The D’Arcy McNickle Center launched the Seminar Series in American Indian Studies in the fall 2008. The seminars feature scholarly discussion of papers based on work in progress. Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are encouraged to attend and to circulate news of this forum to colleagues.
Registration Information
Seminar sessions are held on Wednesdays from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm at the Newberry, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois. We will pre-circulate papers to those planning to attend. If you cannot attend and want to read a paper, please contact the author directly. To receive a copy of a paper, e-mail mcnickle@newberry.org or call (312) 255-3564. Papers are available for request two weeks prior to the seminar date. Please include your e-mail address in all correspondence.
The seminar format assumes that participants have read the essays in advance, and that those requesting the paper will attend. Please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend. We encourage faculty members to invite their graduate students to attend.
Seminar Schedule
Tracing the Jumano
Mariah de Fatima Wade, University of Texas at Austin
Transnational Progressives: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Universal Races Congress
Kyle Mays, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Clans, Lineages, and Ethnic Identity Among the Ottawa (Odawa) of Northern Michigan
Wesley L. Andrews, Native American cultural consultant
Indian Lands and Imperial Authorities: The Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century Ohio River Valley
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University
Reimagining Cherokee Identity: Migration, Culture, & the Law, 1866-1889
Gregory Smithers, Virginia Commonwealth University
Sanitizing “Indians” in America’s Thanksgiving Story
Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa ápi, SUNY Buffalo
This seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for American History and Culture
The Shows on the Road: Native and African American Circus Employees Seize Labor, Travel and Educational Opportunities Across the Nation and Around the World
Sakina Hughes, Michigan State University