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2023 Native American Symposium Schedule
SESSION 1 – 9:00-10:30 a.m.
George Strong, SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, “The Choctaw People: Ancestral Lands, Removal, and Present” | Student Union 202
Chad Johnson, SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, “Native American Sovereignty and Ecological Justice” | Student Union 213
Dan Marshall Purvis III, CHOCTAW NATION OF OKLAHOMA, “Tribes of Tejas” | Student Union 303
Michael Davis, SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY and Anthony Hill CHOCTAW
NATION OF OKLAHOMA, “Paternalism in Federal Regulation of Tribal Sovereignty” | Student Union 323
SESSION 2 – 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Jennifer McMahon, EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY, “Inside Despair: Suicide in Reservation Dogs and The Passenger” | Student Union 202
Delanie Seals, EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY, “Unconquered and Unconquerable: Post-McGirt Criminal Jurisdiction Analysis | Student Union 213
B.Steve Csaki SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, “The Problematic Paradox of Native American Sovereignty” | Student Union 303
Sam Schirvar, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, “Home and Hands: The Growth of Tribally-Owned Manufacturing Enterprises During the 1970’s” | Student Union 323
LUNCH BREAK – 12:15-1:30 p.m. | Classroom Building 103
SESSION 3 – 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Stefan Benz, UNIVERSITY OF BONN, “It’s in my blood to bang drums: Indigenous Rhythmic Sovereignty and Settler Colonial Rhythm Discourse” | Classroom Building 103
Michael Taylor, THE UNIVERSITY OF MARY, “Black Elk’s Life Speaks: That Much More on Sovereignty” | Classroom Building 118
Christopher Allen, THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, “Tribal Sovereignty and American Indian Citizenship in the Autobiograhy of Zitkala-Sa and S. Alice Callahan’s Wyenma: A Child of the Forest” | Classroom Building 120
Tara Hembrough, UNIVERSITY OF INCARNATE WORD and Lindsey Mixon, UNIVERSITY OF
OKLAHOMA, “The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Personal Stress Factors of Oklahoma Women College Students: A Case Study Comparing Native Women and Men” | Classroom Building 104
Amy Madewell and Kendra St. Clair, SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, “Sovereignty, Grit, and Resilience among Native American Student Raised in Low Resource Environments” | Classroom Building 106
SESSION 4 – 3:15 – 4:00 p.m.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Poteet Victory (Cherokee-Choctaw), artist and owner of Victory Contemporary Gallery and Studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico | Classroom Building 103