By Laura Tomah
Yeardisc editor
Southeastern will host the Ninth Native American Symposium and Film Festival: “Where No One Else Has Gone Before.” The symposium will feature presentations on Native American literature, history, sociology, education, science, art and film.
Scholars, artists and members of Indian Nations from across the United States and beyond will come together during this event to discuss topics related to the Native American experience according to www.se.edu/nas, the symposium website.
The Native American symposium Committee was formed in part because of the large population of Native Americans on the campus and in the surrounding area. The first symposium took place in 1996 and has occurred every other year in November ever since according to the symposium website.
Throughout the symposium there will be an exhibit on display of selected works from the Charles and Miriam Hogan Native American Art Collection in The Centre Art Gallery that is located in the Visual and Performing Arts Center. The exhibit will be available for viewing Thursday from 9 a.m.to 5 p.m. and on Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The film festival became a part of the symposium in 2009, said Spencer. “I’ve rearranged it a little differently this time and Thursday is going to be films because they have a little more student interest in a way. So Thursday morning and afternoon will be films,” said Dr. Mark Spencer, Chair, Department of English, Humanities, and Languages.
“I try to time it along with the class schedule so students can come in and out without being disrupting,” said Spencer. “Any student that feels interested at all should feel free to come check it out. The more students the better, we are always happy to have students.”
The keynote speaker this year is Dr. Henrietta Mann, who is the founding president of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, temporarily located at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
Mann also holds an endowed chair in Native American Studies at Montana State University and has taught at several other major universities, accumulating a long list of prestigious honors and awards.
“I send out a call for papers like most academic conferences are usually set up and there’s a couple of e-mail lists, there’s a couple of places that you post conference announces and you would write submissions and people see that and send their proposals. It’s mostly academics because people need to publish and present for their career essentially so they are looking for places to go and deliver papers,” said Spencer.
All symposium sessions and films except for the keynote banquet are free and open to the public. For information visit the symposium website, www.se.edu/nas or contact Dr. Mark B. Spencer at (580) 745-2921 or [email protected] .
Schedule of events:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2011
Films – Student Union Auditorium 213
9 a.m. – “The Language of Victory: American Indian Code Talkers of World War I and II,” Gary Robinson, Tribal Eye Productions (22 min.)
9:30 a.m. – “Search for the World’s Best Indian Taco,” Steven Judd (11 min.)
9: 45 a.m. –“River of Renewal, Piki awish Partners and NAPT” (54 min.)
10:40 a.m. – “Rivercane Restoration: Linking Cultural, Biological and Economic Values,” Sean Gantt, Univer-
sity of New Mexico (7 min.)
11 a.m. – “Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School,” Steven Heape, Rich-Heape Films (80 min.)
1 p.m. – “Reel Injun,” Neil Diamond (88 min.)
2:30 p.m. –“Harvesting Hope,” Vanessa Lozecznik, Ryan Klatt and Shirley Thompson (36 min.)
3:10 p.m. – “Tenth Festival of Pacific Arts, July 2008,” Pagopago, David Kahn (2 hrs)
5 p.m. – Poetry and Short Story Readings – SU 213
• Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University, “Two Hawks Builds a Morning Fire” and “A Karankawa”
• Brian Hudson, University of Okla., “Land Run on Sooner City”
• Ron Wallace, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, “Oklahoma Cantos”
Reprise Film Showings
6:30 p.m. –“Harvesting Hope,” Vanessa Lozecznik, Ryan Klatt and Shirley Thompson (36 min.)
7:10 p.m. – “Search for the World’s Best Indian Taco,” Steven Judd (11 min.)
7:25 p.m. – “River of Renewal,” Pikiawish Partners and NAPT (54 min.)
8:30 p.m. – “Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School,” Steven Heape and Rich-Heape Films (80 min.)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2011
7:30 a.m. – Student Union Atrium Loft Continental Breakfast
8 a.m. – Native American Social Isues I –SU 213
• K. T. (Hutke) Fields, Natchez Nation, “Cultural Continuum and its Effects on Contemporary Indian Life”
• Michael Snyder, Oklahoma City Community College, “Queer Life and Text of an Oilman: John Joseph Matthews and E.W. Marland”
8 a.m. – Native American Literature I – SU 303
• Francisco Q. Delgado, CUNY York College, “The Gaze without Re-flection: Alienation and Reconciliation in Sherman Alexie’s ‘The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian’”
• Marija Knežević, University of Montenegro, “Maximum Morality of Thomas King’s ‘Medicine River’”
9 a.m. – Native American Social Issues II –SU 213
• Thomaira Babbitt, University of Central Oklahoma “NAGPRA as a Paradigm: The Historical Context and Meaning of Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 2011”
• Wynema Morris, Nebraska Indian Community College, “The Mis-representation of Omaha Tribal Culture and Language”
9 a.m. – Native American Religion –SU 323
• David Kahn, “The Spirit World of Mongolians, Siberians and the Inuit of Canada and Greenland”
• Richard Mize, ‘The Oklahoman/NewsOK.com,’ “Christopher Columbus and Bartolome de Las Casas, Worshipping Christ Versus Following Jesus: Spiritual Roots of their Twin Christian Legacies”
9 a.m. – Native American Literature II – SU 303
• Arianna Mancini, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, “On the Path of the Next Eco-Warriors: ‘March Point’s’ Visual Storytelling”
• Yonka Krasteva, Butler Community College, Shumen University, “The Discourse of Madness and Environmental Justice in Linda Hogan’s Novel ‘Solar Storms.’”
10 a.m. – Native American Social Issues III – SU 213
• Gretchen Eick, Friends University, “Indian or ‘American’? Charles Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Cross-Racial Marriage, 1890-1920”
• Steven B. Sexton, University of Oklahoma, “Zitkala-Ša’s Reaction to Assimilation/American Philanthropy”
10 a.m. – Native American Film I –SU 323
• Gabriel S. Estrada, California State University Long Beach, “Visual Sovereignty, Political Leadership and Masculinity in Cheyenne Film”
• Colleen Thurston, Montana State University, “Choctaw Trail of Tears”
10 a.m. – Native American Literature III – SU 303 “Telling Our Stories: Native Narratives & Language Studies,” Northeastern State University
• Joseph Faulds, “‘Down the memory spilling out into the world’ (Silko): The Spiral Cycle of Repetition With Variation in the Serious Comedy of Native American Traditional Mythoi as an Adaptive Bridge into the Future,”
• Kimberli Lee, “Stories Through Song: Annie Humphrey’s Call for Awareness”
11 a.m. – Native American Literature III (continued) – Student Union 303
• Jacquetta Shade, “Women’s Ways: Cherokee Domestic Folklore”
• Les Hannah, “If the Subaltern Speaks in the Woods?”
11 a.m. –Native American Social Issues III – SU 213
• Yolanda Leon Polequaptewa and Nikishna N. Polequaptewa, University of California, Irvine, “Dysfunctional Families and the Loss of Tradition: Native History and Culture as the Key to Solving Social Ills in Indian Country”
• Yolanda Bluehorse, “A Personal Native American Perspective on Dealing with the Criminal Justice System”
11 a.m. – Native American Film II –SU 323
• Adrianne Cross, Atoka High School, “Romances with Wolves: Native American Representation in Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Twilight Series.’”
• Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., Yale University, “Gambling on ‘Navajo Joe’”
11 a.m. – Native American History– Henry Bennett Library, Native American Room
• Brandon Burnette, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, “The Administration of Indian Affairs from 1775-1930s”
12 p.m. – Lunch
1 p.m. – Native American Education I – SU 213
• Neyooxet Greymorning, University of Montana, “Accelerated Second Language Acquisition: Forging a New Path for Native Language Instruction”
• Travis Hardin and Nichlas Emmons, Ball State University, “The Importance of a Multidisciplinary Approach in Native American Studies”
• Nichlas Emmons and Travis Hardin, Ball State University, “Climate Change Education in Tribally Controlled Institutions of Higher
Learning”
1 p.m. – Native American Music and Dance – SU 323
• Paula Conlon, University of Oklahoma, “Red Power: American Indian Activism through Powwow Music and Dance”
• Clyde Ellis, Elon University, ‘We Fancy Danced Just Like the Men and We Wore the Same Outfits Too’: Young Women and the Changing Nature of Southern Plains Pow wow Dancing”
• Frederic Murray, Southwestern OSU “Shifting Boundaries: Violence, Representation and the Salt Songs of the Great Basin Peoples”
1 p.m. – Native American Literature IV – SU 303 “Generation Next: The Diverse and Dynamic Perspectives of Contemporary American Indian Writers,” University of Central Oklahoma
• Timothy Petete, “The Tyranny and Revision of Expectations: An Analysis of Eddie Chuculate’s ‘Cheyenne Madonna’”
• Deborah Brown, “Sherman Alexie’s Writing: On and Off the Reservation”
• Shay Rahm-Barnett, “He doesn’t talk about coyotes”: The Native Character in David Treuer’s ‘The Translation of Dr. Apelles’”
2:30 p.m. – Native American Education II – SU 213
• Mary Harjo, Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, “Indian Boarding School”
• Paul McKenzie-Jones, University of Oklahoma, “Reclaiming Education for Themselves: The Work-shops on American Indian Affairs, 1956-1972”
• Amy Gantt, Southeastern Oklahoma State University/Chickasaw Nation, “The Clemente Course at Southeastern”
2:30 p.m. – Native American Film III– SU 323
• Vanessa Lozecznik and Shirley Thompson, “Reclaiming Food Sovereignty in Northern Manitoba Communities from Local Actions to Collaborative Video”
• Jeremy Naranjo, “’Aliksai’: ‘Listen: This Is My Story’”
2:30 p.m. – Native American Literature V – SU 303 “By Any Other Name a Different Being: Naming and Native American Identity,” East Central University
• Steve Benton, “Extermination by Any Other Name: Louisa May Alcott, Horace Greeley and the American Educational Imperative”
• Ken Hada, “One Must Know Where We Don’t Want To Go: Identity in Ofelia Zepeda’s ‘Where Clouds Are Formed’”
• Jennifer L. McMahon, “What’s in a Name?: ‘Dead Man’ and Transcending Stereotypes of Native Americans”
• Murray, Jason, “Sophia Alice Callahan’s ‘Wynema’: Struggling to ‘See Things as They Are, in the True Light’”
4 p.m. – SU 213 Native American Excellence in Education Student Field Trip Reports
6 p.m. – Visual and Performing Arts Center (VPAC) – Keynote Banquet (Tickets required.)
7 p.m. – Visual and Performing Arts Center – Keynote Speech (Free and open to the public.)
8:30 p.m. – Russell 100 – “Reel Injun” (2009), Neil Diamond (88 min.)