Session 1: Comparative Indigenous Studies
(Lowell B1B&A)

Facilitator: Ned Blackhawk, U. of Wisconsin, History/AISP

• Miranda Johnson, U. of Chicago, "Reconciling Histories? Communicative Difficulties in Native Title and Treaty Hearings in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand"
• Leilani Basham, U. of Hawaii, "I Ka Olelo No Ke Ola: Hawaiian Language Resources as Expression of National Pride and Colonial Resistance"
• Sarah Quick, U. of Indiana, "Music as Dialogue, Music as Commodity: Métis Cultural Heritage, Institutions, and Markets"

(Break)

Session 2: 19th Century & Early American Indian Studies: Histories, Legacies, and Cultural Tensions
(Lowell 118)

Facilitator: John Troutman, Assistant Director, McNickle Center

• Rochelle Raineri Zuck, Penn State, "Whose Mother Pocahontas? Native American Identity and the Story of Pocahontas"
• Jason Eden, U. of Minnesota, "New England Indians 'Using' Christianty: Ongoing Connections Between Politics and Religion in Colonial Massachusetts"
• Cristina Stanciu, U of Illinois-Urbana, "'The Last Indian' Syndrome Revisited: Metamora, Take Two"
• Katy Chiles, Northwestern, "Racial Formation in Early National Period"

Session 3: Race and Representation: Overcoming the Pedagogical and Practical Implications of Indian Mis(Imagery) in America
(Lowell Lower Lounge)

Facilitator: To be determined

• Eric Jojola, U. of Michigan, "The Metapragmatics of Indian Hating"
• Tamarah Pfeiffer, Penn State, "The Implications of Studying One's Own American Indian Community: Who Gets to Have a Voice?"
• Donald Gaff, Michigan State, "Privilege, Precedence, and Perspective: Objectivity and Relativism in Anthropological Engagement with Native Americans"
• Barry Landeros-Thomas, Ohio State, "Standardized Tests and American Indians"

Session 4: Strategies of Sovereignty: Indian Political and Cultural Discourses and Methodologies
(Lowell Lower Lounge)

Facilitator: To be determined

• Qwo-Li Driskill, Michigan State, "Duyuktv ale Gadugi: Tsalagi Adudalvdi Elohi Ditlilostanv/Duyuktv and Gadugi: Cherokee Maps of Responsibility"
• Sean Pierce, University of Alaska, Invited Participant, "Alaskan Native Responses to Imperial Expansion"
• Megan MacDonald, Purdue, "American Indian Lesbians: Imperialist Nostalgia and Citizenship"

Session 5: New Directions in Ojibwe Studies
(Lowell 118)

Facilitator: Rand Valentine, U. of Wisconsin, Linguistics and AIS

• Jennifer McCann, U. of Illinois-Urbana, "'It Was Educated Out of Him':Chief Namaypuck, Max Jones, and the Curse"
• Heidi Stark, U. of Minnesota, "Politicizing the Spiritual: The role of Aadizookaanag and Jibewag within Anishinaabe Political Thought"
• Chantal Norrgard, U. of Minnesota, "Removal, Resistance, and Rememberance: Finding Ojibwe Agency in the 1850 Executive Removal Order"
• Anna Willow, U. of Wisconsin, "(Re)Presenting Indigenous Environmental Activism: On Histories of Management and Sovereign Futures at Grassy Narrows First Nation, Ontario"

Session 6: Indian Law and the State: Legal Histories and Legacies
(Lowell 118)

Facilitator: Jackie Rand, U. of Iowa, History/AIS

• Keith Richotte, U. of Minnesota, "Cannons of Constructions: Federal Indian Law Revisited"
• M. Kelly, U. of Chicago, "A Note on the Frontier: Ponca 'Removal' and the Institutions of Law"

Session 7: Contemporary American Indian Intellectual History
(Lowell Lower Lounge)

Facilitator: To be determined

• Gretchen Michlitsch, U. of Wisconsin, "Metaphors of Restitution, or How to Feed an Infant in Louise Erdrich's 'Father's Milk'"
• Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran, Michigan State, "Incorporative Maintenance as Rhetorics of Continuance in the Work of Beth Brant (Degonwadonti)"

Session 8: Regional Findings and Multi-Media Variations
(Lowell Lower Lounge)

Facilitator: To be determined

• Rachel Leibowitz, U. of Illinois-Urbana, "Landscape, Architecture, and the Federal Construction of Indians at Window Rock"
• Jon W. Carroll, Michigan State, "Complexity Science and Native American Communities: Examining Agency and Interaction in Prehistory"
• Letha Rain Cranford, Michigan State, "Blood Writing: Inheritance and Memory Creating a Ceremoniously Constructed Space in the Digital Age"
• Michael Shefy, U. of Illinois-Urbana, "The Black Hawk War in Cyberspace: New Communities on a Virtual Frontier"

Session 9: Recovering American Indian Literary and Cultural Criticism(s)
(Lowell 118)

Facilitator: To be determined

• Tol Foster, U. of Wisconsin, "During this Season: The John Joseph Matthews Archive and the New Syncretic Osage Institutions"
• Lori Muntz, U. of Iowa, "Melodramatic Definitions and Contestations: Nipo T. Strongheart and American Indian Political Advocacy"
• Jamie Singson, U. of Illinois-Urbana, "Carlos Montezuma: Education and Development of a Modern American Indian Intellectual"

Common Plenary, IRH and CIC Conference Participants

CIC Awards Ceremony

(Lowell B1B&A)