Past Seminars
American Indian Studies Seminar Series, AY 2012-13
Submission Deadline: April 27, 2012
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
This seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for American History and Culture
Sanitizing “Indians” in America’s Thanksgiving Story
Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa ápi, SUNY Buffalo
Reimagining Cherokee Identity: Migration, Culture, & the Law, 1866-1889
Gregory Smithers, Virginia Commonwealth University
Indian Lands and Imperial Authorities: The Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century Ohio River Valley
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University
Clans, Lineages, and Ethnic Identity Among the Ottawa (Odawa) of Northern Michigan
Wesley L. Andrews, Native American cultural consultant
Transnational Progressives: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Universal Races Congress
Kyle Mays, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tracing the Jumano
Mariah de Fatima Wade, University of Texas at Austin
Colonial Tribes or Indian Conquistadors? Indigenous Peoples and European Expansion in Northeastern Brazil, 1550-1700
Mark Meuwese, University of Winnipeg
Quetzalcoatl: Cosmogonic Ruler, Redemptive Priest, and Noble Savage
Kay Read, DePaul University, Chicago
Faces of Conquest: Cochimí Indians and the Spanish Colonization of Alta California
P. Albert Lacson, Grinnell College
The Rhetoric of Simon Pokagon: Claims of Equality, Appeals for Reconciliation & Inclusion
John N. Low, University of Michigan
Drowning Gods and Developing Prayer Sites: Termination, Reclamation, Religious Freedom, and Financial Independence in Navajoland, 1947-1980
Erika Bsumek, University of Texas
The Emergence of the American Indian Art Community of Chicago
Cheryl Cash, Bowling Green State University
The End of Pre-History: Environmental Epistemology in the Lower Ohio River Valley
Joshua Jeffers, Purdue University
Geographies of Power: Mapping Indian Borders in the ‘Borderlands’ of the Early Southwest
Juliana Barr, University of Florida
Shaken Spirits: Cherokees, Moravian Missionaries, and The New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-12
Jonathan Hancock, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill