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Wounded Knee 1973: Forty Years Later THE CENTER FOR WESTERN STUDIES PRESENTS THE FORTY-FOURTH ANNUAL A National Conference on the Northern Plains History | Literature | Art | Archeology Wounded Knee 1973: Forty Years Later AUGUSTANA COLLEGE | APRIL 27 -28, 2 012 On display in conjunction with the Dakota Conference is the art exhibition Interpretations of Wounded Knee 1973 and 1890 , a one-time show featuring the work of twenty -two artists. A public artists’ reception will be held on Thursday, April 26, from 4:3 0- 6:30 p.m. This program is supported in part by a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Welcome, Dakota Conference Presenters and Attendees! For the Forty-fourth Annual Dakota Conference, the Center for Western Studies will observe the fortieth anniversary of the occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. We will do so in the larger context of the massacre at Wounded Knee by the US Seventh Calvary on December 29, 1890. On that date, Miniconjou Lakota chief Spotted Elk (Big Foot), over 300 of his Ghost Dance followers, and 38 Hunkpapas were attacked at their encampment on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Of the 230 Indian women and children and 120 men at the camp, at least 153 were counted dead and 44 wounded. Army casualties were 25 dead and 39 wounded. Eighty-three years later, on February 27, 197 3, 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement (AIM) supporters seized and occupied the village of Wounded Knee for 71 days in protest of a recent murder and long-held grievances against the BIA. They demanded an end to intimidation of AIM members and “traditionals” on the reservation. They demanded that treaties signed by the U.S. government be honored, especially the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, which acknowledged Sioux claims to the Black Hills. The village was quickly surrounded by law-enforcement officials, and a siege ensued. Before it ended on May 5, the armed conflict claimed the lives of two AIM supporters. An FBI agent and a US Marshall were wounded, and 1,200 people were arrested. Through the free and open exchange among all conference attendees, we will consider the legacy of the occupation—and the earlier massacre. Fourteen books will be represented at the autograph party on Saturday, including several books on Wounded Knee. Two new books about the Great Plains will be featured in panel sessions: Remaking the Heartland: Middle America in the 1950s , by Robert Wuthnow, and The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South Dakota Political Culture , edited by Jon Lauck, John Miller, and Donald Simmons. Dedicated to examining contemporary issues in their historical and cultural contexts, the Dakota Conference is a signature event of the Center for Western Studies, which provides programming in Northern Plains Studies at Augustana College. In awarding a Challenge Grant in support of the Centerʼs endowment, the National Endowment for the Humanities cited the Dakota Conference specifically for its hallmark blending of academic and non-academic presenters. If you value this approach to learning about the past, there is still time to help CWS meet its NEH endowment match. Thank you to each presenter and session chair and to the staff of Mikkelsen Library for their assistance in so many ways. Harry F. Thompson, Ph.D. , Executive Director Tim Hoheisel , Director of Outreach and Promotion Elizabeth Thrond , Collections Assistant Kristi Thomas , Secretary Financial Contributors Loren and Mavis Amundson CWS Endowment/SFACF Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission Tony & Anne Haga Carol Rae Hansen, Andrew Gilmour & Grace Hansen-Gilmour Carol M. Mashek Elaine Nelson McIntosh Mellon Fund Committee of Augustana College Rex Myers & Susan Richards V.R. & Joyce Nelson Rollyn H. Samp, in Honor of Ardyce Samp Roger & Shirley Schuller, in Honor of Matthew Schuller Jerry & Gail Simmons South Dakota Humanities Council Robert & Sharon Steensma Blair & Linda Tremere Richard & Michelle Van Demark Jamie & Penny Volin The Forty-Fourth Annual Dakota Conference Wounded Knee 1973: Forty Years Later The Center for Western Studies, Augustana College Sioux Falls, South Dakota, April 27-28, 2012 REGISTRATION FORM Please return this completed form with payment to: The Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, 2001 S. Summit Ave., Sioux Falls, SD 57197 For further information, call 605-274-4007 or e-mail [email protected]. For lodging, visit www.augie.edu/lodging. No. Registration: Required of all attendees Presenter fee _____ x $45.00 = $ _____ Save $5 by registering by April 16 _____ x $50.00 = $ _____ Registration after April 16 _____ x $55.00 = $ _____ One-day registration (not available to presenters) _____ x $25.00 = $ _____ Single-session registration (not available to presenters) _____ x $10.00 = $ _____ Full-time undergraduate student registration (student ID required) _____ x FREE n o i t a Current Augustana faculty r o f r (courtesy of Mellon Fund Committee) _____ x FREE e p t a r a Meals: All meals must be purchased in advance (prices include tax and gratuity). e T Save $4 by purchasing Full Meal Package (3 meals) _____ x $43.00 = $ _____ Friday Lunch with program _____ x $15.00 = $ _____ Friday Dinner with program _____ x $17.00 = $ _____ Saturday Luncheon with program _____ x $15.00 = $ _____ Saturday Trail Breakfast _____ x FREE Supporting Gifts CWS Endowment Campaign (NEH Challenge Grant will match by 25%) $_________ CWS Membership ($50 basic membership) $ _________ TOTAL $ ________ I Check enclosed (made payable to CWS) I I I I Mastercard Visa Discover American Express Credit Card # __________________________________________________________ Exp. Date _______________ Security Code (on back) _________ Signature ______________________________________________________________ Name _________________________________________________________________ Address _______________________________________________________________ City __________________________________ State __________ Zip ______________ Phone _________________________ E-mail _________________________________ Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of South Dakota and the Northern Plains Lillian Johnsson A true “daughter of the prairie ,” Lillian Johnsson was born and raised in Worthington, Minnesota, and has been for many years a resident of Chamberlain, South Dakota, with her husband, Gil Johnsson. She has long been active in the General Federation of Womenʼs Clubs (GFWC), serving as President of the South Dakota State Chapter and as a member of the National Board of Directors Finance Committee. She represented South Dakota on the Presidentʼs White House Commission on Women in American History. In 2008 she was awarded the GFWC of South Dakota Jennie Award for Leadership. The General Federation is the largest volunteer association of women in the U.S. and abroad. Lillian has volunteered with the South Dakota Reading Council; the GFWCʼs Kids Voting Project and Travelers Club; helped to promote meal sites in the local community and on Lower Brule and Crow Creek reservations; and serves as a docent at the Akta Lakota Museum. A craft artisan known as the “Teddy Bear Lady” for her contributions under the national program Good Bears of the World, Lillian has been active in community theater, participated in mission camp activities for the Lakota and other tribes, and with Gil has led tours to Europe and the Middle East. She served as the authorʼs special assistant for Kristin Hogansonʼs publication Consumersʼ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 (University of North Carolina Press). She has presented numerous programs locally and throughout the state, in schools, retirement centers, and nursing homes. Lillian has given several papers at the Dakota Conference and received the Arthur I. and Willmeta Johnson Award for her 2010 paper “She Chose Her Own Path: Nellie Z. Willhite, South Dakotaʼs First Woman Pilot.” She and her husband, Gil, received the 2008 South Dakota Library Association Friends of the Library Award. Northern Plains Autograph Party | Saturday, April 28, 2 012 (At the CWS Fantle Building from 12:1 5-1:0 0 p.m.) *Please see Session 23 for the list of authors attending the event and their recent books. 45th Annual Dakota Conference | April 2 6-27, 2013 “The Spanish Northern Plains” The Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD Friday, April 27 Registration (CWS Fantle Building) 8:15 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Indian History & Culture I People & Places The West Archives & Memory Chair: John McIntyre Chair: Tony Haga Chair: Gary Earl Chair: Aaron Woodard 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. A History of the Indian Wars: Peter Norbeck: Brought Artesian Central Meade County Tenacity World War II Letters from Native 1891-1973: Violence, Indian Water to the Prairie and Common Bob Benson, Sioux Falls, SD Servicemen Resistance, and Historical Memory Sense to Washington D.C. Rebekah Walker, Augustana College Jameson Sweet, University of Jean Rahja, Aberdeen, SD (student) Minnesota 9:35 - 10:05 a.m. The U.S. Governmental Response Breakneck: “Famous” Hill in Sioux Homesteading in Dakota Territory Letters from Mary Collins and to the 1862 Dakota Conflict County, Iowa Alvin Kangas, Lake Norden, SD Frank Waters Robyn Swets, Sioux Falls, SD Gordon Iseminger, University of Sebastian Forbush, Augustana North Dakota College (student) 10:10 - 10:40 a.m. Prelude to Wounded Knee 1890 Aeneas MacKay in the White River Celebrating 150 Years of the Augustana in the 1940s David Kvernes, Carbondale, IL Badlands, August,1849 Homestead Act Alden Hovda, Joyce Olson, Eunice Elwin Rogers, Moorhead, MN Marian Cramer, Bryant, SD Mansfield, Marjorie Hanson Meester, and Arlen Viste, Sioux Falls, SD 10:45 - 11:15 a.m. Indian Archive Project: Writing Local History: The I Paid All My Debts (A North Letters of Love Genealogical and Historical Factual, the Fictive, and the Dakota Saga) Sandy Jerstad, Sioux Falls, SD Resources at the South Dakota Missing in Six: A Football Coachʼs Lloyd Svendsbye, Eden Prairie, MN State Archives Journey to a National Record , by Virginia Hanson, Pierre, SD Marc Rasmussen Wayne Kvam, Kent, OH 11:30 a.m.
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