THE NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM

Indians in Unexpected Places

March 22 - 24, 2018

Mystic Lake Hotel & Casino - Prior Lake, Minnesota

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

Gordon Henry, Jr., Publications Editor Michigan State University

LeAnne Howe, Arts Liaison University of Georgia

Virginia Carney, Tribal College Liaison President Emeritus, Leech Lake Tribal College

Denise Cummings, Film Wrangler Rollins College

Theo Van Alst, Film Wrangler University of Montana

Margaret Noodin, Awards University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Tyler Barton, Assistant to the Director Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tria Wakpa Blue, Vendor/Press Coordinator University of California, Berkeley

Fantasia Painter, Vendor/Press Assistant University of California, Berkeley

Web: www.nativelit.com Facebook: Native American Literature Symposium Twitter: @NALSymposium

Prior Lake, Minnesota Wopida, Miigwech, Mvto, Wado, Ahe’ee, Yakoke

We thank the sponsors of the 2018 Symposium for their generous funding and continued support that made everything possible.

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) Charlie Vig, Tribal Chairman Deborah Peterson, Donation Coordinator

Mystic Lake Hotel and Casino Defil Hall,Conference Services Executive Melanie Bench, Account Executive

The American Indian Studies Series, Michigan State University Press The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures Institute of American Indian Arts University of Nebraska Press Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University Electa Quinney Institute, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Eidson Foundational Funds, University of Georgia

Minnesota State University, Mankato College of Arts and Humanities Matthew Cecil, Dean Institutional Diversity Henry Morris, Dean

We also extend gratitude to those 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 Matthew Sewell, Chair Liz Olmanson, Administrative Assistant

And we appreciate the kindness of the following people who contributed support for our elder and student participants: Kyle Bladlow Angela Williamson Emmert Becca Gercken Amelia Katanski Dawn Quigley

Cover Art: Rosalie Favell: Facing the Camera Pictured: Adrian Stimson, Banff, AB, 2011; Archie Moore, Brisbane, Australia, 2016; Peshawn Bread, Santa Fe, NM, 2011; Daphne Odjig, Ottawa, ON, 2009; Richard Ray Whiteman, Santa Fe, NM, 2012; Patrick Ross, Winnipeg, MB, 2011; Ruth Cuthand, Saskatoon, SK, 2012; Wally Dion, Banff AB, 2011; Rondee Graham, Santa Fe, NM, 2012

The Native American Literature Symposium 2018 Welcome

22 March 2018 Haŋ mitakuyapi. Ded yahipi kiŋ waṡte ye! Hello my relatives, it’s good that you are all here! Welcome to spring in our Dakota homeland. The trumpeter swans, geese, robins, and red-wing blackbirds are returning to this amazing and diverse landscape where prairie grasslands, woodlands, and boreal forests are woven together by interconnected waterways. It is Mni Sota Makoce—the land where the water is so clear it reflects the sky. We are returning to our NALS homeland from dozens of tribal nations, and more than 130 academic communities. We come together to share our ideas, our struggles, and our triumphs from as far away as Hawai’i to Connecticut, Calgary to California, and Manitoba to Florida. Our gathering includes colleagues from Switzerland, South Korea, Spain, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Our regular schedule will begin in a good way on Thursday morning with how a group of committed faculty at the University of Nebraska Omaha got contemporary Native literature and issues into their composition classes. We are thrilled that our program includes Natalie Diaz and Tommy Pico—two of the strongest voices in American poetry today—who will share their work with us. Joshua Nelson has done some great work in Film & Media Studies about the difficulties Native filmmakers have getting their works out to audiences.We are proud of the variety of our panel sessions which demonstrate the breadth and depth of contemporary Native Studies today. For 19 years, NALS has been a place where Native worldviews can be expressed and considered in all their variations. From our beginning as “clan mothers” through today, we have focused on bringing forward as many voices to American Indian literary and creative studies as possible, and fostering this environment in our own indigenous ways. NALS is not just another academic conference, but a true family of scholars and artists and thinkers. So, it does, but does not, come as a surprise that the predominant literary world is reacting to recent events as if we have “only one literary giant,” Sherman Alexie. And while sad, nor are many of us surprised at the accusations against him, nor will we be surprised when others in our field also fall. We are not responsible for the actions of those abusers. We are responsible for listening to all of those who have been hurt. We are responsible for understanding that while we may be shaken to our core, our roots are strong and deep. We are responsible for finding paths forward when those we have admired, whose works we have admired and taught others to admire, fall from grace. We remember the voices of those who have made our paths easier—we stand on the shoulders of incredibly strong indigenous people who sacrificed in ways we will never know. We honor our warrior legacy in those family members and friends who are in war- torn and desperate places, from Parkland to Bears Ears to Syria. And we remember the words of John Trudell: “No matter what they ever do to us, we must always act for the love of our people and for the earth. We must not act out of hatred against those who have no sense.”

Wopida ota. Achukma. Chii migwech. Gwen Westerman LeAnne Howe Gordon Henry

Prior Lake, Minnesota Book Exhibits and Vendors Visit the vendors and book exhibits in Grand Ballroom 2 Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Thank you to the following presses and vendors for their contributions

Presses University of Nebraska Press South Dakota State University Press Michigan State University Press University of Arizona Press University of Oklahoma Press University of Wisconsin, Milwuakee

Vendors Institute of American Indian Arts Birchbark Books Growing Blue Flowers Debra Myers Dakota Spirit Earth Circles / Frybread Love The McNickle Center Conference Rooms

All meals held in Grand Ballroom 1

Breakout Session Rooms A - Wabasha 1 B - Wabasha 2 C - Shakopee

Vendors, Exhibits, Breaks Grand Ballroom II

The Native American Literature Symposium 2018 Thursday, March 22 8 am - 4 pm Registration 9 am - 5 pm Vendors and Exhibits 8:30 - 8:45am Welcome and Traditional Blessing: Grand Ballroom I Session 1 Indians in the Composition Classroom?! The Launch ofFrom the Heartland 3rd Ed. Chair: Barbara K. Robins Maggie Christensen, Joan Latchaw, Sarah Cohen, Kit Sloan University of Nebraska, Omaha From the Heartland: Critical Reading and Writing at UNO is an in-house written and edited textbook for the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s First Year Writing Program. Each chapter is a collection of readings, media links, invention exercises, and writing assignments supporting research and essay writing on a socio-cultural theme. New to the 3rd

9:00 - 10:15 edition of FTH is chapter 4 “We’re Still Here!” on the theme of local/regional Native American history, culture, and issues. A key feature of this chapter is the focus on the tribes of the Omaha City and eastern Nebraska region– Omaha, Ponca, Lakota, Dakota, and HoChunk.

Session 2 A B C The Power of Images Artistic and Intellectual Resistance Kanohehv/Kanohesgi: Telling Cherokee History Lewis DeSoto’s Empire: Indigenous “Then Look You Out for Me”: Photography in Southern California Reading a Rhetoric of Chair: Scott Andrews David Carlson, Indigenous Resistance in Cal State Univ., Northridge California State University the Hymns of Samson Occom San Bernardino Rebecca Pelky, Jisdu and John Locke: A Cherokee University of Missouri Trickster Revision of the Concepts of Wrestling with Curtis: Property and Sovereignty Contemporary Native Photographers Haudenosaunee Good Mind in the Brian Burkhart Respond to a Legacy of Thesis and Dissertation Process: Cal State Univ., Northridge Misrepresentation and Manipulation Protecting Intellectual Sovereignty Jen McClung Melissa Michal Slocum Ani Inklish Danawa: Learning Iowa State University University of Nevada, Indigenous Rhetorics through Video Game Play 10:30 - 11:45 Las Vegas Red Semiotics: An Indigenous- Kimberly Wieser Centered Analytic Coding and “Sonic Sovereignty” through University of Oklahoma Interpretation of Images in Practice: Remix as Representation, Children’s Books about Native Relationality, and Resistance Active States: Crossing Trails in Americans Renata Ryan Burchfield Indian Territory from the Dawn Quigley, University of Colorado Theatre at Tsa-la-gi to the Hills St. Catherine University of the Eastern Band Jen Shook Grinnell College 12:00 - 1:15 Lunch: Grand Ballroom I Prior Lake, Minnesota 1 Thursday, March 22 Session 4 A B C Graphic Novels Forms of Survivance Family Stories

Authentic Indigenous Voices; Niizhin Ojijaak Mino-Bimaadiziwin: Chair: Eric Gary Anderson Decolonizing Comic Books and Ma-Nee Chacaby’s Two-Spirit George Mason University Graphic Novels Survivance Strategies Brandon Mitchell, Kai Pyle Reclaiming My Family’s Story: Birch Bark Comics University of Minnesota, Cultural Trauma and Indigenous Twin Cities Ways of Knowing “Unexpected” Survival: Resistance in Melissa Beard Jacob Indigenous Graphic Novels Disrupting Structures: Louis Owens Sault Ste. Marie Tribe Robin White, and Mixedblood Discourse Independent Scholar Steve Sexton Hymn #7: I Will Follow On— Tracing Cultural Continuity through

1:30 - 2:45 University of Oklahoma Stephen Graham Jones’s My Hero: the Oneida Hymn Singing Tradition Words Beyond Images, Ledger Art as Survivance: Marissa Carmi Images Beyond Words Four Ledgers by Porcupine, Oneida Tribe of Indians of WI Billy J. Stratton, Wild Hog, and Others University of Denver Denise Low It Was Like Brigadoon: Place and Worldview in the Legends of Baker University a Native Family Meg Nicholas Munsee Delaware Nation 3:00 - 3:30 Break Session 5 A B C Gambling on the Future Poetic Justice Boundary Crossings Gaming as Survivance: Addressing “In Carving a Song Made Manifest”: Ishkwaaj-ikidowin, Nitam-ikidowin: The Bingo Palace through Nelson’s The Politics and Poetics of Arctic The Process of Transcultural and Progressive Traditions Climate Change–Affect and Effect in Transcontinental Translation Matt Kliewer the Poetry of Joan Naviyuk Kane Margaret Noodin University of Georgia Sharon Holm & Michael Zimmerman Independent Scholar Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Trump, The Trickster President? Ken Roemer “The Eagle Would Suffer the Red University of Texas, Arlington Bird to Sing”: Poetry in 3:30 - 4:45 The Cherokee Phoenix (Re-)Valuing Indigenous Research Michael Cody Matt Herman East Tennessee State Univ. Montana State University The Book and the Body in the Poetry of Heid E. Erdrich and Orlando White Samantha Majhor University of Minnesota 5:00 - 6:00 Dinner on your own

2 The Native American Literature Symposium 2018 Thursday, March 22 Session 6 NALS 2018 Film Screening Hosted by: Denise K. Cummings, Rollins College Theo Van Alst, University of Montana RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World

RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD explores how Native American influence is an integral part of music history, despite attempts to ban, censor, and erase Indian

6:00 - 10:00 culture in the United States and abroad. As the film reveals, the early pioneers of the blues had Native and African-American roots, and one of the first and most influential jazz singers was trained on Native American songs. As the folk rock era took hold in the 60s and 70s, Native Americans like Father of the Delta Blues Charley Patton, jazz singer Mildred Baile, guitar wizard Jimi Hendrix, folk heroine Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, Jesse Ed Davis, The Black Eyed Peas’ Taboo, and Randy Castillo (Ozzy Osbourne), helped define its evolution and made their distinctive mark on music history. The documentary utilizes concert footage, archival images, playful recreations, and interviews to tell the powerful story of how Indigenous music was part of the fabric of American popular music from the beginning, and how those contributions were left out of the picture. It also features interviews with musicians, artists, historians, and family members including Martin Scorsese, Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett, Slash, Steven Tyler, Jackson Browne, Iggy Pop, Steven Van Zandt, and Buddy Guy. The film is directed by Catherine BainbridgeReel ( Injun) and co-directed by Alfonso Maiorana, who also serves as director of photography. Producers are Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Linda Ludwick, and Lisa M. Roth. Executive producers are Stevie Salas (Apache) and Tim Johnson (Mohawk). Executive producers at Rezolution Pictures are Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, Diana Holtzberg, Linda Ludwick, Jan Rofekamp, and Ernest Webb (Cree).

The Native American Literature Symposium supports the Indigenous Professors Association Statement on Ethnic Fraud

“We the Indigenous Professors Association 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 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 meetings with local tribal officials; and 6) Advertise vacancies at all levels and on a broad scale and in tribal publications.”

Prior Lake, Minnesota 3 Indigenous Literary Studies at UWM

Scholars of indigenous studies at UWM are rewarded with a rich, interdisciplinary experience that is couched in both theory and practice. In addition to our English department faculty, students in the program are able to study with esteemed scholars in anthropology, urban planning, and the arts. Students on our campus can study Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe), Oneida, Ho-Chunk or Menominee in addition to taking a range of Native Literary courses that focus on comparative indigenous theory, creative writing, literary transnationalisim and postindian survivance.

Interested in learning more? Please contact Sukanya Banerjee at [email protected]

For information about UWM, please call our Admissions Counselor at 414-229-7711 or email [email protected]

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uwm.edu/english/indigenous-literary-studies/ 4 Friday, March 23 8 am - 3:30 pm Registration 9 am - 5 pm Vendors and Exhibits

Session 7

A B C Reclaimation and Decolonization Back to the Future Hydra-Headed Chimera: Taking Power/Making Power: The Force of Teotl: Deriving Change Creative Reflections on Reading for Decolonial Options from Chicano/a Futurisms and the Relevance of Ecocriticism Laura De Vos Indigenous Philosophies University of Washington Salvador Herrera Chair: Jane Haladay Cornell University UNC, Pembroke Post-Colonial Space Reclamation in the United States and The Motion of Refusal: History, Carter Meland Northern Ireland Fugitive Indigeneity, and University of Minnesota Delaney A. Kelly Speculative Fiction Iowa State University Gabriella Friedman Molly McGlennen Cornell University Vassar College 9:00 - 10:15 Do You Recognize Who I Am? The Decolonizing Rhetorics of Confronting and Surviving the Something Inside is Broken Colonial Apocalypse in North Shannon Toll American Indigenous Literature University of Dayton and Popular Culture Carrie Louise Sheffield University of Tennessee, Knoxville Session 8 A B C Interdisciplinary Strategies for Watch This Space Women Warriors Undergraduate Research in The Healing Efficacy of Reclaiming Women Warriors: Trauma, Renewal, Indigenous Studies Indigenous Space and Healing with Female Earth in Chair: Brian J Twenter Kathryn Shanley Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms, Power, Western Washington Univ. University of Montana and People of the Whale Kasey Jones-Matrona Kevin Whalen “You can’t rice without somebody University of Oklahoma Univ. of Minnesota, Morris knocking”: Ricing Partners and Manoomin Gikendaasowin in The Living Among the Dead: Julie Pelletier The Road Back to Sweetgrass Mythic Realism in Ire’ne Lara Silva’s University of Winnipeg Amelia Katanski flesh to bone Kalamazoo College Brett Douglas Burkhart Natasha Myhal University of Oklahoma University of Colorado 10:30 - 11:45 Humans, Animals, and the “Ancient Animal” in Literary Constructions Crafting Strong “Native” Girlhood: Becca Gercken of Nonlinear Time How Mainstream Girlhood Univ. of Minnesota, Morris Corinna Cook Disrupts Native Identity in University of Missouri Bruchac’s The Skeleton Man Eric L. DuMarce Kaylee Jangula Mootz Sisseton Wahpeton College University of Connecticut Moderator: Nancy J. Peterson Purdue University The Native American Literature Symposium 2018 5 Friday, March 23 12:00 - 1:15 Session 9: Lunch - Grand Ballroom I

A Conversation with Joshua Nelson

Joshua B. Nelson, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and a native Oklahoman, is an associate professor of English and an affiliated faculty member with Film & Media Studies and Native American Studies, at the University of Oklahoma. His book, Progressive Traditions: Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture, looks to dismantle the pervasive assimilated/traditional dichotomy plaguing American Indian literary criticism. His work has appeared in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature, and The Wiley- Blackwell Companion to Film Comedy. He is at work on a book on representations of the body in Indigenous film. He teaches courses on American Indian literature, literary criticism, and film. He and his wife divide their time between Norman and Park Hill, Oklahoma. Session 10

A B C Crossing Lines Indians in the Classroom Chief Joseph’s Wife and Other Guides in the Virtual World: “we do not learn much here”: Strange(r) Encounters: Travels Intervening in Academic Tourism Native American Students in the in alterity, through and around in Blake M. Hausman’s Riding the Composition Classroom Native Studies Trail of Tears Courtney Lynn Whited Shanae Aurora Martinez Oklahoma State University Chair: Gordon Henry University of Wisconsin, Michigan State University Milwaukee “Indian Kids Can’t Write Sonnets”: Indigenous Student Poets at the David Stirrup Children as Agents of Restorative Intermountain Indian School University of Kent Justice in Louise Erdrich’s LaRose Michael Taylor

1:30 - 2:45 Mandy Suhr-Sytsma Brigham Young University Silvia Martinez-Falquina Emory University University of Zaragoza The Teaching and Non-Teaching of Native American Trans- Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony: A indigenousness in Sherman Personal and Pedagogical History Alexie’s “Lawyer’s League” and Angela Williamson Emmert “Flight Patterns” University of Wisconsin, Heongyun Rho Fox Valley Dongguk University

3:00 - 3:30 Break Birchbark Books: Book Signing in Grand Ballroom II Featuring: Heid Erdrich, Becca Gercken, Julie Pelletier Jane Haladay, Carter Meland, and Margaret Noodin 6 Prior Lake, Minnesota Friday, March 23 Session 11 A B C Indigineity in TV and Film Modernism & the Avant Garde Christianity in Native Contexts This doesn’t look like Native So Much More than Assimilation, Chair: Rachel Luckenbill Americans to me! An Exploration Accommodation, and Absence: Southeastern University of the Continued Misrepresentation Early 20th-Century American Indian of Indigeneity in the TV series Literary Modernities Indians in Odd Places Westworld Kirby Brown Diane Glancy Maria Cristina Calvopiña Heredia University of Oregon Macalester University University of Münster Theorizing the Native Avant Garde Religious Syncretism and Te Ka or Ta Fiti: How Disney’s Adam Spry Reconciliation in Construction of Female Deities Emerson College Tim Tingle’s Novels in Moana Invalidates the Synergic Martha Viehmann Nature of the Indigenous Woman Sinclair Community College 3:30 - 4:45 Alana Kamalalawalu Faagai University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Beyond the Edge: Conceptualizing Indigenous-Black Relations in Native Literature and Film Breanna Leslie-Skye Cornell University

5:00 - 6:00 Break

Session 12: Evening Meal - Grand Ballroom I

A Reading with Poet Natalie Diaz Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She is a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, 6:00 - 9:00 the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program. She splits her time between the east coast and Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she works to revitalize the Mojave language.

The Native American Literature Symposium 2018 7 Saturday, March 24

8:30 - 12pm Registration 9 am - 5 pm Vendors and Exhibits

Session 13: Grand Ballroom I Reading Tommy Pico Swiping Right in the Contact Zone: Ambivalent Desire in Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem Scott Andrews California State University, Northridge

Resisting and Reimagining Nature Poetry Kyle Bladow

9:00 -10:15 Northland College

A Poetics of Refusal: Unresolved Tensions in Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem John Gamber Utah State University

Session 14 A B C Memory Unexpected Atheist NDNs & ASAIL Pedagogy Panel Ghosts and Lightning: Exploring Godawful Poetry the Role of Memory and Story in Good Godlessness Chair: Mandy Suhr-Sytsma Indigenous Poetry Heid E. Erdrich Emory University Michelle Lietz Independent Scholar University of Manitoba Treaties Teach, Teach Treaties There Is No God, There Is Only Joseph Bauerkemper Untold Histories and Sites of the Force University of Minnesota, Memory in Sterlin Harjo’s This Trevino Brings Plenty Duluth May Be the Last Time Independent Scholar Olena McLaughlin “The Explanatory Comma” and Oklahoma State University I can’t write a nature poem Communal Knowledge: Bringing Tommy Pico Students into the Conversation Becoming the NDN Freddy Independent Scholar Miriam Brown-Spiers Krueger: From Oka to the Kennesaw State University 10:30 - 11:45 Apocalypse Joshua Whitehead Educational Interventions: University of Calgary Encouraging Student Activism Rachel Luckenbill Southeastern University

8 Prior Lake, Minnesota Saturday, March 24

12:00 - 1:15 Lunch on your own ASAIL Business and Professional Development Meeting (Wabasha I) Everyone is welcome to attend!

Session 15 A B C Beyond Identity Contemporary Native Fiction More than Frybread

Borderless Stories: The Evolution Chair: Gwen Westerman Serving Up Stories: Menominee of Identity and Narrative in Susan MSU, Mankato Food Narratives Power’s Sacred Wilderness Thomas Pecore Weso Courtney Shin The Fluidity of the Soul in Mammoth Publications Emory University Stephen Graham Jones’s Ledfeather and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Beyond Ethnic Fraud: Body Carson Faust Unexpected Places Plagiarism and Ethical MSU, Mankato Stephanie Fitzgerald Representation as Indigenous in University of Kansas Academia Collapsing Discursive Sue P. Haglund Formations: Hypertextuality (Not) Frybread: Native Food, University of Hawaii, and Virtuality in Carter Revard’s Sovereignty, and Literature 1:30 - 2:45 Manoa “Transfigurations” Nancy Peterson Sam Lyons Purdue University MSU, Mankato

Coming to Maturity: The Ojibwe Creation Story as Community Blueprint in Linda LeGarde Grover’s The Road Back to Sweetgrass Adam Hulst MSU, Mankato

3:00 - 3:30 Break Visit Birchbark Books in Grand Ballroom II

Prior Lake, Minnesota 9 Saturday, March 24 Session 16 A B C Resistance, Remembrance, and Film & TV Indians Everywhere Resilience: Indigenous Residential Injustice Revealed: The Contours Searching for Cherokees in Mexico: School Literature in Canada of Federal Indian Law, Tribal Found Them! Chair: Jill Doerfler Sovereignty, and Violence Against LeAnne Howe Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth Native Women in Wind River (2017) University of Georgia Akikwe Cornell “We had family here, blood and University of Minnesota “Portraits of the Osage” and otherwise”: Survivance through “Characters of New Mexico” Kinship, Story, Dreams, and Language Without Reservations: Native Michael Snyder in Cherie Dimaline’s The​ Marrow American Identity and the Visual Oklahoma City Thieves Language of “Ethnographic Community College Patrizia Zanella Containment” in The Exiles 3:30 - 4:45 University of Fribourg Kali Simmons Pet’a Shows Misun the Light University of California, Jessie Taken Alive-Rencountre The Art of Resurgence: Tomson Riverside South Dakota State University Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen and the Genre of Residential School Literature Dance Me Outside, Dead Man: Melanie Braith Teaching Native Films by Non-Natives University of Manitoba Carol Warrior Conceptualism, the Testimonial Cornell University Imagery, and the Shadow Presence of Residential Schools in Indigenous Literature Jordan Abel Simon Fraser University 5:00 - 6:00 Break

Session 17: Evening Meal - Grand Ballroom I sponsored by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community A Reading with Tommy Pico Introduction by LeAnne Howe Tommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL (Birds, LLC, 2016), Nature Poem (Tin House Books, 2017), Junk (forthcoming 2018 from Tin House Books) and the zine series Hey, Teebs. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of birdsong, an antiracist/queer-positive collective, small press, and zine that published art and writing from 2008- 6:00 - 10:00 2013. He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry, a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay Nation, he lives in Brooklyn where he co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. 10 The Native American Literature Symposium 2018 We Remember Those Who Made the Road Easier for Us George B. Willie, Sr. David Patterson Sr., died in December at the one of the last living age of 92. He was among Navajo code talkers from the hundreds of Navajo World War II died in citizens who used their New Mexico in October language to transmit of 2017. Navajo Nation unbreakable codes during President Russell Begaye the war, helping secure called Patterson a victory for the United “national treasure.” States and its allies. Navajo Code Talker Francisco Holguin, died Teddy Draper Sr. of in June of 2017. He was Chinle passed away elected T’aikabede of in a Prescott nursing the Pueblo in 2010, and home in December of walked on at age 96. A 2017 at the age of 93. He T’aikabede, in addition received a Purple Heart to spiritual duties, serves in 2004. a life term on the tribal council.

Lehman L. Brightman, Richard Wagamese, a proud member of the renowned author, has Sioux tribe, activist and walked on in March of longtime East Bay college 2017 at age 61. He was history professor who the author of Indian rebelled against the U.S. Horse, a novel about government’s account of intergenerational trauma history, died in June of from Canada’s residential 2017. schools is being made into a movie. Chief Beau Dick, a Dennis Banks, also hereditary chief of the known as Nowa Cumig, Kwakwaka’wakw from co-founder and leader Alert Bay (‘Yalis), ‘Namgis of the American Indian First Nation, British Movement passed away Columbia, Canada walked in November of 2017 in on in March of 2017, at Rochester, MN. He was age 61. 80 years old.

Eddie Sartuche, one of Steve Reevis, award- the last speakers of the winning Blackfeet Actor Wuksachi language died from Last of the Dogmen, in December of 2017 at Geronimo, Dances with age 89. Sartuche grew Wolves, and The Longest up speaking Wuksachi Yard has died in November and went on to become a of 2017 at age 55. tribal leader.

11 Ti´toŋwaŋ Wakaŋtaŋka Ihaŋktoŋwaŋ Ihaŋktoŋwaŋna Waĥpekute Waĥpetoŋwaŋ Sisitoŋwaŋ Mdewakaŋtoŋwaŋ Ŝakowiŋ Oceti Now Accepting Submissions!

In 2013, South Dakota State University established the Emerging Tribal Writers Award to encourage the development of American Indian writers who are in the early phases of their writing careers, and 2018 increase the number of tribal writers presenting and publishing in the Great Plains region. Emerging WHO CAN SUBMIT: Tribally-enrolled writers from the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Nebraska who have not yet published a book of creative writing. Tribal Finalists will be asked to submit proof of tribal enrollment. All age groups may apply. Writer WORK ACCEPTED: Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, drama, and screenplays. Not to exceed 10,000 words. Award PRIZE: $500 cash award plus the opportunity to present and publish your work for the first time!

DEADLINE: May 1, 2018

Please email submissions and other application materials to [email protected] or by post to:

Emerging Tribal Writers Award South Dakota State University, Department of English Pugsley Center 301/Campus Box 2218 Brookings, SD 57007

There is no entry fee to apply. For more details about the award please visit our website at: https://emergingtribalwritersaward.com

Sponsored by SDSU’s English Department and American Indian Studies Program

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15 List of Presenters

Abel, Jordan: 16a Lyons, Sam: 15b Anderson, Eric Gary: 4c Majhor, Smanatha: 5b Andrews, Scott: 2c, 13 Martinez-Falquina, Silvia: 10c Bauerkemper, Joseph: 14c Martinez, Shanae Aurora: 10a Bladlow, Kyle: 13 McClung, Jen: 2a Braith, Melanie: 16a McGlennen, Molly: 7c Brings Plenty, Trevino: 14b McLaughin, Olena: 14a Brown-Spiers, Miriam: 14c Meland, Carter: 7c Brown, Kirby: 11b Mitchell, Brandon: 4a Burchfield, Renata Ryan: 2b Mootz, Kaylee Jangula: 8b Burkhart, Brett Douglas: 8b Myhal, Natasha: 8c Burkhart, Brian: 2c Nicholas, Meg: 4c Carnes, Jeremy: 11b Noodin, Margaret: 5c Carlson, David: 2a Pelky, Rebecca: 2b Carmi, Marissa: 4c Pelletier, Julie: 8c Christensen, Maggie: 1 Peterson, Nancy: 8c, 15c Cody, Michael: 5b Pyle, Kai: 4b Cohen, Sarah: 1 Quigley, Dawn: 2a Cook, Corinna: 8a Rho, Heongyun: 10a Cornell, Akikwe: 16b Robins, Barbara K: 1 Cummings, Denise: 6 Roemer, Ken: 5a DeVos, Laura: 7a Sexton, Steve: 4b Doerfler, Jill: 16a Shanley, Kathryn: 8a DuMarce, Eric: 8c Sheffield, Carrie Louise: 7b Emmert, Angela Williamson: 10b Shin, Courtney: 15a Erdrich, Heid: 14b Shook, Jen: 2c Faagai, Alana Kamalalawalu: 11a Simmons, Kali: 16b Faust, Carson: 15b Sloan, Kit: 1 Fitzgerald, Stephanie: 15c Slocum, Melissa Michal: 2a Freidman, Gabriella: 7b Snyder, Michael: 16c Gamber, John: 13 Spry, Adam: 11b Gercken, Becca: 8c Stirrup, David: 10c Glancy, Diane: 11c Stratton, Billy J: 4a Haglund, Sue: 15a Suhr-systma, Mandy: 10a, 14c Haladay, Jane: 7c Taken Alive-Recountre, Jessie: 16c Hastings, Alice: 15a Taylor, Michael: 10b Henry, Gordon: 10c Toll, Shannon: 7a Heredia, Maria Calvopiña: 11a Twenter, Brian: 8c Herman, Matt: 5a Van Alst, Theo: 6 Herrera, Salvador: 7b Viehmann, Martha: 11c Holm, Sharon: 5b Warrior, Carol: 16b Howe, Leanne:16c Weso, Thomas Pecore: 15c Hulst, Adam: 15b Westerman, Gwen: 15b Jacob, Melissa Beard: 4c Whalen, Kevin: 8c Jones-Matrona, Kasey: 8b White, Robin: 4a Katanski, Amelia: 8a Whited, Courtney Lynn: 10b Kelly, Delaney: 7a Whitehad, Joshua: 14a Kliewer, Matt: 5a Wieser, Kimberly: 2c Latchaw, Joan: 1 Zanella, Patrizia: 16a Leslie-Skye, Breanna: 11a Zimmerman, Michael: 5c Lietz, Michelle: 14a Low, Denise: 4b Luckenbill, Rachel: 11c, 14c

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