On Our Own Ground:

Mapping Indigeneity within the Academy

A National Conference

September 17 - 18, 2004

Friday, September 17th - Thompson Room, Rm. 110

Opening Remarks - 1 p.m.

I. Indian Education History - 1:30 p.m.

Panel Chair

Jill Lepore, Professor of History, Harvard University

Presentations:

• Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), Lecturer in History and Literature, Harvard University
  "Re-mapping Indigenous Education: Samson Occom's Montauk School"

• John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor of American History and Professor of American Studies, Yale University
  "The Cornwall Foreign Mission School"

• Catherine Corman, Independent Scholar and Charles Warren Center Affiliate, Harvard University
  “Right Hands, Writing Hands: The Friendship of Elias Boudinot and The Rev. Samuel Austin Worcester”

II. Sovereignty - 3:30 p.m.

Panel Chair

Joe Kalt, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Co-Director, The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government and Faculty Adviser, Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), Harvard University

Presentations:

• Audra Simpson (Kahnawake Mohawk), Assistant Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies, Cornell University
  “Nationalism and Its Contents: Mohawk Citizenship-Formation in the Face of Empire”

• Deron Marquez (San Manuel Band of Mission Indians), Tribal Chairman of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, Ph.D. Candidate in Politics and Public Policy, Claremont Graduate University
  "Where Sovereignty?"

• David E. Wilkins (Lumbee), Professor of American Indian Studies, Political Science and Law, University of Minnesota
  "Reorienting Native Studies: Finding Common Ground between Native Academics and First Nations"

III. Music - 5:30 p.m.

Panel Chair

Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music, Professor of African and African American Studies, Graduate Advisor in Ethnomusicology, Harvard University

Presentations:

• Tara Browner (Choctaw), Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and American Indian Studies, UCLA
  "Indigenous Knowledge, Western Historiography, and the Study of Native North American Music"

• Beverly Diamond, Director and Canada Research Chair in Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  "First Nations Recording Artists and the Uses of Media"

Saturday, September 18th - Thompson Room, Rm. 110

IV. Keynote - 9:30 a.m.

Philip J. Deloria (Standing Rock Sioux), Associate Professor of American History, University of Michigan

"Indians in Unexpected Places"

How do we tell the national story of the encounter with modernity? Is it possible to do so while taking account of Indian people as anything other than imagined primitives? Considering a number of seemingly anomalous figures — Indian opera singers, baseball players, Hollywood actors, automobile owners— this talk will suggest a distinctly native engagement with the early twentieth century modern.

V. Native Representations - 11:30 a.m.

Panel Chair

Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of Graduate Studies in Spanish, Director, Cultural Agents Initiative, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), Harvard University

Presentations:

• Arturo Arias, Director of Latin American Studies and Professor of Modern Literatures and Language, University of Redlands
  "The Maya and Cultural Agency"

• Eduardo Rapiman (Mapuche), Visual Artist

Lunch

VI. Policy ... - 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Panel Chair

C. Matthew Snipp (Cherokee), Professor of Sociology and Chair of Native American Studies, Stanford University

Presentations:

• Angela A. Gonzales (Hopi), Assistant Professor of Development Sociology and American Indian Studies, Cornell University

• Karl Eschbach, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Texas
  "American Indian population growth at the start of the 21st Century"

• Michael Yellow Bird (Sahnish/Hidatsa),Associate Professor of American Studies and Director for the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas
  "The Demography of War: Indigenous Peoples and the U.S. War on Terrorism"

• Russell Thornton (Cherokee), Professor of Sociology, UCLA
  “The Importance of Being Tribal: Surviving 500 Years of American Indian Population History”

VII. Envisioning Indigenous Methodologies - 4:00 p.m.

Panel Chair

Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), Lecturer in History and Literature, Harvard University

Presentations:

• Robert Warrior (Osage), Associate Professor of English, University of Oklahoma
  "American Indian Intellectual Histories"

• Craig Womack (Muskogee), Assistant Professor of English, University of Oklahoma
  "A Retrospective View of Literary Nationalism"

• Eva Garroutte (Cherokee), Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston College
  “Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America”

Closing Remarks - 6 p.m.

Sponsors

The Rockefeller Foundation

“Cultural Agents,” A Project of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies (DRCLAS), Harvard University

The Provost’s Office, Harvard University

Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP)

The Charles Warren Center for American History, Harvard University

The Program in History of American Civilization, Harvard University

History and Literature, Harvard University

Credits

Judy Kertész
Lauren Brandt

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 12:11 PM