Advance
Registration Required
Sign in: 8:00-8:50 AM Coffee and Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15 AM Welcome and Honoring the Elders
Directions
/ Maps
Friday, Oct. 5, 2012
9:15 - 10:15 AM Blessing and Plenary, "Collected Memories"
G. Peter Jemison
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G. Peter Jemison, Seneca member of the Huron Clan,
renowned artist, educator, film director, repatriation
expert, manager of Ganondagan
State Historic Site in Victor, NY. Descendant
of Mary Jemison - there were roughly 50 members of the
Jemison family enrolled at Carlisle. He is especially
regarded for his efforts in showcasing native American
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10:15-10:25 AM Coffee
break
Maurice Kenny
Reading of his poem
"Photograph: Carlisle Indian School (1879-1918)"
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Dovie
Thomason
Kiowa Apache / Lakota Storyteller
Barbara Landis
Carlisle
Indian School Research Pages
Carlisle Indian School
Biographer
Jacqueline Fear-Segal
University of East Anglia, UK
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10:30
AM-noon Group Presentation
"Coming to Carlisle: The
Names, The Pictures, The Stories"
Jacqueline
Fear-Segal, Barbara Landis, and Dovie Thomason
Fear-Segal, Landis and Thomason will provide an
interlaced presentation drawing on their own work
and experiences coming to Carlisle. Thomason's
Viola White Water Foundation serves as the supporting
non-profit for Landis' Carlisle Indian School Research
pages designed to provide CIIS descendants with
documents detailing news of their ancestors' time at the
school. These pages have been key to connecting
direct informants to Landis' biographical compilations
on the world wide web. The CIIS Research web pages led
to the installation of an historic marker at the site of
the CIIS school grounds with the Viola White Water
Foundation sponsoring non-profit for the marker project.
Through networking from Landis' research pages, dozens
of relatives came to Carlisle in August 2003 to share
testimonials about their ancestors marked and marred by
the Carlisle experiment, from 1879-1918. This
event and those testimonials influenced Thomason's
development of her story, "The Spirit Survives," laying
out the history, legacy and reclamation of the Carlisle
Indian School.
Biographical
information from these pages also played a vital
role in research for Fear-Segal's book about Carlisle and the
government schools: White Man's
Club: schools, race, and the struggle of Indian
acculturation ( 2007). It is here that the
story of The
Lost Ones --two Lipan Apache children taken
from their people and sent to Carlisle-- is pieced
together for the first time. Fear-Segal is
currently completing a book about the Carlisle photographs, Shadow
Catchers at the Indian School. She explores the active role
students and parents sometimes played in the
creation of these images, and how the photographs
are today being reclaimed and reframed by
descendants, communities, and Native artists, in
order to document their pasts and tell their own
stories.
"The Spirit Survives" will be performed
during the 1:30-2:45 PM block of Friday's activities. |
12:00 noon -1:25 PM Lunch
Break on your own
(we’ll have a list in registration packet including
off-campus and on-campus eateries
and a HUB sideroom blocked as well as for those who want to gather
there)
Friday, Oct. 5, 2012
1:30-2:45 PM
"The Spirit Survives"
Story-Telling
Performance and Discussion,
Dovie Thomason
“The Spirit Survives” is an “entrance” into the world
of the Indian residential schools that was inspired by a
mother’s need to share its history with her
daughter. The haunting refrain in the story is:
“There are some stories you don’t want to tell.
There are some stories you have to tell.”
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Thomason introduces her listeners to the Carlisle Indian
Industrial School in Pennsylvania and its profound and
enduring impact on Indian and non-Indian people since its
inception in 1879 and far beyond its closing in
1918. Her story braids together personal and family
memoir, the history of the federal Indian residential
schools, and the story of Gertrude Bonnin (later Zitkala
Sa), the Nakota woman who went through the Indian schools,
taught at Carlisle, and went on to become a writer and
activist for Indian rights.
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Friday, Oct. 5, 2012
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Jennifer Nez Denetdale
“Remember That Life Does Not End:
Navajo Education at Carlisle Indian School and
Decolonization" |
4-4:15 PM
Coffee
Break
4:20-5:30 PM
“Visualizing Sovereignty” Jolene Rickard
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6pm
Lakota Dinner (by advanced
reservation only)
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Open to the public,
7:00 - 7:45 PM
Poetry
Readings by Laura Tohe with Q & A
7:45 - 9:00 PM
Open mic readings featuring Margo
Tamez,
Carter Revard and others.
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Symposium at Dickinson College.
Carlisle, PA: Site of Indigenous Histories, Memories and
Reclamations
Saturday October 6. 2012
8-9am
Registration w/coffee and continental breakfast
8:00-9:30 am
Walking Tour
of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Carlisle Barracks,
PA.
Meet in parking lot of Old West,
Dickinson College 5:00 PM. Bring photo identification. $5.00 /
per person.
Panel: "Within & Beyond the Boarding
School Walls"
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Claudia Ulrich “As if the Land Spoke
with a New Tongue – Indigenous-German Relations in
Central Pennsylvania” (University of
Halle-Wittenberg,
Germany).
Preston McBride, "CIIS: Conditions, Student Health,
and Mortality" (Dartmouth College).
Louellyn White, “The Carlisle Industrial Indian
School: Beyond the School Walls” (Concordia
University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada).
Gregory Younging, “Living Through Violence: The
Residential School Era and Its Legacy as Examined
Through the Lenses of Direct, Structural and Cultural
Violence”(Member of Opsakwayak Cree Nation in
Nothern Manitoba; Professor, University Of British
Columbia Okanagan and Assistant Director of Research for
the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada).
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11:10-11:50
Carolyn Rittenhouse: A Plains Indian Tipi Project
Boyd Lee Spahr Library, upper
level
Carolyn Rittenhouse is a
tribal member of the
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; her
Lakota name, given by her
parents is Hwo Was’te Winyan which is “Good
Voice
Woman”. She is a Millersville University graduate
and will display her
Plains Indian Tipi Project, a senior project
required to complete an
Anthropology degree at Millersville University of
PA. The tipi was given to
Carolyn by her stepfather, Gilbert Red Dog, in
summer 2010. In July 2011, Carolyn
received a grant from the Millersville University
Women’s Commission and the Commission on Cultural
Diversity that allowed
her to travel to Cheyenne River to do research and
conduct interviews regarding
the tipi’s origin and its connection to Lakota Sioux
cultural history and
stories. As a result, the paintings on the tipi
represent three major themes: The
Battle of Little Big Horn, 1876, The
Buffalo Calf Woman Brings Sacred
Pipe, and the Massacre at Wounded Knee,
1890. Carolyn designed the
tipi, and Lakota artist Dwayne Wilcox sketched it
using a Ledger-style art
form. She has worked extensively on the Cheyenne
River and Pine Ridge
Reservations of South Dakota, in Pennsylvania, and
at Millersville University
to educate others on the lives, sacred sites, and
traditions of Native peoples.
The 20-foot tipi will be displayed in
the atrium of the
Waidner-Spahr Library of Dickinson College,
September 25-October 6, 2012.
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Tipi on display in library
September 25 - October 7
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11:55 - 12:45PM
Carter
Revard
12:45-1:45 PM
12:45-1:45
*Round Table Discussions and Brown Bag Lunch in Hub Siderooms
(we recommend getting your lunch at the
SNAR and bringing it to the siderooms)
1) Intergenerational
Trauma and HOPE: Native American Empowerment Programs Pete
Hill and others
2) Carlisle
Descendants
3) Truth
and Reconciliation
4) Others
TBA at registration as desired by participants
5) Additional
tables just for gathering and eating will be available
Concurrent Session
1:45-2:45
A. CIIS Legacy and Critical Pedagogy:
Educating the Next Generations
Moderator Barbara Landis
Anne-Claire Fisher and Paul Brawdy, St Bonaventure University
Stephanie A. Flores-Koulish, Loyola University Maryland
Cristina Stanciu ,Virginia Commonwealth University
Althouse TBA
B. Film Screening: The Lost Ones: Long
Journey Home with Daniel Castro Romero, Jr.,
Richard Gonzalez, Jacqueline Fear-Segal, and Susan Rose
Althouse TBA
2:45-3:45
“Kesetta, Augustina, Flavia, Eloisa and
Genocide Crimes, 1872-2011: Ndé women’s history
as a collective case for implementing the UNDRIP in the U.S.
and Mexico for bifurcated peoples”
Daniel Castro Romero, Jr. and Margo Tamez
Althouse 106
3:45-4
Snack Break
4-5pm
N. Scott Momaday
Plenary and Closing
"THE STONES AT CARLISLE"
Sunday Oct. 7
Post-Conference
Sunday, October 7, 2012, 9- 10:30
AM.
Walking Tour of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School,
Carlisle Barracks, PA.
Meet in parking lot of Old West, Dickinson College 5:00 PM.
Bring photo identification. $5.00 / per person.
10:30
Impromptu Brunch for Descendants and Friends
TBA
