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About Us
Preliminary Program for NALS 2006
(pending confirmations
from participants; complete titles and professional affiliations will appear in the
final program)
Thursday, April 6 Friday, April 7 Saturday, April 8
| 8:00- 4:00 | Registration | ||
| 8:00- 5:00 | Vendor Exhibits in the Saginaw Room | ||
| 8:30- 9:00 | Welcome Greetings Traditional Blessing Ceremony by Beaver Pelcher, 7th Generation Program, Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe |
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| 9:00-10:15
Session 1 |
"Many Voices, One
Syllabus": A Workshop on Teaching Comparative Indigenous Literary
Studies
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| 10:30-11:45
Session 2 |
Indigenous Resistances at the
Crossroads of the Pacific Singing Sovereignty: The Life & Work of Kekoaohiwaikalani, 1890s National Poet of Hawai'i, Noenoe Silva "The Melting Pot of the Pacific": Race, Gender, & American Nationalism in Michener's Hawaii, Hokulani Aikau Atomu 60, or Manidoo Envy: Vizenor's Word Cut Sword Play in Hirsohima Bugi, Jodi Byrd (Chair) |
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| 12:00-1:15 |
Luncheon with a presentation by James Treat |
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| 1:30- 2:45
Session 3 |
Cultural Crossroads Unexpected Cultural Intersections: Tracing a Southern Writer/A Southern Writer's Trace, Denise Cummings Mantemma Humma: To Go and Carry Something Sacred or Particular, Red, Lara E. Mann |
Native Theatre & Television Wayne's World Meets the Windigo: Intermediating Narratives in CBC's The Rez, Trinna Frever Laughter & the Use of Native Humour in Ross's "Farewell," Shelley Stigter Always Traveling Home: Transnational Migration in the Performances of Spiderwoman Theatre," Katy Young |
Mystery & Detection & Humor The Absence (or Abundance) of Owls, Toni Jensen Looking for Mr. Goodweather: King's Dreadfulwater Shows Up, Miriam Schacht American Indian Humor and the Transience of Eternal Verities |
| 2:45- 3:15 |
Break |
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| 3:30- 5:00
Session 4 |
Seething Savage Scholars & Angry Academic
Amerinds: Student Perceptions of Anger in Teaching Native American
Literature, Participants: |
Culture, Adaptation, and Survival Oshkii Aadiskaanan: A New Generation of Grandmother Stories, Margaret Noori Fools Crow ... Had Some Horses ... Rush[ing] In ... the
Reservation Blues: The Advent of Horse Culture as Demonstrative of
Survivance, The Politics of Identity in Native American Literary Autoethnography,
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Erdrich Back on Top: An overview of
her recent works Three Times Nine: The Abuse of Daughters in The Painted Drum, Peter Biedler Erdrich Back on Top: The Painted Drum, Connie Jacobs Approaches to Teaching Erdrich's Juvenile Fiction, The Painted Drum: A Spiritual Approach, Tom Matchie "The Truth about Stories": The Significance of Erdrich's Short Stories, David T. McNab |
| 6:00 | Dinner on your own | ||
| 7:00 | Film Screening: Maori Shorts The Little Things; Tama Tu; Two Cars, One Night; Turangawaewae | ||
| 8:00- 4:00 | Registration |
| 8:00- 5:00 | Vendor Exhibits in the Saginaw Room |
| 9:00-10:15
Session 5 |
Generations: A Roundtable Discussion
on Teaching American Indian Literatures and American Indian Studies Chair: Eric Gary Anderson Participants: Virginia Carney Robert M. Nelson Kenneth M. Roemer Sean Teuton Cari M. Carpenter |
Women Warriors in Native Women's Art
and Literature
Women Warriors: a Ledger Art Coup, Richard Pearce Warrior Women in the Art of Dana Tiger, Kimberly Roppolo (Chair) Hate Woman & Blackfoot Gender Values in Beverly Hungy Wolf's Work, Tisha Bromley-Wadsworth Cheyenne Women in a Western Oklahoma 19th-century Ledger Account, Denise Low
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Shifting Perspectives on Older Texts:
Eastman, Bonnin, and McNickle Ecocriticism, Zitkala-Sa's Poetry, & the Networ of her Writing, Julie Newmark The Effects of Colonization on Native Male
Gender Roles, Indigenous Customary Law & Murder in Zitkala-Sa's "The Trial Path," Elizabeth Archuleta Novel Anthropology: McNickle's and Hurston's Alternative Cultural Representation, Alicia Kent |
| 10:30-11:45
Session 6 |
Indigenous Nationhood and Civil
Rights Narrating Indigenous Nationhood: Indian Time and the Ideology of Progress, Joseph Bauerkemper Wounded Knee and Historical Memory: Dallas Chief Eagle's Wintercount, Lisa Tatonetti Beyond Aesthetic Victimry: Disability & Race in Yellow Robe and Vizenor, Linda Helstern |
19th-Century Names to Know Todd Downing: "From Canada to Tierra del Fuego" in "the Struggle with the White Man," Dagmar Frerking
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Land, Language, Culture, and Traditional
Approaches Learning the Whole Language: How Anishinaabe Literature & Language Are Combined, Helen Roy Beyond Oppression: Revitalizing the Dakota Language, |
| 12:00-1:15 |
Luncheon with a Presentation by Chris Stainbrook of
the Indian Land Tenure
Foundation |
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| 1:30- 2:45
Session 7 |
Theoretical Approaches The Limits of Bakhtin: Applying Theory to American Indian Literature, Lisa King Mimicry in LaFlesche's Life and Work, Tereza M. Szeghi Narrative Structure in Laura Tohe's No Parole Today, Scott Andrews |
Post-Screening Film Discussion
Coordinator: Denise Cummings |
"Looking Back, Going On":
The Past and Future of the American Indian Studies Series at Michigan
State University Press
An Overview of the MSU Press, Fred Bohm Publishing Activities of the American Indian Series, With Readings by Series Authors |
| 2:45- 3:15 |
Break |
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| 3:30- 5:00 |
Plenary with The Turtle Gals Ensemble and The Scrubbing Project |
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| 6:00 |
Traditional Feast sponsored by the Seventh Generation
Program, Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe |
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| 9:00-10:15
Session 8 |
Decolonizing the Conference Site: The
Capturing of The Native American Literature Symposium
Virginia Carney
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Addressing Classroom Racism and
Resistance: Native Traditions and Academic Pedagogy Native American Students' Reactions to Anthropological Research: Not the Usual Resistance, Julie Pelletier "Elder" and Educator: Anishinaabe Values and/as
Pedagogy, The Old Ways as New Methods: Native Values in Academia, |
Intersections of Voice, Gender,
Culture, and Pop Culture in Joy Harjo's How We Became Human
Chair: April Lindala |
| 10:30-11:45
Session 9 |
Teaching the Contexts Chair: Ellen Arnold Strategies for Circle Teaching Methods Derived from American
Indian Elder Epistemology, Oral Tradition, & Wholistic World View, "1 + 1 => 2": Team-teaching "American Indian
Women" in Broadcast Format, Teaching a "Dream" Course to Non-Native
Students, Discussing Native American Racial Identity through the Use of Legal Documents, Lynn Domina |
New Audiences for Native Lit Making Land Issues Real to Mainstream Students: Sovereignty and Native American Literature, Penelope Kelsey Teaching Native American Literatures in Iran, They Talk, Who Listens?: Audience in American Indian Literature,
A Case Study, |
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| 12:00-1:15 |
Lunch on your own |
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| 12:00-1:15 |
ASAIL Business Meeting |
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| 1:30- 2:45
Session 10 |
Healing in Native Literatures Claiming a Future: Trauma and Healing in Monkey Beach and Faces in the Moon, Christina Roberts Envisioning a Healthier World: How American Indian Novels
Function as Ceremonies of Healing, The Sacred, the Profane, and the Political in Linda Hogan's Power, Yonka Krasteva |
Land Tenure and Survival The Nez Perce Tribe & Recovering the Wallowa Valley, Janis Johnson The Invisible People of the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain, |
Strategic Survivals: New Takes on the
Rhetoric of Indigenous Literatures Indian Nullification: Apess & the Language of Cross-cultural Protest, John Kucich Strategies of Indigenous Print Cultures:
Te Ao Hou & the American Indian Magazine, LaDuke's Last Standing Woman as Legal Narrative, Amelia Katanski |
| 2:45- 3:15 |
Break |
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| 3:45- 5:00
Session 11 |
Memory in Native Writing First Nations Narratives of the Residential School Experience, Laura Beard Wisdom Sits in Elders and Places: Owens & Contemporary
Indigenous Identity, The Mapping of Urban Native Identity and Community, |
New Approaches to Classic Texts Against Retribution: Indian Killer and Euro-American Notions of Justice, Monika Wadman Overcoming the Traumas of Colonial History in Winter in the Blood and Solar Storms, Carrie Sheffield Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and the Aesthetics of Resistance, Dean Rader |
Land, Loss, Language, & Identity Linda Hogan: The Politics and Poetics of Place in a Writer of the Diaspora, Annette Van Dyke (Chair) Loss, Forgiveness, & Identity Formation: Erdrich's
Abandoning Mothers & Searching Children, Spirit & Sovereignty: Language & Land Connections, Jim Ottery |
| 6:00 |
Closing Banquet Dinner and a Hilarious Time with English Major, Charlie Hill |
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