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First Nations, Lasting Nations
Community and University Partnerships in Indigenous New England
September 17-18, 2010
Piscataqua Room, Holloway Commons

EVENT SCHEDULE

Friday, September 17
10:00 a.m. Welcome: Julie Williams, Senior Vice Provost for Engagement and Academic Outreach
Prayer: Donna Roberts Moody (Abenaki)
Song and Greetings: Chief Paul Pouliot (Abenaki)
10:30-11:30 p.m. Collaboration in Environmental Justice
Moderator: John Moody (Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions)
Participants:
  • Kerry Hardy (Independent Scholar)
  • Doug Watts (River Activist)
11:45-1:45 p.m. State University/Community Partnerships I
Moderator: Donna Moody (Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions)
Participants:
  • Jean Forward (U Mass-Amherst)
  • Cedric Woods (U Mass-Boston) and John Peters (Mashpee Wampanoag)
  • Maria Lawrence (Rhode Island College)
  • Rocky Bear (U of Maine-Presque Isle and Tobique First Nation)
2:00-3:30 p.m. Roundtable: Literature
Moderator: Siobhan Senier (U of New Hampshire)
Participants:
  • Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel (Mohegan)
  • William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. (Assiniboine) and Margo Lukens (U of Maine-Orono)
  • Micah Pawling (U of Maine-Orono)
  • Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
4:00 p.m. "Invisible/Visible," Art Exhibit Curated by George C. Longfish (Seneca) in Dimond Library, Special Collections
6:00 p.m. Break for Dinner
8:00 p.m. Evening performance by Joseph and Jesse Bruchac (Abenaki)
Saturday, September 18
8:15 a.m. Opening Prayer Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel (Mohegan)
8:30-10:15 a.m. Roundtable: Language Revitalization
Moderator: Maria Girouard (Cultural and Historic Preservation, Penobscot Nation)
Participants:
  • Avril Aitken & Loretta Robinson (Bishop's U)
  • Stephanie Fielding (Mohegan)
  • Jesse Bruchac (Abenaki)
  • Jeanne Brink (Abenaki)
  • Elie Joubert (Abenaki Odanak)
10:30-12:15 p.m. ROUNDTABLE: STATE U/COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS II
Moderator: Melanie Benson (Dartmouth College)
Participants:
  • Lisa Brooks (Harvard)
  • Gary Widrick (U of Vermont)
  • Louise Lampman (Maquam Band of Missisqoui Abenaki)
  • Colleen Brown-Plante (Abenaki)
12:15-2:00 p.m. Break for Lunch
2:00-3:45 p.m. ROUNDTABLE: COLLABORATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY
Moderator: Rae Gould (UMass-Amherst)
Participants:
  • Rae Gould (UMass-Amherst)
  • Holly Herbster (The Public Archaeology Library)
  • Steven Silliman (U Mass-Boston)
  • Robert Goodby (Franklin Pierce University)
4:00-5:45 p.m.

ENVIRONMENT, CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND ONGOING NATIVE HISTORIES IN THE NORTHEAST
Moderator: Jean O'Brien (U of Minnesota)

Christine DeLucia (Yale U): "Along the Memory Frontier: Native and Colonial Place-Making in the Northeast after King Philip's War"

Rachel Sayet (Harvard): "Devils and Giants in Southern New England: The Appropriation of Native Sites by the English Calvinists"

Margaret Bruchac (U of Connecticut, Avery Point): "Consorting with Savages: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists at the Turn of the 20th Century"
5:45-8:00 p.m. Break for Dinner
8:00 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
"Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England"
Jean O'Brien, U of Minnesota

Closing Ceremony

Sponsored by

  • Gedakina, Inc.,
  • The Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions
  • The New Hampshire Humanities Council
  • The American Studies Association
  • The New England American Studies Association
  • The James H. Hayes and Claire Short Hayes Professor of the Humanities
  • The Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President
  • The Center for the Humanities
  • American Studies/Africana Studies/Race, Culture and Power Minors
    Department of Anthropology
    Department of English
    Department of History

 

  
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