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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Christy E Ramsdell
[mailto:ceramsde@law.syr.edu] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:07 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Moving Beyond ID Card Indians<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>The Center for Indigenous Law, Governance and Citizenship is
proud to announce its 5<sup>th</sup> Annual Haudenosaunee Conference: Moving
Beyond ID Card Indians—The Search for Native Citizenry to be held
November 15, 2008 at Syracuse University. A reception will be held November 14
in the College of Law rotunda with a movie following in Grant Auditorium, also
in the College of Law. The Conference will be held at the Goldstein Student
Center on South Campus. Registration information and directions can be found at
<a href="http://www.law.syr.edu/indigenous">http://www.law.syr.edu/indigenous</a>.
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<p class=MsoNormal>We hope to see you there! <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>An agenda follows. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Prior to colonization, citizenship was a
much simpler question. Indigenous nations exercised their own citizenship laws
with little dispute as to what constituted citizenship. Over 500 years later,
assimilationist governmental policies have invaded our communities, causing us
to question - who is an Indian? Is carrying a tribal identification card
enough? Or a card from the federal government? Or does citizenship envision
much more, such as a contribution to one’s community by participating in
governance and/or cultural events? And who has the authority to make that
determination? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Today Indigenous nations continually
struggle with the citizenship issue and the Haudenosaunee are no different. But
our issues may be more complex. What does it mean to be Haudenosaunee vs. being
a Mohawk or Seneca? Does citizenry in a one of the Six Nations automatically
grant one citizenship as Haudenosaunee? And what happens when an international
boundary divides your territory and you’re required to have an
internationally accepted id card simply to visit your family? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-autospace:none'><span
style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>The 5th Annual Haudenosaunee Conference
is an opportunity for Haudenosaunee scholars and people to discuss the various
layers of citizenship. Topics will include defining Haudenosaunee and nation
citizenship; citizenship decision makers; the federal government’s impact
indigenous citizenship; a historic view of citizenship; the people’s role
in defining citizenship; and the citizen role’s in a nation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><i><span
style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Draft Agenda </span></i><span
style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>(10/08/08) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>November 14, 2008 </span></i><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Grant
Auditorium <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>E.I.
White Building, College of Law <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>5:00
p.m. Reception <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>6:00
p.m. Movie - TBA <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><i><span style='font-family:
"Cambria","serif"'>November 15, 2008 </span></i><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Goldstein
Student Center, South Campus <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>8:00
- 8:30 Registration <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>8:30
- 8:45 a.m. <i>Welcoming Remarks </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Robert
Odawi Porter (Seneca), Professor of Law and Director of the <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Center
for Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>8:45
- 9:45 a.m. <i>Constructions of Modes of Identity: General Perspectives from
Native America and the Mainstream </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Michael
Taylor (Seneca), PhD, Assistant Professor Anthropology and Native American
Studies, Colgate University <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>9:45
- 10:45 a.m. <i>Using a Core Values Paradigm to Define the Citizen</i>’<i>s
Role in a Nation: Personal Account of Role and Role Strain as a Seneca and
Scientist </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Tassy
Parker (Seneca), PhD, RN, Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine
and Nursing; Associate Director, Research and Development, Center for Native
American Health; and Assistant Dean, Office of Diversity, University of New
Mexico - School of Medicine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>10:45
– 11:00 a.m. Break <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>11:00
– 12:00 noon. <i>Understanding the Haudenosaunee Identity through
Iroquois Cosmology Part II: Moving Beyond Card-Carrying Iroquois Indian
Identity </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Kevin
White (Akwesasne Mohawk), PhD, Assistant Professor of Native American &
American Studies at SUNY Oswego <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>12:00
- 1:00 p.m. LUNCH <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>1:00
- 2:00 p.m. <i>Haudenosaunee Citizenship through the Lens of an Anti-Indian
Sovereignty Movement: Discourses of Equality, Assimilation, and Oppression </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Meghan
Y. McCune, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State
University <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>2:00
– 3:00 p.m. <i>Require What You Want to Produce: Indigenous Citizenship
Criteria </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Scott
Lyons (Leech Lake Ojibwe), PhD, Assistant Professor of English, Syracuse
University <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>2:30
- 3:30 p.m. Break <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>3:30
- 4:30 p.m. <i>Critical Issues to the Haudenosaunee People and Nations - An
Update on Sales Tax and Border Crossing </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Robert
Odawi Porter (Seneca), Professor of Law and Director of the <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Center
for Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>4:30 p.m.
Closing Remarks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Christy Ramsdell</span><span
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</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>College of Law</span><span
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</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Syracuse University</span><span
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</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Syracuse, NY 13244</span><span
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</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>315-443-9542</span><span
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