THIRD
NATIVE AMERICAN
SYMPOSIUM
STEALING/STEELING THE SPIRIT:
AMERICAN INDIAN IDENTITIES
November 11-13, 1999
Letter from the President
On behalf of Southeastern Oklahoma State University, welcome to our
third Native American Symposium, Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American
Indian Identities. Oklahoma's diverse Native American heritage offers
a unique perspective on the studies of literature, film, history, sociology,
anthropology, political science, psychology, and communications.
The Native American symposium seeks to increase public understanding
and appreciation of Native American culture in all its expressions. Varied
special events offer many opportunities for communication, education, and
pleasure.
The conference planning committee has provided us with a unique experience
to raise our level of consciousness regarding Native American culture.
Their dedication to bringing this special event to our campus is indeed
commendable.
I hope you enjoy Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities.
Sincerely,
Glen D. Johnson
President
Musical Arts Series
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Thursday | Friday | Saturday
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
11, 1999
7:00 pm-7:30 pm Pre-concert lecture
by James Pellerite
Fine Arts Recital Hall
7:30 pm Flute
Recital by James Pellerite
Fine Arts Recital Hall |
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
12, 1999
8:00 am - 4:30 pm Conference registration
and continental breakfast
University Center 223
8:00 am - 6:00 pm Book Publisher's Display
Russell 300
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Panel A: "Identity
Development Through Politics"
Room: University Center 215
Moderator: Randy Prus (English, SOSU)
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"From Assimilation to Cultural Restoration:
Image & Identity and the Activism of LaDonna Harris"
Sarah Eppler (History, University of
Oklahoma) will examine the role of LaDonna Harris in promoting programs
to aid Native Americans both on a local level and national level from the
founding of Oklahomans for Indian Opportunity in 1965 to the establishment
of the Indian Review Commission in 1975.
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"The Public Debate Over California's Proposition
5; Redrawing the Lines of American Indian Class, Race, and Political Identities"
David Kamper (Anthropology, University
of California, Los Angeles) will explore the debate surrounding the California
state referendum on Proposition 5. By analyzing high-profile media images
found in a political campaign, this study explores the way opponents of
Proposition 5 attempted to redraw lines of American Indian class identity,
while proponents tried to maintain American Indian political and racial
representations.
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"Us Indians Understand the Basics: Oklahoma
Indians, Community Action, and the War on Poverty, 1964-1970"
Daniel Cobb (History, University of
Oklahoma) will present archival findings lending insight into diverse groups
who found themselves engaged in negotiating Indians' place in Oklahoma
society.
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Assimilation of Culture: Major Federal
Government Legislation Since 1800 Affecting the Culture, Art, and Education
of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma"
Gleny Beach (Art, SOSU) will examine
the effects of domination and assimilation by legislative acts of the Federal
Government of the U.S. on the culture and location of Native Americans
known as the Five Civilized Tribes.
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Panel B: "Performance
of Identity"
Room: Magnolia Room
Moderator: Lisa Hill (English, SOSU)
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"Indians Performing Indians: Ella Deloria's
Twenty-Year Career in Pageantry"
Susan Gardner (English, University
of North Carolina at Charlotte) will explore both a little-known aspect
of Ella Deloria's career and the issue of revitalizing ethnicity through
performance.
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"Sustaining the Spirit: The Impact of the
Choctaw on the Life and Writings of Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette"
Carole McAllister (English, Southeastern
Louisiana University) will examine the life of Adrien-Emmanuel Rouquette
who began life as a member of an affluent New Orleans family but later
identified with the Choctaws deep in the forest of St. Tammany.
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"Beverly Hills Shamanesses and the Rainbow
Tribe: New Age Consumption of Native American Spirituality"
Lisa Aldred (Center for Native American
Studies, Montana State University) will analyze the commodification and
fetishization of Native Americans by the New Age Movement. This paper investigates
best-selling New Age authors claiming to have been mentored by Native American
medicine men and women who offer a kind of do-it-yourself Native American
spirituality for readers.
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"Ethnic Intersections: Buffalo Soldiers,
Mardi Gras Indians, and the 'Indian Wars'"
Annette Trefzer (English, University
of Mississippi) will examine the phenomenon of the Mardi Gras Indians and
will focus on the complex intercultural relations among Blacks, Indians,
and Whites in a way that strengthens the argument for reading cultural
phenomena not in isolation but in connection with each other.
11:00 am
Storytelling
by Cecile Carter
Montgomery Auditorium
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch on your own
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel C: "Fictions
Relations to Non-Fiction"
Room: Russell 224
Moderator: Chunmei You (Social Sciences,
SOSU)
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"The Historical Antecedents of Jim Chee's
Identity Crisis"
Caoimhin O Fearghail (History, University
of Nevada, Las Vegas) will explore how historians helped create a faulty
public perception about the nature of cultural interaction and the role
of Western institutions in inter-cultural relations.
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"The Hinge of Bloods - The Family as Character
in Louise Erdrich's North Dakota Sequence"
Gay Barton (English, Abilene Christian
University) will trace some of the more significant intra- and inter-family
connections that link Louise Erdrich's most frequently read novels and
how these connections reveal how powerfully family and community operate
as the central locus of her fiction.
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"Weaving the History of Despair, Resistance,
and Hope: Acoma Poet Simon Ortiz Writes Environmental Justice"
Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine (English, University
of Houston-Downtown) will discuss Ortiz's criticism of the dominant ideology
that devalues the Native American cultures, his critique of the industrial
landscape, his recognition of the importance to re-create the Native American
version of myths of creation, and his vision of re-orienting the society
to a nature-based culture in order to establish an environmentally just
society.
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel D: "Uses
and Abuses of the Internet"
Room: Russell 100
Moderator: Jamie Knapp (Sociology, SOSU)
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"American Indian Scholarships: NSF SUCCEED
and NASA Programs"
Howard Phillips (Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) and Katherine
Johnson (Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
will describe the best practices and lessons learned during the last five
years, during which time faculty members have obtained scholarship funding
for Choctaw, Cherokee, and Lumbee college students, funded the first "Chief's
Scholarship" within the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and conducted an American
Indian Special Initiatives program with the funding from the NASA Space
Grant Consortium.
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"RealIndianReligion.com: Selling Native
American Spirituality on the Internet"
Katherine Johnson (Religious Studies,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte) will discuss the findings of
a survey of Internet sites that market fantasy, misinformation, or directly
cannibalize the sacred institutions of native peoples.
Gerrie Johnson (Education, SOSU) and
Grace
Cincotta (Psychology, SOSU) will create a site on the Internet to conduct
an on-line ongoing survey. They will discuss how technology can reach a
broader, nationwide population.
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"The Red Man's Burden: Creating Symbolic
Boundaries in the Age of Technology"
Gerry Waite (Anthropology, Ball State
University) will discuss how knowledge of symbolic boundaries and their
workings provides important insights into the processes of cultural resistance,
survival, and identity.
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Panel E: "Presentation
of Native Identity"
Room: Russell 100
Moderator: Muhammad Betz (Education, SOSU)
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"An Incipient Study of the Indian Half
of the Dialogic: Native Rhetorics and Occum's Use of Indirect Discourse"
Kimberly Roppolo (English, Baylor University)
will explore how Occum addresses both colonizing and colonized audiences
at once, offering a plurality of meaning in one piece of discourse. This
paper claims that even in studies which attempt to create a dual vision
to adequately appreciate the richness of Indian Literature, the native
half to that vision has been conspicuously absent.
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"Song of the Breed: Mixed Blood Writing
in 1930's Oklahoma"
Trisha Yarbrough (English, Center for
Oklahoma Studies) will examine the works of Oskison, Matthews, and Riggs,
three celebrated Oklahoma writers of the 1930's, who depicted the competing
demands of assimilationist forces and vanishing traditionalism on a young
male mixed-blood protagonist.
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"Rabbits, Coyotes, and Tricksters, Oh My!
Ancient Powers Alive and Well Today"
Lydia Hamilton (Psychology, SOSU) will
critique the art works of Jaune Quick to See Smith's which expresses the
modern application of the "trickster's" power of doing the unexpected,
unexplained, oppositional and sacred while living and working in the dominant
culture.
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Panel F: "Changing
Cultures, Changing Identities"
Room: Russell 224
Moderator: Betty Nolan (Accounting, SOSU)
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"Inter-generational Loss of Culture and
Sustainability: A Cherokee Example"
Stanley Rice (Biological Sciences,
SOSU) will explore the belief that traditionally established ways of living
have no place in a world of technology.
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"Career Development Patterns of Native
American Women"
Glenda Creach (School Service Programs,
Southwestern Oklahoma State University) will present her study designed
to identify career development patterns and perceptions of Cheyenne/Arapaho
women in rural settings of Oklahoma.
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"Cherokees and the Civil War: East and
West"
Bill Anderson (History, Western Carolina
University) will explore various similarities in the leaders and activities
of the Eastern Cherokees of North Carolina and the Cherokee Nation in the
Civil War.
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"When the Memory of His Heroes Are No Longer
Told in Stories: Identity, Manhood, and Postindian Conversations Before
1934"
Tony Clark (American Studies Program,
University of Kansas) will identify the emergence of dissident masculine
identities which looked outward from the tribes, and forward from memory
and oral traditions.
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Room: First Floor Library
Dedication
of the Library's Native American Collection
Welcome by Dr. Dottie Davis
Introduction by President Glen Johnson
Ribbon cutting ceremony and tour following
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Library Issues
Panel
Room: First Floor Library
Moderator: Ms. Neta Cox (Library, SOSU)
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"Ground Zero: Building a Tribal Library"
by Karen Alexander, Director of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma Library
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"American Indian Library Association" by
John Berry, President of the American Indian Library Association and Assistant
Director of Oklahoma State University Graduate College
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"Role of Libraries in Archival Research"
by Cecile Carter, Caddo Indian Historian and Author
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"Contemporary Native America: What Materials
Should We Archive?" by Daniel Littlefield, American Native Press Archives,
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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"Native American Constitution and Law Digitization
Project" by Marilyn Nicely, American Indian Law Subject Specialist &
Technical Services Librarian, University of Oklahoma Law Library
7:00 pm
Room: Visual and Performing Arts Center
Keynote
Address and Conference Banquet
Welcome by President Glen Johnson
Keynote Address by Dr. Philip Deloria
Dr. Philip Deloria will deliver this year's
keynote address. Dr. Deloria, who has written and presented extensively
on various Native American topics, received his bachelor's degree in music
education and master's degree in journalism and mass communications at
the University of Colorado, and his Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale University.
Dr. Deloria has lectured widely around the country at universities including
Stanford University and University of Washington. He has also presented
at various conferences in Chicago, Denver, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh,
and Baltimore. Dr. Deloria's most recent publication entitled
Playing
Indian traces the tendency
of Anglo-Americans to appropriate Native American customs and dress. His
book explores how White Americans have used their ideas about Indians to
shape national identity in different eras, and how Indian people have reacted
to these imitations of their native dress, language, and ritual.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
13, 1999
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Russell Foyer
Conference registration and continental
breakfast
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Panel G: "Sovereignty
and Identity"
Room: Russell 100
Moderator: Dick Butcher (Sociology, SOSU)
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"Tribal Policing: An Alternative Viewpoint"
Peter Phillips (Social Sciences, University
of Texas at Tyler) will explain the issues leading to the formation of
the Oneida Indian Nation of New York Police, will document certain successes
in its first several years of operation, and will identify several new
policing issues the Nation now faces.
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"Culture in the Making: The Yavapai of
Central Arizona, 1860-1935"
Gerhard Grytz (History, University
of Nevada, Las Vegas) will discuss the Yavape, a sub-tribe of the Yavapai,
whose traditional and current homeland is the high country of Central Arizona,
and how they were able to survive the imperial, aggrandizing and genocidal
activities of the Euro-American intruders during the late 19th
and early 20th centuries while retaining large parts of their
culture.
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"Indigenous Ancestry: Tradition, Identity,
and Acceptance of Mission Indian Descendants in San Antonio, Texas"
Jennifer Logan (Anthropology, Texas
A & M University) will examine how members of the American Indians
of Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions trace their cultural heritage
to mission Indians and pre-Columbian life ways.
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"The Pocumtucks: The Ones Who Vanished
Before"
Linda Quinn (History, California State
University Northridge) will trace the history of the Pocumtucks, a once
powerful confederacy, but now gone except for a few brief entries in even
fewer history books.
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Panel H:
"Presentation of Original Works"
Room: Magnolia Room
Moderator: Elizabeth Kennedy (Psychology,
SOSU)
Joseph Faulds (Arts and Literature,
Northeastern State University) will read selections from a poem about Kateri
Tekakwitha, who lived from 1656-1680 in what is presently New York and
Canada.
Jeffery DeLotto (English, Texas Wesleyan
University) will discuss his rewriting of selected Tejas legends.
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"Reading the Wolf: A Poetry Reading"
Mariah Grover (English, Oklahoma State
University) will present selected readings from her original works of poetry.
Pat Murphy (English, Midwestern University)
will present an original work of fiction, based on professional experience,
that addresses issues of insanity.
11:00 am
Room: Visual and Performing Arts Center
Justice
Yvonne Kauger
Welcome by President Glen Johnson
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Room: Visual and Performing Arts Center
ROUNDTABLE
DISCUSSION
"Sovereignty Issues"
President Glen Johnson
will serve as moderator for this panel
Panel Participants:
Governor
Bill Anoatubby
Chief
Jerry Haney
Chief
Greg Pyle
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch on your own
2:45 pm
Room: Visual and Performing Arts Center
Paintings by Anthony Mitchell
4:00 pm
Room: Visual and Performing Arts Center
Reading
and Book Signing by LeAnne Howe
NATIVE
AMERICAN ART EXHIBITS
TRACKS Exhibition
First Americans, First Oklahomans: Indian
People tells the story through text and photographs of Oklahoma's Native
Americans from the ancient times of the "Moundbuilders" to the present
day. This is a TRACKS traveling exhibition program produced by the Oklahoma
Foundation for the Humanities in cooperation with the Oklahoma Historical
Society and is on display in the Art Gallery at the Visual and Performing
Arts Center.
Exhibits USA
Photography and the Old West explores
the role of the 19th century photographer as a recorder of the
events, people and places, and ultimately as historian of, the American
West. This exhibition features modern prints made from 19th
and early 20th century negatives documenting westward expansion.
Anthony Mitchell
Anthony Mitchell, a full-blood Creek/Seminole
artist, grew up in Dustin, Oklahoma. He studied art at Bacone Junior College
and Santa Fe School of Art, and graduated from Haskell College, Lawrence,
Kansas. Anthony Mitchell creates art by using traditional stories, legends,
and myths of Native Americans. He will be exhibiting his paintings in the
3rd floor auditorium, located in the Russell Building.
Southeastern
Oklahoma State University would like to thank the following contributors
for their generous sponsorship of the Third Native American Symposium
PARTNER
Choctaw High Stakes Bingo
BENEFACTOR
Estep Chevrolet-Buick, Inc.
James and Mary K. Hodge
Indian Nation Wholesale Company
Pat and Dot Phelps
Red River Valley Rural Electric Association
Sherrard RV & KOA
SPONSOR
VanMeter Realty
FRIEND
Dr. Bala Arabolu
BancFirst of Marietta
We would also like to thank:
Oklahoma
Humanities Council
Musical Arts Series
National
Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment
for the Humanities
Oklahoma
Arts Council
Red River Arts Council
SOSU Cultural and Scholastic Lectureship
Committee
SOSU Organized Research Fund
Assistant V.P. Dr. Douglas McMillan
Special Assistant to the President, Dr.
Jack Robinson
SOSU
School of Arts and Sciences
Interim Dean C. W. Mangrum
We thank Brantley's Flowers and
Gifts in Durant for the donation of the floral centerpiece
CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE
Dr. Andrew Robson, Chair, English, Humanities, and Language (Committee
Chair)
Ms. Neta Cox, Assistant Librarian
Mr. Brad Cushman, Chair, Art
Ms. Corie Delashaw, Social Sciences
Ms. Jane Gainey, Director of Counseling Services
Dr. Elbert Hill, English, Humanities, and Language
Ms. Marion Hill, Community Representative
Ms. Tamla Hill, Student Representative
Dr. Elizabeth Kennedy, Psychology and Counseling
Mr. Chad Litton, Sociology
Ms. Camille Phelps, Multicultural Coordinator
Dr. Glenda Zumwalt, English, Humanities, and Language
