Graduate Student Conference
Program Schedule

April 3-5, 2008

Thursday, April 3, 2008

12:30-2:00 p.m.                       Stewart Center, East Foyer, Main Floor

Registration and Check In

Students may attend sessions of “Prophetstown Revisited” Conference at no extra cost.

Friday, April 4, 2008

7:30-8:00 a.m.                         Stewart Center, Room 322

Registration and Check In

8:00-8:15 a.m.                         Stewart Center, Room 322

Welcome                                                   

Brian Hosmer, Director, CIC AIS Consortium

Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University, Chair, Executive Committee, CIC AIS Consortium

Phoebe Farris, Purdue University

8:15-9:15 a.m.                         Stewart Center, Room 322

(Ethno)Historical and Anthropological Approaches in American Indian Studies

Larry Nesper, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Chair

• Nicky Belle, Indiana University: “On the Oglala Heyoka”
• Darlynn Dietrich, Indiana University:  “’The Dream Must Be Obeyed’: Colonial-Era Native American Dream Episteme vis-à-vis Halbwachs’s On Collective Memory”
• David Posthumus, Indiana University: “Animal Symbolism in the Lakota Spirit World”

9:15-10:15 a.m.                       Stewart Center, Room 322

Constructions of Indian Identity in Early America

Dawn Riggs, Purdue University, Chair

• Kathryn Magee, Ohio State University: “’they are the life of the nation’: Women and War in Traditional Nadouek Society”
• Exa Von Alt, University of Illinois at Chicago: “Proselytizing Puritans and Praying Indians: The Historiography of the New England Praying Towns”
• Stuart Willis, Michigan State University: “Slavery and the Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokee, 1801-1829”

10:15-10:30 a.m.                                    Stewart Center, Room 322

Break

10:30-11:30 a.m.                                    Stewart Center, Room 322

Native Culture and the Material World

Raymond DeMallie, Indiana University, Chair

• Sean Dunham, Michigan State University: “A Case for Wild Rice in the Eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan”
• John N. Low, University of Michigan, and Cheryl L. Cash, Bowling Green State University: “Singing Our Stories: Potawatomi & Cherokee Baskets as ‘Traditional’ forms of Cultural Production and Containers of Culture”
• Kathleen Ratteree, University of Wisconsin: “Wahupta Ska Pejuta: Hemp and Treaty Abrogation”

11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.                                             Stewart Center, Room 322

Representations of Native Americans

John Sanchez, Penn State University, Chair

• Nancy Palm, Indiana University:  “George Catlin, Thomas Cole, and the Visual Construction of Indian Identity in Nineteenth-Century America”
• Sarah Dees, University of Iowa: “Symbolic Violence and Spiritual Genocide: Media Portrayal of the 1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee”
• Genevieve Tenoso, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “History is Already Speaking Through It: ‘Indians’, Ethnography, and Institutional Power in a Case of Virtual Violence”
• Christopher Butler, University of Wisconsin at Madison, “Revealing Brotherhood: Masonic Ethnology and American Indians in the Early Twentieth Century”

 12:45-2:00 p.m.     Native American Educational and Cultural Center

Lunch 

CIC AIS Consortium Executive Committee Meeting

2:00-3:00 p.m.                         Stewart Center, Room 322

Native Americans in Oral and Literary Discourse

Susan Krouse, Michigan State University, Chair

• Kiara Vigil, University of Michigan: “Indian Intellectual and Civilizing Discourse: Language and Literacy in Simon Pokagon’s Queen of the Woods”
• Ariana A. Ruiz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “The Miseducation of Mike: Mission Boarding School and a Desire for the Past in D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded”
• Amanda Zink, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: “Aberrant Narratology: Gendered Conflicts in Traditional American Indian Oral Stories”

3:00-4:30 p.m.                         Stewart Center, Room 322

Constructing and Reconstructing Native Communities

Lucy Murphy, Ohio State University, Chair

• Brad Kroupa, Indiana University: “The Case of the Arikara: A Historical Study of an Endangered Culture and Community Revival Efforts”
• Jonathon MeDrano, University of Chicago: “Conceptions of Honor Among Urban Native Americans”
• Monica Evans, Michigan State University: “Culture Still Matters: Indian Education in the Era of Accountability”
• Chelsea Chapman, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Just do it? Multiculturalism, Citizenship, and Nike’s Air Native”

4:30-5:30 p.m.                         Stewart Center, Room 322

Student-Faculty Meeting

5:45-7:30 p.m.

CIC AIS Consortium dinner

8:00 p.m.-                                 Lafayette Theater, 600 Main St.

“An Evening with Chris Eyre”; screening of A Thousand Roads (2005) and preview of the Tecumseh documentary for the PBS series “We Shall Remain.” 

Lafayette Theater is one block from the Holiday Inn.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

8:00-9:30 a.m.                                           Stewart Center, Room 322

Borderlands and Transnationalism: A Roundtable Discussion of James Brooks’s Captives and Cousins and Juliana Barr’s Peace Came in the Form of a Woman

Jacki T. Rand, University of Iowa, CIC AISC Seminar leader for 2008, moderator

Students in the CIC AISC Graduate Seminar for 2008, discussants

• Chelsea Chapman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Kellie Hogue, Indiana University
• Doug Miller, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Rebecca Nutt, Michigan State University (student representative)
• Kiara Vigil, University of Michigan
• Kate Williams, University of Minnesota
• Sakina Mariam Hughes, Michigan State University (auditor)

9:45-11:15 a.m.                       Stewart Center, Room 322

American Indians in National and Transnational Contexts

Raymond Fogelson, University of Chicago, Chair

• Doug Miller, University of Illinois at Chicago: “Our Diplomatic Arm: The  Early Years of the International Indian Treaty Council”
• Kellie Hogue, Indiana University: “A Dialogue of Different Registers: O-kee-wah, Augustin Grignon, and the Legend of the Red Banks”
• Kate Williams, University of Minnesota: “Cyd-Safiad: Welsh and American Indian Rights’ Movements in a Transnational Context”
• C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, Michigan State University: “Rethinking Ely S. Parker”

11:15 a.m.                                                  Stewart Center, Room 322

Conclusion and Awarding of Prizes for Outstanding Student Papers

Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University, Chair, Executive Committee