[nativestudies-l] Moving Beyond ID Card Indians

[Ruth Garby Torres]

From: Christy E Ramsdell [mailto:ceramsde at law.syr.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:07 AM

Subject: Moving Beyond ID Card Indians

 

The Center for Indigenous Law, Governance and Citizenship is proud to
announce its 5th 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
http://www.law.syr.edu/indigenous. 

 

We hope to see you there! 

An agenda follows. 

 

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? 

 

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? 

 

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. 

 

Draft Agenda (10/08/08) 

November 14, 2008 

Grant Auditorium 

E.I. White Building, College of Law 

5:00 p.m. Reception 

6:00 p.m. Movie - TBA 

November 15, 2008 

Goldstein Student Center, South Campus 

8:00 - 8:30 Registration 

8:30 - 8:45 a.m. Welcoming Remarks 

Robert Odawi Porter (Seneca), Professor of Law and Director of the 

Center for Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship 

8:45 - 9:45 a.m. Constructions of Modes of Identity: General Perspectives
from Native America and the Mainstream 

Michael Taylor (Seneca), PhD, Assistant Professor Anthropology and Native
American Studies, Colgate University 

9:45 - 10:45 a.m. Using a Core Values Paradigm to Define the Citizen's Role
in a Nation: Personal Account of Role and Role Strain as a Seneca and
Scientist 

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. 

10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Break 

11:00 - 12:00 noon. Understanding the Haudenosaunee Identity through
Iroquois Cosmology Part II: Moving Beyond Card-Carrying Iroquois Indian
Identity 

Kevin White (Akwesasne Mohawk), PhD, Assistant Professor of Native American
& American Studies at SUNY Oswego 

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. LUNCH 

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Haudenosaunee Citizenship through the Lens of an
Anti-Indian Sovereignty Movement: Discourses of Equality, Assimilation, and
Oppression 

Meghan Y. McCune, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Michigan
State University 

2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Require What You Want to Produce: Indigenous Citizenship
Criteria 

Scott Lyons (Leech Lake Ojibwe), PhD, Assistant Professor of English,
Syracuse University 

2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Break 

3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Critical Issues to the Haudenosaunee People and Nations -
An Update on Sales Tax and Border Crossing 

Robert Odawi Porter (Seneca), Professor of Law and Director of the 

Center for Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship 

4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks

 

 

Christy Ramsdell 
244 White Hall 
College of Law 
Syracuse University 
Syracuse, NY 13244 
315-443-9542 
315-443-4141 FAX 

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