Indigenous Enslavement and Incarceration in North American History
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
Coffee and Registration
9:00 - 9:15 a.m.
Tribal Welcome
Tribal Welcome
- Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, The Mohegan Tribe
9:15 - 9:30 a.m.
Welcome Remarks
Welcome Remarks
- David W. Blight, Yale University
- Ned Blackhawk, Yale University
9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Keynote Address
Keynote Address
- The Honorable Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
10:45 - 11:00a.m.
CoffeeBreak
CoffeeBreak
11:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Native Northeast and the Algonquian Diaspora
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
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Lunch (Special Session with Tall Oak)
Lunch (Special Session with Tall Oak)
2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Indigenous Slavery in the American South
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
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16
9:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Registration
Coffee and Registration
9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Disciplinary Paternalism
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
11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch (Special Session: Teaching Native American History)
Lunch (Special Session: Teaching Native American History)
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Native Activism and Incarceration
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
3:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:45 p.m.
Concluding Roundtable: New Directions in the Field
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
Banner images (left to right): “Prisoners take to Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, 1875,” Richard Pratt Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Catlin, George. Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. 7th Edition (1848),”Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; “Alcatraz,” Art Kane, photographer, courtesy Art Kane Archive, www.artkane.com.