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Thursday, March 8 Friday, March 9 Saturday, March 10

Thursday

8:00- 4:00 Registration

8:00- 5:00 Vendor Exhibits in the Saginaw Room

8:30- 9:00 Welcome Greetings
Traditional Blessing Ceremony

9:00-10:15
Session 1

What's So Funny about Cherokees? Social Justice, the Southern Literary Canon and ... "Indian" Jokes

Imagining the American Indian World without Cherokees! LeAnne Howe

In Search of the Last Cherokee Princess: Cherokee Sovereignty, Survival, and Stereotypes, Daniel Heath Justice

What’s So Funny about Erasing Indians from the Southern Literary Canon? Annette Trefzer

We Gave ‘Em a Buffalo Bill Experience … and Charged ‘Em For It, Carol Cornsilk

10:30-11:45
Session 2

A Visit to the Ziibiwing Cultural Center (shuttles will run from the hotel to the center)

12:00-1:15
Lunch with Carol Cornsilk and the Making of Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire

1:30- 2:45
Session 3
The Legacy of American Indian Writing
Contesting the Manifest: Destiny Reflected in 123 Years of Native American First Editions,
Rick Waters
Native American Novelists of the Early 20^th Century: Success as Cross-Cultural Communicators?
Dagmar Frerking

Rereading Sentiment in S. Alice Callahan’s Wynema
Janet Dean

Cultural Crossroads in Cinema
Dances with Samurai: Imperialistic Nostalgia and Representations of Wounded Knee in the Film The Last Samurai, Danika Medak-Saltzman

Miyelo: Viggo Mortenson Does Wounded Knee, Petra Lina Orloff

"Talking Circle": Speaking with and without Reservation(s) in The Business of Fancydancing,
Theodore C. Van Alst

The Ones We Cannot Forget: Memorable Characters in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich
Lulu Nanapush Morrissey Lamartine: "No one ever understood my wild and secret ways," Connie Jacobs (Chair)

The One We Love to Hate: Pauline/Sister Leopolda,
Ken Roemer

The Many Face(t)s of June Kashpaw, Peter Biedler

Omakayas and Family History: Land and People, Ute Lischke

The Messy Mindscape of Kit Tatro, David T. McNab

2:45- 3:15
Break and Author Signings

3:30- 5:00
Session 4
Contemporary Issues
No Longer a Pillar of Dissolved Salt: Redefining Justice for Native Women in Linda Hogan’s Power,
Dorothy Nason

Disconnection, Reconnection: Oppressed Women and Cultural Healing in Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife, Jessica C. Nowacki

The Fictionality of Literature in David Treuer’s The Translation of Dr. Appelles,
Brigitte Fielder-Montero

Teaching Native American Film: A Roundtable (sponsored by the ASAIL Committee on Pedagogy & Teaching)
Barbara Cook (Chair)
Denise Cummings
Angelica Lawson

Literary Narratives, Legal Discourse, and Indian Communities
Gordon Henry, Moderator
Chimookoman’s Tracks: Reading Land and Law in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich,
Stephanie Fitzgerald

"Taking Herself Back": Tribal Legal Responses to Violence Against Women in the novels of Lee Maracle and Winona LaDuke, Amelia Katanski

David Treuer, Indian Culture, and Tribal Law, Matthew Fletcher

6:00 Dinner on your own

7:00 Screening and Discussion of a selection of Short Films including Sunshine and Gesture Down (I Don't Sing)
Coordinated by Denise Cummings

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Friday

8:00- 4:00 Registration

8:00- 5:00 Vendor Exhibits in the Saginaw Room

8:00– 9:15
Session 5
The Power of Storytelling
Reproducing the Oral Tradition in The Way to Rainy Mountain,
Brian Twenter
John Tanner’s Capture: Evaluating the Historical Accuracy of A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner,
John Fierst

Kiss of the Spider Woman: Native American Storytellers and Cultural Transmission,
Leni Marshall
History, Film, and Art: Our Piecemeal Comprehension of the Native Peoples of Latin America The Surviving Arts and Architecture of Early Andean Cultures,
Alanna Brown
Decolonizing the Social Studies Curriculum: Representing Gender and Ethnicity in Native Latin America, Kristin Janka Miller

Elusive Identities: Native Latin American Representations and Voices in Contemporary Film,
Rocio Quispe-Agnoli
New Approaches for Teaching
Native American Inclusion in the Classroom: An Interactive Workshop and Demonstration,
Shirley Brozzo and Leann Miller
Teaching Native American Literature to "At Risk" Native American Teens: A "Scared White Girl’s" Perspective,
Rebekah Billings

Dawnland: Where Kids have Visions, Women Kick Butt, and Old Folks Have Sex
Patricia Kennedy

9:30-10:45
Session 6
Women’s Voices of Survival
Condoling Diegeses: Intersections of It Starts with a Whisper (1993) and Mohawk Girls (2005),
Penelope Kelsey

Survivance in the Works of Velma Wallis,
James Ruppert

Rosebud Women Write: The Works of Ollie Napesni, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, and Susan Bordeaux,
Debra Barker
American Indians & Popular Culture
James Luna: He Put the Man in Manifest Destiny,
Scott Andrews (Chair)
Rockin’ the Rez, Rockin’ the Nations: Native Rock Music in Popular Culture,
Janis Johnson

Native Americans in Comics: A Pedagogical Approach,
Margaret Noori
American Indian Literatures and Cultures in the South
Ellen Arnold (Chair)
South to a Red Place: Contemporary American Indian Writing and the Problem of Native/Southern Studies,
Eric Gary Anderson

Over in Coon Creek: Alexander Posey, Will Rogers, and Creek-Cherokee Racial Antipathy,
Tol Foster

Pre-Colonial and Colonial Geographics of Contact: Tribal Regionalism in Robert J. Conley’s Cherokee Historical Novels,
Susan B. Brill de Ramirez

11:00-12:15
Session 7
Views of Louise Erdrich’s Fiction
Cultural Intersections in Erdrich’s "Father’s Milk,"
Gretchen Michlitsch
Trickster Lives in Erdrich’s Fiction,
Mary Magoulick

"Do the rocks here know us?": Translation and Conversion in Louise Erdrich’s Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse,
Linda Krumholz
Honor Panel for Beatrice Medicine
The Poetry of Bea Medicine,
LaVonne Brown Ruoff
The Legacy of Beatrice Medicine,
P. Jane Hafen

Beatrice Medicine’s Work: A Forerunner of Indigenous Feminisms, Patrice Hollrah
New Worlds and Native Literary Nationalism
Mapping the Next World: Reflections on Decolonial American Indian Literary Nationalisms,
Jodi Byrd
Narrating Nationhood: Radical Traditions of Non-normativity,
Joseph Bauerkemper

Should American Indians Write Science Fiction?
Carter Meland
Mele Lähui and “Ea”: Sovereignty as Life and Breath in Hawaiian National Poetry,
Leilani Basham

12:15-1:30
Lunch with Artist Brent Learned

1:30- 2:45
Session 8

Joseph Nicolar’s Works
Chadwick Allen, Chair

Admiration and Respect for My Ancestors, Charles Norman Shay (grandson of Joseph Nicolar)
Rediscovering a Lost Treasure of Native American Literature: Joseph Nicolar’s 1893 The Life and Traditions of the Red Man, Annette Kolodny

2:45- 3:15
Break and Book Signing for Joseph Nicolar’s The Life and Traditions of the Red Man

3:30- 4:45
Session 9
The Importance of Telling Our Stories: Sherman Alexie, Brent Learned, Carol Cornsilk, and Noenoe Silva

6:00
Traditional Feast at the Elijah Elk Center with a reading by Sherman Alexie

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Saturday

8:00- 9:15
Session 10
Treaties, Books, and Forked Tongues
The Language of Commitment and Power in the 1795 Treaty of Greenville,
Billy Williams
Speaking with Forked Tongue: Double-Voicing in Tom King’s Short Stories,
Laurie Kruk

"You Sound like a Book": Oral and Print Interplay in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Trinna S. Frever
Indian Appropriations of Culture
How Does Clay Have a Spirit?: The Work of Nora Naranjo-Morse,
Marlene Mosher
Skywoman Has Landed: Haudenosaunee Aesthetics in the Works of Eric Gansworth, Jolene Rickard, and Melanie Printup Hope,
Susan Bernardin
Transforming Enemy Language: The Challenge of Change in Museum Genres,
Lisa King
The Construction of Identity
Cherokee Folklore: Locating Constructions of Identity,
Candessa Morgan
"What We Have Lost": Adoption as Cultural Genocide in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer,
Laura Szanto

Everyindian: A-geographical Subjects in Contemporary Native American Poetry,
Becca Gercken

9:30-10:45
Session 11
The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1842)
What We Expect from Jane Johnston Schoolcraft: "Love’s Mazes," Anti-Colonialism, and the Contrast between Contrasts,
Robert Dale Parker (Chair)
The Ojibwe Language Texts of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft,
John D. Nichols

Anishinaabe Activism: The Poetry of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft,
Jill Doerfler

Our Great-Grandmother Was an Ojibwe Literary Princess: Thoughts on the Schoolcraft Writers,
Heid E. Erdrich
Visual Storytelling
The "Working Art" of Jewell James: Native American Cultural Revitalization and Global Healing, Barbara Robins
Women Ledger Artists 2: Sharon Ahtone Harjo and Doloros Purdy Corcoran, Richard Pearce

Native American Children’s Literature: Writing, Teaching, and a Reading
"I Am This and That Also": Native Stories Retold, Ari Berk
The Words of Women: Native Authenticity, Authority, and Orality, Carolyn Dunn

Changes in Perception: The Responses of White, Pre-Service Teachers to Native American Children's and Young Adult Literature, Laretta Henderson

House and Home: Louise Erdrich and Re-envisionary History, Gretchen Papazian

11:00-12:15
Session 12
Teaching American Indian Poetry: A Roundtable
Dean Rader, Moderator

Molly McGlennen

Cari Carpenter

Nancy J. Peterson

Robin Riley Fast

Gwen Griffin

LeAnne Howe, Respondent
Northern Perspectives
Literature of the Native Canadian Renaissance,
Stephanie McKenzie
"We Will Come Out from Among Them": Peter Jones and Methodism,
Tammy Wahpeconiah

Promulgation of Damaging Ethnic Stereotypes as a Cottage Industry in Northern Michigan,
Lois Beardslee
Storytellers to Preachers to Writers of Lives—Many Voices in One: Samson Occom, William Apess, and Mourning Dove
From Sermons to Petitions to Diary: The Many Voices of Samson Occom and Their Rhetorical Center, Jim Ottery (Chair)
The Collective Unconscious as Universal Language: The Trickster Archetype in "Coyote Juggles His Eyes" and "Little Red Riding Hood," Tiffany-Anne Elliot

Rethinking American Indian Literature: From a Romantic Return to an Ongoing Adaptation, Michael Gammon

12:15-1:30
Lunch on your own

12:00-1:30
ASAIL Business Meeting

1:30- 2:45
Session 13
The Impact of the Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Chair)
Natasha Terry
Eleana Higgins

Indians in Show Biz
Lynn Riggs: Undercover Agent of Colonial Resistance,
Melissa Hearn
Reclaiming the Ceremony of Theater, Sheila Rocha

Intertribal Thespians: The Development of Community Theater from Indian Island, Maine,
Margaret Lukens
Native American Literature, Dead or Alive? David Treuer’s Novels and Criticism
Once More with Feeling: Re-centering the Literary in American Indian Literary Studies,
Chadwick Allen
Who Can We Be? Representation, Authenticity, and the Provocative Literary Criticism of David Treuer, Virginia Kennedy

How Useful and User-Friendly Is Treuer’s "User Manual"?,
John Kalb (Chair)

2:45- 3:15
Break, Author Signings, and a Performance by Indige Fem (Natasha Terry & Eleana Higgins)

3:45- 5:00
Session 14
The Trail Where They Cried
The Rhetoric of Witness: Personal Accounts from the Trail of Tears, Nicol Nixon Auguste
Measuring Assimilation: The Cherokee Phoenix, Cherokee Women, and the Indian Removal Debates,
Amanda Moulder

The Intercourse Acts: Shaw-shaw-wa-be-na-se, Hybridity, and the Rhetoric of Removal, Daniel Cole
Carrying the Fire: AIS Students at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke, Respond to Four Native Literary Elders
Jane Haladay, Moderator

Rocky Alexander Locklear

Byron Brooks

Kindra Dawn Locklear

Stephanie Inness

QuinYon DeBerry

Lauren Ashley Locklear
A Gathering of Voices: Readings
Lara Mann (Choctaw), Moderator
Carmelita Wright (Navajo)

Ellesa High (Eastern Shawnee)

Tiffany Midge (Standing Rock)

Shirley Brozzo (Ojibwe)

April Lindala (Mohawk/Delaware)

Grace Chaillier (Sicangu Lakota)

6:00
Dinner and Conversations with Noenoe Silva

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8:00- 4:00	Registration
8:00- 5:00	Vendor Exhibits in the Saginaw Room
8:30- 9:00	Welcome Greetings Traditional Blessing Ceremony
9:00-10:15 Session 1	*What's So Funny about Cherokees? Social Justice, the Southern Literary Canon and ... "Indian" Jokes* Imagining the American Indian World without Cherokees! LeAnne Howe In Search of the Last Cherokee Princess: Cherokee Sovereignty, Survival, and Stereotypes, Daniel Heath Justice What’s So Funny about Erasing Indians from the Southern Literary Canon? Annette Trefzer We Gave ‘Em a Buffalo Bill Experience … and Charged ‘Em For It, Carol Cornsilk
10:30-11:45 Session 2	A Visit to the Ziibiwing Cultural Center (shuttles will run from the hotel to the center)
12:00-1:15	Lunch with Carol Cornsilk and the Making of Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire
1:30- 2:45 Session 3	The Legacy of American Indian Writing Contesting the Manifest: Destiny Reflected in 123 Years of Native American First Editions, Rick Waters Native American Novelists of the Early 20^th Century: Success as Cross-Cultural Communicators? Dagmar Frerking Rereading Sentiment in S. Alice Callahan’s Wynema Janet Dean	Cultural Crossroads in Cinema Dances with Samurai: Imperialistic Nostalgia and Representations of Wounded Knee in the Film The Last Samurai, Danika Medak-Saltzman Miyelo: Viggo Mortenson Does Wounded Knee, Petra Lina Orloff "Talking Circle": Speaking with and without Reservation(s) in The Business of Fancydancing, Theodore C. Van Alst	*The Ones We Cannot Forget: Memorable Characters in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich* Lulu Nanapush Morrissey Lamartine: "No one ever understood my wild and secret ways," Connie Jacobs (Chair) The One We Love to Hate: Pauline/Sister Leopolda, Ken Roemer The Many Face(t)s of June Kashpaw, Peter Biedler Omakayas and Family History: Land and People, Ute Lischke The Messy Mindscape of Kit Tatro, David T. McNab
2:45- 3:15	Break and Author Signings
3:30- 5:00 Session 4	*Contemporary Issues* No Longer a Pillar of Dissolved Salt: Redefining Justice for Native Women in Linda Hogan’s Power, Dorothy Nason Disconnection, Reconnection: Oppressed Women and Cultural Healing in Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife, Jessica C. Nowacki The Fictionality of Literature in David Treuer’s The Translation of Dr. Appelles, Brigitte Fielder-Montero	Teaching Native American Film: A Roundtable (sponsored by the ASAIL Committee on Pedagogy & Teaching) Barbara Cook (Chair) Denise Cummings Angelica Lawson	*Literary Narratives, Legal Discourse, and Indian Communities* Gordon Henry, Moderator Chimookoman’s Tracks: Reading Land and Law in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich, Stephanie Fitzgerald "Taking Herself Back": Tribal Legal Responses to Violence Against Women in the novels of Lee Maracle and Winona LaDuke, Amelia Katanski David Treuer, Indian Culture, and Tribal Law, Matthew Fletcher
6:00	Dinner on your own
7:00	Screening and Discussion of a selection of Short Films including Sunshine and *Gesture Down (I Don't Sing)* Coordinated by Denise Cummings

8:00– 9:15 *Session 5*	The Power of Storytelling Reproducing the Oral Tradition in The Way to Rainy Mountain, Brian Twenter John Tanner’s Capture: Evaluating the Historical Accuracy of A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner, John Fierst Kiss of the Spider Woman: Native American Storytellers and Cultural Transmission, Leni Marshall	History, Film, and Art: Our Piecemeal Comprehension of the Native Peoples of Latin America The Surviving Arts and Architecture of Early Andean Cultures, Alanna Brown Decolonizing the Social Studies Curriculum: Representing Gender and Ethnicity in Native Latin America, Kristin Janka Miller Elusive Identities: Native Latin American Representations and Voices in Contemporary Film, Rocio Quispe-Agnoli	New Approaches for Teaching Native American Inclusion in the Classroom: An Interactive Workshop and Demonstration, Shirley Brozzo and Leann Miller Teaching Native American Literature to "At Risk" Native American Teens: A "Scared White Girl’s" Perspective, Rebekah Billings Dawnland: Where Kids have Visions, Women Kick Butt, and Old Folks Have Sex Patricia Kennedy
9:30-10:45 *Session 6*	Women’s Voices of Survival Condoling Diegeses: Intersections of It Starts with a Whisper (1993) and Mohawk Girls (2005), Penelope Kelsey Survivance in the Works of Velma Wallis, James Ruppert Rosebud Women Write: The Works of Ollie Napesni, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, and Susan Bordeaux, Debra Barker	American Indians & Popular Culture James Luna: He Put the Man in Manifest Destiny, Scott Andrews (Chair) Rockin’ the Rez, Rockin’ the Nations: Native Rock Music in Popular Culture, Janis Johnson Native Americans in Comics: A Pedagogical Approach, Margaret Noori	American Indian Literatures and Cultures in the South Ellen Arnold (Chair) South to a Red Place: Contemporary American Indian Writing and the Problem of Native/Southern Studies, Eric Gary Anderson Over in Coon Creek: Alexander Posey, Will Rogers, and Creek-Cherokee Racial Antipathy, Tol Foster Pre-Colonial and Colonial Geographics of Contact: Tribal Regionalism in Robert J. Conley’s Cherokee Historical Novels, Susan B. Brill de Ramirez
*11:00-12:15* *Session 7*	Views of Louise Erdrich’s Fiction Cultural Intersections in Erdrich’s "Father’s Milk," Gretchen Michlitsch Trickster Lives in Erdrich’s Fiction, Mary Magoulick "Do the rocks here know us?": Translation and Conversion in Louise Erdrich’s Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, Linda Krumholz	Honor Panel for Beatrice Medicine The Poetry of Bea Medicine, LaVonne Brown Ruoff The Legacy of Beatrice Medicine, P. Jane Hafen Beatrice Medicine’s Work: A Forerunner of Indigenous Feminisms, Patrice Hollrah	New Worlds and Native Literary Nationalism Mapping the Next World: Reflections on Decolonial American Indian Literary Nationalisms, Jodi Byrd Narrating Nationhood: Radical Traditions of Non-normativity, Joseph Bauerkemper Should American Indians Write Science Fiction? Carter Meland Mele Lähui and “Ea”: Sovereignty as Life and Breath in Hawaiian National Poetry, Leilani Basham
12:15-1:30	*Lunch with Artist Brent Learned*
1:30- 2:45 *Session 8*		*Joseph Nicolar’s Works* Chadwick Allen, Chair Admiration and Respect for My Ancestors, Charles Norman Shay (grandson of Joseph Nicolar) Rediscovering a Lost Treasure of Native American Literature: Joseph Nicolar’s 1893 The Life and Traditions of the Red Man, Annette Kolodny
2:45- 3:15	*Break and Book Signing for Joseph Nicolar’s The Life and Traditions of the Red Man*
3:30- 4:45 Session 9	*The Importance of Telling Our Stories: Sherman Alexie, Brent Learned, Carol Cornsilk, and Noenoe Silva*
6:00	*Traditional Feast at the Elijah Elk Center with a reading by Sherman Alexie*

8:00- 9:15 Session 10	Treaties, Books, and Forked Tongues The Language of Commitment and Power in the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, Billy Williams Speaking with Forked Tongue: Double-Voicing in Tom King’s Short Stories, Laurie Kruk "You Sound like a Book": Oral and Print Interplay in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Trinna S. Frever	Indian Appropriations of Culture How Does Clay Have a Spirit?: The Work of Nora Naranjo-Morse, Marlene Mosher Skywoman Has Landed: Haudenosaunee Aesthetics in the Works of Eric Gansworth, Jolene Rickard, and Melanie Printup Hope, Susan Bernardin Transforming Enemy Language: The Challenge of Change in Museum Genres, Lisa King	The Construction of Identity Cherokee Folklore: Locating Constructions of Identity, Candessa Morgan "What We Have Lost": Adoption as Cultural Genocide in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer, Laura Szanto Everyindian: A-geographical Subjects in Contemporary Native American Poetry, Becca Gercken
9:30-10:45 Session 11	The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1842) What We Expect from Jane Johnston Schoolcraft: "Love’s Mazes," Anti-Colonialism, and the Contrast between Contrasts, Robert Dale Parker (Chair) The Ojibwe Language Texts of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, John D. Nichols Anishinaabe Activism: The Poetry of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Jill Doerfler Our Great-Grandmother Was an Ojibwe Literary Princess: Thoughts on the Schoolcraft Writers, Heid E. Erdrich	Visual Storytelling The "Working Art" of Jewell James: Native American Cultural Revitalization and Global Healing, Barbara Robins Women Ledger Artists 2: Sharon Ahtone Harjo and Doloros Purdy Corcoran, Richard Pearce	Native American Children’s Literature: Writing, Teaching, and a Reading "I Am This and That Also": Native Stories Retold, Ari Berk The Words of Women: Native Authenticity, Authority, and Orality, Carolyn Dunn Changes in Perception: The Responses of White, Pre-Service Teachers to Native American Children's and Young Adult Literature, Laretta Henderson House and Home: Louise Erdrich and Re-envisionary History, Gretchen Papazian
11:00-12:15 Session 12	*Teaching American Indian Poetry: A Roundtable* Dean Rader, Moderator Molly McGlennen Cari Carpenter Nancy J. Peterson Robin Riley Fast Gwen Griffin LeAnne Howe, Respondent	*Northern Perspectives* Literature of the Native Canadian Renaissance, Stephanie McKenzie "We Will Come Out from Among Them": Peter Jones and Methodism, Tammy Wahpeconiah Promulgation of Damaging Ethnic Stereotypes as a Cottage Industry in Northern Michigan, Lois Beardslee	Storytellers to Preachers to Writers of Lives—Many Voices in One: Samson Occom, William Apess, and Mourning Dove From Sermons to Petitions to Diary: The Many Voices of Samson Occom and Their Rhetorical Center, Jim Ottery (Chair) The Collective Unconscious as Universal Language: The Trickster Archetype in "Coyote Juggles His Eyes" and "Little Red Riding Hood," Tiffany-Anne Elliot Rethinking American Indian Literature: From a Romantic Return to an Ongoing Adaptation, Michael Gammon
12:15-1:30	Lunch on your own
12:00-1:30	ASAIL Business Meeting
1:30- 2:45 Session 13	The Impact of the Creative Writing Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Chair) Natasha Terry Eleana Higgins	Indians in Show Biz Lynn Riggs: Undercover Agent of Colonial Resistance, Melissa Hearn Reclaiming the Ceremony of Theater, Sheila Rocha Intertribal Thespians: The Development of Community Theater from Indian Island, Maine, Margaret Lukens	Native American Literature, Dead or Alive? David Treuer’s Novels and Criticism Once More with Feeling: Re-centering the Literary in American Indian Literary Studies, Chadwick Allen Who Can We Be? Representation, Authenticity, and the Provocative Literary Criticism of David Treuer, Virginia Kennedy How Useful and User-Friendly Is Treuer’s "User Manual"?, John Kalb (Chair)
2:45- 3:15	Break, Author Signings, and a Performance by Indige Fem (Natasha Terry & Eleana Higgins)
3:45- 5:00 Session 14	The Trail Where They Cried The Rhetoric of Witness: Personal Accounts from the Trail of Tears, Nicol Nixon Auguste Measuring Assimilation: The Cherokee Phoenix, Cherokee Women, and the Indian Removal Debates, Amanda Moulder The Intercourse Acts: Shaw-shaw-wa-be-na-se, Hybridity, and the Rhetoric of Removal, Daniel Cole	Carrying the Fire: AIS Students at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke, Respond to Four Native Literary Elders Jane Haladay, Moderator Rocky Alexander Locklear Byron Brooks Kindra Dawn Locklear Stephanie Inness QuinYon DeBerry Lauren Ashley Locklear	A Gathering of Voices: Readings Lara Mann (Choctaw), Moderator Carmelita Wright (Navajo) Ellesa High (Eastern Shawnee) Tiffany Midge (Standing Rock) Shirley Brozzo (Ojibwe) April Lindala (Mohawk/Delaware) Grace Chaillier (Sicangu Lakota)
6:00	Dinner and Conversations with Noenoe Silva