“What is this ‘Black’ in Studies of American Indian Culture?” Panel

“What is this ‘Black’ in Studies of American Indian Culture? A Panel at What’s Next for Native American and Indigenous Studies?” An International Scholarly Meeting hosted by Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. May 3-5, 2007

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Friday, May 4 1:15-3:00

Chair: Circe Sturm, Anthropology and Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma

Papers:

Brian Klopotek, Ethnic Studies and Anthropology, University of Oregon, “Of Shadows and Doubts: Indians and Blacks and the Legacy of Jim Crow”

Robert Keith Collins, American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University, “On the Black Part of Being Indian: Evidence from Choctaw Life Histories”

Tiya Miles, American Culture, Afroamerican & African Studies, and Native American Studies, University of Michigan, “Bodies of Evidence: Reconstructing Women’s History in the 19th Century Cherokee South”

Comment: Sharon P. Holland, African American Studies, Northwestern University

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