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2004 Sequoyah Research Center Symposium
Voices from the Past, Education for the Future
October 21-23, 2004
Speakers,
Moderators, and Discussion Leaders
 Elizabeth
Archuleta is of Yaqui/Chicana
descent, and she holds a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania
State University. She is an assistant professor of
English at the University of New Mexico where she
specializes in contemporary American Indian literatures.
Her research focuses on American Indian literatures and
the law with secondary interests in critical race
theory. Currently, she is teaching courses that are part
of the CERT Comprehensive Education Program called
TRIBES-the Tribal Resource Institute in Business,
Engineering, and Science. |
| Paul Austin, a member
of the Sequoyah Research Center Advisory Board, has been
director of the American Indian Center of Arkansas, Inc.
for more than twenty years. |
 Cristina
Azocar is the director of the
Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism and
an adjunct assistant professor of journalism at San
Francisco State University. Azocar earned her doctorate
in Communication Studies at the University of Michigan.
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. Azocar's
interest in diversity in the news media spans more than
ten years and began with her concern about negative
representations about Native Americans. She has been a
member of the Native American Journalists Association
for nine years and serves on the boards of the
California Society of Newspaper Editors, Grade the News,
and the Sequoyah Research Center. Azocar is a member of
the Upper Mattaponi Tribe of the Powhatan Nation. |
 Kimberly
Blaeser,
(Anishinaabe),
an Associate Professor of English at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, teaches Native American Literature,
Creative Writing, and American Nature Writing. She is an
enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and grew
up on the White Earth Reservation. Her publications
include two collections of poetry, Trailing
You, which won the 1993 First Book Award from the
Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas and Absentee
Indians and Other Poems (2002). She is the author of
a critical study, Gerald
Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition and
the editor of two anthologies: Stories
Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose (1999)
and Traces
in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry
(2004).
Blaeser’s
poetry, short fiction, essays, and
scholarly articles have been widely published in
Canadian and American collections such as Earth
Song, Sky Spirit, Reinventing the Enemy’s Language,
Narrative Chance, Women on Hunting, The Colour of
Resistance, This Giving Birth, Dreaming History, As We
Are Now, Returning the Gift, Talking on the Page, Other
Sisterhoods, Unsettling America, Skins, Sister Nations,
Nothing But the Truth, After Confession, and Blue
Dawn, Red Earth. A
recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship in Poetry
and a Writer of the Year Awards from Wordcraft Circle of
Native Writers for her essay “The Voices We Carry,”
Blaeser is currently at work on a creative collage, Family
Tree. |
| Carrie Bowen-Mercer is
a graduate student in literature at the University of
New Mexico. |
| Linda Burridge is
director of the library at Brandon University, Manitoba.
She has spent nearly a decade developing a
comprehensive collection of imaginative literature
written by Aboriginal authors. She is the Research
Director for the Canadian Journal of Native Studies
and the Associate Editor of Bibliography of Native
American Writers, 1772-Present. |
 Ginny
Carney,
Cherokee,
is currently Associate Vice President of Academics at
Leech Lake Tribal College in northern Minnesota.
She is a registered nurse, and also holds English
degrees from Tennessee Temple University (B.A.),
University of Alaska, Anchorage (M.A.), and University
of Kentucky (Ph.D.). Her publications include
essays in several scholarly journals and anthologies,
and her book, A
Testament to Tenacity: Cultural Persistence in the
Letters and Speeches of Eastern Band Cherokee Women,
is forthcoming from the University of Tennessee Press. |
 Karen Cooper, an
enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, currently
serves as Museum Training Program Coordinator for the
Community Services Department
of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of
the American Indian (NMAI).
Included in the outreach programs she manages are
the NMAI Internships, Visiting Museum Professionals
Award, Museum Training Workshops, and Museum Technical
Assistance /Consultation Program.
Cooper has previously been employed
at the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum
Studies, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum (St.
Leonard, MD), Museum of the Great Plains (Lawton, OK),
and the American Indian Archaeological Institute
(Washington, CT). She
also wrote the text for the first permanent exhibit on
Algonkian Indians at the Connecticut Museum of Natural
History (Storrs, CT).
She has a B.A. in anthropology/sociology from
Western Connecticut State University and an MLS/museum
emphasis from the University of Oklahoma.
She is a member of several professional
organizations, was a founder of the American Association
of Museums’ Native American and Museum Collaboration
Network, serves as a reader of grant proposals for
various funding agencies, and has published in History
News, Museum News,
and other publications. |
 Kateri
Akiwenzie-Damm is an
Anishnaabe writer of mixed ancestry from the Chippewas
of Nawash First Nation. She lives and works at
Neyaashiinigmiing, Cape Croker Reserve on the Saugeen
Penisula in Southwestern Ontario. Her writing has
been published in various anthologies, journals, and
magazines in Canada, The U. S., Aotearoa/New Zealand,
Australia, and Germany. She is the founder and
managing editor of Kegedonce Press. |
 Paul
DeMain, 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. |
 Neb
Fixico (Muscogee) member of the
Muscogee (Creek) Nation, currently lives in Oakland,
California, and is the Operations Manager of
Audio/Visual for Moscone Center / Bill Graham Civic
Center in San Francisco. He is a proud father, a poet,
and a musician. |
John
Luke Flyinghorse, Sr., Eya
Mani (Speaks Walking),
 born on the Standing Rock Sioux
Indian Reservation in South Dakota, took the pen name Eya Mani when he began writing seriously in 1993. His
work has appeared in the anthologies, All in a
Day’s Work and This Stretch of the River.
He has also been published in Penn State’s Mosaic
Quarterly and on numerous web sites. In 2000, his
first book of poems and short stories, Watehica I,
appeared, followed in 2002 by Watehica II, a
second collection. Watehica was featured weekly
in its entirety in the Lakota Journal. A third
book, Iyo’hi, is in press. Among his other
achievements, Eya Mani has written a one act play in the
Lakota language, hosted his own radio talk show on
Standing Rock, and he has worked with the University of
Colorado at Fort Collins as a consultant on tipi making
and Lakota Culture. Eya Mani is an accomplished musician
who has played professionally for 27 years. As an
artist, Eya Mani is also an accomplished crafter,
working with feathers, leathers and beads, and he is a
carver of bone and antler. In his work as a writer and
artist, Eya Mani relies on his experiences as a cowboy,
a tribal councilman, a long-haul truck driver, a U.S.
Combat Marine, and a tipi maker. |
| Tim Giago, Oglala Lakota, is
an award winning journalist with a long and
distinguished career.
He was founder and editor/publisher of Indian
Country Today, which he sold in 1998, and is
presently editor and publisher of The
Lakota Journal, the largest weekly newspaper in
South Dakota. He
was a founder of the Native American Journalists
Association and served as its first president.
For many years, he has been a syndicated
columnist, whose column “Notes from Indian Country”
has been read widely throughout the country.
He was the first American Indian to serve on the
Advisory Board of the Freedom Forum and, in 1990-1991,
was recipient of the Nieman Fellowship for Journalists
to Harvard University.
Giago is author of the The
Aboriginal Sin (1978), Notes
from Indian Country, Vol. 1 (1983), and Notes
from Indian Country, Vol. 2 (1999). |
 Solo
Greene, an enrolled member of
the Nez Perce Tribe, is the Education Specialist for the
Nez Perce Tribe's Environmental Restoration & Waste
Management Program located in Lapwai, Idaho. He holds a
Bachelor of Science degree in Education and a minor in
Psychology and has presented at the local, regional and
national levels, including the National American Indian
Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Conference; the
Region 10 Environmental Education Forum; the Northwest
Indian Education Youth Conference; the Northwest Indian
Education Summit; the Native Language and Cultures
Regional Conference; Idaho Indian Education Youth
Conference; First Nations Conference--"Indigenous
Visions: Honoring Traditions/Creating Futures"; the
Nez Perce Tribe's 1st Annual Wellness & Spirituality
Conference; and many others. |
| Michael Walkingstick Gregory ,
a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation from Stilwell,
Oklahoma, is a free-lance writer whose interests focus
on the history and stories of his Cherokee ancestors. |
 Carolyn
Hartness, Eastern Band
Cherokee and Norwegian, has worked with most of the
tribes in Washington and many tribes elsewhere in the
United States and Canada. She has traveled as far as New
Zealand and Norway to present and consult on Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). She is a Project Specialist with
the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board,
identifying issues relating to FAS with tribes in
Oregon, Idaho, and Washington and assisting them in
creating models for prevention and intervention.
Hartness also works with the Governor's Office of Indian
Affairs as a project specialist, assisting tribes in the
state of Washington regarding substance abuse issues.
She is on several state and regional committees and
workgroups focusing on FAS, including the Governor's
Council on Substance Abuse and the state Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome Interagency Work Group.
She is on the FAS Diagnostic and Prevention Network team
at the University of Washington. She has written a
training manual for FAS and provides trainings to a wide
range of audiences and also trains trainers, has been a
presenter and keynote speaker at many conferences, and
co-creator and author with Dr. Robin LaDue of an
awarding winning series of videos, CDs, and booklets. |
 Patricia
A. Loew
, Ph.D., is
an assistant 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, which
have appeared on commercial and public television
stations throughout the country. Loew is an
enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior
Ojibwe and author of Indian Nations of Wisconsin:
Histories of Endurance and Renewal
and Native People of Wisconsin, a textbook for
fourth-grade Wisconsin school children. |
 Joyce
McBryde of Lytton, British
Columbia, and from the N'l'aka'pamux Nation, is
currently enrolled in the Native Indian Teacher
Education Program at the University of British Columbia,
in
her fourth year, studying toward her Primary Teaching
Degree. She holds a co-ordinated Family and Community
Counseling Diploma from Langara Community College and a
Teacher Assistant certificate from Caribou College. She
has worked as a First Nations Support Worker for the
Vancouver school board at both the elementary and high
school levels for five years. She is a host at First
Nations House of Learning, a re-united adoptee, and a
poet. |
| Dwayne Miller
is a full-blood member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma,
a former band chief and tribal council member serving on
many legislative committees. He was selected to serve as a
delegate to testify at congressional hearings on Seminole
treaty claims and serves as a tribal historian. He has
written several plays about Seminole history and writes a
bi-weekly column called “Tribal Talk” for the Seminole
Producer newspaper at Seminole, Oklahoma, and
currently serves as treasurer of the Oklahoma City
American Indian Chamber of Commerce. He attended Haskell
Junior College and East Central Oklahoma University and is
employed at Metro Technology Center. He and his wife,
Linda, reside in Earlsboro, Oklahoma. |
| Phil Carroll Morgan, Choctaw,
holds a BA in English from Oklahoma State University, an
MA in Native American Literature from the University of
Oklahoma, where he is currently a doctoral candidate in
Native American literature. He received the Native
Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award for
Poetry in 2002. |
 Juanita
Pahdopony, an
enrolled member of the Comanche Nation, holds the M.Ed.
from Oklahoma City University and serves as an adjunct
professor at the Comanche Nation College.
She has recently been Curator of “Comanche
Nation Military Exhibit,” which honors Comanches as
past, present, and future warriors, and has published
“Making a Movie,” with Stephen Ladd, and “Marla,
capturing Comanche Culture” in Saddle Baron
Magazine of the West.
During the summer of 2004, she had a visual
artist co-exhibit with Native artist Brent Greenwood at
the Leslie Powell Gallery/Foundation, Lawton, Oklahoma. |
| Kirk Perry, Chickasaw, is
Administrator of the Division of Heritage Preservation,
for the Chickasaw Nation, Ada, Oklahoma. |
 Cornel
D. Pewewardy, Comanche/Kiowa,
named National Indian Educator of the Year in 1991 by
the National Indian Education Association, is assistant
professor in the Department of Teaching and Leadership
in the School of Education at the University of Kansas.
He has written extensively on education and mascots,
linguistic imperialism, and critical pedagogy; radio and
television stations, magazines, and newspapers
throughout the United States seek his advice and comment
on why educational institutions use Indigenous Peoples
as sport mascots in school-related activities. His
recent publications include “Renaming Ourselves on Our
Own Terms: Race, Tribal Nations, and
Representation in Education,” Indigenous Nations
Studies Journal 1 (Spring 2000); and “Educators
and Mascots: Challenging Contradictions,” in Team
Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy,
eds. C. Richard King and Charles Fruehling Springwood
(University of Nebraska Press, 2001). |
 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.
For the past two summers, she has been a
humanities scholar for the Great Plains Chautauqua
Society with which she presented a first-person
characterization of Sacagawea. Her chapter, "The
Children¹s Literature of Sacagawea," appears in, Exploring
Culturally Diverse Literature for Children and
Adolescence: Learning to Listen in New Ways (2003).
Her other research interests focus on Native American
newspapers, First Amendment issues and communication
law. Her research on the precursor for one of today’s
premier Native American newspapers, News
from Indian Country, appears in Papers
of the Thirty-first Algonquian Conference. 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, on the
Indiana University School of Journalism Alumni
Association Board, as a contributing editor to the
Lafayette, Indiana, Community
Times, and on the Lafayette YWCA board of directors
and the American Native Press Archives National Advisory
Board. She
co-founded Clean Air Now Lafayette, an environmental
organization dedicated to fighting air and noise
pollution, and works with the UNITY Journalists of
Color, Inc. mentor program. 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 currently a member of the faculty at the
University of Louisville. |
 Richie
Plass, Menominee/Stockbridge-Munsee, has been
drummer with the renowned country group Wolf River Band
for 30 years and an actor (and sometimes comedian!) with
a long background in business and manufacturing as well
as tribal politics and economic development. But his
lectures and sessions on "Trails of the Menominee:
A Discussion of Native American Diversity" are
where his heart really lies. Plass lectures on
education, culture, traditions, professional environment
and social impact. His sessions deal with issues such as
Menominee and general Native American history, past and
present Native American issues such as logos and
mascots, Native American lore and performing arts, as
well as dealing with and living in a world of different
cultures. His multi-faceted background includes an
Associate Degree in Architecture, Director of Tribal
Economic Development on the Menominee Reservation,
diversity training, and sports editor for his school
paper. Plass is also a published poet. He is currently
an instructor in Native American Studies at Kent State
University. |
 Loriene
Roy is a professor in the School
of Information, The University of Texas at Austin. An
internationally known scholar in Indigenous information
services, she is author of scores of scholarly works and
is project director for "If I Can Read, I Can Do
Anything," a national reading club for Native
children. She is an enrolled member of the White Earth
Reservation of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. |
Armand G. Ruffo, a native
of Northern Ontario, teaches Native literature at
Carleton University in Ottawa,
 where he is associate
director of the Centre for Aboriginal Education,
Research and Culture. He formerly taught creative
writing at the Banff Centre for the Arts and at the En'owkin International School of Writing in Penticton,
British Columbia. He holds a Master's degree in
literature and creative writing from the University of
Windsor and an Honors degree in English from the
University of Ottawa.
His Ojibway heritage strongly influenced his two
books, Opening in the Sky, a collection of
poetry, and Grey Owl: The Mystery of Archie
Belaney. His
plays, stories and essays, have appeared in literary
periodicals, including Dandelion, CVII,
and absinthe, and anthologies in both
Canada and the United States. |
John Sanchez, Yaqui/Chiricahua,
is an associate professor of News Media Ethics  in the
Department of Journalism, College of Communications,
Pennsylvania State University. His research examines
American Indian identity in the twenty-first century as
it is affected by the American news media and American
public schools. |
| Doris Seale, Santee/Cree,
holds a degree in library science from Simmons College.
She is a retired librarian, a teacher, and a writer. A
co-founder of Oyate, an organization devoted to
dispelling stereotypes of American Indians in textbooks
and other media, she was the American Library
Association’s recipient of the 2001 Equality Award.
Her poetry has been widely anthologized; her two volumes
are Blood Salt
(1989) and Ghost
Dance (2000). She is also co-author of Through
Indian Eyes, which first appeared in 1991 as a
selection tool for children’s books without racial and
cultural bias. Her latest work in this field is The
Broken Flute. |
 Abbey
Thompson, Giimogiizhikokwe,
is a freelance writer from the Lac du Flambeau Band of
Lake Superior Chippewa (Anishinaabe nation) in northeast
Wisconsin. She is the Assistant Tribal Archaeologist in
the Lac du Flambeau Tribal Historic Preservation Office.
She attended Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado,
where she studied Anthropology, English, and Art. She
contributes to several tribal newspapers in the Midwest
and nationally, and Native Peoples magazine. She has written dozens of articles about
topics including the traditions of the Great Lakes
Anishinaabe, Treaty Rights, history, natural resources
and conservation issues, gaming issuesand biographies of
native musicians and artists. She is an active community
volunteer and is dedicated to preserving the history,
culture and language of the Anishinaabeg. |
 Mark
N. Trahant, Shoshone-Bannock,
is a well-known syndicated columnist and editor of both
tribal and mainstream newspapers. He attended
Pasadena City College and Idaho State University.
His career in journalism began as editor of his tribal
paper, Sho-Ban
News at Fort Hall, Idaho. He was later editor
of Navajo Times
Today and publisher of Navajo
Nation Today before going to work for the Arizona
Republic. He was also a columnist for the Salt
Lake Tribune and for the Seattle
Times before assuming the position of CEO of Maynard
Institute for Journalism Education. He is
currently the editorial page editor for the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer.
He is also a trustee of the Freedom Forum. His
book, Pictures of
Our Nobler Selves, is a history of American Indians
who have worked in mainstream journalism. |
 Frederick
White is a member of the Haida
Nation, Massett Band. His research concerns Haida
cultural and linguistic issues. The pressing issues
currently affecting Haidas concerns the lack of fluent
Haida speakers and the lack of Haida language learning,
despite language instruction. A tenure track position at
Slippery Rock University allows him to teach courses he
loves, including composition, literature, and English
grammar. It also allows him free time to pursue his
interest in creative writing, including poetry and
drama. |
 Sandra
White Hawk has been an active advocate for
Indian issues in education for almost 20 years,
beginning with her own education, her involvement in
Indian children's educational issues in the Madison,
Wisconsin, area, and eventually in Native American
Student Services at the Madison Area Technical College.
She is a Navy veteran and was a single mother for 14
years. In the last two years, she has worked with, and
advocated for, Native American adoptees who wish to
integrate back into their families and native
communities. Her most important accomplishments and
source of great pride are her children, grandchildren,
and the success of her family. |
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