D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History,
Winter-Spring 2005 "Brown Bag" Colloquia

• Wednesday, September 8 Susan Rose Dominguez, Michigan State University, “New Indian Biography: The Pleasures (and a few pains) of Interdisciplinarity" (noon)
• Thursday, September 9 Jeff Spitz, "The Return of Navajo Boy" (film screening and discussion)(noon)
  
• Wednesday, October 13 Rachel Leibowitz, University of Illinois-Champaign, "Creating 'the Center of the Navajo World': Landscape and Power at Window Rock" (noon)
• Wednesday, December 15 Richard Chilton and Margery Coffey, Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project, Inc., "OTHRP's Work With the Omaha: A Field Report" (noon)
  
  
• Wednesday, January 26, 2005 Terry McGuire, "Archaic Bannerstones: Americans First Art Tradition" (noon)
• Wednesday, February 2, 2005 John Troutman, D'Arcy McNickle Center, "'Indian Blues': American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1890-1935" (noon)
• Wednesday, March 2, 2005 Matthew J. Martinez, University of Minnesota, Title TBA (noon)
• Wednesday, March 9, 2005 Christina Berndt, University of Minnesota, "Rethinking the American Indian Struggle for Sovereignty: the Northern Cheyenne Use of Kinship to Resist U.S. Imposition of the Nation-State" (noon)
• Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Rebekah Mergenthal, University of Chicago, "To ‘establish a natural boundary’: Creating, Enforcing, and Traversing lines of separation in the lower Missouri River Valley" (noon)
• Wednesday, April 6, 2005 Sarah Quick, Indiana University, "Performing Heritage: Metis Identity, Politics and Culture in a Multi-Cultural State" (noon)
• Wednesday, April 13, 2005 Luke Ryan, The University of Arizona, "Thieving Ways: American Freedom(s) & Indian Dispossession in Early Kansas" (noon)
• Tuesday, April 19, 2005 Jereldine Cross Redcorn, "Caddoan Ceramics, or, Appreciating Beauty in Our Own Backyard." (noon)
• Wednesday, April 20, 2005 Bradley Gills, Arizona State University, "Mining the Forests: Ojibwe Lumber Workers and Wage Labor in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, 1880-1940" (noon)
• Wednesday, May 11, 2005 John R. Harper, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Title TBA (noon) 
• Wednesday, May 25, 2005 John J. Laukaitis, Loyola University of Chicago, "Relocation and Urbanization: An Educational History of the American Indian Experience in Chicago, 1952-1972" (noon)
  
  
  

  (note: We will continue to update the Spring 2005 colloquia schedule, so please check back often.)