Modern Indian Identity

Mark Trahant

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Date: June 12, 2006

Modern Indian Identity

Peace Chiefs at Work: Stories �� Remarkable American Indian Leadership in This Generation

Twenty-first-century Indian people face a particular and peculiar dilemma with history and time. Novelists and filmmakers have had extraordinary success in romanticizing the Western past, and one result is this: in the minds of many non-Indians, the only “real Indians” are nineteenth-century Plains horsemen riding after bison and circling around emigrant wagon trains. This stereotype leaves no room for two crucial facts: first, Indian people, in the past and present, made their livings in hundreds of different ways, from corn-farming to salmon-fishing, from the gathering of acorns to the trading of goods from one region to another; second, Indian people in our times both carry on ancient cultural traditions and live, with familiarity and ease, in the modern world.

Hoping to make at least a small contribution to the cause of better understanding between Indians and non-Indians, the Center now launches a series of speakers: contemporary Indian people telling their stories in ways that confirm the compatibility of tradition with innovation. The speakers have profound ties to their peoples’ pasts, and they have also adapted with agility and enterprise to the conditions of our times. They have, in other words, triumphed over the stereotypes of “real Indians” as people sequestered and set apart in a lost past.

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Phil Deloria

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Date: April 16, 2007
Time: 7:00 PM
Where: Eaton Humanities, Room 250

Modern Indian Identity

University of Michigan Professor Phil Deloria will lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder April 16 as part of a Center of the American West series aimed at improving understanding between Indians and non-Indians.

The talk, “Crossing the (Indian) Color Line: A Family Memoir,” is part of the Modern Indian Identity lecture series and is free and open to the public. The event will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Eaton Humanities Building room 250 on the Boulder campus.

Deloria taught at CU-Boulder for more than six years before joining the history faculty at the University of Michigan in 2001, and also earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from CU-Boulder. He is a Professor and Director of the Program in American Culture on the Michigan campus and has been instrumental in building a Native American Studies program. His 1998 book, Playing Indian, was the winner of an outstanding book award from the Gustavus Myers Program for the study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. In that book, he traced “Indian play” from the Boston Tea Party to Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls to the New Age movement, arguing that white Americans have consistently acted out “Indianness” in order to imagine and proclaim national and modern identities.

Deloria is also president-elect of the American Studies Association and received the 2006 John C. Ewers Award from the Western History Association for his latest work, Indians in Unexpected Places, which examines the ideologies surrounding Indian people at the turn of the twentieth century.

“Phil Deloria is a lively and engaging public speaker with an original mind, a gift for storytelling, and a robust sense of humor,” said Professor Patty Limerick, a noted historian and Board Chair of the Center of the American West.

The Modern Indian Identity series aims to dispel the perception among many non-Indians that the only “real Indians” are nineteenth-century Plains horsemen riding after bison and disappearing from history after the arrival of white Americans, Limerick said. “Contrary to stereotypes of a people lost in the past, Indian people in the twenty-first century both carry on long-lasting traditions and play central and consequential roles in American life,” she said.

The lecture series features talks by contemporary Indian people telling their stories in ways that confirm the compatibility of tradition with innovation. The series was made possible by a donation from Nancy and Gary Carlston of Boulder.

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Eva Marie Garroutte

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Date: October 25, 2007
Time: 7:00PM
Where: ATLAS Center, Room 100

[video:https://youtu.be/6kDpXxHf5S0]

Modern Indian Identity

My Father’s Stories: Remembering Oklahoma

The Center presents Dr. Eva Marie Garroutte in this fall’s Modern Indian Identity lecture. Professor Garroutte is the author of Real Indians: Identity, Community, and the Survival of Native America. In this talk, Professor Garroutte blends her father’s stories of growing up in the Cherokee Nation of the 1930s with her own recent experiences as a tribal citizen working in the field of American Indian health. Reception to follow.

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Robert Mirabal

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Date:March 19, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM
Where: First United Methodist Church, Boulder, CO

Modern Indian Identity

An Evening with Robert Mirabal

This was a very special evening with Grammy Award-winner Robert Mirabal. As a composer, songwriter, and musician, Mirabal has won many honors, including two-time Native American Artist of the Year, three-time Songwriter of the Year, and a 2006 Grammy Award for “Sacred Ground” – Best Native American Album of the Year.

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Gerard Baker

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Date: September 17, 2008
Time: 7:00 PM
Where: Eaton Humanities, Room 150

Modern Indian Identity

“Why I did what I did”: Sharing the American Indian Story in our National Parks

The Center welcomed Superintendent Gerard Baker, the highest-ranking Native American in the National Park Service, to both the University of Colorado and to Rocky Mountain National Park. Superintendent Baker delivered a lecture as part of our Modern Indian Identity series on the University of Colorado campus. The next day, he visited Rocky Mountain National Park and delivered a talk to park service employees as part of our Randy Jones Lecture series.

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David Treuer

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Date: April 23, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM

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Modern Indian Identity

The Center was proud to welcome David Treuer as the sixth guest in our Modern Indian Identity series. This series features contemporary Indian speakers telling their stories in ways that shatter misconceptions on what it means to be a “real Indian.” Treuer is an Ojibwe Indian from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Canada, a Pushcart Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is the author of the novel The Translation of Dr. Apelles and the essay collection Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual.

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Jim Enote

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Date: September 17, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM
Where: Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180

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Modern Indian Identity

Zuni farmer, museum director, and interrupted artist Jim Enote spoke at the University of Colorado at Boulder September 17 as part of the Center of the American West’s Modern Indian Identity series.

The talk, “Stranger than Paradise: Is There a Medicine Man in the House?” examined the paradoxes present in living on Indian reservations. The lecture was free and open to the public and took place at 7:00 p.m. on the University of Colorado campus, in Benson Earth Sciences room 180.

As Enote explained it, indigenous people are on a fulcrum of truths. “Life on a Southwestern reservation with wireless internet and outhouses makes me think I should write a book and title it, ‘Keep It Simple for Me.'” Enote feels he is constantly out on a limb. Whether it’s debating the difference between science and indigenous wisdom or challenging Zuni farmers to relearn ancient farming methods, Enote has plenty to say about the meaning of resurrection and the art of double talk.

Jim Enote has explored to a large degree such varied subjects as cultural pattern languages, Zuni architecture as fluxus art, Japanese art after 1945, and, since 1999, creating map art. Born in Zuni, New Mexico, Enote considers his career an odyssey of hitchhiking, watermelon picking, and writing. Besides currently serving as Director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center, he is also a Senior Advisor for Mountain Cultures at the Mountain Institute, a New Mexico Community Luminaria, and E.F. Shumacher Society Fellow.

Professor Charles Wilkinson of the University of Colorado at Boulder remarked, “Farmer, scientist, philosopher, and cultural elder, Jim Enote at once tends his corn and chili on his fields at Zuni; directs the tribal cultural center and its extraordinary mapping project; and keeps up with colleagues around the world in his quest for global sustainability. What a rare, valuable person.”

The Center of the American West’s Modern Indian Identity series features contemporary Indian speakers telling their stories in ways that confirm the compatibility of tradition with innovation. The speakers have a profound tie to their peoples’ pasts, and they have also adapted with agility and enterprise to the conditions of our times.

This event is made possible by the generosity of Nancy and Gary Carlston.

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Walter Echo-Hawk

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Date: December 2, 2010
Time: 7:00PM
Where: Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180

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Modern Indian Identity

“In the Courts of the Conqueror: A Native American Experience”

We are pleased to announce Walter Echo-Hawk, a lawyer, tribal judge, scholar, and activist, as the eighth guest in our Modern Indian Identity series. With legal experience including cases involving Native American religious freedom, prisoner rights, water rights, treaty rights, and reburial/repatriation rights, Echo-Hawk worked as a lawyer for the Native American Rights Fund for more than 35 years. He is a member of the Pawnee Nation, belonging to the Kitkahaki Band, born on the Pawnee reservation in Oklahoma. He received a political science degree from Oklahoma State University (1970) and his law degree from the University of New Mexico (1973).

The Center of the American West’s Modern Indian Identity series features contemporary Indian speakers telling their stories in ways that confirm the compatibility of tradition with innovation. The speakers have profound ties to their peoples’ pasts, and they have also adapted with agility and enterprise to the conditions of our times.

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Dan Wildcat

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Date: September 29, 2011
Time: 7:00 PM
Where: Benson Earth Sciences, Room 180

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Modern Indian Identity

“Indigenuity: Exercising Indigenous Ingenuity in the Age of Cybernations”

The Center is pleased to announce Dan Wildcat as the ninth guest in the Modern Indian Identity series. Dr. Daniel Wildcat, Ph.D., is a professor at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, and an accomplished scholar who writes on indigenous knowledge, technology, environment, and education. He is also co-director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center, which he founded with colleagues from the Center for Hazardous Substance Research at Kansas State University. A Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, Dr. Wildcat is the coauthor, with Vine Deloria, Jr., of Power and Place: Indian Education in America (Fulcrum, 2001), and coeditor, with Steve Pavlik, of Destroying Dogma: Vine Deloria, Jr., and His Influence on American Society (Fulcrum, 2006). His most recent book is Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge (Fulcrum, 2009). Known for his commitment to environmental defense and cultural diversity, Dr. Wildcat has been honored by the Kansas City organization The Future Is Now with the Heart Peace Award.

The Center of the American West’s Modern Indian Identity series features contemporary Indian speakers telling their stories in ways that confirm the compatibility of tradition with innovation. The speakers have profound ties to their peoples’ pasts, and they have also adapted with agility and enterprise to the conditions of our times.

Books will be available for purchase at the event and a signing opportunity will follow.

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Bunky Echo-Hawk

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Date: February 16, 2012
Time: 6:30 PM
Where: Glenn Miller Ballroom

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Modern Indian Identity

The Center of the American West invites you to a special Modern Indian Identity Event featuring multi-talented artist, activist, and public speaker, Bunky Echo-Hawk.

Historically, many tribes would spend the winter months recounting the year’s hunting and battle exploits. A tribal artist would facilitate the group’s stories, interpreting multiple perspectives of an incident, and applying the group’s true story on a stretched hide, creating a painting for the people. The painting would stand the test of time as a snapshot of their lives and relationship to the universe.

Bunky Echo-Hawk will recreate this experience in an Interactive Live Art show on the CU Boulder Campus. FREE and open to the public.

http://www.bunkyechohawk.com/

The Center of the American West’s Modern Indian Identity series features contemporary Indian speakers telling their stories in ways that confirm the compatibility of tradition with innovation. The speakers have profound ties to their peoples’ pasts, and they have also adapted with agility and enterprise to the conditions of our times.

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Mark Trahant

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Phil Deloria

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Eva Marie Garroutte

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My Father’s Stories: Remembering Oklahoma

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Robert Mirabal

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An Evening with Robert Mirabal

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Gerard Baker

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“Why I did what I did”: Sharing the American Indian Story in our National Parks

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David Treuer

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Jim Enote

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Walter Echo-Hawk

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“In the Courts of the Conqueror: A Native American Experience”

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Dan Wildcat

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