Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 23, 2004|Volume 32, Number 27

Conference to explore work in the
field of American Indian studies

"Pathways: A Graduate Conference on American Indian Studies" will be held at Yale Friday-Sunday, April 23-25.

The conference seeks to provide a forum for graduate students working within some aspect of American Indian Studies (AIS) to share their work with one another; to foster student-to-student and student-to-professional relationships by encouraging networking and community-building for those working within AIS; to educate graduate students working in AIS about the process of professionalization through traditional and alternate career paths at colleges, universities, libraries, museums, tribal/national institutions and non-profit organizations; to collaborate with undergraduates and members of local communities on issues pertinent to American Indian people and AIS; and to discuss, assess and actively shape the future of AIS as a field.

Professor Robert Warrior of the University of Oklahoma will deliver the keynote address, titled "William Apess and the Future of Native American Studies." Warrior is the author of "Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions" and (with Paul Chaat Smith) "Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee" (1996).

"Pathways" is sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library's Western Americana Collection, the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of History's Andrews Society, the Graduate and Professional School Senate, the American Studies Program, the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale Group for the Study of Native America, Native American Yale Alumni, Yale Indian Papers Project and the Association of Native Americans at Yale.

This event is free and open to the public, but participants should pre-register at www.yale.edu/ygsna/pathways.

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