2005 Sequoyah Research Center Symposium
Voices from the Past, Education for the Future
October 20, 21, and 22, 2005


Note: Thursday sessions are in the Haislip Theatre; Friday and Saturday sessions are in the Donaghey Student Center; the Archiving Workshop will be in Ottenheimer Library 301A.

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Haislip Theatre

12:15-1:30 Session One: Warren Petoskey (Waganakising Odawa), Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, “The Long Journey Home”
1:30-1:40 Break
1:40-2:55 Session Two: Robert J. Conley (United Band of Keetoowah Indians), Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Reading
2:55-3:05 Break
3:05-4:30 Session Three: Eric Gansworth (Onondaga), Canisius College, “‘Identification Pleas’: Selected Readings”

 
 Friday, October 21, 2005

8:00-11:45 Registration/Book Sales
DSC Meeting Room B
8:45-9:00 Welcome
DSC Meeting Room A
  1. Selene Phillips (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe), University of Louisville
  2. Paul DeMain (Oneida), News from Indian Country, Hayward, WI
9:00-10:00 Session One: Children and Reading
DSC Meeting Room A
Moderator: Maureen James-Barnes, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  1. Loriene Roy (White Earth Ojibwe), University of Texas, “The International Children’s Digital Library: Bringing a Digital Collection of Books to Readers, Age 3 to 13”
  2. Doris Seale (Santee/Cree), Burlington, VT, “Introduction to ‘A Broken Flute’”
10:00-10:15 Break/Book Sales
DSC Meeting Room B
10:15-11:15 Session Two: Indigenous Peoples and the Media
DSC Meeting Room A
Moderator: Selene Phillips (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe), University of Louisville
  1. Cristina Azocar (Upper Mattaponi), San Francisco State University, “The Construction of the Indian in the Colonial Media of Virginia”
  2. John Sanchez (Yaqui-Apache), Penn State University, “News Media Framing of American Indians: A Ten-Year Study of American Broadcast News Reports”
11:15-1:00 Lunch on your own
1:00-5:00 Registration/Book Sales
DSC Meeting Room B
1:00-2:00 Session Three: Identity
DSC Meeting Room A
Moderator:
  1. Richie Plass (Menominee/Stockbridge-Munsee), Oneida, WI, “In Tune With Mother Earth”
  2. Frederick White (Haida), Slippery Rock University, “What Do/Should Indigenous Children Learn about Themselves? A View from the Margin”
2:00-2:15 Break/Book Sales
DSC Meeting Room B
2:15-3:15 Session Four: Issues of Identity
DSC Meeting Room A
Moderator: Robert E. Sanderson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  1. Elizabeth Archuleta (Yaqui/Chicana), University of New Mexico, “Refiguring Indian Blood through Poetry, Photography, and Performance Art”
  2. Dustin Tahmahkera (Comanche), Bowling Green State University, “Representations of the Indigenous Intellectual”
3:15-3:25 Break/Book Sales
DSC Meeting Room B
3:25-4:25 Session Five: Story and Song
DSC Meeting Room A
Moderator: Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  1. Patricia Wade (Chickaloon Village), Chickaloon, AK, “Creative New Ways to Share our Ahtna History”
  2. Cherokee National Youth Choir, Mary Kay Henderson, Director, Tahlequah, OK, “A Medley of Songs in Cherokee”
4:25-4:35 Break/Book Sales
DSC Meeting Room B
4:35-5:15 Session Six:
DSC Meeting Room A
1. Mark Trahant (Shoshone-Bannock), Seattle Post-Intelligencer, “Lewis and Clark and a Family Story”

 
Saturday, October 22, 2005

8:00-11:45 Registration/Book Sales
DSC Meeting Room B
8:45-9:45 Session One: Tribal Publishers and Writers
DSC Meeting Room A
Moderator:
  1. Florestine Kiyukanpi Renville (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota), Peever, SD, “The Dakota Literary World”
  2. Stuart Hoahwah (Comanche), University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, “The Creative Process in Comanche Poetry”
9:45-10:00 Break/Book Sales
DSC Meeting Room B
10:00-11:00 Session Two: Filmmaking
DSC Meeting Room A
Moderator: John Sanchez (Yaqui/Apache), Penn State University
  1. Hollis Stabler (Omaha), Norman, OK, and Robert E. Sanderson (Mic’maq), University of Arkansas at Little Rock, “American Indian Feature-Film Script Writing: The Creation of ‘Road of Thunder’”
  2. Roy Boney (Cherokee), Sequoyah Research Center, and Joseph Erb (Cherokee), American Indian Resource Center, Tahlequah, OK, “Native American Animated Films”
11:00-11:15 Break/Book Sales
DSC Meeting Room B
11:15-12:15 Session Three: Tribal Issues
DSC Meeting Room A
Moderator: Cristina Azocar (Upper Mattaponi), San Francisco State University
  1. Abbey Thompson (Lac du Flambeau Anishinaabe), Lac du Flambeau, WI, “Great Lakes Environment and Tribal Solutions”
  2. Selene Phillips (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe), University of Louisville
12:15-5:00 Registration/Book Sales
DSC Meeting Room B
12:15-1:15 Lunch
DSC Meeting Room B
  1. Patty Loew (Bad River Ojibwe), University of Wisconsin, Madison, “The Way of the Warrior: An Update”
1:15-2:15 Session Four: Photographing Indigenous Peoples
DSC Meeting Room A
Moderator: Paul DeMain (Oneida), News from Indian Country, Hayward, WI
  1. Serle Chapman , Billings, MT, “Slaves to the Machine: The Mechanic’s Inherent Prejudice against the Credibility of the Oral Tradition”
  2. Gary Langston, Thoreau, NM, “Photographing the Navajo People”
2:15-2:30 Break/Book Sales
DSC Meeting Room B
2:30-3:30 Session Five: Tribal Students in Higher Education: Undergraduates
DSC Meeting Room A
Moderator: Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Undergraduate panel discussion: “Native Students on College, Culture, and Career Planning in the 21st Century”
  1. Jessica Kingbird (Anishinaabe), Leech Lake Tribal College
  2. Deleana Otherbull (Crow/Northern Cheyenne), Institute of American Indian Arts
  3. Erin Wickner (Leech Lake Ojibwe), St. Thomas University
  4. Ruth Provost (Blackfoot), University of Lethbridge
3:30-3:35 Break/Book Sales
DSC Meeting Room B
3:35-4:35 Session Six: Tribal Students in Higher Education: Graduates
DSC Meeting Room A
Moderator: Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  1. Roy Boney (Cherokee), Sequoyah Research Center, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  2. Stuart Hoahwah (Comanche Nation of Oklahoma), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
  3. Dustin Tahmahkera (Comanche Nation of Oklahoma), Bowling Green State University
4:35-5:00 Session Seven: Summaries

 
WORKSHOP: On Friday, October 21, James W. Parins of the Sequoyah Research Center will offer a workshop on the importance of archiving materials from tribal communities. Participants will work with materials from the American Native Press Archives collections and will be introduced to the Center’s Digital Library Project.

SPONSORS
This program is sponsored by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Thanks for assistance also go to the Multi-Media Department of the Ottenheimer Library, the Ottenheimer Library Director’s office, the Department of English. A special thanks goes to Ikce Wicasta Magazine and to Fuller L. Bumpers.

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