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Native American Literature Symposium The Native American Literature Symposium March 21-23, 2013 Minneapolis, MN 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 LeAnne Howe, Arts Liaison University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Denise Cummings, Film Wrangler Rollins College Theo Van Alst, Film Wrangler Yale Jodi Byrd University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Jill Doerfler University of Minnesota, Duluth James Sinclair University of Manitoba 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 Minneapolis, Minnesota 1 Wopida, Miigwech, Mvto, Wado, Ahe’ee, Yakoke We thank the sponsors of the 2013 Symposium for their generous funding and continued support that made everything possible. The People of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community ??? The Redd Center for Western Studies Mystic Lake Casino Hotel ???, 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: TBA 2 The Native American Literature Symposium 2013 21 March 2013 Minneapolis, Minnesota 3 Book Exhibits and Vendors Visit the vendors and book exhibits in Grand Ballroom B Thursday and Friday 10:00 am to 5 pm Saturday 10 am to 2 pm Thank you to the following presses and vendors for their contributions: Presses TBA Vendors TBA 5 The Native American Literature Symposium 2013 Thursday, March 21 Registration (until 4 pm) 8:00 Welcome and Traditional Blessing 8:45 Vendors and Exhibits (until 5 pm) 10:00 Session 1: Plenary Engaging Resistance in the Reddest of Red States Red (Artists) on Red The Red Dirt Beneath Ugido Wado, Mr. Roboto Response: Poetry in (Folks) in Red (State Our Feet: LeAnne Howe Scott Andrews Oklahoma, Poetry in Oklahoma) and Don L. Birchfield’s U. of California, Oklahoma Tol Foster Indigenous Oklahoma Northridge LeAnne Howe, Marquette University Steven Sexton University of Illinois at 8:30 - 9:45 University of Oklahoma Urbana-Champaign Dean Rader, U. of San Francisco Session 2 A (Little Crow I) B (Little Crow II) C (Wabasha I) Canoes, Buses, and Hitchhiking, Reclaiming Literary Genres Shaping/Shifting/Forming or, the Planes, Trains, and Identities Automobiles of Indigenous Literatures Songs Her Paddle Sings: “Move Over, Tony Hillerman!”: The Terror Dream in Sherman E. Pauline Johnson’s Sovereign Decolonizing American Indian Alexie’s Post-9/11 Fiction Canoes Mystery Writing Levin Arnsperger, Susan Bernardin, Connie Jacobs, Emory University SUNY-Oneonta San Juan College “The Lamanites shall blossom as The Trail of the Thunderbird: Indigenous Fluency: Articulating the rose”: Racial Formations and 10:00 - 11:15 Production of an American Indian Mobility in The Exiles Mormon Colonialism Anthology Elise Boxer, Laura Furlan, Grace Chaillier University of Utah U. of Massachusetts, Amherst Northern Michigan University Walking the Roads Between Louis Riel and Metis Self- Worlds in Louise Erdrich’s Novels Identification Survival in Amy Hamilton, the Evolution of Canadian Northern Michigan State U. Nationhood Robin White, Goldsmiths, University of London Minneapolis, Minnesota 6 Thursday, March 21 Sesson 3: Lunch A Conversation with Alex Smith and Andrew Smith Producers and Directors of Winter In The Blood Twin brothers Alex Smith and Andrew Smith grew up in Missoula, Montana. They wrote the screenplay and filmed the adaptation of James Welch’s “Winter in the Blood” novel 11:30 - 1:00 in 2012. They also wrote “The Slaughter Rule” (2002) and “Career Opportunities in Poetry” (2008).The novel takes place on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and along the Hi-Line of Montana. The location is based on where Welch lived as a child. Session 4 A B C Critical Collections Violence and Native Women International Study of American Indian Literature Nancy Ward: The Canon Is Telling Bernice Bell’s Story: New Notions of Text: Expanding Incomplete Without Her Violence and Choctaw Women the Conversation in Our Kim Hales, in Twentieth Century Neshoba Indigenous Studies Classrooms Utah State University County, Mississippi Becca Gercken, Jacki Rand, University of Minnesota Morris “History, like geography, lives in University of Iowa the body”: History, Trauma and Stephanie Fitzgerald 1:30 - 2:45 the Corporeal Imagery in Linda “A Sweep of Sorrow”: Sexual University of Kansas Hogan’s The Woman Who Watches Violence in The Round House Over the World Julie Tharp, Julie Pelletier Joanna Ziarkowska, UW-Marshfield/Wood County University of Winnepeg University of Warsaw, Poland Nancy Peterson Hybridity and Womanhood: Purdue University Creating Story in Betty Louise Bell’s Faces in the Moon This roundtable is sponsored Elizabeth Toombs, by the Pedagogy Committee of University of Oklahoma ASAIL Break Sponsored by the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 3:00 - 3:30 7 The Native American Literature Symposium 2013 Thursday, March 21 Session 5 A B C California Indian Literatures Never Forget Portraying Relationships Sovereignty in the Cahuilla Beyond Betwixt and Between Mikwendagzejek: Shared Storyway History and Liminal Space in Experience through Shared David J. Carlson, Sherman Alexie’s Flight Existence California State U., Thomas Krause, Michael Zimmerman Jr., San Bernardino University of Oklahoma Independent scholar Mary Tall Mountain: A Life of Pauline in Tracks and Beloved Eric Gansworth Storying Survivance in Beloved as Characters Relationships into Being through Representing History in Danger of Wampum 3:30 - 4:45 Carol Zitzer Comfort California State U., Long Beach Being Forgotten Nicholle Dragone, Marie Nigro, Black Hills State University Californian Landscapes in the Lincoln University Work of Gerald Vizenor Storyteller: An Anthology of Okla James Mackay The Intimate Record The Use of Nowa (A People Walking) European University Cyprus Memory in American Indian and Greg Rodgers, Palestinian Literatures University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Eman Ghanayem, Birzeit University, Jordan Dinner on your own 5 - 6 Sesson 6 Film Screening and Teaching Demonstration: Winter in the Blood Denise K. Cummings, Rollins College Theo Van Alst, Yale Synopsis: Virgil First Raise wakes with a shiner and a hangover in a roadside ditch on the stark but beautiful plains of Montana. As he rises to face the day he sees a vision of his father lying dead at his feet. Impossible-- his father froze to death in a snowdrift years earlier. Virgil returns home to find that his wife, Agnes, has left him. Worse, she’s taken his electric razor and his 6:00 - 10:00 beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to find her--beginning a hi-line odyssey of inebriated encounters, sexual skirmishes, and improbable cloak-and-dagger intrigues with the mysterious ‘Airplane Man’. Virgil’s quest also brings him face-to-face with childhood memories Scene from Winter in the Blood and visions of his beloved, lost brother Mose--some glorious, some tragic. Only when Virgil seeks the counsel of an old, blind man named Yellow Calf, does he grasp the truth of his origins and begin to thaw the ice in his veins. Minneapolis, Minnesota 8 Friday, March 22 Registration (until 4 pm) 8:00 Vendors and Exhibits (until 5 pm) 10:00 Session 7 A B C Book Blitz Positioning Engaged Resistance to Colonizing Ideology in Indigenous Contemporary Culture Native American Video Games, Tootsie Roll Pops, Transnationalism in Sherman and Math Homework: Resisting Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary Colonizing Ideology and Cultural of a Part-Time Indian Appropriation Heongyun Rho, Brian J Twenter, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea The University of South Dakota How Stories Move Readers Reimagining Resistance: The to Political Positioning and Novum in Birchfield’s Field of 8:00 - 9:15 Connection Sherman Alexie’s The Honor Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Miriam Brown Spiers Heaven University of Georgia, Athens Jessica Anderson, Marshall University This is Our Story: Healing Through the (Re)Narrativization Revenge, Restoration, and the of Indigenous Trauma Problem with the Postcolonial Angela Semple Architecture of Louise Erdrich’s Simon Fraser University Four Souls and Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water David Stirrup, University of Kent 9 The Native American Literature Symposium 2013 Friday, March 22 Session 8 A B C Picturing Change: New Work on If You Haven’t Read Her Novels, Shifting the Lens Native American Picture Stories You Should: The Understated Brilliance
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