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Native American Identity Seminar, a short seminar chaired by Suzan Shown Harjo, President of the Morningstar Institute, Washington, DC, May 19-23, 2004.

Participants

Suzan Shown Harjo, Chair (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee)
President of the Morningstar Institute, Washington, D.C.
2004 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native American Artist Fellow
2004 Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Summer Scholar, SAR

Marcus Amerman (Choctaw)
Artist, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Ronald and Susan Dubin Native American Artist Fellow, SAR

David Bradley (White Earth Chippewa)
Artist, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native American Artist Fellow, SAR

Greg Cajete (Santa Clara Pueblo)
Director, Native American Studies, Associate Professor, College of Education, University of New Mexico
“The Making of an Indigenous Teacher: Identity Development Through Doing Work in Indigenous Education”

Marcella Burgess Giles (Big Cat Muscogee)
Attorney, Giles and Woodard, McLean VA
“Dictating Race-Based Membership in the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma”

Bob Haozous (Chiricahua Apache)
Artist; Executive Director, Allan Houser Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
“Red White Man Dialogue”

John Harte (San Felipe Pueblo)
Attorney, National Indian Gaming Association, Washington, DC

Donna House (Navajo/Oneida)
Ethnobotanist, Escondido, NM

J. Kehaulani Kauanui (Native Hawaiian)
Assistant Professor, American Studies and Anthropology, Center for the Americas, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
“Kanaka Maoli and Native American Identity: Contested Sovereignty”
2003-2004 Resident Scholar, SAR

 Lloyd L. Lee (Navajo)
Assistant Professor, American Studies Department
Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
“Western Education and the Absence of Western Categories of Native Identity”

Mateo Romero (Cochiti Pueblo)
Artist
2004 Ronald and Susan Dubin Native American Artist Fellow, SAR

Circe Dawn Sturm (Choctaw)
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman
“States of Sovereignty: Debates Over Tribal Authenticity and Recognition in Cherokee Country”
2003-2004 Resident Scholar, SAR

Carey N. Vicenti (Jicarilla Apache)
Professor of Sociology, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO

David E. Wilkins (Lumbee)
Professor, Department of American Indian Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Law and American Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
“Exiling One's Kin: Banishment in Indian Country”

Standing (from left): John Harte, Greg Cajete, Bob Haozous, Carey N. Vicenti, David E. Wilkins, Lloyd L. Lee

Seated (from left): J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Circe Dawn Sturm, Susan Shown Harjo, Marcella Burgess Giles

Not Shown: Marcus Amerman, David Bradley

Summary

This seminar Seminar included valuable insights and contributions to the issue of Native American identity as noted through aspects of blood quantum, sovereignty, gambling, land allotment rights, ancestral and kinship concerns, art, and the environment.