Associate Professor of American History

University of Michigan Department of History 2735 Haven Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 734-763-2091 pdeloria@umich.edu

Conference Keynote:
"Indians in Unexpected Places"

Selected Publications:

• Playing Indian (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998).
• Indians in Unexpected Places (University Press of Kansas, forthcoming 2004).
• The Blackwell Companion to American Indian History , co-edited with Neal Salisbury (Cambridge: Blackwell, 2002).
• “Thinking Self and Subject in a Family Way,” Journal of American History 89:1(June 2002): 25-29.
• “Richard White and the Politics of Knowledge,” Western Historical Quarterly 32:2 (Summer 2002).
• “Vine Deloria Sr.,” The New Warriors: American Indian Leadership in the Twentieth Century ed. R. David Edmunds (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2001).
• “I Am of the Body: Thoughts on My Grandfather, Sports, and Culture,” South Atlantic Quarterly 95:2 (Summer 1996): 321-338.

Conference Presentation:
"The Maya and Cultural Agency"

Delineates how the Maya's efforts to avoid big hurdles and to cope with everyday life has led over the last 25 years not only to cultural empowerment, but also to the radical transformation of the cultural landscape of their country, the Mesoamerican region as a whole, and the cultural corridors which connect them with indigenous populations in the U.S. and Canada.

Research Areas:
Issues of Ethnicity; Subaltern identity.

• Sopa de caracol (2004)
• "After the Rigoberta Menchú Controversy: Lessons Learned About the Nature of Subalternity and the Specifics of the Indigenous Subject" in MLN, Vol. 117, No. 2, March 2002
• Miguel Angel Asturias's Mulata (2001)
• The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy, ed. with Elizabeth Chin (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001)
• “Authoring Ethnicized Subjects: Rigoberta Menchú and the Performative Production of the Subaltern Self," PMLA Vol. 116, No. 1, January 2001
• La identidad de la palabra (1998)
• Gestos Ceremoniales (1998)
• Cascabel (1998).
• Los caminos de Paxil (1991)
• After the Bombs (1990)
• Jaguar en Llamas (1989)

Lisa Brooks (Abenaki), Ph.D. in English Literature, Cornell University, 2004

Lecturer in History and Literature

Harvard University History and Literature Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Cambridge , MA 02138 lbrooks@fas.harvard.edu

Conference Presentation:
"Re-mapping Indigenous Education: Samson Occom's Montauk School"

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).
• “Fred Wiseman's ‘The Voice of the Dawn: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation,” A Review, New England Quarterly (December 2001).

Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and American Indian Studies

UCLA Ethnomusicology 2679 Schoenberg Music Building Los Angeles , CA. 90095-1657 310-825-8449 tbrowner@ucla.edu

Conference Presentation:
"Indigenous Knowledge, Western Historiography, and the Study of Native North American Music"

Research Areas:
Native North American music and dance; Native North American contemporary music; musical imagery of Indians in popular culture; indigenous concepts of music theory, American music

Selected Publications:

• Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-Wow ( University of Illinois Press, 2002).
• "Making and Singing Pow-wow Songs: Text, Form, and the Significance of Culture-Based Analysis," Ethnomusicology 44:2 (2000): 214-233.

Independent Scholar and Writer,
Nonresident Fellow, Charles Warren Center for American History, Harvard University

Harvard University
The Charles Warren Center
Emerson Hall 4th floor
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
catherine.corman@verizon.net

Conference Presentation:
"Right Hands, Writing Hands: The Friendship of Elias Boudinot and The Rev. Samuel Austin Worcester"

Research Areas:
North American cultural history, with particular interests in the history of the book and the American West

Consultant:
Oneida Nation, worked to substantiate land claims in New York State lawsuit;
WGBH Boston, Advising writers and web designers developing an NEH-sponsored, animated children's series based on author Jon Sciezksa's Time Warp Trio series of juvenile historical fiction

Selected Publications:

• ADD! That's Me! (Walker & Co., forthcoming autumn 2005).
• Reading, Writing, and Removal: Native American Literacies, 1824-1851 (University of California Press, forthcoming autumn 2006).
• "9/11 and Acoma Pueblo" Common- place ( forthcoming, Autumn 2004).
• "That this belt joins our words and makes them stronger: Wampum, Literacy, and Exchange in Colonial New France" (submitted for consideration, American Historical Review ).
• "Teaching—and Learning from—Carey McWilliams" California Historical Quarterly , 80 (4): 2001-02.
• "Take Me Back to Texas " Texas Observer ( May 2000).
• "Sorting Disciplinary Boundaries" American Quarterly 52:3 ( September 2000).

John Putnam Demos, M.A. in History, University of California - Berkeley, 1961 

Samuel Knight Professor of American History and Professor of American Studies

Yale University
Department of History
Hall of Graduate Studies
320 York Street
P.O. Box 208324
New Haven , CT 06520-8324
203-432-1366

Conference Presentation:
"The Cornwall Foreign Mission School"

Research Areas:
Early Colonial American history; Family History

Selected Publications:

• Circles & Lines: The Shape of Life in Early America (Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press, 2004).
• The Tried and the True: Native American Women Confronting Colonization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
• The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1994).
• Past, Present and Personal: The Family and the Life Course in American History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
• Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983).
• Turning Points: Historical and Sociological Essays on the Family , ed. with Sarene Spence Boocock (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978).
• Remarkable Providences: Readings on Early American History (New York, G. Braziller, 1972).
• A Little Commonwealth: Family Life in Plymouth Colony ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970).

Director and Canada Research Chair in Traditional Music, Ethnomusicology

Memorial University of Newfoundland Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place St. Johns, Newfoundland A1C 3E7 709-737-3701 bdiamond@mun.ca

Conference Presentation:
"First Nations Recording Artists and the Uses of Media"

This paper will explore how Native American recording artists have used audio recordings as forms of social action, how the technology itself has inflected the meanings of the performances, and changed the nature of the struggle over cultural appropriation. The presentation builds on ethnographic research in recording studios and interviews with indigenous recording artists about their musical choices, recording studio experiences, and intellectual property concerns.

Research Areas:
Native music cultures in North America ; Canadian music historiography; Issues relating to gender and performance

Selected Publications:

• Canadian Music: Issues of Media and Technology (Forthcoming).
• “Native American Contemporary Music: The Women,” World of Music (2002).
• Music and Gender , ed. with Pirkko Moisala ( Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2000).
• Visions of Sound: Musical Instruments of First Nations Communities in Northeastern America , with M. Sam Cronk and F. van Rosen (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
• Canadian Music: Issues of Hegemony and Identity, ed. with Robert Witner (Canadian Scholars Press, 1994).

Conference Presentation:
"American Indian population growth at the start of the 21st Century"

Research Areas:

Selected Publications:

• "Changes in Self-Identification of American Indians and Alaska Natives." Demography 30 (1993): 635-652.
• “The Enduring and Vanishing American Indian: American Indian Population Growth and Intermarriage in 1990,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 18, no. 1(1995): 89-108.
• “Immigration and Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the United States ,” Annual Review of Sociology 21 (1995):419-46, with Mary Waters.
• “The Resurgent Indian,” American Studies 39, no. 3 (1998): 175-182.
  “Choosing Hispanic Identity: Ethnic Identity Switching Among Respondents to High School and Beyond,” Social Science Quarterly 79, no. 1 (1998): 74-90, with C. Gómez.
• “Changes in Racial Identification and the Educational Attainment of American Indians,” Demography 35(1):35-43; 1998, with K. Supple and C. Matthew Snipp.
• “ Who Goes to Powwows?: Evidence from the Survey of American Indians and Alaska Natives,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 24, no. 4 (2000): 65-83, with K. Applbaum.
• “American Indian Migration and Spatial Distribution in the Twentieth Century,” in Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America , eds. John Taylor and Martin Bell ( New York : Routledge, 2002): 75-93.

Conference Presentation:
“Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America”

Research Areas:
American Indian and Racial-ethnic identity; Radical Indigenism; Medical sociology; Issues of Health Policy and American Indians.

Selected Publications:

• Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America ( University of California Press, 2003).

Conference Presentation:
"American Indian Identity Matters: Conflicts in Epistemology and Methodology"

Research Areas:
American Indian ethnicity and identity; Nationalism and Tribal Sovereignty; Comparative Race and Ethnic relations in the United States; Social movements and processes of cultural change; American Indian religious traditions and philosophy; Gender studies; Indigenous knowledge and Intellectual property rights.

Selected Publications:

• "American Indians: America 's Most Rural Population." In Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty First Century , ed. David L. Brown and Louis E. Swanson ( Penn State University Press, 2003).
• "Gaming and Displacement: Winners and Losers in American Indian Casino Development." International Social Sciences Journal 175, no. 1 (2003): 123-133.
• "Tribal Membership or National Citizenship?: The Ideological Origins of Tribal Citizenship." In Tribes Moving Forward: Engaging in the Process of Governmental and Constitutional Reform with K. Dietz, ed. Joseph Kalt ( Los Angeles : University of California Press, 2003).
• "Urban (Trans)Formations: Changes in the Use and Meaning of American Indian Identity." In American Indians and the Urban Experience , ed. Susan Lobo and Kurt Peters ( Walnut Creek , CA : Alta Mira Press, 2001), pp. 169-185.
• "The (Re) Articulation of American Indian Identity: Maintaining Boundaries and Regulating Access to Ethnically tied Resources." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 22, no. 4 (1998): 199-225.
• "Engendering Identity and Power in Native North America ." In Gender Mosaics: Social Perspectives , with Judy Kertész , ed. Dana Vannoy ( Los Angeles , CA : Roxbury Press, 2001), pp. 43-52.

Conference Presentation:
"Where Sovereignty?"

Research Areas:
Tribal Sovereignty and Nationalism; Tribal gaming

Cornell University Department of Anthropology American Indian Program 265 McGraw Hall Ithaca, New York 14853 as447@cornell.edu

Conference Presentation:
“Nationalism and Its Contents: Mohawk Citizenship-Formation in the Face of Empire”

Contemporary political theorists assign forms of indigenous nationalism to the space of self-designation and thus to the normative and vexing question of accommodation and recognition. Indigenous nationalism is used as a test of the limits of the legal and liberal imagination and in the case of deliberative democracy, as a test to reason itself. Expressions of Indigenous nationhood and nationalism, palpable in Canada and in some pockets of Indian country in the US, force liberal theorists to ask 'how are we to accommodate claims to difference that may fundamentally challenge our own sense of what is just and right?' The task of this paper is to vex this question further, to reveal the "universalist" and ethnocentric premise that underpins citizenship theory, and concomitant processes of recognition and 'accommodation' by taking an ethnographic turn to the logics and limits of political recognition within an Indigenous nation. This ethnographic turn will dwell within the interior frontiers of sovereignty, as questions and claims to citizenship are worked out within a reserve ("reservation") community in Canada. The citizenship-formation of this community happens resolutely against the face of colonialism and empire as its citizenry not only works matters out in the face of the Canadian State, but also as they travel across the International Boundary line into other spaces and places of settler society.

Research Areas:
Nationhood; citizenship; colonialism; borders (US-Canada); the Iroquois (Mohawk)

Selected Publications:

• 2000 "Paths Toward a Mohawk Nation: Narratives of Citizenship and Nationhood in Kahnawake." Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton and Will Sanders (eds.). Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Pp: 113-136.
• 1999 Volume Editor, Recherches amerindiennes au Québec "Iroquois au présent du passé" Vol. XXIX, no. 2. "Introduction: Au delà de la tradition des études iroquoises traditionelles" [translated from English by Dominque Legros] Recherches amerindiennes au Québec Vol. XXIX, no. 2 1999- 3-9.
• 1998 "The Empire Laughs Back: Tradition, Power and Play in the Work of Shelley Niro and Ryan Rice." Sylvia S. Kasprycki with Doris Stambrau and Alexandra Roth, (eds.). IroquoisART: Visual Expressions of Contemporary Native American Artists .

Russell Thornton (Cherokee), Ph.D. in Sociology, Florida State University, 1968

Professor of Sociology

UCLA Department of Anthropology 341 Haines Hall Box 951553 Los Angeles , CA 90095-1553 rthornto@ucla.edu

Conference Presentation:
“The Importance of Being Tribal: Surviving 500 Years of American Indian Population History”

American Indian population history since the arrival of Columbus has focused on numbers of American Indians through the ensuring centuries, including the recovery of the American Indian population since circa 1900. This presentation focuses upon the survival of American Indians as tribal people.

Research Areas:
American Indian historical demography; American Indian Revitalization movements,; Contemporary American Indian Issues.

Selected Publications:

• The Night the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian Institution ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , forthcoming), co-editor with Candace Greene.
• “Demographic History,” in Volume 14, Southeast, Handbook of North American Indians , vol. ed. Raymond D. Fogelson (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, forthcoming).
• “The Navajo–U.S. Population Mortality Crossover since the Mid-20 th Century,” Population Research and Policy Review (2004) 23: 291-308.
• “A Report of a New Mandan Calendric Chart,” Ethnohistory 50 (2003): 697-705.
• “A Rosebud Reservation Winter Count, circa 1751-52 to 1886-87,” Ethnohistory 49 (2002): 723-41.
• “Trends Among American Indians in the United States .” In America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences , eds. J. Smelser, W. J. Wilson, and F. Mitchell (Washington, D. C.: National Academy Press, 2001).
• “Population History of North American Indians.” In A History of Population in North America , Michael Haines and Richard Steckel, eds. ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000).
• Studying Native America : Problems and Prospects , ed. (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998).
  “Aboriginal North American Population Size and Rates of Population Decline, Circa A.D. 1500 to 1900,” Current Anthropology 38 (1997): 310-15.
• The Cherokees: A Population History , with the assistance of C. Matthew Snipp and Nancy Breen (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990).
• American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987).

Associate Professor of English

University of Oklahoma Department of English 760 Van Fleet Oval Gittinger Hall Norman, OK 73019-2055 warrior@ou.edu

Conference Presentation:
"American Indian Intellectual Histories"

Focuses on some of the ways a growing awareness of American Indian intellectual history informs and challenges the ways that contemporary scholars formulate Native American studies. I will pay particular attention to William Apess and other nineteenth century Native intellectuals.

Research Areas:
American and American Indian writing; Construction of literary theory and criticism; History of the book

Selected Publications:

• Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee , with Paul Chaat Smith (New York: New Press, 1996).
• Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1995).

David E. Wilkins (Lumbee), Ph.D. in Political Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1990

Professor of American Indian Studies, Political Science and Law

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities American Indian Studies Room 102 Scott H 3232 72 Pleasant St SE Minneapolis, MN 55455 612-624-1634 wilkinsd@umn.edu

Conference Presentation:
"Reorienting Native Studies: Finding Common Ground between Native Academics and First Nations"

Research Areas:
Comparative politics; American political theory; Federal Indian policy; Tribal government; History of colonialism and Native peoples; Tribal Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Selected Publications:

• The Legal Universe, co-authored with Vine Deloria, Jr. (Forthcoming, 2004)
• Native Voices: American Indian Identity and Resistance , co-edited with Richard A. Grounds and George Tinker (Lawrence , KS : University Press of Kansas, 2003)
• The Navajo Political Experience , Revised ed. ( Lanham , MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)
• American Indian Politics and the American Political System ( Lanham , MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2002)
• Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law, co-authored with Tsianina Lomawaima. (Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2001)
• Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations, co-authored with Vine Deloria, Jr. (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1999) The Navajo Political Experience (Tsaile, AZ: Diné College Press, 1999)
• American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997)
• Dine' Bibeehaz'aanii: A Handbook of Navajo Government (Tsaile, AZ: Navajo Community College Press, 1987) "The Federal Courts & Indigenous Identity," Western Legal History , vol. 13, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2000): 83-119
• "The Manipulation of Indigenous Status: The Federal Government As Shape Shifter," Stanford Law & Policy Review , vol. 12, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 223-235
• "An Inquiry Into Indigenous Political Participation: Implications for Tribal Sovereignty," Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy , vol. 9, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 732-751.
• "A Constitutional Conundrum: The Resilience of Tribal Sovereignty During American Nationalism and Expansion: 1810-1871," Oklahoma State University Law Review , vol. 25, no's 1 & 2 (Spring & Summer 2000): 87-118
• "Henry Berry Lowry: Champion of the Dispossessed," Race, Gender, and Class , vol. 3, no. 2 (Winter 1996): 97-111.
• "'Constructing' Nations Within States: The Quest for Federal Recognition by the Catawba and Lumbee Tribes," American Indian Quarterly , vol. 19, no. 3 (Summer 1995): 361-388.

University of Oklahoma
Department of English
760 Van Fleet Oval
Gittinger Hall
Norman , OK 73019-2055
womack@ou.edu

Conference Presentation:
"A Retrospective View of Literary Nationalism"

Research Areas:
Native American literatures; Gay and Lesbian literature

• Drowning in Fire , a novel (Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2001)
• Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999)

Conference Presentation:

"The Demography of War: Indigenous Peoples and the U.S. War on Terrorism"

Research Areas:
Indigenous Peoples, U.S. foreign policy, oral histories of Native Vietnam combat veterans, the effects of colonialism and methods of decolonization, Indigenous men, human rights, and Indigenous political prisoners and prisoner rights.

Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy,
Co-Director, The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
Faculty Adviser, Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP)

John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 J.F. Kennedy Street - T416 Cambridge , MA 02138 617-495-4966 joe_kalt@harvard.edu

Research Areas:
Economic implications and political origins of the government regulation of markets; Industrial Organization; Economics of Antitrust and Regulation; Natural Resource Economics; Public Choice and Political Economy; Microeconomic Theory.

Harvard University History Department Robinson 209 Cambridge , MA 02138 617-496-5083 jlepore@fas.harvard.edu

Research Areas:
Colonial British North America, American Revolution and the Early Republic , US cultural history, with a particular interest in the history of print and of race and violence.

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

Stanford University
Department of Sociology
Bldg. 120 - Rm. 138
650-725-0414
snipp@leland.stanford.edu

Research Areas:
Demographics, Social stratification, Race and Ethnicity

Selected Publications:

• "Ethnic Reorganization: American Indian Social, Economic, Political and Cultrual Strategies for Survival," with Joane Nagel, Ethnic and Racial Studies 16 (1993): 203-35
• "American Indians and Economic Poverty," with Gene F. Summers, In Rural Poverty in America, ed. Cynthia M. Duncan (Auburn House, 1992)
• American Indian Fertility Patterns: 1910 and 1940 to 1990," with Russell Thornton and Gary D. Sandefur, American Indian Quarterly 15 (Summer 1991): 359-367
• American Indians: The First of this Land (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1989)
• "On the Costs of Being American Indian: Ethnic Identity and Economic Opportunity," Institute for Social Science Research IV - Conference on Comparative Ethnicity: The Conference Papers, Working Paper 25 (June 1, 1988)
• "Earnings of American Indians and Alaskan Natives: The Effects of Residence and Migration," with Gary D. Sandefur, Social Forces 6 (June 1988): 994-1008

G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music
Professor of African and African American Studies
Graduate Advisor in Ethnomusicology

Research Areas:
Ethiopian music; Musical diversity in North America ; Musical ethnography; Music and memory

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),

Research Areas:
The Americas ; 19th-Century Narrative; Latin American Women's Literature; Ethnic Literatures.

Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature
Professor of African and African American Studies, and
Chair of the Committee on Ethnic Studies

Research Areas:
American Literature; American Studies; Ethnicity; Comparative Literature; Themes and Motifs