2006 Sequoyah Research Center Symposium
Voices from the Past, Education for the Future
October 19-21, 2006

Symposium Program

Note: On Thursday, Sessions One and Two are in the Fine Arts Building and Session Three is in the Bailey Center ; Friday and Saturday sessions are in the Donaghey Student Center, Rooms A and B; the Archiving Workshop will be in Ottenheimer Library 301A.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Fine Arts Building

    3:00-3:50       Session One:

                        J.W. Wiggins Native American Art Collection opens for viewing.

                         Fine Arts Galleries

    4:00-4:50       Session Two:

Arthur Amiotte (Lakota) “Talk on Native American Art”

Stella Boyle Recital Hall

    5:00-6:00       Session Three:

                        Reception

                        Bailey Alumni Center     

 

Friday, October 20, 2006

Donaghey Student Center

    8:00-11:45     Registration/Book Sales

                        Meeting Room B

    8:45-8:50       Welcome

                        Meeting Room A

                        Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., Director of the Sequoyah Research Center

    8:50-9:50       Session One:

                        Meeting Room A

                        Moderator: Paul Austin, American Indian Center of Arkansas, Inc.

Paul DeMain (Oneida) “How To Get Sued For Telling The Truth -- Sources of Information, Oral Credibility and Vine Deloria Jr.”

Serle Chapman (Cheyenne)Whining Cheyenne Racists and
Why Native People ‘Have No Understanding’ of their Noble Ancestors.”

  9:50-10:00       Break

  10:00-11:15     Session Two:

                        Meeting Room A

                        Moderator: Kim Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe)

Loriene Roy (White Earth Ojibwe), Sandra Littletree (Navajo), and Elias Tzoc (Maya-K’iche’) “Expanding the Circle of Honoring Generations”

  11:15-11:45     Session Three:

                        Meeting Room A

                        Moderator: John Sanchez (Yaqui-Apache)

                        Warren Petoskey (Waganakising Odawa) Presentation on “Danland”

  11:45-1:00       Lunch on your own

   1:00-5:00        Registration/Book Sales

                        Meeting Room B

   1:00-2:15        Session Four:

                        Meeting Room A

                        Moderator: Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., Sequoyah Research Center

Bill Wiggins, Mary Jo Watson (Seminole) and Arthur Amiotte (Lakota) “J. W. Wiggins Native American Art Collection: Artist, Curator, and Collector Perspectives”

    2:15-2:30       Break

    2:30-3:30       Session Five:

                        Meeting Room A

                        Moderator: Elizabeth Archuleta (Yaqui/Chicana)

Dustin Tahmahkera (Comanche) Custer’s Last Sitcom: Decolonizing the American Situation Comedy’s “Indians”

                        Tom Strawman A Native Critique of Western Warfare in Silko’s “Ceremony”

    3:30-3:40       Break

    3:40-5:00       Session Six:

                        Meeting Room A

                        Moderator: Patty Loew (Bad River Ojibwe)

Heid E. Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) and Denise Low (Lenape/ Cherokee) Readings and stage performance

    5:30-6:30       Session Seven:

                        Meeting Room A

                     Joy Harjo (Muscogee [Creek]) “Writing, Singing, Speaking and Dreaming the Next World into Place”

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Donaghey Student Center

    8:00-11:45     Registration/Book Sales

                        Meeting Room B

    8:45-9:45       Session One:

                        Meeting Room A

                        Moderator: Selene Phillips (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe)

Richie Plass (Menominee/Stockbridge-Munsee) Teenage Death on the Reservation

                        Kim Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe) Creative Writing and Poetry Reading

   9:45-10:00      Break

  10:00-11:00     Session Two:

                        Meeting Room A

                        Moderator: Paul DeMain (Oneida)

Spencer G. Lone Tree (Ho-Chunk) Winnebago Tribe's Version of Their Own 'Trail of Tears'

                        Roy Boney (Cherokee) Trail of Tears Animation Project

                       
Joseph Erb (Cherokee) Cherokee Animation

  11:00-11:15     Break

  11:15-12:15     Session Three:

                        Meeting Room A

                        Moderator: Cristina Azocar (Upper Mattaponi)

                        John Sanchez (Yaqui-Apache)  American Indian Identity; A case
                    study of self-identified Indians and Native Policy

                        Elizabeth Archuleta (Yaqui/Chicana) Eating Food, Digesting Words

 12:15-1:15        Lunch and Presentation

                        Patty Loew (Bad River Ojibwe) “Way of the Warrior”

Meeting Room B

   1:15-5:00        Registration/Book Sales

                                Meeting Room B

   1:15-2:15        Session Four:

                        Meeting Room A

                        Moderator: James W. Parins, Sequoyah Research Center

                        Mary Young (Prairie Band Potawatomi) Potawatomi Art and Photography

Elgin Jumper (Seminole) “Reading from His Fiction and Poetry”

   2:15-2:30        Break

 

   2:30-3:30        Session Five:

                        Meeting Room A

                        Moderator: Robert E. Sanderson, Sequoyah Research Center

                        Frederick White (Haida) Indigenous Language Revitalization

Myrelene Ranville (Canadian Anishinaabe) Revitalizing Algonquian Languages

 

   3:30-3:35        Break

 

   3:35-4:05        Session Six:

                        Meeting Room A

                        Moderator: Loriene Roy (White Earth Ojibwe)

Allison Hedge Coke (Huron/Eastern Tsalagi) Creative reading and a presentation on the relationship between abstract reasoning and oratory in formative years

 

4:05-4:30           Session Seven: Discussion/Summary

Meeting Room A

Moderator: Mary Young (Prairie Band Potawatomi)

                        Paul DeMain (Oneida)

                        Patty Loew (Bad River Ojibwe)

                        Selene Phillips (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe)

           

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.  All workshops will be held in the Sequoyah Research Center, 301-A Ottenheimer Library.

 

Friday, October 20, 2006

1:00-3:00        “Archiving in the Digital Age”

Director: Dan F. Littlefield, Jr.   

 

Saturday, October 21, 2006

9:00-11:00      “Archiving in the Digital Age”

Director: Dan F. Littlefield, Jr.   

 

Sponsors

Support for this symposium is provided by the following UALR units:

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Ottenheimer Library, UALR Archives, Off-Campus Programs, Cooper Honors Program in English, Rhetoric and Writing Department, Sociology and Anthropology Department, UALR Children International. Support also comes from The Center for Artistic Revolution and Mohegan Sun.


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