Susan Power (Standing Rock Sioux), J.D., Harvard Law School

Conference Keynote:

Selected Publications:

• Strong Heart Society (2000)
• War Bundles (2000)
• The Grass Dancer (1994)

Colin Calloway, Ph.D. in History, University of Leeds

Professor of History and Samson Occom Professor of Native 
American Studies, Dartmouth College

Conference Presentation:

"Creation Stories and Invented Traditions: Indian Education and Ivy League Colleges"

Selected Publications:

• One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)
• First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (Bedford/St. Martins, 1999, 2004)
• New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
• The American Revolution in Indian Country (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
• The Western Abenakis in Vermont (University of Oklahoma Press, 1990)
• The Abenaki (Chelsea House, 1989)
• Crown and Calumet: British-Indian Relations, 1783-1815 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1997).

Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), Ph.D. in English Literature, Cornell University

Lecturer in History and Literature, Harvard University

Conference Presentation:

"James Printer, the Cambridge Press, and the Legacy of Language Exchange"

Research Areas:

Early American Indian Writing, Contemporary American Indian Literature, Oral Traditions, American Indian History, Indigenous Intellectual Traditions, Ecology/Environmentalism and Native Communities, Native Northeastern Culture and Diplomacy, Gender in American Indian Studies, Language and Indigenous Epistemology.

Selected Publications:

• “Two Paths to Peace: Competing Visions of the Common Pot in the Ohio Valley .” In The Boundaries Between Us: Natives, Newcomers, and the Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1740-1840 , ed. Daniel P. Barr (Kent State University Press, forthcoming).

Jessie Little Doe Baird (Mashpee Wampanoag), M.A., Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Founder and Director, Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project

Conference Presentation:

"Living by the Sword"

Joyce Chaplin, Ph.D. in History, Johns Hopkins University

Professor of History, Harvard University

Research Areas:

History of Early America, History of Science, Race, and Cultural Encounters

Selected Publications:

• Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (2001)
• An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815 (1993)
  

Joseph Abeyta, Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education

Superintendent, Santa Fe Indian School

Conference Presentation:

"The American Indian Program: From Harvard to Indian Country"

Nimachia Hernandez (Nahua/Blackfoot), Ed.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education

Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Conference Presentation:

"Community, Solidarity, and Sovereignty: Expropriation in the Intellectualization of Native American Studies"

Erma Vizenor (White Earth Ojibwe), Ed.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education

Tribal Chair, White Earth Band of Ojibwe

Conference Presentation:

"Looking to the Past; Our Hope for the Future"

Charles V. Willie, Ph.D. in Sociology, Syracuse University

Charles William Eliot Emeritus Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Selected Publications:

• A New Look at Black Families (with R. Reddick) (2002)
• Student Diversity, Choice and School Improvement (with M. Alves and R. Edwards) (2002)
• Black Power/White Power in Public Education (with R. Edwards) (1998)
• Theories of Human Social Action (1994)
  

Rubie Watson, Ph.D. in Anthropology, London School of Economics

Curator of Comparative Ethnology, Peabody Museum, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, and Former Howells Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University

Conference Presentation:

"History, Memory, and Museums: Complex Relationships"

Research Areas:

Material culture, Repatriation, and Museums and Memory

Selected Publications:

• Inequality among Brothers: Class and Kinship in South China (1985)

Linda Coombs, (Aquinnah Wampanoag)

Associate Director, Wampanoag Indigenous Program at Plimoth Plantation

Conference Presentation:

"Coming Full Circle from Plymouth to Patuxet: A Process of Reclaiming Culture"

Jill Lepore, Ph.D. in American Studies, Yale University

Professor of History, Harvard University

Research Areas:

Selected Publications:

• New York Burning: Liberty and Slavery in an Eighteenth-Century City (Forthcoming, 2005)
• A Is For American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States (2002)
• Encounters in the New World : A History in Documents (1999)
• The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (1998)
• Co-founder and co-editor of Common-place (www.common-place.org) an online American history magazine

Joanne Dunn, Executive Director, North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB)

Conference Presentation:

"Boston's Urban Indian Community"

Carrie Vanderhoop (Aquinnah Wampanoag), Education Director, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)

Conference Presentation:

"The Struggles and Successes of the Aquinnah Wampanoag: Maintaining Our Cultural
Identity and Ancestral Homeland"

Mark Sperry, Vice Chairman of the Education Committee, United South and Eastern Tribes, (USET)

Conference Presentation:

"A New England Tribal College"

Carmen Lopez, (Navajo), Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education

Executive Director of the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP)

Kay Kaufman Shelemay, Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, University of Michigan

G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music, Professor of African and African American Studies, Graduate Adviser in Ethnomusicology, Chair of Committee on Ethnic Studies, Harvard University

Publications:

• Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World (New York : Norton, 2001)
• Soundscapes Classical: Case Studies from the Western Classical Repertory (New
  York :, Norton, 2001)
• Studies in Jewish Musical Traditions: Insights from the Harvard Collection of
  Judaica Sound Recordings , ed. (Cambridge , MA : Harvard College Library,
  2001)
• A Century of Ethnomusicological Thought , ed. (New York: Garland, 1990)
• Ethnomusicological Theory and Method , ed. (New York: Garland, 1990)
• Music, Ritual, and Falasha History (East Lansing: Michigan State University
  Press, 1989
  

Carmen Lopez, (Navajo), Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education

Executive Director of the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP)

Lauren Brandt, Ph.D. Candidate, History of American Civilization, Harvard University