American Indian Law and Literature
Fourth Annual Indigenous Law Conference
Michigan State University College of Law
October 18 & 20, 2007
October 18, 2007
9:00-10:30 a.m. Kristen Carpenter, “The Actual State of Things”: American Indian Legal Fictions and Truths
Renee Knake, “How Lawyers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas: A study of James Welch’s The Indian Lawyer
Wenona Single, “Rebellious Judging”
10:45-12:15 p.m. Margaret Montoya & Christine Zuni Cruz, “Narrative Braids: Performing Racial Literacy”
Larry Cata Backer, “Nostalgia Written in Blood: The Noble Savage and Latin American Political Identity”
Jo Carrillo, “Legal Culture, Communicative Circuits and Symbols”
1:30-3:00 p.m. Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, “Crossover”
Carla Pratt, “The Construction of Indian Identity: As an Africanless Identity in Indian Law and Literature”
Frank Pommersheim, “Poetry and Law: What Is the Relationship Exactly?”
3:15-5:00 p.m. Gordon Henry, “Trying Skins: Courtoom Scenes in American Indian Fiction”
Matthew Fletcher, “Red Leaves and the Dirty Ground: The Cannibalism of Law and Economics”
Sonia Katyal, “Iconic Intersectionality”
7:00 p.m. Keynote: Chairman Frank Ettawageshik
October 20, 2007
9:00-10:30 a.m. Raymond Kiogima, Larry Plamondon, Hon. JoAnne Gasco & Margaret Noori, “Kinship as Action: Anishinaabe Relationships from a Linguistic Perspective”
10:45-12:15 p.m. Bruce Duthu, “Bear Narratives: Blending Cultural and Legal Voices in Defense of the Bear”
Melissa Tatum, “The Role of Narrative in Defining Cultural Property”
Kirsten Carlson, “Unresolved Disputes: Narratives in the Transformation and Processing of Persistent Claims”
12:30-2:00 p.m. David Carlson, The Pragmatics of Literary Nationalism
Amelia Katanski, “Writing the Living Law: American Indian Literature as Legal Narrative”
Jennifer Camden & Kate Fort, “Cooper’s The Pioneers & Johnson v. M’Intosh: Legal Fictions of 1823”
Stuart Rieke & Monique Vondall-Rieke, “Perceptions of Restorative Justice: A Winter’s Tale, A Jury of Her Peers, and Shamengwa”
