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