Schedule of events courtesy of Dr. Mark B. Spencer:
Schedule of Events
Thursday, November 5
1 pm – Stickball – Front Lawn (Weather Permitting)
2 pm – Native American Film Presentation – Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library
The Cherokee Word for Water: A film on Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation.
3 pm – Native Studies – Native American Commons of the Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library
Dr. Clara Sue Kidwell, Lecturer and Scholar of Native Studies
4:30 pm – Native American Leadership Student Presentations – Native American Commons of the Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library
Terry Ashby, “Tdiepeigah: Homage to the Warrior and to the Red Wolf”
Crystal Bully, “Untitled”
Jill Reyna, “Mindful Eating: A Month Unprocessed”
Joe Thomas, “What Happened to the Natchez Indians?”
Twahna Hamill, “Do Something, Write Now”
6:00 pm – Hallie McKinney Ballroom — Keynote Banquet
Richard Green, Tribal Historian of the Chickasaw Nation, “B. F. Overton: The Chickasaw Nation’s Last War Chief”
Friday, November 6
9 am – Native Education and Welfare – Student Union Auditorium 213
Joseph Bohanon, Bacone College and Southeastern Oklahoma State University, “Educational Leadership in Oklahoma Indian Country and Higher Education”
Margaret Neubauer, Southern Methodist University, “In Whose Best Interest?: Cultural Constructions of ‘Parental Neglect’ and the American Indian Child Welfare Crisis, 1945-1978”
9 am – Native Identities – Student Union 323
Zach Maxwell, Choctaw Nation, “Choctaws in East Texas: The Ongoing Quest for Historical Recognition”
Marlene Flores, Texas Woman’s University, “The Indian vs. the White: Contradictions within Mexican Identity”
10 am – Native History I – Student Union Auditorium 213
Stephen Egbert, Joseph Paul Brewer, and Paula I. Smith, University of Kansas, “‘Renaming the Indians’: Legibility, Illegibility, and Territorial Cleansing”
Ann Ellis, “Choctaw Leadership Challenges Associated with Removal”
10 am – Native Literature – Student Union 303
Patti Dimond, University of South Dakota, “Separating Myth from Reality: Reclaiming Indian Identity in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer”
Caleb Tankersley, University of Southern Mississippi, “Magical Resistance: Louise Erdrich’s Use of Magical Realism in Tracks and The Plague of Doves”
10 am – Native Leadership – Student Union 323
Linda Warner, Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College and George Briscoe, “American Indian Leadership: Case Studies”
Dean Chavers “Tribal Leadership and Sovereignty”
11 am – Native Studies Today – Student Union Auditorium 213
Jerry C. Bread, University of Oklahoma, “American Indian Studies in Oklahoma’s Higher Education and Public Schools: Projections, Politics, Issues, Concerns & Sustainability”
11 am – Native Film and Performing Arts – Student Union 303
Claudia Little Axe, Ben Whaley, Rachel Lloyd, Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College, “Using Drama to Teach Cultural Awareness and Achieve Multiple Outcomes”
Mark Spencer, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, “The Journals of Knud Rasmussen”
11 am – Native Public Awareness – Student Union 323
Alissa Benson, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, “The Chickasaw Cultural Center: Evaluating Expectations”
Stanley Rice, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, “Columbus Day and Thanksgiving: Modify Them or Eliminate Them?”
12 pm – Lunch in the Loft
1 pm – Native Social Services – Student Union Auditorium 213
David P. Moxley, University of Oklahoma, “How the Indigenous Can Inform the Design of Helping Services: An Inquiry into Leadership and Community Building for Social Innovation”
Lola Mondragon, University of California Santa Barbara, “Indigenous Women Veterans: Visibility, Camaraderie, & Healing”
1 pm – Native Arts – Student Union 323
Carrie Duke, Ball State University, “Cultivating Subversive Plots: Sharing Spiritual Kinship in Native American Women’s Gardens”
Shannon McCraw, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, “Oklahoma’s Post Office Murals: A Study of American Indian Images”
1 pm – Native Philosophy – Student Union 202
Steve Csaki, East Central University, “Coming Around Again: Cyclical and Circular Aspects of Native American Thought,”
Jennifer L. McMahon, East Central University, “Captive in Not So Well Upholstered Hells: Jean-Paul’s Sartre’s No Exit and Sterlin Harjo’s Goodnight Irene”
2:30 pm – Native Languages – Student Union Auditorium 213
Amy Gantt, Chickasaw Nation, “Revitalizing Native Languages”
Neyooxet Greymorning, University of Montana, “Reviving Language through ASLA”
Language Healers (film)
2:30 pm – Native History II – Student Union 323
Zach Cowsert, West Virginia University, “Abolition, Vigilantes, and the Politics of Fear: The Choctaw Nation Enters the Civil War”
Neal Hampton, Oklahoma State University, “Green McCurtain, the Tuskahoma Party, and the Elections of 1896”
4:00 pm – Fiction and Poetry Reading – Student Union Auditorium 213
Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University, Snakebite: A Caddo on the Camino Real
Ron G. Wallace, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Of Hawks and Horses
Native Art Exhibit
Selected works from the Hogan & Keithley Native American Art Collections are on exhibit at the Centre Gallery in the Visual and Performing Arts Centre, including the latest addition to the Keithley Collection.
Acknowledgements
Richard Green’s appearance at the Keynote Banquet has been made possible by a grant from the Cultural and Scholastic Lectureship Fee Committee, a fund collected from and administered by the students of Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
Disability Assistance
Please contact Dr. Mark B. Spencer at (580) 745-2921 to request assistance due to a disability. Accommodations cannot be guaranteed without adequate advance notice.
