee), Leech Lake Tribal
College, “Intellectual Sovereignty in Practice: Reinstituting
Indigenous Education in Tribal Institutions” |
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2. |
Greg Young-Ing (Cree), Theytus Books, “Indigenous Intellectual Property and Tribal Knowledge” |
2:15-2:30
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Break
Meeting Room B |
2:30-3:30
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Session Five: Public Images, Indigenous Realities
Meeting Room A
Moderator: Robert E. Sanderson, University of Arkansas at Little
Rock |
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Selene Phillips (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe), Purdue University,
“Mending Baskets: Using Indigenous Epistemology to Reinterpret Sacagawea” |
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2. |
John Sanchez (Yaqui/Chiricahua), Pennsylvania State
University, “We Are More Than Beads and Feathers; We Are the New Faces of an Ancient People” |
3:30-3:45
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Break
Meeting Room B |
3:45-4:45
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Session Six: Tribal Art and Tribal Artists
Meeting Room A
Moderator: Paul Austin, American Indian Center of Arkansas,
Inc. |
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1. |
Mary Jo Watson (Seminole), University of Oklahoma, “Voices
of Women of the South: Past, Present, Future” |
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J. W. Wiggins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, "Diversity in Native American Art from Oklahoma to the Far North" |
4:45-5:00
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Break
Meeting Room B |
5:00-5:45
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Reader’s Theatre
Meeting Room A
“The Museum at Red Earth” by Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe) |
This project is funded in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Support is also provided by the following UALR units: Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Department of English,
Cooper Honors Program, Ottenheimer Library, University Archives, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and Office of Off-Campus Programs. Additional support is provided by the following corporations, organizations, and individuals: Xerox Corporation; Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC; Historic Arkansas Museum; UALR Share America; Chartwells; Daniel and Mary Littlefield; and James W. Parins.
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