New Directions in American Indian Research Conference

Welcome and Plenary
Location: Redbud AB

Welcome/Introductions

• Linda Dykstra, Dean, Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill

Opening Ceremony and Plenary Speaker

• Ada Deer (Menominee), Former Director of American Indian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Introduction: Clara Sue Kidwell (Chippewa/Choctaw), Director, American Indian Center, UNC-Chapel Hill

1. Tribal Learning Community and Educational Exchange (TLCEE) Program Working in Tribal Communities
Location: Mountain Laurel AB

• Jared Dunlap (Chippewa), American Indian Studies and Pre-Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles
• Caleb Dunlap (Chippewa), American Indian Studies and Pre-Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles
• Nicole Johnson, American Indian Studies, University of California-Los Angeles
  “NAGPRA as an Expression of Tribal Sovereignty”
• Moderator: Eugenia Eng, Professor, School of Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill

2. UNC Chapel Hill Sequoyah Dissertation Fellows Research
Location: Redbud B

• Jennifer Carter (Lumbee), Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill
  “The Effects of Fat on Breast Cancer Cells”
• Damon Jacobs (Oglala Lakota (Sioux)), Cell and Molecular Physiology, UNC-Chapel Hill
  “Looking under the hood of physiology: Imaging molecular motors at the cellular level”
• Mathew Thompson, Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill
  “Staging ‘The Drama’: The Continuing Importance of Cultural Tourism in the Gaming Era”
• Moderators: Sandra Hoeflich, Associate Dean, Graduate School, UNC-Chapel Hill and Rose Stremlau, Assistant Professor, History, UNC-Pembroke

3. Walking in Two Worlds: A Self Reflection
Location: Azalea AB

• Meghan Delacerna (Cherokee/Shawnee), Psychology, Maryville College
  “Sweat Lodges: A Qualitative Study”
• Kristina Jacobson, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
  “They all go ‘Native’ on a Saturday night: Playing Indian in Country Music”
• Laticia McNaughton (Tuscarora/Mohawk), American Studies, University of Oklahoma
  “Tuscarora Religion: History and Contemporary Views”
• Moderator: Donna Falvo, Clinical Professor, Allied Health, UNC-Chapel Hill

4. Kaplan GRE Strategy Session
Location: Redbud A

• Jessica Foster and Jeff Thibault, Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions
• Session Coordinator: Tonia Jacobs (Waccamaw-Siouan), Social Work, UNC-Chapel Hill

Plenary Panel: Spotlight on the Community
Location: Redbud AB

• Gregory Richardson (Haliwa-Saponi), Executive Director, North Carolina Commission on Indian Affairs
• Forest Hazel (Nanticoke), Tribal Historian, Occaneechi Band of Saponi
• Olivia Oxendine (Lumbee), Professor, Education, UNC-Pembroke
• Tom Belt (Eastern Band of Cherokee), Coordinator/Instructor, Cherokee Language Program, Western Carolina University
• Moderator: Chese’Qua Evans, (Haliwa-Saponi), Outreach and Support Programs Coordinator, Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, UNC-Chapel Hill

Concurrent Panel Presentations

1. Remembering Our Past, Creating our Future
Location: Redbud AB

• Mikaëla Adams, History, UNC-Chapel Hill
  “Native in a New World: The Trans-Atlantic Life of Pocahontas”
• Jessica Bardill (Eastern Band Cherokee), English, Duke University
  “Revisioning History: Art and its Relation to Genetics in Thomas King’s Truth and Bright Water”
• Julie Reed (Cherokee Nation), History, UNC-Chapel Hill
  “Cherokee Reaction to Creek Removal”
• Moderator: Valerie Lambert (Choctaw), Professor, Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill

2. Igniting Our Flames From Within
Location: Mountain Laurel AB

• Dustin Gray (Cherokee), English, University of Oklahoma
  “‘Somebody Had To Tell The Story’: Sexual Violence and Colonialism in Frances Washburn’s Elsie’s Business”
• David Lowry (Lumbee), Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill
  “The Paradox of Mandy Oxendine, Black, White, and Myth”
• Kevin White (Akwesasne Mohawk), American Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo
  “Understanding the Worldview of the Haudenosaunee by Examining Hewitt’s Iroquois Cosmology Part 1”
• Moderator: Theda Perdue, Professor, History, UNC-Chapel Hill

3. Education: The Thread for Weaving a New Tomorrow
Location: Azalea AB

• Rainy Brake, MAT, English as a Second Language, Western Carolina University
  “Creating Children’s Literature for the Cherokee Immersion Classroom”
• Karla Martin (Poarch Band of Creek Indians), Education, UNC-Chapel Hill
  “Students, Parents, and the Community: Poarch Creek Parental Perceptions of Schools”
• Shawn Secatero (Tohajiilee Band of Navajo Indians), Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies, University of New Mexico
  “Beneath Our Sacred Minds, Hands, and Hearts: Stories of Persistence and Success among American Indian Graduate Students”
• Moderator: Michael Lambert (Eastern Band Cherokee), Director, African American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill

1. New Models for Indigenous Health Research: Acculturating Academia
Location: Redbud AB

• Anthony Fleg, Medicine and Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Shannon Fleg (Diné), Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Vivette Jeffries (Occaneechi), Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill
• Moderator: Ronny Bell (Lumbee), Director, Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health, Wake Forest University

2. Navigating the Publication Process
Location: Mountain Laurel AB

• Mark Simpson-Voss, University of North Carolina Press
• Moderator: Michael Green, Professor, American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill

3. Emerging Scholars: Undergraduate Research Showcase
Location: Azalea AB

• Melinda Adams (San Carlos Apache tribe), Environmental Science, Haskell Indian Nations University
  “Habitat selection between grassland edges using two grasshopper species (Chorthippus curtipennis and Pseudopomala brachyptera)”
• Amy Bergseth, History, Miami University of Ohio
  “Lunatic Fringes and Incessant Funding Crises: D’Arcy McNickle’s Silence of the American Indian Chicago Conference”
• Hanna Reyes, History and Sociology, State University of New York-Binghamton
  “The First: the journey of retaining and regaining a culture”
• Will Russell (Cherokee/Comanche), Anthropology, Arizona State University
  “The ONB Cave Site: a Clovis Horizon Site in the Malpai Borderlands of Arizona, Located via Predictive Modeling Based on Ethnographic Accounts of Elephant Hunting”
• Moderator: Marcus Collins (Lumbee), Assistant Dean, Office for Student Academic Counseling, UNC-Chapel Hill

Dinner and Special Presentation
The State Dining Room, Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
250 East Franklin Street, UNC-Chapel Hill Campus

Welcome and Speaker Introduction
Kevin Maynor (Lumbee), Director of Cost Alliances and Compliance, Office of Sponsored Research, UNC-Chapel Hill

Vin Steponaitis, Professor and Director, Research Laboratories of Archeology, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Archaeology, American Indian History, and the General Public”

Exhibit Viewing of “The Ancient Carolinians”

In this interactive exhibit visitors discover that long before Roanoke Colony, Ancient Rome or even the Egyptian pyramids, people lived and thrived 12,000 years ago in what is now North Carolina. Visitors also learn how archaeologists have painstakingly unearthed that history over the past 60 years. The exhibit’s main storyline focuses on Hardaway, a site in central North Carolina near the town of Badin on the banks of the Yadkin River.

Plenary
Location: Redbud AB

• Plenary Speaker: Robyn Hannigan (Narragansett), Professor of Geochemistry and Judd Hill Chair of Environmental Science, Arkansas State University
• Introduction: Larry Benninger, Professor/Chair, Geological Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill

Concurrent Panel Presentations

1. Cultural Values and Political Identities
Location: Redbud AB

• Amber Crotty (Diné), University of California-Los Angeles
  “Federal-Determination: The Suppression of Traditional Navajo Values Within the Enrollment Process”
• Amy Locklear Hertel (Lumbee), Social Work, George Washington University
  “Asset Building in Native Communities: A Native Perspective”
• Athena Stephanopoulos, Law, Wichita State University
  “How the cows came home . . . as dinner: The economic survival of the Osage Indians and their grass leasing practices of the nineteenth century”
• Moderator: Orin Starn, Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University

2. The Unusual Suspects: Beyond Identity in Native Fiction & Film
Location: Mountain Laurel AB

• Levin Arnsperger, English, Emory University
  “Invisible Resistances and Inscrutable Faces in Robert Conley's The Meade Solution”
• Christina Conroy, Religion, Emory University
  “The Body as Text and Clint Alberta's Deep Inside Clint Star”
• Angela LaGrotteria, Women’s Studies, Emory University
  “A Deadly Game?: Eden Robinson's Blood Sports and American Indian Critical Theory”
• Sarah Prince, Women’s Studies, Emory University
  “Shadows Made Visible: Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman who Owned the Shadows and American Indian Critical Theory”
• Moderator: Lisa Lefler (Eastern Band Cherokee), Director, Culturally Based Native Health Programs, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

3. The Economic Future of Indians in N.C.
Location: Azalea AB

• Christina Theodoreau (Lumbee), Economic Development Specialist, North Carolina Indian Economic Development Initiative
  “The Economic impact American Indian communities have on the NC Economy”
• Jason Lambert (Eastern Band of Cherokee), Project Development Coordinator, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
  “Economic Development of the Eastern Band of Cherokee”
• Tabatha Brewer (Coharie), Health Outreach Coordinator, Coharie Intra-Tribal Council, Inc.
  “Health, Opportunities, Partnerships, Empowerment – HOPE Works”
• Moderator: Ruth Revels (Lumbee), Chairperson, NC Indian Economic Development and Chairperson, NC Commission of Indian Affairs Economic Development Committee

Plenary
Location: Redbud AB

• Plenary Speaker: Craig Womack, (Creek-Cherokee), Associate Professor, English, Emory University
• Introduction:Tol Foster, Assistant Professor, American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill

Conference Closing Ceremony
Location: Redbud AB

• Ada Deer (Menominee), Former Director of American Indian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Introduction: Clara Sue Kidwell (Chippewa/Choctaw), Director, American Indian Center, UNC-Chapel Hill