MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

2013 Schedule

Indigenous Enslavement and Incarceration in North American History

Gilder Lehrman Center’s 15th Annual International Conference
November 15-16, 2013

Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Coffee and Registration
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Tribal Welcome
  • Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, The Mohegan Tribe
9:15 - 9:30 a.m. Welcome Remarks
  • David W. Blight, Yale University
  • Ned Blackhawk, Yale University
9:30 - 10:45 a.m. Keynote Address
  • The Honorable Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

    VIDEO

    Justice Murray Sinclair’s Powerpoint Presentation and Video
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 - 1:00 p.m. 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

    VIDEO
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Lunch (Special Session with Tall Oak)
2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Indigenous Slavery in the American South
  • Samuel Moyn, Professor of History, Columbia University
  • 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

    VIDEO

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Coffee and Registration
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Disciplinary Paternalism
  • Joseph Gone, University of Michigan
  • Beth Piatote, University of California-Berkeley
  • Debbie Reese, American Indian in Children’s Literature
  • John Mack Faragher, Yale University

    VIDEO
11:30 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch (Special Session: Teaching Native American History)
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. 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

    VIDEO
3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:45 p.m. 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

    VIDEO