NAISA Annual Meeting Panels and Speakers of Interest…

… to me anyway.

The agenda is here.

Thursday at 10 AM:

Panel 21: The Impact of American Indian Boarding School Education on Great Lakes Indigenous Foodways
Amelia Katanski, Kalamazoo College

Panel 29: Preaching to the Choir: Teaching Ojibwe Hymns to Indigenous Singers Who are not Fluent but Who Value Indigenous Identity
Janis A. Fairbanks, Michigan State University

Thursday at 2PM

Panel 39. Simon Pokagon: Cultural and Literary Legacies [P69]: Meeting Room 616B
Chair: Ray Fogelson, University of Chicago
Monuments, Memorials, and the Continued Presence of the Potawatomi in Chicago
John Low, Ohio State University, Newark
A History of the Native Book: Simon Pokagon’s Queen of the Woods
Kiara M. Vigil, Amherst College
Pokagon without Pokagon: Queen of the Woods, Marietta Walker, and Indian Temperance
Kathleen Washburn, University of New Mexico
Comment: Ray Fogelson, University of Chicago

Friday, 8 AM

Panel 68. Contesting Boundaries in the Upper Mississippi and Great Lakes, Part 2: Translating Identities in Anishinaabe Aking [P42]: Meeting Room 616B
Organizer: Cary Miller, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Chair: Bruce White, Turnstone Historical Research
Problematizing Half Breeds in the Early 19th Century Great Lakes Country
Rebecca Kugel, University of California, Riverside
Translating Culture: ABCFM textbooks in Anishinaabeg communities, 1830-1845
Cary Miller, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Context for Curriculum: The Historical Roots of Contemporary Ethnic Terminology in
Anishinaabemowin
Margaret Noodin, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Challenges and Possibilities in the Digitization of Indigenous Toronto
Heather Howard, Michigan State University

Friday, 10 AM

Panel 81: Criminal Acts: Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and The Transit of Empire
Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, University of Victoria

Panel 88. Contemporary Quandaries of Tribal Citizenship: Cultural, Legal, and Political Concerns [R5]: Salon J, Sixth Floor
Organizer and Chair: Jill Doerfler, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Participants:
Sarah Deer, William Mitchell College of Law, Associate Judge for the Prairie Island Community; Jill Doerfler, University of Minnesota, Duluth, member Constitutional Writing Team of the White Earth nation; Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Michigan State University College of Law, Chief Justice of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Supreme Court, Appellate Judge for the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians and the
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians; Colette Routel, William Mitchell College of Law

Saturday, 10 AM

Panel 125. ᏣᎳᎩ ᎠᎴ ᎣᏥᏪ ᏗᎧᏁᏍᏗ Cherokee and Ojibwe Dictionary: Decolonizing the Digital Archive
Ellen Cushman, Michigan State University