2013 Native American Symposium
Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs
November 14-15, 2013
Schedule for November 14-15, 2013
Thursday, November 14
1:00 pm â Magnolia Room
Karin Hicks ââEho Kullo, Strong Womanâ
1:30 pm â Magnolia Room
Jerry Bread â The University of Oklahoma Native American Debate Team,  âCouncil of Fireâ
2:15 pm â Magnolia Room
Amy Gantt â Chickasaw Language and Culture: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Chickasaw people.
2:45 pm â Magnolia Room
Jane Allen Farmer â Natchez Trace Parkway
3:30 pm â Social Game of Stickball will be played on campus.
4:30 pm â Hogan Collection Exhibit at the Visual and Performing Arts Center
Gleny Beach, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, âNative Traditions: Then and Nowâ
6:00 pm â Ballroom: Keynote Banquet
âReconnecting with Native Ground: Promoting Heritage Preservation through Conservation Archaeology in the Chickasaw Homelandsâ
Brad R. Lieb, Chickasaw Nation Davison of Historic Preservation
7:30 pm â Ballroom
‘It Wasnât Code to Usâ â Dramatic production focusing on the Choctaw Code-Talkers of World War I.
8:15 â Ballroom
 Choctaw Social Dancing
Friday, November 15Â
9 am â Native Representations â Student Union Auditorium 213Â
 Melissa Biggs, University of Texas at Austin, and John Bodinger de Uriarte, Susquehanna University, âGambling on History: Shaping Narratives in Native Public Spacesâ
Rick Lybeck, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, “Where Truth Telling and White Public Pedagogy Collide: Educative Barriers to Justice in Dakota Homeland”
9 am â Native Performance and Film â Student Union 323
Alison Fields, University of Oklahoma, âCircuits of Spectacle: The Miller Brothersâ Ranch 101 Real Wild West Showâ
Mark B. Spencer, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, âThe Fast Runner: Epic Filmmakingâ
9 am â Native Politics â Student Union 303
Lindsey Churchill, University of Central Oklahoma, ââThey do not exist in Uruguay:â Representations of Indigenous Peoples in the Uruguayan Left, 1960s-80sâ
Bill Kingfisher, Jr., “Felix Cohen and the Spanish Model Reconsidered”
10 am â The Native Museum â Student Union Auditorium 213
Caroline Laurent, University of Minnesota-Duluth & Sorbonne University, Paris, âCan Indian Museums Revive the Culture of Tribes: The Case of the Mille Lacs` Indian Museumâ
10 am â Native Memories â Student Union 323
Mattea Sanders, American University, âRepresentation of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indiansâ
Noel Edward Smyth, University of California, Santa Cruz, âContested Histories: A History of Natchez Survival Amidst Narratives of Natchez Disappearanceâ
10 am â Native Politics â Student Union 303
Gretchen Eick, Friends University, âLakota Writing on US Indian Policy in the Early 20th Centuryâ
Neal M. Hampton, University of Central Oklahoma, ââWe Have to Think of the Indian People Themselves:â Oklahoma Indians and the Congresses of October 1934âÂ
11 am â Native Sovereignties â Student Union Auditorium 213Â
Claudia Little Axe, Hannah Berryman, and Linda Sue Warner, Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College, âSacred Places: Indigenous Perspective of Education and Placeâ
 Brian K. Hudson, University of Oklahoma, âFirst Beings as Sovereign Speciesâ
11 am â Native History â Student Union 323
Richard Mize, Phillips Theological Seminary, âSaving White Eyesâ
Stanley Rice, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, âNanyehi: War and Peace in Cherokee HistoryâÂ
11 am â Native Literature I â Student Union 303
Yonka K. Krasteva, Butler Community College, âTranscultural Crossings: Spirituality, War and Selfhood in Linda Hoganâs âPeople of the Whaleââ
Steven B. Sexton, University of Oklahoma, âTransnationalism in LeeAnne Howeâs âEvidence of Redââ
12 pm â Lunch in the Loft
1 pm â Native Art â Student Union Auditorium 213
Protection, Preservation, and Proliferation of Native American History, Culture, and Customs through Contemporary Native Art
Jean Merz-Edwards, Heather Ahtone, Linda Lomahaftewa, America Meredith, and John Torres-Nez
1 pm â Visions of Native Americans â Student Union 323, East Central University Panel
Jennifer McMahon, âGhost Dance: Visions of Death in Contemporary Native American Cinemaâ
Steve Csaki, âProcess Ontology in Early American Pragmatism, Buddhism, and Native American Thoughtâ
Rebecca Nicholson-Weir, âStructures of Mystery and Memory in Contemporary Native American Literatureâ
1 pm â Native Literature II â Student Union 303
Debashree Dattaray, Jadavpur University, India, âAn Act of Resistance: A Comparative Study of Indigenous Womenâs Narrativesâ
Richard Moon, Lanier High School, San Antonio, âVerbal Tales to Postmodern Works: Native American Literature Explores Traditions and Customsâ
2:30 pm â The Choctaw and Chickasaw â Student Union Auditorium 213
Kennith H. York, âChoctaw Nationalismâ
Phillip Carroll Morgan, Chickasaw Press, âThe Best of Treasure Hunts: Tribally Specific Researchâ
Laura Clark, East Central University, âChikasha on the Trace: Voices of the Homelandsâ   Â
2:30 pm â Native Music â Student Union 323
Indigenous Songwork: Native Music as Rhetorical Tapestry, Northeastern State University Panel
Kimberli Lee, âPura Fe: Singing Native Womenâs Realitiesâ
Jaquetta Shade, âIndigepunk as Pasticheâ
Christina Cedillo, âMusical Hybrids or Living Traditions?: Contesting the Myth of Cultural Extinctionâ
2:30 pm â Native Government Documents â Native American Room, Henry Bennett Library
Brandon Burnette, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, âHistoric Indian Publications by the United States Federal Governmentâ
4:00 pm â Poetry and Short Story Readings â Student Union Auditorium
Ron Wallace, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, âOf Horses and Hawks and the World in Betweenâ
Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University, âFollowing the Water: A Two Hawks Storyâ