9:00 – 10:15 Session 1
Selecting Children's Books about American Indians, a workshop by Debbie Reese

Pelletier "Indigenous Research Methodologies: Concerns, Critiques and Caveats"
Auguste "Classroom without Walls: Community, Oral History, and Wisdom as a Curriculum"

1:30 - 2:45 Session 3
3A Teaching about Native Issues
Furlan "Space and Place in the American Indian Imagination: A Pedagogical Discussion"
Diana "To Romanticize of Dismiss? Addressing Challenges of White Students’ Responses to Representation of Sioux Spirituality in Susan Power’s The Grass Dancer"
Noori "Using Poetry to Understand Native American Aesthetics"

3B Rhetoric of Genocide
Robins (A/V)
Ortel
Fowler

3C Responding to Texts
Lacombe "On Reading Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road"
Clark Hafen "Compulsory Collecting in Silko's Gardens in the Dunes"
Waters "Imaginary Men with Real Bears in Them: Mythologizing the Self in N. Scott Momaday's The Ancient Child"

3:30 - 4:45 Session 4
4A The Power of Music
Youngberg "This is the Sound My Natives Ride To: American Indian Hip-Hop and the Politics of the Ethnic Popular"
Sheffield "Native American Hip-Hop and Historical Trauma"

4B Sacred Land
Cook "Understanding Identity, Finding Sense of Place: Louis Owen and Protection of Sacred Land in Wolfsong"
Dunn "Sacred Ground: International Indigenous Resistance for the Earth in Literature and Song" (A/V)
Wahpeconiah "The Boundary Between Land and Water: Creation Through Landscape in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms"

4C Rebellion and Resistance
Bauerkemper "Narrating Nationhood: :LeAnne Howe's Miko Kings and its Choctaw Theory of Relativity"
Spack  "Playing a Longfellow Indian: Zitkala-Sa in Captivity"
Kelsey "Haudenosaunee Oratory and Wampum: Remembered Presence and Contemporary Resistance"

7:00 – 9:30 Session 5
Film Screening and Discussion coordinated by Denise Cummings
The Colony (2007), a short directed by Jeff Barnaby who brought us Cherry English. 
Imprint (2007), a feature directed by Michael Linn, produced by Chris Eyre.

9:00 – 10:15 Session 6
Story and Image (A/V)
Richard Pearce, Chair
Low
Secondine
Pearce

10:30 – 11:45 Session 7
7A The Plague of Doves: Galley Glances at Louise Erdrich’s New Novel
Connie Jacobs, Moderator
Matchie
Jacobs
Beidler
Barker

7B Worthy of the Name: Eric Gansworth's Poetry, Paintings Fiction (A/V)
Susan Bernardin, Moderator
Teuton
Jane Hafen
Weagel
Gansworth, Respondent

7C Story Telling Techniques
DeNuccio "More of the Truth: The Use of Confession in Ten Little Indians"
Kennedy "Teaching Maurice Kenny’s 'Blackrobe: Isaac Jogues' poems"
Grover "Dadibaajimo Debwe to Tell the Stories, to Tell the Truth: The Application of Interview-Based Qualitative Research to Poetry and Fiction"

3:30 - 4:45 Session 9
9A New Considerations of Louise Erdrich’s Works
Huggins "Gender Obfuscation: The Roles of Bald Women in the Novels of Louise Erdrich"
Van Dyke "A Hope for Miracles: Shifting Perspectives in Louise Erdrich's The Last Report on the Miracle at Little No Horse"
Featherstone "Historicity Through Fleur's Silence in Louise Erdrich's Tracks"

9B Moving through Time
Gercken "Manifest Meanings: The Selling (Not Telling) of American Indian History" (A/V)
Ludlow "The Role of Education in Implanting Colonial Ideology within The Tempest"
Roberts "Revisiting the King Phillips War: William Apess, Mary Rowlandson, and Early American Literature"

9C Real Indians J
Andrews "The Abject of My Desire: Teen Angst in Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Richard Van Camp's The Lesser Blessed"
Aitches "Transgressive Writing: Lois Beardslee's Boundary-Busting Texts"
DiMond "Real Indians: Native Representation in Janet Campbell Hale's The Owl's Song"

6:00 - 9:00 Dinner with a Presentation by Louise Erdrich

9:00 – 10:15 Session 10
10A Indigenous Representation
Szeghi "Mixedblood and Mexican Indigeneity in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead"
Brill de Ramirez " Indigenous Reconceptualizations of Medieval Literatures: A Postcolonial Comparativist Lens on Silko’s Storyteller and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
Beard "An Instrument With Which He Could Reclaim His Place in the World: N. Scott Momaday's The Names"

10B Different Ways to Tell Stories
Hans "The Origins and Meanings of the Star Quilt on the Northern Plains" (A/V)
John and McNeil "Coyote in Navajo Stories and Literature" (A/V)

10C Meaning in Stories
Palmer "Charging Elk’s Rebuttal to Bill Cody’s Stereotyping Machine"
Chaillier "Watching Rain"
Young "Sweet Freedom's Song: Zitkala-Sa's The Sun Dance Opera in Context"

10:30 – 11:45 Session 11
11A Stompdancing the Blues: Call and Response between African-American and Native Peoples-A Roundtable Tol Foster, Chair
Byrd
Hill
Tyehimba
Howe

11B Teaching Native Drama: The Staged Kind (A/V)
Scott Andrews, Chair
Onion
Carpenter

11C Native Representation
Wright "Sarah Winnemucca's "Tribal Narrative": Responding to Euro-American Textual Violence"
Stromberg "Reclaiming Masculinity and the Rhetoric of Recovery in Sherman Alexie's Flight"
Doerfler "A Philosophy for Living and the Politics of Tribal Citizenship"

12B "NEGAHNEEWIN: Leading the Way and THE WRITTEN TRADITION: Literature, Literacy and Aboriginal Identity" (A/V)
Stevens
McGuire

12C The Politics of Survival
Ruppert "Post-Indian Survivance in The Heartsong of Charging Elk"
Hollrah "The Political in Leanne Howe's Evidence of Red"
Twenter "The Importance of Space and Place in the Work of Joseph M. Marshall III"

3:30 - 4:45 Session 13
13A Readers Forum—an open stage session for creative readings (sign up required and time limits apply)

13B Modern Natives
Rocha "Under the Wheels of Sturgis-Desecration of the Bear" (A/V)
Lindala "Good Cop/Good Indian" (A/V)
Tatonetti "The Queering of SAIL: 'Mebeso It's[…] Traditional to Talk about Sex'"