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Doing Indigenous Research: Theory and Practice, a short seminar chaired by Jennifer Denetdale, University of New Mexico, April 8-9, 2004.

Participants

Jennifer Denetdale, Chair
Department of History, University of New Mexico
“Chairmen, Presidents, and Princesses: Gendering Navajo Nationalism”

Ned Blackhawk
Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“The Primacy of Violence in Great Basin Indian History”

Greg Cajete
Native American Studies, University of New Mexico
“American Indian Epistemologies”

Brenda Child
Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
“My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Labor and Gender in Ojibwe History”

Angela Gonzales
Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University
“Regrounding Theory, Reimagining Identity: A Relational Approach to
Understanding Indigenous Identity”

Kehaulani Kauanui
Department of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University
“Critical Thoughts on a Kanaka Maoli Research Agenda in the Context of
Hawaiian Nationalist Struggle”

Lloyd Lee
Department of Native American Studies, University of New Mexico
“Utilizing Sa’ah Naaghai Bik’eh Hozhoon as Part of the Research Process”

Estévan Rael-Galvez
State Historian, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Testifying to the Present Tense of American Indian Slavery: Reading and
Remembering Mal-criados from Representation to Recovery”

Andrea Smith
Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
“Feminism and Sexism in Native Communities”

Left to Right: Ned Blackhawk, Angela Gonzales, Estévan Rael-Galvez, Jennifer Denetdale, Kehaulani Kauanui, Brenda Child, Andrea Smith, Circe Sturm (SAR Resident Scholar), Lloyd Lee, Greg Cajete

Summary