2007 Sequoyah Research Center Symposium
Voices from the Past, Education for the Future
October 18-20, 2007

Symposium Program

Note:  All sessions will be in Salon B of the Double Tree Hotel.  Registration, book sales, display tables, and breaks will be in Salon A.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

    6:00-7:30            Reception, Old State House.
            

Friday, October 19, 2007

    8:00-11:45         Registration, Book Sales
                       

    8:25-8:30          Welcome
                       
                       Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., Director, Sequoyah Research Center

    8:30-10:00          Session One
                         
                        Selene Phillips, Wabigonikewikwe, (Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior
                         Ojibwe), "Internal Review Boards and Indigenous Scholarship"
                        Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe), "The Inheritance of Family
                         Narrative in Native America: Re-dressing Sr. Inez Hilger's Construction of
                         Chippewa Families."
                        Moderator: Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., Sequoyah Research Center

  10:00-10:15           Break

 

  10:15-11:45           Session Two
                       
                        Stuart Y. Hoahwah (Comanche), “Trials and Tribulations of
                        Publishing Poetry”
                        Moderator: Selene Phillips (Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake
                        Superior Ojibwe)

  11:45-1:00            Lunch on your own

   1:00-5:00           Registration, Book Sales
                       
   1:00-2:30           Session Three
                        Eula Narcomey Doonkeen (Seminole-Natchez), "Early History of
                        the Seminoles"
                        Alfreda Doonkeen (Seminole), "Red Sticks, Cimarron and
                        Seminole Name Theories"
                        Moderator: Paul DeMain (Oneida)

    2:30-2:45          Break

    2:45-4:15          Session Four
                        Patrisia Gonzales (Kickapoo-Comanche-Macehual), "Dreamtime
                        as a Method of Knowing in Indigenous Medicine"
                        Roberto Rodriguez (Nahua-Chichimeca), "Indigenous Liberation
                        Research and Methodology"           
                        Moderator: John Sanchez (Yaqui-Apache)

    4:15-4:20          Break

    4:20-5:00          Session Five                       
                         Warren Petoskey (Odawa), "The Sanctuary"
                         Moderator: Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe)

    5:00-6:00           SRC Advisory Board business meeting

 

Saturday, October 20, 2007

    8:00-11:45          Registration/Book Sales

    8:30-10:00          Session One                       
                        Frederick White (Haida), "Linguistic Colonialoscopy:
                        Decolonizing Indigenous Languages"
                        Myrelene Ranville (Algonquian), "A Cognate Language--
                        Restoring an Algonquian Language"
                        Moderator:

   10:00-10:15          Break

   10:15-11:45          Session Two                       
                        Patricia A. Loew (Bad River Ojibwe), "Lights, Camera. . .
                        Indigenous Science Action"
                        Harry Oosahwee (Cherokee), "Teaching Cherokee Language from the Cherokee Speaker's Perspective"
                        Moderator: John Sanchez (Yaqui/Apache)
 
  11:45-1:00           Lunch on your own

  1:00-5:00            Book Sales
                       
  1:00-2:30            Session Three                       
                        Inés Talamantez (Mescalero Apache), "Who Do They Think We Are. . . Who Do We Think We Are?"
                        Doyle D. Turner (White Earth Ojibwe),Time is a Parlor Trick and Other Poems, A Reading”
                        Moderator: James W. Parins, Sequoyah Research Center

   2:30-2:45            Break

   2:45-4:15            Session Four                       
                        Roy Boney, Jr. (Cherokee), Joseph Erb (Cherokee), and Matt Mason (Cherokee), "Cherokee Robot:
                        Storytelling with Digital Media"
                        Dan Bigbee (Comanche) and Lily Shangreaux (Oglala Lakota), "Current Role of Native Filmmakers"
                        Moderator: Patricia Loew (Bad River Ojibwe)

   4:15-4:20            Break

   4:20-5:00            Session Five
                        Discussion/Summary
                        Moderator: Selene Phillips (Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe)


Thanks to Our Sponsors

Philip Jonsson Foundation
UALR Department of Sociology and Anthropology
UALR Ottenheimer Library
UALR Office of Extended Programs
Xerox Corporation

A special thanks to the American Indian Center of Arkansas, Inc., for the reception on October 18 [symposia/includes/footer.htm]

   

 
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