The Native American Literature Symposium is organized by an independent group of Indigenous scholars committed to making a place where Native voices can be heard.
Since 2001, we have brought together some of the most influential voices in Native America to share our stories—in art, prose, poetry, film, religion, history, politics, music, philosophy, and science—from our worldview.
Gwen N. Westerman, Director Minnesota State University, Mankato
Virginia Carney, Tribal College Liaison Leech Lake Tribal College
P. Jane Hafen, Awards Chair University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Gordon Henry, Jr., Publications Editor Michigan State University
Patrice Hollrah, Vendor/Press Coordinator University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Denise Cummings, Film Wrangler Rollins College
Theo Van Alst, Film Wrangler Yale
LeAnne Howe, Arts Liaison University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Evelina Zuni Lucero, Site Coordinator Institute of American Indian Arts
Jason Zahn, Assistant to the Director Minnesota State University, Mankato
The Native American Literature Symposium PO Box 541 Mankato, MN 56002-0541 www.mnsu.edu/nativelit
Albuquerque, New Mexico 1 Wopida, Miigwech, Mvto, Wado, Ahe’ee
We thank the sponsors of the 2011 Symposium for their generous funding and continued support that made everything possible.
The People of the Pueblo of Isleta Robert Benavides, Governor
The Redd Center for Western Studies
Hard Rock Albuquerque Ron Olsen, CEO
The American Indian Studies Series, Michigan State University Press
The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
Michigan State University Press
University of Nebraska Press
We also extend our gratitude to the following people who work behind the scenes at Minnesota State University, Mankato to keep everything functioning and who provide invaluable encouragement for our cause:
Department of English Kate Voight, Office Manager John Banschbach, Chair
College of Arts and Humanities Walter Zakahi, Dean
And we appreciate the kindness of the following people who contributed support for our student participants:
Denise Cummings Becca Gercken Connie Jacobs Pat Kennedy Debbie Lopez Molly McGlennen
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Mitakuyapi,
Once again, we find ourselves in Paak’u, the homelands of the Pueblo peoples, as we convene for the 12th annual meeting of The Native American Literature Symposium. We thank the Pueblo of Isleta for welcoming us to their conference facilities at the Hard Rock Albuquerque and for their ongoing support.
This year, our program is full of wonderfully engaging topics that demonstrate how dynamic the field of Native Studies continues to be. We will enjoy readings by Linda Legarde Grover, whose book Dance Boots won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and by Heid Erdrich, who will captivate us not only with her work as an arts advocate, but also with a staged reading of her play “Curiosities.”
We are pleased to showcase new texts that will broaden our views of Indigenous literatures. In Session 11, we will hear poems read from Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry from 1678 to 1930, edited by Robert Dale Parker, and new from the University of Pennsylvania Press. And in Session 15A, we will get a preview of Denise Cummings’ new collection Visualities: Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art, with readings from contributors to the volume. Her book is forthcoming from Michigan State University Press in May 2011.
Our film selection is provocative and timely. También la lluvia / Even the Rain is Spain’s 2010 Oscar submission for best foreign language film and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. A richly layered narrative, it will generate new dialogue about revisionist history and what we think we know about Christopher Columbus and contemporary Indigenous issues.
And many of you may know that our dear colleague LeAnne Howe is in Amman, Jordan, on a year-long Fulbright Fellowship, writing and teaching Native American literature. She had hoped to bring a panel of Jordanian students to the conference, but alas, bureaucracy got in the way. However, you know how we are around here. Tell us “no,” and we’ll find a way to prove you wrong. LeAnne and her Jordanian students will present—via Skype—in Session 14C on Saturday morning. So there!
NALS is our place to reconnect, refuel, and renew. The world is a sobering place right now. We send our prayers to our brothers and sisters affected by the earthquakes in Japan, New Zealand, and Pakistan. We mourn the loss of those who have made our paths easier. We hold close in our hearts those loved ones and friends in far away war-torn places who follow our warrior legacy. And we continue to honor our stories. In the end, our stories are who we are.
Henana epe kte. Wopida ye.
Gwen Westerman
Albuquerque, New Mexico 3 Book Exhibits and Vendors
Visit the vendors and book exhibits in Grand Ballroom B (9:00 am to 5:00 pm each day)
Thank you to the following presses and vendors for their contributions:
Presses Canadian Plains Research Center Press First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Living Justice Press Michigan State University Press Oxford University Press Tribal College Journal University of Arizona Press University of Pennsylvania Press University of Nebraska Press University of Oklahoma Press
Vendors Eloise Begay, jewerly Birchbark Books Rodney Chavez, pottery Valentino Candelaria & Marie Valdo, jewelry William Clark & Philissa Calamity, pottery, jewelry, books Elle Curley-Jackson & JJ Ahboah, jewelry, feather fans Ina Garcia, jewelry Leandro Garcia Page One Books Verna Plateco Frank & Terri Poolheco, beadwork, gourds, carvings Tony & Wilma Purley , beadwork, silverwork Dwight Ration, art Martin & Arvada Rosetta, jewelry Alvin Shaw, beadwork Odetta Suina Floyd Tenorio, jewelry Minnie Toledo, jewelry Gilbert Waconda, jewelry, pottery Venaya J. Yazzie
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Registration (until 4 pm) 8:00
Vendors and Exhibits (until 5 pm) 9:00
Welcome and Traditional Blessing 8:45
Session 1: Plenary Crow and the Cultural Commons: Affiliation and Adjacent Possibility in Anishinaabe Literature
Chair: Molly McGlennen, Vassar College
Gordon Henry, Jr., Michigan State University
9:00 - 10:15 Kimberly M. Blaeser, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Jesse Peters, University of North Carolina at Pembroke Jane Haladay, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Session 2 A (Manzano) B (Bosque) C (Rio Grande) Rethinking Masculinity in Community Engagement and Mana Wahine: Female Contemporary Native Texts Service-Learning in (Em)power(ment) and Native Literature Courses Hawaiian Literature
“Married to the Earth”: Chair: Channette Romero, “He Inoa no Hi’iakaikapoliopele Rethinking Masculinity in Silko’s University of Georgia (In the name of Hi’iaka in the Almanac of the Dead bosom of Pele)”: Mana Wahine Mathew C. Walker, Learning on Tribal Land and Literary Nationalism Pennsylvania State University Janis Johnson, ku’ualoha ho’omanawanui, University of Idaho University of Hawai’i at Manoa Redefining Native American Fatherhood: Working through (Best) Practices and (Bad) Water, Seduction, and Mana Paternal Trauma in Stephen Politics: Service Learning in Wahine: Mo’o Deities Revisited Graham Jones’s Bleed into Me Amercan Indian Studies Marie Alohalani Brown, Heather Reagan, Becca Gercken, University of Hawai’i at Manoa 10:30 - 11:45 The University of Central Florida University of Minnesota, Morris
‘Take this Gun, Son, and Give Maamwi gd’maashkozimi / me back that Doll’: Rewriting Together We Are Strong: A Model Masculinity in Modern Native of Community-Based Scholarship Literature Margaret Noori, Rebecca Shevlin, University of Michigan The University of Central Florida The Kiowa Connection: Masculinity in Contemporary Engaging Community Help to Native Fiction: An Overview Study Momaday’s Works Toni Jensen, Kenneth Roemer, Pennsylvania State University University of Texas at Arlington
Albuquerque, New Mexico 5 Thursday, March 17 Sesson 3: Lunch A Conversation with Heid Erdrich
Heid E. Erdrich is author of four poetry collections, most recently National Monuments from Michigan State University Press. Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming in 2012. Heid Erdrich also authored The
12:00 - 1:30 Mother's Tongue, Salt Publishing's Earthworks series, and co-edited Sister Nations: Native American Women on Community, Minnesota Historical Society Press. Heid won the Minnesota Book Award in 2009 for her book of poetry National Monuments.
Session 4 A B C Children’s and Young Adult Early Native American Native Comics, Graphic Literature Literature: Many Voices, Narratives, and Gothic Forms New and Old
Saying Goodbye to Childhood: Chair: Martha Viehmann, Chair: Jeff Berglund, The Indian Residential School Sinclair Community College, Northern Arizona University Experience as Explored In Courseview Campus Children’s Literature “A Powerful Person with Laura J. Beard, An Embattled Cherokee Writer: Obligations”: The Formline of Texas Tech University Too Quah-stee on Allotment and Social Responsibility in Red Tribal Dissolution Miriam Brown Spiers, 1:30 - 2:45 University of Georgia Coyote “Thinks So Hard Her Nose James W. Parins, Falls Off”: The Preservation of U of Arkansas at Little Rock Vincent Craig’s Muttonman Cultural Worldviews and Literacy Jeff Berglund Systems in Two Native American Reclaiming Queen of the Woods as Children’s Stories Native American Literature Why Windigo?: Windigos in Brandy Alba, Martha Viehmann Hollywood and in Joseph Boyden’s Texas State University Three Day Road Carter Meland, The University of Minnesota
Break Sponsored by the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 3:00 - 3:30
6 The Native American Literature Symposium 2011 Thursday, March 17 Session 5 A B C Rhetorics of Resistance Resisting Students and Native Women, Trauma, Subversive Teaching in the and Identity Native Literature Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion
Re-imagining Creek Resistance Nancy J. Peterson, The Jailing of Cecelia Capture: and Queer Creek Identity by Purdue University Imprisoned by Race, Class, Re-inscribing Creek Stories in and Gender Womack’s Drowning in Fire Jane Haladay, Tria Andrews, Michael Snyder, U. of North Carolina at Pembroke UC Berkeley Oklahoma City Comm. College
3:30 - 4:45 Susan Scarberry-Garcia, Reclamation Acts and Trauma Institute of American Indian Arts Response: Indigenous Texts as Native Feminist Discourse and the Testimonio Sovereign Erotic Patrice Hollrah, Carol Edelman Warrior, Clark Hafen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas University of Washington U. of California, Riverside This roundtable is sponsored Ghosts and Gangsters in by the Pedagogy Committee of Sy Hoahwah’s Velroy and the ASAIL Madischie Mafia Scott Andrews, California State U., Northridge
Dinner on your own 5 - 6
Sesson 6 Film Screening and Teaching Roundtable
Denise K. Cummings, Rollins College Theo Van Alst,Yale
También la lluvia / Even the Rain (2010)
A Spanish film crew helmed by idealistic director Sebastian (Gael García Bernal) and his cynical
6:00 - 9:00 producer Costa (Luis Tosar) come to Bolivia to make a revisionist epic about the conquest of Latin America - on the cheap.Carlos Aduviri is dynamic as Daniel, a local cast as a 16th century native in the film within a film. When the make-up and loin cloth come off, Daniel sails into action protesting his community’s deprivation of water at the hands of multi-national corporations.
Scene from “Even the Rain.”
Albuquerque, New Mexico 7 Friday, March 18 8:00 Registration (until 4 pm) 9:00 Vendors and Exhibits (until 5 pm) Session 7 A B C Self-Determination, The Roles of Ecological Reinserting Indigenous Economics, and Politics Critcism in Indigenous Presence in the American South Literatures
Making a Case for Indian Linda Hogan and Indigenous- Oral Tradition as Viable and Self-Determination: The Indian Animal Studies Valuable Historic Representation New Deal and the Many Drafts of Brian K. Hudson, in Southern Narratives D’Arcy McNickle’s Wind from an University of Oklahoma Waleila Carey, Enemy Sky University of Oklahoma Amelia Katanski, Ghost Wolves in James Welch’s Kalamazoo College Fools Crow Land Rises Up: Indian Absent
8:00 - 9:15 Bill Huggins Presence in Gone with the Wind Samson Occom’s Economic University of Nevada, Las Vegas Rain C. Goméz, Education University of Oklahoma Reginald Dyck, Nature Writing’s Human Capital University Disconnect: The Misrepresented Winter’s Bone: Indigenous Elegies of Native Cultures Diaspora and the Reindigenizing Empathy and Political Melissa Michal, of Woodrell’s Novel Ambivalence in D’Arcy McNickle’s Monroe Community College Kimberly Roppolo, The Surroundedand University of Oklahoma Runner in the Sun Dustin Gray, Emory University Session 8 A B C The Politics of Native New Mexico Filmmakers: Pushing the Boundaries in Women’s Writing A Roundtable Dramatic Performance
“Their Deeds Are Bitter”: Chair: Leah Sneider, Many Voices, One Play: Zitkala-Ša’s Reaction to University of New Mexico Performing Tribalography in American Philanthropy Indian Radio Days by LeAnne Steven Sexton, Jason Asenap, Howe and Roxy Gordon University of Oklahoma University of New Mexico Ludmila Martanovschi, Ovidius University, Sovereignty and Sentiment: Ramona Emerson, Constanta, Romania Wynema: A Child of the Reel Indian Pictures Forest and the Politics of Native Survivance in Glancy’s “The
9:30 - 10:45 Women’s Writing Melissa Henry, Woman Who Was a Red Deer Stephanie Fitzgerald, University of New Mexico Dressed for the Deer Dance” University of Kansas James Ruppert, Tvli Jacob, University of Alaska Fairbanks Gertrude Bonnin’s Congressional University of New Mexico Testimonies Photos, Dream Catchers, and P. Jane Hafen, Sara Marie Ortiz Decaffeinated Coffee: Staging the University of Nevada, Las Vegas University of New Mexico Abstract within the Concrete in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Identity- Jonathan Sims, Politics Trilogy University of New Mexico Ryan Winn, College of Menominee Nation 8 The Native American Literature Symposium 2011 Friday, March 18
Session 9 A B C Teaching and Community The Power of Storytelling Beyond Ceremony: American Engagement Indian Literature in the 1970s
Native American Literature in the Chair: Darlin’ Neal, Panel Chair: Chadwick Allen, Multi-Ethnic Literature Course: University of Central Florida Ohio State University A Defense John D. Kalb, “But it’s our story. Read it.”: Cruising Greta Garbo: Maurice Salisbury University Stories My Grandfather Told Me Kenny, Fag Rag, and the Early and Writing for Continuance Years of Queer Native Literature Indian Sightings in Mallory Whiteduck, Lisa Tatonetti, Thessaloniki, Greece Carleton University Kansas State University Debbie Lopez, U. of Texas at San Antonio The Dance Boots: Connecting Filming House Made of Dawn Storytelling and Writing Joanna Hearne,
11:00 - 12:15 Beginning Explorations into Linda LeGarde Grover, University of Missouri the Poetic Sonority of University of Minnesota, Duluth Contemporary Diné [Navajo] Extending the Rafters: Ted Poets The Geese at the Gates: Poems Williams’s The Reservation, Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez, from Ireland to Indian Country Tuscarora Literature, and Bradley University and Places Between Native Studies Drucilla Wall, Susan Bernardin, University of Missouri, St. Louis SUNY-Oneonta
Native to the Future: American Indian Anticipations of the U.S. Bicentennial Chadwick Allen Sesson 10: Lunch A Reading by Linda LeGarde Grover
Linda LeGarde Grover is an assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is the coauthor of A Childhood in Minnesota: Exploring the Lives of Ojibwe and Immigrant Families 1880–1920 and the author of a poetry chapbook, The 12 :00 - 1:30 Indian at Indian School. Her 2010 book The Dance Boots won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Session 11: Plenary Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry from 1678 to 1930 Panel Chair: Robert Dale Parker, Editor
1:45 - 3:00 Gwen Westerman, Kimberly Blaeser, Heid E. Erdrich, Siobhan Senier
Albuquerque, New Mexico 9 Friday, March 18
Break 3 - 3:30 Session 12 A C From This Place: A Reading by Students of the Teaching Southeastern Indian IAIA Creative Writing Programs Literatures
Evelina Lucero, Indian Country East: Teaching Students from IAIA’s College of Contemporary Native Arts Unrecognized Tribes Ellen L. Arnold, From This Place: East Carolina University A Reading by IAIA Students South by Northeast: Teaching in Regional and Byron Aspaas Comparative Paige Buffington Contexts Waci Lone Hill Melanie Benson, Tyler Peyron Dartmouth College Alicia da Silva Anna Nelson Re-examining Place in Southern Literature: Native Martha Cabaniss American Places on our University and College
3:30 - 4:45 IAIA’s College of Contemporary Native Arts Campuses Mae Claxton, Western Carolina University
Raising Voices: Teaching Native Literatures in a Southern Native Community OUR VISION A BRIEF HISTORYJesse Peters,OF IAIA The InstituteU. of ofAmerican North Carolina Indian Arts at wasPembroke established in 1962 during the administration To be a premier of President John F. Kennedy and opened on the campus of the Indian School in educational Santa Fe, NewThis Mexico. roundtable Under the is leadership sponsored of byDr. the George Pedagogy Boyce, Lloyd Kiva New and others, the Institute embodiedCommittee a bold of and ASAIL innovative approach to arts education. institution for Many of the four thousand students who have since attended IAIA have gone on to earn recognition as acclaimed artists, writers, educators, and leaders in their Native arts professions. The Acoma Pueblo is the oldest continually inhabited city in the the United States.and Photo cultures. by Ansel Adams, 1941.In 1975 IAIA became a two-year college offering degrees in studio arts, creative writing, and museum studies. It was accredited in 1984 by the Commission on SessonInstitutions 13: ofDinner Higher Learning of the North Central Association of Colleges and OUR MISSION Schools (now the Higher Learning Commission) and by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). IAIA was subsequently accredited in 2001 to To empower Awardsaward and baccalaureate Recognitions degrees as a four-year college. Today IAIA offers both two- and four-year degrees in creative writing, Indigenous liberal studies, museum studies, new creativity and media arts, and studio arts. leadershipStaged in Reading ofIn “Curiosities”1986 Congress established by Heid IAIA Erdrich as the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development making IAIA one of only three Congressionally featuringNative Gordon arts and Henry, Jr.,chartered Margaret colleges. Noori IAIA became and Mike the only Zimmerman national center of research, training, and cultures through scholarship for Native Americans devoted solely to American Indian and Alaska Native
6:00 - 9:00 arts and culture, recognized by Congress as “our only native art form and cultural higher education, heritage.” lifelong learning In 1992 IAIA relocated the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts to downtown Santa Fe. As the nation’s leading exhibition facility for contemporary art by Indigenous artists, and outreach. the Museum also houses the National Collection of Contemporary Native American Art. The museum advances scholarship, discourse and understanding through its innovative exhibitions, programs and dialog. In 2000 the Institute’s academic campus moved to its permanent home on 140 acres 10 The Native Americanjust south Literature of Santa Fe.Symposium Today the 2011campus consists of several state of the art buildings that include a library, academic and administrative center, residence center and family housing, a student life center and a cultural learning center. In the last two years, IAIA added over 60,000 square feet of building space to its campus with the Center for Lifelong Education Conference Center, a science and technology building and a sculpture and foundry complex.
OUR MISSION OBJECTIVES • Preparing our students for success and leadership reflecting Native cultures and values. • Providing culturally based programs that fulfill the physical, social, emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs of our students. • Offering the highest quality educational programs incorporating innovative teaching, critical inquiry and intergenerational learning. • Providing training and outreach as a 1994 land grant institution that promotes tribal sovereignty and self-determination. • Serving as a national center of excellence in contemporary Native arts and cultures through exhibitions, research, Indigenous exchange and Photo:Julien McRoberts other educational programs.
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS 83 Avan Nu Po Road, Santa Fe, NM 87508 P 800.804.6422 F 505.424.4500 www.iaia.edu Saturday, March 19 8:00 Registration (until 4 pm) 9:00 Vendors and Exhibits (until 5 pm) Session 14 B C Native Women and the Close Readings: Arabs, Palestinians, and American Importance of Writing Sex Indians—What Stories They Share Lee Maracle, Chair: LeAnne Howe, University of Toronto University of Illinois Cherie Dimaline, Via Skype University of Toronto Examining “The Other” in Literature: A Contrastive Post-Colonial Study Zainab Al Qaisi, University of Jordan Save the Date! A Comparative Study of the Poetry of Mahmoud 8:00 - 9:15 Darwish and the Poetry of Joy Harjo NALS 2012 which will be March 29-31 Rasha Shaher, at Hard Rock Albuquerque. University of Jordan The Tribal Spirit: The Relationship between Bedouin We will celebrate IAIA’s 50th anniversary and Native American Poetry and consider the 100th anniversary of Haneen Adwan, University of Jordan statehood in New Mexico. Family Relations in the Works of Susan Power and Ghassan Kanafani Eman Ghanayem, University of Jordan Session 15 A B C The Blurred Boundaries Indigenous Literature from New Readings by Contributors to Between the Past and Present England: New Texts and Critical Visualities: Perspectives on Directions Contemporary American Indian Film and Art Indigenomicon: Demon Theory A is for Algonquian: Alphabetic and the Mnemonics of Genre Literacy and the Indigenous Chair: Denise K. Cummings Jodi A. Byrd, Scarlet Letter U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign Andrew Lopenzina, Sam Houston State University Susan Bernardin, Passing Through the Moose: Joanna Hearne, Time-Travel and Ghosts in Choosing Community in Lorne Penelope Kelsey, Stephen Graham Jones’ Simon’s Stones and Switches Molly McGlennen, Ledfeather Michael LeBlanc, Dean Rader, 9:30 - 10:45 Pam Campbell, University of New Hampshire Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. Independent Scholar Contemporary Wabanaki Environmental Metaphors in Poets: Re-mapping Indigenous Leslie Silko’s Storyteller and New England Geary Hobson’s Plain of Jars Siobhan Senier, Barbara K. Robins, University of New Hampshire U. of Nebraska at Omaha Reading of Poetry Mihku Paul (Maliseet), Stonecoast MFA
Albuquerque, New Mexico 11 Saturday, March 19 Session 16 A B C Centering Anishinaabeg Representations in Literature Language, Ceremony Studies: Understanding the and Film and History World Through Stories Chair: Jill Doerfler Pulling History Forward: Native American Hermeneutics Challenging and Reinscribing via Language, Song and “A Philosophy for Living”: Historical Narratives in Ceremony Ignatia Broker & Constitutional Sherman Alexie’s Poetry Diveena S. Marcus, Reform among the White Earth Laurie LePain Kopack, Montana State University Anishinaabe Marygrove College Jill Doerfler, “A Warrior Talks About The University of Minnesota Duluth Familial Mythologies in Louise Land”: Survival and Resistance in Erdrich’s The Painted Drum Bighorse the Warrior “A Small Knot of Earth”: Basil Joseph Finn, Amy T. Hamilton, Johnston as Tribal Storyteller, Minnesota State U., Mankato Northern Michigan University Activist, and Literary Critic James Niigonwedom Sinclair, From Smoke Signals to M’Naa-Giigdaa: Learning to University of British Columbia Ten Canoes: Comparative Speak in a Good Way Indigenous Cinema Joanne DiNova, The Watchful Eyes of the Owl: Erin Wareham, Ryerson University Balancing Protection and Rollins College Lila Pine, Personal Autonomy in Ryerson University Anishinaabe Childrearing Heidi Stark, University of Minnesota Duluth
The Hydromythology of the Anishinaabeg: Will the Infamous
11:00 - 12:15 Water Spirit Mishipishu Survive Climate Change? Melissa Nelson, San Francisco State University
Wild Rice Rights: Gerald Vizenor and An Affiliation of Stories Kimberly Blaeser, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Horizon Lines, Medicine Painting, and Moose Calling: The Visual/Performative Storytelling of Three Anishinaabeg Artists Molly McGlennen, Vassar College
Strategizing Anishinaabeg Identity Julie A. Pelletier, University of Winnipeg
Commentator Gordon Henry, Jr., Michigan State University 12 The Native American Literature Symposium 2011 Saturday, March 19
Sesson 17 Lunch on Your Own 1:30 ASAIL Business Meeting (Sunrise Room) 12 :00-
Session 18 A B C Responding to Trauma Surrounded Through Story Indigenous Cosmopolitanism through Literature
Healing with Words: Narrative’s “Mother Mountain” or Chair: Richard Pearce Power in Mental Health “Wilderness:” Nature and Story Jessica Bardill, in Louis Owen’s Wolfsong Excavating the New World of Duke University Mascha N. Gemein Contemporary Native Southern University of Arizona Studies: Belle Boggs’ Mattaponi Vengeance and Retribution in Queen and Janet McAdams’ Feral Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer Re-creating the Native Melanie Benson, Carrie Louise Sheffield, Narrative: Oral Storytelling in Dartmouth College
1:45 - 3:00 University of Tennessee, Thomas King’sGreen Grass, Knoxville Running Water Cosmopolitanism in the Rei Asaba, Thick Narratives of Arthur “Thinking With and Through University of Arizona Amiotte’s Collages, James Welch’s Each Other”: Contemplations Heartsong of Charging Elk, on Native American Poetry, Challenging the Deracination of and Hobson, McAdams, & Historical Trauma, and the Pure’pecha in the Walkiewicz’s The People Pedagogical Practices Aftermath of Colonization: Who Stayed Laura E. Decker, Surviving Through Story Richard Pearce, McLennan Community College Sheila Rocha, Wheaton College University of Arizona
Break
Last Chance to Visit Vendors and Book Exhibits 3 :00 - 5:00
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Session 19
Walking Tour of Isleta, led by Stephanie Zuni of the Cultural Affairs Office of the Pueblo of Isleta 3:00 - 5:00
Sesson 20: Dinner Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Performance: Moccassins and Microphones
The SFIS Spoken Word Program serves as a creative outlet for students interested in writing. It was founded by Timothy McLaughlin in connection with a network of writing-related programs collectively intended to increase student proficiency with language and encourage positive student expression. The Spoken Word Program empowers students to create original poetry – which incorporates Native languages and philosophies – and then perform that poetry for diverse audiences. This work contributes to the overall SFIS mission of developing future leaders for Native communities as team members practice skills of thinking, writing, cooperating, and presenting.
SFIS Spoken Word Team members must take the school’s creative writing course to train in fundamental writing skills and develop their creative vision and voice. On campus, the team hosts bi-annual Arts Fest events that feature student performances of poetry and many other art forms. Team members also perform their writing at various locations in Santa Fe, surrounding areas, across the nation, and even internationally. 6:00 - 9:00 At the heart of the Spoken Word program are several immersion travel experiences: the San Francisco Writing Exchange, the Brave New Voices National Youth Poetry Festival (held in a different US city each summer), and the Baltic Cultural Exchange in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Through all these performances both near and far, the Spoken Word Team members operate as youth storytellers who utilize the modern art form of spoken word poetry to share indigenous knowledge, philosophies, and perspectives with people of all backgrounds. Fully 100% of the program’s graduates have moved onto higher education, often concentrating in creative writing. More importantly, the young people who engage in this work of creating and sharing authentic art through written and spoken word engender an increased self-confidence and self-awareness, a wider sense of the world, and a refined ability to present orally, all of which will serve them well in life and, by extension, benefit their home tribal communities.
14 The Native American Literature Symposium 2011 2011 Presenters Adwan, Haneen 14C Ghanayem, Eman 14C Ortiz, Sara Marie 8B Al Qaisi, Zainab 14C Goméz, Rain C. 7C Parins, James W. 4B Alba, Brandy 4A Gray, Dustin 7A Parker, Robert Dale 11 Allen, Chadwick 9C Hafen, Clark 5A Paul, Mihku 15B Andrews, Scott 5A Hafen, P. Jane 8A Pearce, Richard 18C Andrews, Tria 5C Haladay, Jane 1, 5B Pelletier, Julie A. 16A Arnold, Ellen L. 12C Hamilton, Amy T. 16C Peters, Jesse 1, 12C Asaba, Rei 18B Hearne, Joanna 9C, 15C Peterson, Nancy J. 5B Asenap, Jason 8B Henry, Jr., Gordon 1, 13, 16A, 19 Peyron, Tyler 12A Aspaas, Byron 12A Henry, Melissa 8B Pine, Lila 16C Bardill, Jessica 18A ho’omanawanui, ku’ualoha 2C Rader, Dean 15C, 19 Beard, Laura J. 4A Hollrah, Patrice 5B Reagan, Heather 2A Benson, Melanie 12C, 18C Hudson, Brian K. 7B Robins, Barbara K. 15A Berglund, Jeff 4C Huggins, Bill 7B Rocha, Sheila 18B Bernardin, Susan 9C, 15C Jacob, Tvli 8B Roemer, Kenneth 2B Berry Brill de Ramirez, Susan 9A Jensen, Toni 2A Romero, Channette 2B Blaeser, Kimberly M. 1, 16A, 19 Johnson, Janis 2B Roppolo, Kimberly 7C, 11 Brown Spiers, Miriam 4C Kalb, John D. 9A Ruppert, James 8C Brown, Marie Alohalani 2C Katanski, Amelia 7A Scarberry-Garcia, Susan 5B Buffington, Paige 12A Kelsey, Penelope 15C, 19 Senier, Siobhan 11, 15B Byrd, Jodi A. 15A LeBlanc, Matthew 15B Sexton, Steven 8A Cabaniss, Martha 12A LeGarde Grover, Linda 9B, 10 Shaher, Rasha 14C Campbell, Pam 15A LePain Kopack, Laurie 16A Sheffield, Carrie Louise 18A Carey, Waleila 7C Lone Hill, Waci 12A Shevlin, Rebecca 2A Claxton, Mae 12C Lopenzina, Andrew 15B Sims, Jonathan 8B Cummings, Denise K. 6, 15C, 19 Lopez, Debbie 9A Sneider, Leah 8B da Silva, Alicia 12A Lucero, Evelina 12A Snyder, Michael 5A Decker, Laura E. 18A Maracle, Lee 14B Stark, Heidi 16A DiNova, Joanne 16C Marcus, Diveena S. 16C Tatonetti, Lisa 9C Doerfler, Jill 16A Martanovschi, Ludmila 8C Van Alst, Theo 6, 15C Dyck, Reginald 7A McGlennen, Molly 1, 15C, 16A Viehmann, Martha 4B Edelman Warrior, Carol 5C Meland, Carter 4C Walker, Matthew C. 2A Emerson, Ramona 8B Michal, Melissa 7B Wall, Drucilla 9B Erdrich, Heid 3, 11, 13 Neal, Darlin’ 9B Wareham, Erin 16B Finn, Joseph 16B Nelson, Anna 12A Westerman, Gwen 11 Fitzgerald, Stephanie 8A Nelson, Melissa 16A Whiteduck, Mallory 9B Gemein, Mascha N. 18B Niigonwedom Sinclair, James 16A Winn, Ryan 8C Gercken, Becca 2B Noori, Margaret 2B, 13 Zimmerman, Mike 13
Statement on Ethnic Fraud The Native American Literature Symposium supports the Indigenous Professors Association Statement on Ethic Fraud
We the Association of American Indian and Alaska Native Professors hereby establish and present our position on ethnic fraud and offer recommendations to ensure the accuracy of American Indian/Alaska Native identification in American colleges and universities. This statement is developed over concern about the racial exploitation of American Indians and Alaska Natives in American colleges and universities. We think it is necessary to establish our position on ethnic fraud because of documented incidents of abuse. This statement is intended to assist universities in their efforts to develop culturally diverse campus communities. The implications of this statement are threefold: (1) to assist in the selection process that encourages diversity among students, staff, faculty, and administration; (2) to uphold the integrity of institutions and enhance their credibility with American Indian/Alaska Native Nations/Tribes; and (3) to recognize the importance of American Indian/Alaska Native Nations/Tribes in upholding their sovereign and legal right as nations to determine membership.
The following prioritized recommendations are intended to affirm and ensure American Indian/Alaska Native identity in the hiring process. We are asking that colleges and universities:
1. Require documentation of enrollment in a state or federally recognized nation/tribe with preference given to those who meet this criterion; 2. Establish a case-by-case review process for those unable to meet the first criterion; 3. Include American Indian/ Alaska Native faculty in the selection process; 4. Require a statement from the applicant that demonstrates past and future commitment to American Indian/Alaska Native concerns; 5. Require higher education administrators to attend workshops on tribal sovereignty and meeting with local tribal officials; and 6. Advertise vacancies at all levels and on a broad scale and in tribal publications.
Albuquerque, New Mexico 15 We Remember Those Who Have Made the Road Easier For Us
Wilma Mankiller (1945-2010) was born on Nov. 18, 1945, in Tahlequah. She was the sixth of 11 children reared by Charley Mankiller, and the former Clara Irene Sitton. She spent her early childhood on a 160-acre tract known as Mankiller Flats, given to her grandfather as part of a settlement the federal government made for forcing the Cherokee to move to Oklahoma from their tribal lands in the Carolinas and Georgia in the 1830s. Though Ms. Mankiller later recalled that she had never really felt poor growing up, the family’s home had no electricity, indoor plumbing or telephones.
In 1956, the family moved to San Francisco as part of a relocation policy of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Its aim was to move Indians off federally subsidized reservations with the promise of jobs in America’s big cities. Ms. Mankiller’s father became a warehouse worker and union organizer. In 1977, she returned with her daughters to live on her grandfather’s land in Oklahoma.
Soon she was volunteering in tribal affairs and leading campaigns for new health and school programs, like Head Start. She landed a job as economic stimulus coordinator for the Cherokee Nation, emphasizing community self-help. She also earned a bachelor’s degree in the social sciences from Flaming Rainbow University in Stilwell and took graduate courses in community planning at the University of Arkansas.
In 1981, she founded the community development department of the Cherokee Nation and, as its director, helped develop rural water systems and rehabilitate housing. Her successes led the tribe’s principal chief, Ross Swimmer, to select her as his running mate in his re-election campaign in 1983. Their victory made her the first woman to become deputy chief of the Cherokee Nation. When Mr. Swimmer resigned two years later to become assistant secretary for Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior, she succeeded him as principal chief. She won office in her own right in 1987 and in 1991 was re-elected with 83 percent of the vote.
As the tribe’s leader, she was both the principal guardian of centuries of Cherokee tradition and customs, including legal codes, and chief executive of a tribe with a budget that reached $150 million a year by the end of her tenure. The money included income from several factories, gambling operations, a motel, gift shops, a ranch, a lumber company and other businesses as well as the federal government.
One of her priorities was to plow much of this income back into new or expanded health care and job- training programs as well as Head Start and the local high school. Even after she left office in 1995 because of her health problems, Ms. Mankiller remained a force in tribal affairs, frequently sought out for counsel and helping to mediate a bitter factional fight between her successor and other tribal leaders that had threatened to become a constitutional crisis in the Cherokee Nation.
In 1998, President Bill Clinton awarded her the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Dr. William G. Demmert, Jr. (1934-2010), one of the NIEA’s founders and the nation’s leading researcher on Native language immersion and culturally based education.
Dr. Demmert (Tlingit/Oglala Lakota) worked on the original Indian Education Act (P.L. 92-318) while a student at Harvard; worked on the legislation reorganizing the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Indian Education (including direct funding of schools, local hiring of faculty, and the formula that is still used for allocating funds); and was instrumental adding a Native language priority to Title III (during the time it was known as the Bilingual Education Act), commonly known as the Puerto Rican
16 The Native American Literature Symposium 2011 Allen Dale June (1921 - 2010), one of the 29 original Navajo code talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language. Several hundred Navajos served as code talkers during the war, but a group of 29 that included Mr. June developed the code based on their native language. Their role in the war was not declassified until 1968.
Mr. June attained the rank of sergeant in the United States Marine Corps. He and other original code talkers received Congressional Gold Medals in 2001.
Phillip Martin (1926 - 2010), longtime chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and visionary who lifted the tribe from stifling poverty with casinos and other businesses.
Martin’s 28-year tenure saw the construction of an industrial park and the $750 million Pearl River Resort, complete with two casinos, a golf club and a water park, on tribal land in rural east central Mississippi, about 65 miles northeast of Jackson. He was praised for creating thousands of jobs. He also set up a scholarship that pays 100 percent of college costs for tribal youth.
Max Mazzetti (1921 - 2010), one of the founders of the National Congress of American Indians, Inter-Tribal Council of California and many other Indian rights organizations. He is best remembered for his leadership and commitment to stopping the takeover of Indian lands by the state of California, dissolution of tribal governments, and removal of 117 California tribes from federal trust, ending all federal funding and tribal support programs.
Lolly Vegas (1939 - 2010), the lead singer and guitarist for Redbone, a Native American rock band that had a million-selling hit in 1974 with "Come and Get Your Love." In 1973, Redbone released “We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee” which charted in Europe and reached #1 in The Netherlands. The song was initially withheld from the release and banned by several radio stations in the U.S.
Helen Scheirbeck (1935-2010), an activist who expanded educational opportunities and led efforts for greater self-determination by American Indians, and who later became a top official of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington.
Dr. Scheirbeck, a member of the Lumbee tribe of North Carolina, began working for the rights of American Indians in the early 1960s, when she was a staff member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. She helped gain recognition for Native Americans in the War on Poverty of the 1960s and led efforts to establish Indian educational programs, from Head Start to tribal colleges.
John T. Williams (1950 - 2010), was a seventh-generation woodcarver of the Ditidaht tribe on Vancouver Island. He lived in Seattle, in housing created by the Downtown Emergency Center and was deaf. He was shot and killed by a police officer on his way to sell his art at Pike Place Market.
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