2004 Sequoyah Research Center Symposium
Voices from the Past, Education for the Future
October 21-23, 2004

Donaghey Student Center
(Unless Otherwise Indicated)
University of Arkansas at Little Rock 

Voices from the Past,
Education for the Future

Sequoyah Research Center Symposium
October 21-23, 2004

Note:  All sessions on Thursday are in the University Theatre. All sessions on Friday and Saturday are in Donaghey Student Center except Workshops in Ottenheimer Library 520.

Workshop schedule
appears after the program schedule below.

Thursday, October 21, 2004
University Theatre

12:15-1:30 Session One:  “A Visit with Sacagawea, a Shoshone Woman”
Selene Phillips (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe), University of Louisville
 
1:30-1:40 Break
 
1:40-2:55 Session Two:  “‘Higher Education,’ a Play [Reading Performance]”
Frederick White (Haida), Slippery Rock University
 
2:55-3:05 Break
 
3:05-4:30 Session Three:  Narratives in Poetry
 
  1. John Luke Flyinghorse (Hunkpapa Lakota), Wakpala, SD, “IYO’HI (The Journey)”
  2. Michael Walkingstick Gregory (Cherokee), Tulsa, OK, “Stories from the Other Side of the Blanket”
     

Friday, October 22, 2004
 
8:00-11:45

Registration/ Book Sales
Meeting Room B
 
8:45-9:00 Welcome
Meeting Room A
David O. Belcher, Provost, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
 
9:00-10:00 Session One:  Tribal People and Legal Issues
Meeting Room A
Moderator:  James W. Parins, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
 
  1. Elizabeth Archuleta (Yaqui/Chicana) and Carrie Bowen-Mercer,
    University of New Mexico, “Paradigms of Justice: Unraveling
    Legal Logic with Storytelling”
  2. Abbey Thompson (Lac du Flambeau Anishinaabe), Lac du Flambeau, WI, “Gaa Miinigooyang (That Which Is Given to Us): Wisconsin Treaty Rights since the Voigt Decision of 1983”
10:00-10:15 Break
Meeting Room B
10:15-11:15

Session Two:  Culture and Personal Wellness
Meeting Room A
Moderator:

 

  1. Solo Greene (Nez Perce), Lapwai, ID, “Success and Cultural
    Wellness”

  2. Richie Plass (Menominee/Stockbridge-Munsee), Oneida, WI,
    “Healing through and with Words”
     
11:15-1:00 Lunch on your own
 
1:00-5:00 Registration/ Book sales
Meeting Room B
 
1:00-2:00

Session Three:  Representing Ourselves
Meeting Room A
Moderator:  Linda Burridge, Brandon University
 

  1. John Sanchez (Yaqui/Chiricahua), Penn State University, “Brown vs
     Topeka School Board—Seeing Red through the Black and White”

  2. Doris Seale (Santee/Cree), Brighton, MA, “The Broken Flute: A Guide to Selecting Children’s Books”
     
2:00-2:15 Break
Meeting Room B
 
2:15-3:15 Session Four:  History and Preservation Projects
Meeting Room A
Moderator:  Robert Sanderson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
 
  1. Juanita Pahdopony (Comanche), Lawton, OK, “Comanche
    Military Exhibit”
  2. Kirk Perry (Chickasaw), Ada, OK, “Remember [Video]”
     
3:15-3:25 Break
Meeting Room B
3:25-4:45 Session Five: “Traces in Blood, Bone and Stone:  Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry”
  Meeting Room A
  Moderator:  Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe), University of  Wisconsin, Milwaukee
 
  1. Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe)
  2. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (Anishinaabe) [Tentative]
  3. Armand Ruffo (Ojibway) [Tentative]
4:45-5:15 Session Six:  Discussion/Summary
Meeting Room A
Moderator:  Paul DeMain (Oneida), Hayward, Wisconsin, News from Indian Country
 
  1. Paul DeMain (Oneida)
  2. Loriene Roy (White Earth Ojibwe), University of Texas
  3. Patricia Loew (Bad River Ojibwe), University of Wisconsin
  4. Selene Phillips (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe), University of Louisville

Saturday, October 23, 2004
 
8:00-11:45 Registration/ Book Sales
Meeting Room B
8:45-9:45 Session One:  Children and Families
  Meeting Room A
 
  1. Carolyn Hartness (Eastern Band Cherokee), Indianola, WA, “Journey
    Through the Healing Circle”
  2. Sandra White Hawk (Sicangu Lakota), St. Paul, MN, “Voices from the Past: Adopted First Nations Children”
     
9:45-10:00 Break
Meeting Room B
 
10:00-11:00 Session Two:  Tribal People and the News
Meeting Room A
Moderator:
 
  1. Cristina Azocar (Upper Mattaponi), San Francisco State University, “Teaching the News from Indian Country:  Representations of Native Americans in the News Media and in the Newsrooms”
  2. Tim Giago (Oglala Lakota), Rapid City, SD, Lakota Nation  Journal,    “The State of Today’s Indian Media”
     
11:00-11:15 Break
Meeting Room B
 
11:15-12:15 Session Three:  Tribal People and Institutions
Meeting Room A
Moderator:
 

  1. Jinny Carney (Eastern Cherokee), Leech Lake Tribal College, "Tribal College Teaching:  An Overlooked Option”

  2. Karen Cooper (Cherokee), Smithsonian Institution, “Spirited Encounters:  Museums and Native People”
12:15-5:00 Registration/ Book Sales
Meeting Room B
12:15-1:15 Lunch
Meeting Room B
 

  1. Patty Loew (Bad River Ojibwe), “The Way of the Warrior Documentary”
1:15-2:15 Session Four:  Culture and Identity
  Meeting Room A
  Moderator:
 
  1. Joyce McBryde (N’l’aka’pamux Nation), Vancouver, BC, “Fish Tales (Skiyaden): Oral Traditions and Storytelling the N’l’aka’pamux Way”
  2. Neb Fixico (Muscogee), Oakland, CA, “Learning to Breathe away from Home”
2:15-2:30 Break
  Meeting Room B
2:30-3:30 Session Five:  Tribal Figures in the Nineteenth Century
  Meeting Room A
Moderator: Paul Austin, American Indian Center Arkansas, Inc.
 

  1. Dwayne Miller (Seminole), Wewoka, OK, “Cooacochee (Wildcat) and the Birth of the Seminole Nation in the West”

  2.  Phillip C. Morgan (Choctaw), University of Oklahoma, “Reduced to Writing:  J. L. McDonald’s Specter Essay, Native American Literary Criticism in 1830.”
3:30-3:35 Break
  Meeting Room B
 
3:35-4:05 Session Six:  Discussion/Summary
Meeting Room A
  Moderator:  Mark Trahant (Shoshone-Bannock)
 
  1. Mark Trahant (Shoshone-Bannock)
  2. Cornel Pewewardy (Comanche-Kiowa)
  3. John Sanchez (Yaqui-Chiricahua)
  4. Cristina Azocar (Upper Mattaponi)
     

Workshops

Workshops will run concurrently with some program presentations.  Saturday’s workshop will be a repetition of Friday’s so that more people who wish to attend may do so.  Workshops will be held in Ottenheimer Library 520.
 
Friday, October 22, 2004
 
1:00-3:00 “Indian Identity in Arkansas”
Director:  Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.
 
Saturday, October 23, 2004
 
9:00-11:00 “Indian Identity in Arkansas”
Director:  Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.

Sponsors

This project is supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  It receives additional support from Cooper Honors Program of the Department of English, Ottenheimer Library, and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; UALR Share America; Wal-Mart Fund; Southern Partners Fund; Little Rock Free Press; The Government of Canada.

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