FULL SCHEDULE WITH ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS
7:30- 8:15 Registration: Main Lobby, Walker Cisler Center,
LSSU
8:15- 9:30 Opening Ceremony
9:30- 9:45 BREAK
SESSION 1: Studies of the Past
9:45-10:15 Joseph Faulds, Northeastern State University
"Critical Reading From the Deep Woods to
Civilization"
10:15-10:45 Richard Sax, Madonna University
"Degadoga, The Last to Surrender: Stand Watie and
the
Cherokee Mounted Rifles of the C.S.A.
10:45-11:15 Martin Walsh, University of Michigan
"Lieut. Gov. Henry Hamilton: 'The Hair Buyer' as
Portraitist"
11:15-11:45 Amy Den Ouden, University of Connecticut
"Behold, now they make us as Goats": Native People's
Struggles Against Colonial Domination in
Eighteenth-Century
Connecticut"
SESSION 2: Cultural Continuity
9:45-10:15 Elizabeth Tornes
"Empowering the Community: The Lac du Flambeau Oral
History
Project"
10:15-10:45 Phil Bellfy, Michigan State University
"In Defense of Tribalism"
10:45-11:15 Basil Buchko, Lake Superior State University
"Assimilation of the Native American"
11:15-11:45 Matthew Zastrow, Northern Michigan University
"In Search of a Primal Point of View"
SESSION 3: Educational Initiatives for Students, Text, and
Programs
9:45-10:15 Lois Hirst, Northern Michigan University
"Improving Student Achievement"
10:15-10:45 Bonnie Beyer, University of Michigan-Dearborn
"Leadership in School Program Development: Serving
At Risk
Native American Students"
10:45-11:15 Jeanne Janson, University of Washington
"The Silent Indian Student"
11:15-11:45 Mico Slattery, Michigan State University
"Epistemological Colonialism in the Modern
University and the
Whisper of the Indigenous Voice"
SESSION 4: Educational Issues in Michigan
9:45-10:45 Geo Fuhst, et.al., Turtle Island Learning Circle
"The Michigan Urban Charter School: Window of
Opportunity
for Indian Education" Presenting with Adrienne
Brant James,
David James, Maria Lucy Harrison, Thurman Bear,
Arthur Brant,
and Oliver Brant.
10:45-11:45 Peggy Connolly, Illinois Mathematics and Science
Academy &
Hannahville Indian School
"The Coyote Project: Collaborative Research and
Creation of
an Interactive Potawatomi Database" with Rich
Scarlotti.
SESSION 6: Insights into Education
9:45-10:45 Jim Brazier and Doug Schell, Pembroke Univerity
"A Degree in Tribal Management! Why Not?"
10:45-11:45 Doug West, Robert Narcisse and Corinne Fox, Lakehead
U.
"The Representation of Aboriginal Peoples in
Canadian
Government and Politic Texts 1975-95"
11:45-12:45 LUNCH at Quarterdeck on Campus
12:45-2:15 Panel: Rick St. Germaine, University of
Wisconsin-EuClaire
and local Indian Eduation Leaders.
"Creating Sacred Places for Indian Children"
2:15-2:30 BREAK (HOSPITALITY SUITE)
SESSION 1 (AFTERNOON SELECTION) Studies of the Past
2:30- 3:00 Conard Carroll, Northern Kentucky University
"The Other Mariemont Story"
3:00- 3:30 Karen Condon, Cornell University
"A Brief History of the Outing System at Sherman
Indian
School, Riverside, California"
3:30- 4:00 Catherine O'Connor, Michigan State University
"The American Myth and the American Indian: A
Briefy Study
of Puritan/ Indian Relations"
4:00- 4:30 Wilma Soroosh, Pima Community College
"Combining Tradition and Higher Education"
SESSION 2 (AFTERNOON SELECTION) Cultural Continuity
2:30- 3:00 Francois Boudreau, Laurentian University
"The Status of the Land in the Treaty Making Process:
The
Case of the Treaties on the North Shore of Lake
Huron"
3:00- 3:30 David McLaren, Chippewas of the Nawash
"Tribes in the U.S. have Made Greater Strides than
Bands in
Canada"
3:30- 4:30 Edward Valandra, Rosebud Community
"Restoring Appropriate[d] Political Space"
SESSION 3 (AFTERNOON SELECTION) Educational Initiatives for
Students, Text...
2:30- 3:00 Will Morin, University of Sudbury
"Western Cannons vs. Native Bows and Arrows: A
Proposal for
a New Direction in Native Studies"
3:00- 3:30 Aaron Tadgerson, Lake Superior State University
"Development of Opening the Doors Project: Program
History"
3:30- 4:30 Aaron Tadgerson, Lake Superior State University
"Development of Opening the Doors Projects: M-Step"
SESSION 5 Language for Survival
2:30- 3:00 Roger Speilmann, University of Sudbury
"Expository Features of Monolingual Discourse in
Algonquin"
3:00- 3:30 Mary Ann Corbiere, University of Sudbury
"The Inventiveness of the Odaawaa Mind:
Manipulating the
Odaawa Language for Survival and for Fun"
3:30- 4:30 Rosemary Christensen, Ojibwe Mekana
"Learning Research and Curriculum Materials for the
Ojibwe
Language"
SESSION 6: (AFTERNOON SELECTION) Insights into Education
2:30- 3:30 Don Dennis, Mike Nofz, Carolyn Polodna and Roger
Wall,
University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac.
"Interdisiplinarity and Native American Issues"
3:30- 4:00 Ronald Craig, Fort Peck Community College
"Writing and Teaching Native American History"
5:30- 7:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: John Mohawk
"Indian Sovereignty in the Context
of
Economic Development"
7:00-7:30 Reception (Alumni Room)
7:30-9:00 Dinner in Ballrooms
9:00 Reception at Eskoonwid Endaad (LSSU Native Student
House)
*Literature Reading - "Reading from Grama
Toto's Book"
*Native American Art and Trader Craft Exhibits
10:00 Oneida Comedian Charlie Hill
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SATURDAY - APRIL 13 DAY 2
SESSION 1: Health Concerns
9:00- 9:30 Maria Canterero, Lake Superior State University
"Hunter in a Farmer's World: A Predictor for ADD in
Indian
Children? An Examination of Thom Hartmann's Theory
of ADD
Associated Behaviorial Traits"
9:30-10:00 Angeline Matson, Saginaw Chippewa Tribe
"Occupation Stress in Tribal Gaming Enterprises:
Differences between Indian and non-Indian
Employees"
10:00-10:30 Alex Huyck, Sault Ste. Marie
"National Research with Native Americans"
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45-11:45 Sessions Ongoing in Other Rooms
11:45- 1:15 LUNCH
1:15- 2:15 George Cornell, Gordon Henry, Patrick Lebeau &
Betty Bell
"Images of American Indians in Written Form"
2:15 - 2:30 BREAK
SESSION 2: Focus on Canadian Political Issues
2:30- 3:00 Sharon McLean, Lakehead University
"Native Studies as an Indigenous Learning
Experience"
3:00- 3:30 Bonnie Couchie, Lakehead University
"Is Britain's Law in Canada Legal?"
3:30- 4:00 Roberta McIntyre, Lakehead University
"Aboriginal Self-Determination: The Future of
Canadian
Rights"
4:00- 4:30 Rita King, Lakehead University
"Ontario Hydro"
SESSION 3: Voices of Native Women
9:00- 9:30 Andrea Smith, Union Theological Seminary
"The Population Control Movement and Its Impact
on Native
Communities"
9:30-10:00 Cary Miller, Sault College
"Rethinking Tradition: The Anishinawbeg
Perception of
Time and the Jingle Derss Dance as a Traditional
Practice
10:00-10:30 Jerry McKinney, Lake Superior State University
"Voices From Within"
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45-11:15 Larissa Petrillo
"Intercultural Dialogue in Lakota Woman and
Ohitika Woman"
11:15-11:45 Susan Dominguez, Michigan State University
"Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) 1876-1938:
(RE)
Discovering the Sun Dance"
SESSION 3 (AFTERNOON SELECTION) Voices of Native Women
2:30 - 3:00 Polly Stevens Feilds, Lake Superior State
University
"Colonizing the Body: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko as
Protest
Literature"
3:00- 3:30 Anna Hubbard
"Strong Women of the North: A Poetry and Art
Presentation"
3:30- 4:00 Elisabeth Deitz, Baweting Art Gallery
"Native Women: Our Path on the Good Red Road"
SESSION 4 (AFTERNOON SELECTION) Issues of Native Identify
9:00- 9:30 Julie Davis, University of Illinois
"Ojibwa Encounters; Nineteenth-Century Travelers
and the
Indian"
9:30-10:00 Jennifer Driscoll, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"'Not Objects but Acts, Not Pages but
Performances':
Re-Conceptualizing and En-Gendering
"Autobiography: in
I Tell You Now"
10:00-10:30 Gayle Mercer, University of Nevada at Reno
"Diversity of Audience, Diversity of Critics:
Mixed
Visions and Contemporary Native American
Literature"
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45-11:45 Jan Wojcik and Angelo Washburn Heisey, Clarkston
University
"Iroiquois Indians Read Native American Novels:
Why are
there no Iroquois Novelists?"
SESSION 4: (AFTERNOON SELECTION) Issues of Native Identity
2:30 - 3:00 Denise Sweet and Carol Allsup, U. of
Wisconsin-Plattville
"Kinship of Native and Chicano Americans"
3:00- 3:30 Clem Nabigon, University of Sudbury
"The Schizophrenic Indian: Exploring
Mixed-Parentage
Identity Issues"
3:30- 4:00 Donal Lindsey, Cincinnati
"Traditions to and from the Way: Poles and
Equators of
Indian, Immigrant and Black Cultures on American
Life"
SESSION 5: Native Identity through Literary Analysis
9:00- 9:30 Eric Gadzinski, Lake Superior State University
"Vietnam Soldier-Poetry and Cultural Identity in
Jim Northrup's
'Walking the Rez Road'"
9:30-10:00 Christine Casson, Carthage College
"A Forest of Dreaming: Landscape and Displacement
in the
Poetry of Linda Hogan and Wendy Rose"
10:00-10:30 Melissa Hearn, Northern Michigan University
"Statehood and Stereotypes: A Cherokee Writer's
View of the
American West"
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45-11:15 Karl Jirgens, Algoma University
"The Role of the Trickster-Figure in Thomas King's
Fiction"
11:15-11:45 Bernie Harder, University of Windsor
"The Interaction Between the Dominant Societies and
the
People of the Earth"
SESSION 5 (AFTERNOON SELECTION) Native Identity Through Literary
Analysis
2:30 - 3:00 Frank Nigro, Vanderbilt University
"'I Already Heard These Stories Before':
Traditionalizing
Convention in Leslie Silko's Ceremony"
3:00- 3:30 Tracey Bridgeford, Michigan Technological
University
"I Was Made For Better: The Development of
Pauline's
Consciousness in Louise Erdrich's 'Track'"
SESSION 6 INDIAN TERMINATION
3:30- 4:30 LSSU NA320 "Contemporary Issues" Class
"Indian Termination: A Contemporary Issues"
SESSION 7 Perceptions of Native Imagery
9:00- 9:30 Tracy Speaker, Michigan State University
"Supporting Cast: The Representations of Native
Americans in Film"
9:30-10:00 Shirley Brozzo, Northern Michigan University
"Will the REAL Pocahontas Please Stand Up"
10:00-10:30 Tim Bayor and Martin Brokenleg, Augustana College
"Dual Practice Native Americans and Vision
Questing
Europeans"
10:45-11:15 Orville Clark, University of Wisconsin-Greenbay
"American Indian Art and Cultural Survival"
11:15-11:45 Eileen Roberts, Northern Michigan University
"Compliance with Federal Law: The Losey
Collection of
Inuit and First Nations Art at Northern Michigan University"
SESSION 8: Contemporary Issues
2:30- 3:00 Francis Guth, Algoma University College
"The Spiritual/Moral Self-Evaluation of Gambling
among
Pre-Contact Native North Americans"
3:00- 3:00 Barbard Brotherton, Western Michigan University
"Native American Scholarship for Native Americans:
Lushootseed Research and Lushootseed Press"
DINNER ON YOUR OWN
6:30-10:00POW WOW
10:00ONEIDA COMEDIAN CHARLIE HILL
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