ASAIL

MLA Programs Arranged by the
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
1980 - 2009

2009

Teaching Contemporary American Indian Literatures. Presiding:  Joseph Bauerkemper, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

1. “Sherman Alexie’s Pawnshop Theory,” Paul B. Downes, Univ. of Toronto

2. “‘Everything One Wouldn’t Expect’: Teaching Historically Situated Native Drama,” Katherine L. Y. Evans, Univ. of Texas, Austin

3. “Magical Realism and Magical Words in Contemporary American Indian Novels: Teaching Language’s Power to Reveal and Transform What Is Real,” James Ottery, Univ. of Illinois, Springfield

4. “Dream Hunting: Tracking Big Game in the 1634 Relation of Paul le Jeune and Louise Erdrich’s Tracks,” Andrew Lopenzina, Sam Houston State Univ.

Teaching Early Native American Literatures. Presiding: James K. Ruppert, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks

1. “Teaching from the Archive: Early Native Nonfiction Writing,” Stephanie J. Fitzgerald, Univ. of Kansas

2. “‘Now Woe! He Gives Off Smoke!’: Comparing Representations of Conquest in the Aztec Water-Pouring Song and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Loa to The Divine Narcissus,” Tamara Maureen Harvey, George Mason Univ.

3. “Surveying Indian Literatures; or, Incorporating Native Literature into United States Survey Courses,” Martha L. Viehmann, Xavier Univ., OH2008

Indigenous Aesthetics. Presiding: Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez, Bradley Univ.

2008

Indigenous Aesthetics. Presiding: Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez, Bradley Univ.

   1. "Between Image and the Text: Shelley Niro's The Shirt and the Cinematogaphic Art of Intervention," Monika Siebert Wadman, Syracuse U

   2. "Tomson Highway's Indigenization of Western Tragicomedy and Literary Theory," Jesse Archibald-Barber, First Nations Univ. of Canada

   3. "A Literary Happening: Sam Durant's Multimedia Direction through Indirection," Mary Godwin, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette

   4. "Aesthetics as Intervention: The Native Manifesto Tradition and the Politics of Representation," Matthew Hooley, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

      Respondent: Sean Teuton, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Digital NDNs: Pedagogies for American Indian Writing and Literature in the Twenty-First Century. Presiding: Malea D. Powell, Michigan State Univ.

   1. "Digitizing Silko's Ceremony: Helping Twenty-First-Century Students Understand American Indian Literature," Rick Mott, Eastern Kentucky Univ.

   2. "Expand and Contract: E-Learning Shapes the World of American Indian Literature in Cyprus and California," Nancy Strow Sheley, California State Univ., Long Beach; Carol Zitzer-Comfort, California State Univ., Long Beach

   3. "Mapping Native Space," Lisa Brooks, Harvard Univ.

2007

Native Visions: Approaches to Teaching First Nations / Native American Film. Presiding: Beth H. Piatote, UC Berkeley

   1. "Between Image and the Text: Shelley Niro's The Shirt and the Cinematogaphic Art of Intervention," Monika Siebert Wadman, Syracuse U

   2. "Four Minutes That Last: Hulleah J. Tinhnahjinnie's Aboriginal World View," Joseph Bauerkemper, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

   3. "Condolence and Haudenosaunee Critical Theory: Intersections of It Starts with a Whisper (1993) and Mohawk Girls (2005)," Penelope M. Kelsey, Western Illinois U

The Big Three-Oh: Studies in American Indian Literatures Special Anniversary Session. Presiding: Malea D. Powell, Michigan State U

Speakers: James H. Cox, U of Texas, Austin; Daniel Heath Justice, U of Toronto; Malea D. Powell; A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, U of Illinois, Chicago

2006

American Indian Literatures in Global Contexts. Presiding: Chadwick Allen, Ohio State U

   1. "Sacred Water: Leslie Marmon Silko and the Water Wars," Anthony Lioi, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

   2. "Becoming a Citizen of the World: Gerald Vizenor and the Age of Globalization," Linda Lizut Helstern, North Dakota State U

   3. "Native Border Writing and Global American Indian Studies," Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State U

Teaching the American Indian Boarding School Experience. Presiding: Deborah A. Miranda, Washington and Lee U

   1. "Teaching Luther Standing Bear's My People the Sioux with the Carlisle Indian School Newspapers," Jessica R. Mathews, George Mason U

   2. "I Have Been Taught Not to Remember: Kiowa Boarding School Stories in the Plays of N. Scot Momaday and Hanay Geiogamah," Susan Scarberry-García, Arizona State U

   3. "Connecting Students to Zitkala-Sa: From Her School Days to Theirs," Julianne Newmark, U of New Mexico

2005

Broadening the Conversation: Teaching beyond the Canonical Native Writers. Presiding: Debra K.S. Barker, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire; Connie Augustine Jacobs, San Juan College

Speakers: Granville Ganter, Saint John's U, NY; Virginia Kennedy, U of Scranton; Siobhan Senier, U of New Hampshire, Durham; Kenneth Morrison Roemer, U of Texas, Arlington; James K. Ruppert, U of Alaska, Fairbanks

Ethics and American Indian Cultures. Presiding: Christina A. Roberts, U of Arizona

   1. "'Nobody Wants to Hear These Things': Academic Freedom and Ethics in Teaching Sherman Alexie's 'Can I Get a Witness?,'" Patrice E. M. Hollrah, U of Nevada, Las Vegas

   2. "Modes of Ethnographic and Ethical Inquiry in Teaching American Indian Texts," Karen Lee Osborne, Columbia College, IL

   3. Creating Ethical Learning Communities," Laura J. Beard, Texas Tech U

2004

Problems in Applying Feminist Theory to Native American Literature. Presiding: Patrice E.M. Hollrah, U of Nevada, Las Vegas

   1. "Navajo Womanhood in Luci Tapahonso's 'Blue Horses Rush In,'" Tereza M. Szeghi, U of Arizona

   2. "Ignatia Broker's Lived Feminism: Toward a Native Women's Theory," Molly McGlennen, U of California, Davis

   3. "Feminism, Nation, and the Fourth World: A Comparative Approach to Indigenous American Women's Writing," Janet McAdams, Kenyon College

American Indian Literature and Visual Culture. Presiding: Dean Rader, U of San Francisco

   1. "Speaking Chinook: Multicultural Images in the Self-Representations and Pacific Coast Stories of E. Pauline Johnson," Martha L. Viehmann, Northern Kentucky U

   2. "Liberating Words: Texts and Contexts in Edgar Heap of Bird's 'Wheel,'" Robert A. Warrior, U of Oklahoma

   3. "Claiming Another Homeland: Native Novelists and Visual Artists Look to Europe," Lee F. Schweninger, U of North Carolina, Wilmington

   4. "Cinema and Poetry: Sherwin Bitsui's Intertexual Performance," Angelica M. Lawson, Dartmouth College

2003

Opening Our Canon: Teaching Lesser-Known Native Writers. Presiding: Virginia I. Carney, Leech Lake Tribal College

   1. "Land Speaking in Whispers: Jeanette Armstrong's Indigenist Fiction," Joanne R. DiNova, Corunna, Ontario

   2. "Esther Belin and Laura Tohe: Urban and Traditional Diné (Navajo) Poetry," P. Jane Hafen, U of Nevada, Las Vegas

   3. "Teaching LeAnne Howe's Shellshaker with a Tribalography Approach," Patrice E.M. Hollrah, U of Nevada, Las Vegas

"The Dirt Is Red Here": Literature and Art of Native California. Presiding: Deborah A. Miranda, Pacific Lutheran U

Speakers: Greg Sarris, Loyola Marymount U; Sylvia Ross, Lemon Grove, CA; L. Frank Manriquez, Sebastopol, CA; Frank LaPena, California State U, Sacramento

2002

Native Literature in Native Classrooms: The Challenge of Teaching in a Tribal College. Presiding: Patrice E.M. Hollrah, U of Nevada, Las Vegas

   1. "Higher Education and the Ancient Knowledge of the Ojibway," Michael W. price, Red Lake Nation College

   2. "The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The Challenge of Teaching in a Tribal College," Virginia I. Carney, Leech Lake Tribal College

Constructing Indigenous Consciousness in Colonizing Languages. Presiding: Daniel Heath Justice, U of Toronto

   1. "Speaking for Ourselves," Simon J. Ortiz, U of Toronto

   2. "Languages of the Indigenous Web," David A. Golumbia, Long Beach, CA

   3. "Evidence of Indigenous Consciousness in a Colonizing Language: Resilience and Resistance in the Poetry of Ofelia Zepeda," Angelica M. Lawson, U of Arizona

   4. "Lost in Translation: Expressing Haida Ideology in English," Frederick White, Slippery Rock U

2001

Teaching American Indian Literatures in Multicultural Contexts. Presiding: Eric Gary Anderson

   1. "'Remember, We Are Dancing a Revolution': A Nonutopic Approach to Teaching Multiculturalism." Timothy Burgess Powell, U of Georgia

   2. "Dances with Poles: Teaching American Indian Literatures to Eastern Europeans; or, A Survival Manual for Cultural Critique outside of the Americans." Alexia Kosmider, U of Rhode Island

   3. "Two Indians: A Comparative Approach to Teaching American Indian and South Asian American Literature in the Multiethnic Classroom." Karen M. Cardozo-Kane, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

American Indian Protest Literatures. Presiding: Malea D. Powell, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

   1. "The Good, the Bad, and Elias Boudinot: Bringing the Literatures of American Indian Protest and Accommodation into Dialogue." Stephen J. Brandon, U of North Carolina, Greensboro

   2. "'Remember Wounded Knee': The American Indian Movement and Twenty-First Century Protest." Elizabeth Mary Rich, Saginaw Valley State U

   3. "Heartspeak from the Spirit: John Trudell's Message of Resistance." Kim Lee, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

   4. "Indigenous Reading, Sovereign Theory." Chadwick Allem, Ohio State U, Columbus

2000

Uncanonized American Indian and First Nations Writers. Presiding: Malea D. Powell, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

   1. "Raven and the American Dream: Robert Davis and Tlingit Poetics." Susan Elizabeth Kollen, Montana State U, Bozeman

   2. "'Mother of U.S. Senator an Indian Queen': Cultural Challenge and Appropriation in The Memoirs of Narcissa Owens," Stephen J. Brandon, U of North Carolina, Greensboro

   3. "Claiming a Voice: Shirley Sterling's My Name Is Sepeetza." Laura J. Beard, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla

   4. "The Creation of Deviance: Janet Hale's The Jailing of Cecilia Capture." Sandra K. Baringer, U of California, Riverside

Teaching Native American Literature from an Indigenous Perspective. Presiding: Joanne R. DiNova, U of Waterloo

   1. "Introducing Alaska Naitve Oral Literatures: A Haida Raven Story." Jeane Breinig, U of Alaska, Anchorage

   2. "'So Where's Your Headdress?': Teaching against Stereotypes in the Native Lit Classroom." Daniel H. Justice, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

   3. "Teaching American Indian Literature to American Indian Students." Joyzelle Godfrey, Lower Brule Community College, SD

 1999

North American Literature in Indigenous Languages. Presiding: Joanne DiNova, U of Waterloo

   1. "The Joys and Sorrows of Talking on the Page." Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Sealaska Corporation, Juneau, AK

   2. "Naming Metaphor: Who Defines Raven in Native Literature?" Lee Maracle, U of Toronto

Teaching Native American Literature from an Indigenous Perspective. Presiding: Ginny Carney, Eastern Kentucky U

   1. "Teaching Tribal Sovereignty or Colonial Identity: Advocacy and the Politics of Complexity." David L. Moore, U of Montana

Reception in Honor of Karl Kroeber. Speakers: A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff,. Univ of Illinois, Chicago; Gene U. Ruoff, U of Illinois, Chicago; Robert M. Nelson, U of Richmond.

 1998

Indigenous Feminisms: Native Women Writers. Presiding: Susan B. Brill, Bradley U

   1. "The Understatement of Resistance: Resistance as a Literary Strategy in Fiction by Debra Earling and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn," Gloria Bird, Salish-Kootenai College, Spokane Tribal Campus

   2. "Alaskan Haida Women's Writings: Oral Strategies, Tribal Perspectives, and Written Forms," Jeane Coburn Breinig, U of Alaska Anchorage

   3. "A Critical Center: White Earth and Her Women Writers," Christopher LaLonde, North Carolina Wesleyan College

Indigenous Texts in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts. Presiding: Chadwick Allen, Ohio State U, Columbus

   1. "Unnatural Boundaries: Mixed-Bloods, Mestizas, and Metaphors of Indigenous Identity," Alesia Garcia, DePaul U

   2. "Antitourism and Authenticity in Postcolonial Pacific Writing," Paul Lyons, U of Hawaii, Manoa

   3. "In Black and White but Red All Over: William Apess and Radical Indians," Randall Brent Moon, U of California, Riverside

1997

To Celebrate Canada's First Nations: A Reading by Thomas King. Presiding: Susan Scarberry-Garcia, Navajo Preparatory School

Joint Business Meeting of the Division on American Indian Literatures and the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures. Presiding: Susan Scarberry-Garcia, Navajo Preparatory School, and Alanna Brown, Montana State U

1996

Performance of The Star Quilter, a One-Act Play by William Yellow Robe, Jr. Presiding: Gloria Bird, Institute of American Indian Arts

Convergencies/Divergencies: The Making of Worlds in American Indian Poetry. Presiding: Janice Gould, U of New Mexico

   1. "Convergent Worlds: Carter Revard's Unzipping Angels," Janet McAdams, Emory U

   2. "Wendy Rose for the Year 2000: Preparing the Way to Our New World," Maureen Salzer, U of Arizona

   3. "Mary Tall Mountain: Bringing Worlds Together," Gabrielle Welford, U of Hawaii, Manoa

1995

Identity and Intentionality: Native Language Presence in Contemporary Texts. Presiding: Frederick H. White, Azusa Pacific U

   1. "'Ark' Idaa Jini: Conversive Language Use in Contemporary Navajo Poetry," Susan B. Brill, Bradley U

   2. "'I'll Talk Indian': The Addition of Ojibwa Language and Mythology in Erdrich's Love Medicine," Karah Stokes, U of Miami

   3. "Louise Erdrich's Tracks: Anishinabe Storytelling," Niki Lee Manos, Marymount College, NY

   4. "A Native American Aesthetic Approach to Native Language Texts: An Introduction to the Dauenhauers' Haa Shuka, Our Ancestors: Tlingit Oral Narratives," Gloria Bird, Institute of American Indian Arts

Regionalism in American Indian Literature. Presiding: Melissa Hearn, Northern Michigan U

   1. "Nature and the Land in Pauline Johnson's The Moccasin Maker," Lee Schweninger, U of North Carolina, Wilmington

   2. "Anishinaabe Tradition versus Anglo-American Law in Gerald Vizenor's Heirs of Columbus," Stephen Osborne, U of California, Los Angeles

1994

Return to Native Languages. Presiding: Fred H. White, U of California, Los Angeles

   1. "Ojibwa Language Renewal," Jillian M. Berkland, U of California, Los Angeles

   2. "Reclaiming Language: Reclaiming Identity," Jeane Breinig, U of Washington

   3. "Oicimani Mitawa: My Journey," Gwen Griffin, Mankato State U

American Indian Literature in the Curriculum: Strategies and Resources. Presiding: Kathryn W. Shanley, Cornell U

     Speakers: LaVonne Brown Ruoff, U of Illinois, Chicago; James K. Ruppert, U of Alaska Fairbanks; Kathryn W. Shanley

1993

Intellectual Property Rights in Native North America: Whose Story Is This Anyway? Presiding: David L. Moore, Cornell U

   1. "Native American Ethnobiography and 'Authorship': Legal and Ethical Issues," Lenora Ledwon, U of Notre Dame

   2. "Collaboration and the Complex World of Literary Rights," Alanna Brown, Montana State U

   3. "Imagination, Conversation, and Trickster Discourse: Negotiating an Approach to Native American Literature," Paul L. Tidwell, U of New Mexico

Film and Theater in Native North America. Presiding: James Ruppert, U of Alaska Fairbanks

   1. "The Booger Dance: Representations of the Other in Native Theater," Robert Appleford, U of Toronto, St. George Campus

   2. "Hollywood Paradigm and Cultural Stereotype: 'Captain Jack,' the Modoc 'Wars,' Drum Beat, and Indians in Mid-Century Film," Rodney Simard, California State U, San Bernardino

   3. "Mythic Persona and Realistic Representation in Vizenor's Harold of Orange," James Ruppert

1992

Gender and Gay and Lesbian Studies in Native American Literature. Presiding: Gretchen Ronnow, Wayne State College

   1. "Gender Construction in Early Literary and Political Discourses of Native American Women," Carol Batker, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

   2. "Masculinity, Self-Performance, and Representation: The Gendering of Black Hawk," Timothy Sweet, West Virginia U

   3. "Disobedience (in Language) in Texts by Lesbian Native Americans," Janice Gould, U of New Mexico

   4. "Gender Construction and Family Dissolution in Louise Erdrich's The Beet Queen," Louise Flavin, U of Cincinnati

Literature in Native Languages. Presiding: Luci Tapahonso, U of Kansas

   1. "Pulling Down the Clouds: Some Words on Thoughts about Rain," Ofelia Zepeda, U of Arizona

   2. "Writing within Hozho: The Navajo Process of Creation," Laura Tohe, U of Nebraska Lincoln

   3. "Deer Women and Elk Men: The Lakota Narratives of Ella Deloria," Julian Rice, Florida Atlantic U

1991

"Authenticity" and Authorship: Tracking Signs in Native American Texts. Presiding: John Purdy, Western Washington U

   1. "Looking Through the Glass Darkly: The Editorialization of Mourning Dove," Alanna Brown, Montana State U

   2. "The Indian and the Audience: Native American Identity and the Literary Canon(s)," Rodney Simard, California State U, San Bernardino

   3. "Tracking the Truth in Black Hawk's Autobiography," Ruth Burridge Lindemann, U of Illinois, Urbana

   4. "Storytelling: Tradition and Preservation in Erdrich's Tracks," Jennifer Sergi, U of Rhode Island

Kashaya-Pomo Texts: Women Talking Stories. Presiding: Greg Sarris, U of California, Los Angeles

     Speakers: Anita Silva, Sonoma County Indian Health Center; Violet Chappell, Kashaya-Pomo Reservation; Vanna Lawson, Santa Rosa CA

1990

The Other Captives: American Indian Oral Captivity Narratives. Presiding: Peter G. Beidler, Lehigh U

   1. "Indians as Captives within a Dominant Religious System," Greg Sarris, U of California, Los Angeles

   2. "Indians as Captives within a Dominant Educational System," Andrea Lerner, U of Arizona

   3. "Indians as Captives within a Dominant Political System," Edward D. Castillo, Sonoma State U

From the Heart of Indian Country: Oral and Written Art in Contemporary Native American Communities. Presiding: Franchot Ballinger, U of Cincinnati

   1. "I Am Not Anything Today. Tomorrow I Will Be Klamath: Tnbal Program in Language, Literacy, and Literature," Andrea Lerner, U of Arizona

   2. "He's Got Me All Taped Up: Native Language Awareness and Transmission among the Southern Paiute," Gretchen Ronnow, U of Arizona

   3. "Tribal Cultural Conservation Work at Zuni," Andrew Wiget, New Mexico State U

1989

Reconstructive Encounters: American Indian Literatures and American Classics. Presiding: Kenneth M. Roemer, U of Texas, Arlington

   1. "Geographies of Literature, Literatures of Geography," Kathryn Shanley Vangen, U of Washington

   2. "Mark Twain and the 'Real' Indians: Huck and Jim in the Territories," Carter Revard, Washington U

   3. "In Sickness and in Health," Paul Lauter, Trinity College, CT

Encounters in the Oral Tradition: Native American Stories of Cultural Contact. Presiding: Franchot Ballinger, U of Cincinnati

   1. "The Russians are Coming, the Russians are Dead: Mvth and History in First Contact Narratives of the Ahtna Indians," James Ruppert, U of Alaska Fairbanks

   2. "Conversations with Mabel McKay: Story as Contact, Contact as Story," Greg Sarris, U of California, Los Angeles

   3. "Plains Indian Names and Autobiography: The Onomastic Construction of the Self." Hertha Wong, California State U, Chico

1988

American Indian Women: Voices Past and Present. Presiding: Gretchen Bataille, Arizona State U

   1. "Coyote, She Was Going There: Prowling for Hypotheses about the Female Native American Trickster," Franchot Ballinger, U of Cincinnati

   2. "'All Them Laguna Intersections!' Laguna in the Work of Paula Gunn Allen and Leslie Marmon Silko," Patricia Clark Smith, U of New Mexico

   3. "The Songs We Sing: The Venerable Lyrics of Navajo Women's Contemporary Songs," Luci Tapahonso, U of New Mexico

American Indian Video Art. Presiding: James Ruppert, U of Alaska Fairbanks

   1. "The Writer and the Community: Working on 'Origin of the Crown Dance,'" Joy Harjo, U of Arizona

   2. "Cultural Contexts: Seeing with a Native Eye," Kathleen Sands, Arizona State U

   3. "The Trickster Figure in Harold of Orange," Alan Velie, U of Oklahoma

1987

American Indian Literatures. Presiding: James W. Parins, U of Arkansas, Little Rock

   1. "Frost and Ortiz, Stevens and Erdrich, Sexton and Rose: How to Teach Native (and Immigrant) American Literature," Carter Revard, Washington U

   2. "Charles Alexander Eastman's Literary Boundary Culture," Hertha D. Wong, California State U, Chico

Directions of American Indian Literatures. Presiding: Kathleen Sands, Arizona State U

   1. "A Religious-Studies Approach," Kenneth Morrison, Dept. of Religion, Arizona State U

   2. "A Historical Approach," Clara Sue Kidwell, Dept. of History, U of California, Berkeley

   3. "A Linguistic Approach," Ofelia Zepeda, U of Arizona

1986

Native American Oral Texts: Interpretations and Transcriptions. Presiding: Paul Zolbrod

   1. "Transcription, Interpretation, and Translation: The View from Native South America," Joel Sherzer, U of Texas, Austin

   2. "Issues of Interpretation: Song of the Sky," Brian Swann, Cooper Union

           Respondent: Larry Evers, U of Arizona

Native American Poetry, Song, and Short Fiction. Presiding: Daniel F. Littlefield, U of Arkansas, Little Rock

   1. "The Telling That Continues: Oral Tradition in Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller," Bernard Hirsch, U of Kansas

   2. "Simon Ortiz: The Poet and His Landscape," William Oandasan, U of California, Los Angeles

   3. "Singer of the Semiotics of Power: John Milton Oskison," Gretchen Ronnow, U of Arizona

1985

Teaching Native American Oral Literatures: A Workshop. Presiding: Franchot Ballinger, U of Cincinnati

     Speakers: Elaine Jahner, Dartmouth College; Janice Grow-Maienza, St. Mary's College; LaVonne Ruoff; U of Illinois, Chicago; Andrew O. Wiget, New Mexico State U

Native American Writers and the American Literary Traditions. Presiding: Susan Scarberry-Garcia, Colorado College

   1. "Nights with Uncle Remus; Nights with Uncle Ti-Aut-Ley," James W. Parins and Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., U of Arkansas, Little Rock

   2. "Momaday's Autobiographies and the History of American Indian Autobiography," David Brumble, U of Pittsburgh

   3. "The American Landscape: Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain and the Anglo-American Search for the Garden," J. Frank Papovich, Hampden-Sydney College

1984

Themes and Motifs in American Indian Literatures. Presiding: Franchot Ballinger, U of Cincinnati

   1. "The Theft-of-Fire Motif in American Indian Oral Literatures," Kathleen Costanzo, Polk Community College

   2. "Traditional Narratives of the Southern New England Indians," Philomene Ducas, Eastern Connecticut State U

   3. "Sacred Reversals: Trickster and the Sacred Clown in Gerald Vizenor's Earthdivers and Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart," Franchot Ballinger, U of Cincinnati

Oral Literature and the Problematics of Textuality. Presiding: Andrew Wiget, New Mexico State U

   1. "Text and Pretext: Ideological Assumptions in the Representations of Oral Literature," Andrew Wiget, New Mexico State U

   2. "Textuality in Oral Performance: A Story of the Kuna Indians of Panama," Joel Sherzer, U of Texas, Austin

   3. "Crossing the Divide: Linguistic Text to Literary Idiom," Brian Swann, Cooper Union

   4. "Poststructuralism and Oral Literature," Arnold Krupat, Sarah Lawrence College

1983

American Indian Literature and the American Literary Canon. Presiding: Elaine Jahner, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

     Speakers: Roy Harvey Pearce, U of California, San Diego; Paula Gunn Allen, U of California, Berkeley; Arnold Krupat, Sarah Lawrence College

Comparative Studies of American Indian and Other American Literatures. Presiding: Elaine Jahner, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

   1. "Native American Literature within the Context of a Visionary American Literature," Norma Wilson, U of South Dakota

   2. "Romance and Resolution: American Mainstream and Indian Literature Compared," Keith Morton, U of Minnesota

   3. "The Confessional Form in American Indian Literature," David Brumble, U of Pittsburgh

   4. "Little Jack and the Seven-Headed Dragon," Jarold Ramsey, U of Rochester

1982

Verbal Art, Visual Art, and American Indian Literature. Presiding: Larry Evers, U of Arizona

     Speakers: Wendy Rose, U of California, Berkeley; Leslie Marmon Silko, U of Arizona

Teaching American Indian Literature. Presiding: Franchot Ballinger, U of Cincinnati

   1. "Teaching American Indian Women's Literature," Paula Gunn Allen, U of California, Los Angeles

   2. "Emphasizing Literature in American Indian Literature Courses," Franchot Ballinger, U of Cincinnati

   3. "A Native American Literature Course by Correspondence Study," Joseph DeFlyer and Robert W. Lewis, U of North Dakota

   4. "American Indian Literature Syllabi: The Oral Experience, Written Literature, the Indian in Western Thought," R.D. Theisz, Black Hills State College

1981

The Traditional Native Text in Process: Transcription, Translation, Presentation, and Interpretation. Presiding: Jarold Ramsey, U of Rochester

     Participants: Joel Sherzer, U of Texas, Austin; Dell Hymes, Univ. of Pennsylvania

1980

Native American Oral Literatures: The Power of the Word. Presiding: LaVonne Brown Ruoff, U of Illinois, Chicago

   1. "The Ecological Imagination in a Wasco Chinookan Story," Jarold Ramsey, U of Rochester

   2. "Spirit Song: A Healing Force," Susan Scarberry, U of Denver

   3. "Winnebago Oral Tradition: Ceremony and the Arts," Woesha Cloud North, U of Nebraska, Lincoln