15th Annual International Conference Videos
Indigenous Enslavement and Incarceration in North American History: The Gilder Lehrman Center’s 15th Annual International Conference, November 15-16, 2013
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Welcome Remarks: David W. Blight, Yale University; Ned Blackhawk, Yale University
Keynote Address: The Honorable Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
2. Native Northeast and the Algonquian Diaspora
• Lisa Brooks, Amherst College
• Christine DeLucia, Mount Holyoke College
• Jace Weaver, University of Georgia
• Moderator: Kevin McBride, Mashantucket Pequot Museum
3. Indigenous Slavery in the American South
• Robbie Ethridge, University of Mississippi
• Rachel Purvis, Yale University and Melinda Miller, United States Naval Academy
• Fay Yarbrough, Rice University
• Moderator: Alejandra Dubcovsky, Yale University
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16
• Joseph Gone, University of Michigan
• Beth Piatote, University of California-Berkeley
• Debbie Reese, American Indian in Children’s Literature
• Moderator: John Mack Faragher, Yale University
5. Native Activism and Incarceration
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Luanna Ross, University of Washington
• Howard Sapers, Correctional Investigator for Canada
• Moderator: Theodore Van Alst, Yale University
6. Concluding Roundtable: New Directions in the Field
- Tiya Miles, University of Michigan
- Margaret Jacobs, University of Nebraska
- Tsianina Lomawaima, University of Arizona
- Ned Blackhawk, Yale University
- Moderator: David W. Blight, Yale University