Scott Bruton
Ph.D. student (ABD), Rutgers University, History Department
sbruton7@hotmail.com

2004 Pathways presenter:
"Translating the American Dream in Indian Country: The Navajo Nation's Struggles with the Homeownership Industry"

Bio:
I received my B.A. in history from Washington University in 1992. I worked for the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis, MO under a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to document their American Indian collections (1992-94). I then worked for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museums of Natural History (1994-1995) and American History (1995-1997). I received my M.A. in History, with an emphasis in American Indian history, from the University of Oklahoma in 1999. I have been a Ph.D. student at Rutgers Univeristy since 1999. My dissertation, "Excavating Identity: Archaeological Imaginings of America in the Early Republic," investigates how Americans excavated archaeological artifacts and ideas – political, racial, and mystical – from around the world that they incorporated into narratives of national identity. My conference paper is based on work that I did from 2001-2003 for the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University and the Fannie Mae Foundation on American Indian homeownership in the United States.

John F. Dillon
Ph.D. Student, University of Arizona, American Indian Studies Program
jdillon@email.arizona.edu

2004 Pathways presenter:
"The Importance of Indian Water"

Bio:
John Dillon grew up in the Rocky Mountains, namely the states of Utah, Colorado and Montana. His Master's thesis at the University of Montana's Environmental Studies Program looks at the social and ecological consequences of water rights litigation on the Wind River Indian Reservation. Along with High Plains Films, John produced an award-winning documentary on the topic, entitled WIND RIVER. Last summer, John worked with the Hoopa Tribal Fisheries Department. Currently, John's studies include American Indian law and policy, cultures and societies, and literature, with continuing emphasis on tribal water issues and management.

Elliotte Draegor
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Connecticut, History Department
Elliotte.Draegor@huskymail.uconn.edu

Bio:
I graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BA in History and Anthropology in 1998, graduated from Tufts University with a MA in American History in 2000, and am presenting in the 4th year of my doctoral program at UConn. I have just started research on my dissertation, which will examine the social, political, economic, and legal issues underlying the transfer of land from New England Indian reservations to white communities near those reservations in the mid to late 19th century, with a focus on the experiences of the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes.

C.S. Everett
PhD Candidate, Vanderbilt University
c.everett@vanderbilt.edu

Bio:
C.S. Everett is an independent scholar and director of the American Indian Research Authority, a consulting firm providing technical assistance to non-federally recognized tribes in the Southeast. He is also doctoral candidate at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, currently revising a manuscript on Indian Slavery in Virginia.

Stephanie Irlbacher Fox
PhD Student, University of Cambridge
smi21@cam.ac.uk

2004 Pathways presenter:
“Social Suffering, Rights, and Reality for Indigenous Peoples in the Northwest Territories, Canada”

Bio:
Stephanie Irlbacher Fox is Magdalene Donner Scholar in North American Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, and is a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow. She is completing her PhD in Polar Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute, writing a ethnography of self government negotiations in the Canadian North. Drawing on anthropology, political science, and philosophy, her PhD study is based on 14 months of fieldwork research, and close to a decade of experience working on self government negotiations and related processes for Indigenous peoples governments including currently as self government negotiations advisor for the Deline (Sahtu) Dene. Her research interests include political development in Northern Canada, uses of temporality in negotiations, and methods and techniques of moose hide tanning. Her publications include several plain language publications for Indigenous communities on self government and traditional indigenous governance research; and academic publications and conference papers on women’s participation in negotiations, governance in Northern Canada, and political development in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Stephanie divides her time between Cambridge and Yellowknife, NT, Canada, where she lives with her husband Andrew.

Cynthia Freeman (Navajo/Diné)
Undergraduate Student, Bates College
cfreeman@bates.edu

Bio:
Entering my junior year of undergraduate studies. My interdisciplinary major is entitled 'Political Eclogy: with an emphasis on Native Americans and African Americans.' My major has allowed me to explore many diverse academic disciplines. I have recently been awarded the Phillips Fellowship to study Black Seminoles in Texas and Mexico, the title of my fellowship project is 'Black Seminoles: Survival in Black and Red.' I am very interested in Political Science, Environmental Studies, African American Studies, and American Indian Studies.

Paul Grant-Costa
Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, Yale University
paul.costa@yale.edu

Bio:
Ph.D. (Theoretical Linguistics) Univ. of Connecticut, 1985. J.D. (International Law & Human Rights) Univ. of Connecticut/Exeter Univ., Exeter, England, 1989. M.A., American Studies, Yale University, 2002. Legal Intern, Directorate of Human Rights, Council of Europe, 1989. Dept. Head of Historical Research, Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, 1995-2000. General Editor, Yale Indian Papers Project, present. Dissertation Title: "The Last Indian War in Connecticut: The Mohegan Tribe v. The Govenour & Company of Connecticut, 1703-1773." Research Interests: Native communities in southeastern New England; Colonial America; the Pequot war; King Philip's war; Local law and the Native American; New England belief and superstition; Native American/Black relations; federal recognition of Native tribes.

Elizabeth Hoover (Mi’kmaq/Mohawk)
Ph.D. Student, Brown University, Department of Anthropology
Elizabeth_M_Hoover@Brown.EDU

2004 Pathways presenter:
“Arbiters of Authenticity; Living History in Native American Museums”

Bio:
I am of Mi'kmaq and Mohawk descent, from the Helderberg Mountains of upstate New York. I received my BA in Anthropology and Psychology from Williams College, and my MA in Museum Studies from Brown University. Currently I am working with the Aquinnah Wampanoag of Martha's Vineyard in establishing a tribal museum.

Angela Pulley Hudson
Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University, American Studies
angela.pulley@yale.edu

Bio:
Angela is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Yale University. She received her M.A. in American Literature from the University of Georgia. Her dissertation is currently titled, “Reading between the Lines: Indians, Slaves, and Surveyors in the Southeastern Borderlands, 1790s-1820s.” Her research and writing interests include race and racialization in 19th c. America, particularly the U.S. South, the study of American Indian histories and literatures, and the intersection of African American and American Indian studies. Her article, “Imagining Mary Musgrove: Georgia’s Creek Indian Princess and the Politics of Southern Identity” is forthcoming in a collection titled Feminist Interventions in Early America.

Nadia M. Jackinsky-Horrell
MA Student, University of Washington, Division of Art History
nadiajh@u.washington.edu

A graduate of The George Washington University, Nadia is currently finishing up her MA thesis on mask making as a form of identity construction among Alutiiq peoples on the Kodiak Archipelago in Alaska at the University of Washington. Nadia's research looks at the importance of cultural sensitivity in Native American scholarship, the use of community participation as an educational tool, and the power of material culture as a form of cultural survival. As an Alutiiq descendant, Nadia’s research is both a personal and academic undertaking.

Michelle M. Jacob (Yakama Nation)
PhD Candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara, Sociology
mmjacob@umail.ucsb.edu

2004 Pathways presenter:
"The Fire Within" vs. "Burnout." What does it mean to do community based research that is academically legitimate, and what does it mean for the American Indian Studies scholar?”

Bio:
Michelle is currently trying to make sense of what it means to be an Indian academic and researcher. When she is not doing dissertation research on social support, diabetes, and depression she enjoys activities such as snowshoeing in the foothills and camping; but most of all, she loves being Auntie for her young nephews and niece.

Roy F. Janisch (Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe (Oyate))
Doctoral Candidate/ABD, Arizona State University
roy.janisch@asu.edu

2004 Pathways presenter:
"Sovereignty, Indian Gaming and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe"

Bio:
Recent Work: "American Indians in the Urban Environment: A Question of Identity" and "Fear and Indian Gaming" I have worked in law enforcement as a Military Police Officer/Investigator, tribal police officer, federal agency investigator of major crime in Indian Country, and drug enforcement with numerous agencies. I worked in Washington, D.C. as a Management Analyst and developed a model cross-deputization agreement for use between governmental agencies and helped initiate a National Incident Based Reporting System, (NIBRS) for the reporting of crime statistics. I hold a dual degree in criminal justice and psychology, a Master of Public Administration, (MPA) degree and am finalizing my Ph.D. at Arizona State University.

Marie Julienne
Charter College of Education, California State University, Los Angeles
MJulienne@aol.com

2004 Pathways presenter:
"Introduction to the Matrix of Tribal Education: Codes, Departments, and Implications for the State of California"

Bio:
Marie Julienne received her BS from San Jose State University (California) in 1997. She completed the course requirements for the UCLA American Indian Studies graduate program in 2000, with an emphasis in Law and Education. She has since been teaching Social Studies at Belmont High School, which is the largest populated school on the West Coast with a 5200 student population. In addition, Marie is an instructor at Los Angeles City College. The disparities she has witnessed in education drive her life's work: Native Rights in Education. The presentation for this conference is based on her Master's thesis.

Kouslaa Kessler-Mata (Coastal Chumash/Yokut)
Doctoral Student, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science
kouslaa@yahoo.com

2004 Pathways presenter:
“In Pursuit of Self-Determination: Contemporary Challenges for American Indian Tribal Governance”

Bio:
A graduate of San Francisco State University (B.A. American Studies, 2000), Kouslaa studies political theory and American politics. Currently developing her dissertation proposal, she intends to address theoretical difficulties in devising effective institutions and mechanisms for tribal governments. Prior to entering the University of Chicago, Kouslaa participated in the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs (2001) and the Morris K. Udall Native American Internship Program (2000). She most recently completed an internship with California Indian Legal Services, Washington D.C. Office (2002), and served as an extern with the Indian Health Services Community Health Representatives program in Rockville, MD (2001). She received her M.A. in June 2003.

Michael Kral
Research Affiliate, Yale University, Department of Anthropology
michael.kral@yale.edu

Research Affiliate in Anthropology, Yale U, doctoral student in anthropology, McGill U. I have previously taught at U Manitoba (psychiatry), U Windsor (psychology), and most recently at Yale on Inuit past and present. I am also a clinical psychologist. My primary work is with the Inuit of Nunavut, Canada, on the suicide epidemic among youth and on their near loss and recent reclamation of culture and autonomy since the 1950s.

Christian McMillen
Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University, Department of History
christian.mcmillen@yale.edu

Bio:
Christian McMillen is a PhD candidate in the history department at Yale. His dissertation is on federal Indian law and Native land claims activism between the World Wars. Next fall, he will be Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Virginia.

Kevin Noble Maillard (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma)
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan, Political Science Department
maillard@umich.edu

Bio:
Kevin Maillard is a Doctoral Candidate in the Political Science Department at the University of Michigan. With a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Kevin is researching cultural amnesia toward mixed race in the United States in the eyes of law, history, theory, and literature. He has recently presented at conferences in Puerto Rico, Austria, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana. He most recently published articles in the American Indian Law Review, the Journal of Constitutional Law, and narrative pieces in Objects of Everlasting Esteem and MAVIN. Originally from Tulsa, OK, he recieved his BA from Duke University, and a JD from the Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School.

Karen Marrero
Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University, Department of History
karen.marrero@yale.edu

Bio:
Karen Marrero is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Yale University. She holds an M.A. in English and an M.A. in History with a specialty in Archival Studies from the University of Windsor in Canada. Her research interests cover early North American history, particularly interactions between Native and Euro Americans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Great Lakes, and the changing roles of Native women in this area. Her dissertation is titled “Founding Families: Mixed Lineages in Eighteenth-Century Detroit” and considers the nature of family relationships in mixed Native and Euro American families in one of the busiest trading centers in the eighteenth-century Great Lakes. Marrero has given papers on her work at various conferences, including meetings of the Canadian Historical Association, French Colonial Historical Society, and Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture. Her work has been published in several journals, conference proceedings, and edited books, most recently the Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines. She will contribute in 2005 to a special issue of the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History on indigenous women and the colonial encounter.

Darren Modzelewski (Blackfeet/Polish)
Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology Department
darren@uclink.berkeley.edu

2004 Pathways presenter:
"Throwing Stones at Concrete Houses"

Bio:
Darren Modzelewski completed his undergraduate degrees in anthropology and history from Brown University in 2002. Following commencement, Darren acted as Fellow for the Federal Preservation Institute of the National Park Service's Cultural Resources Program. While working for the Park Service, he helped to create a training seminar which discussed the legal obligations and necessity of Federal Agencies to consult with Native Americans before undertaking any potentially harmful projects. Currently, Darren is a first year graduate student in the Anthropology department of the University of California Berkeley focusing his attention on exploring culture contact situations in seventeenth and eighteenth century New England, colonialism, post-colonialism, and the political impacts historical archaeology makes on descendant communities.

Jill Peters
Ph. D Candidate (ABD), State University of New York at Buffalo, American Studies
jpeters4@buffalo.edu

2004 Pathways presenter:
"Beyond Fairytale: Pocahontas and Sacagawea as Tools in American Nation Building"

Bio:
Jill Peters is an American Studies Ph. D candidate at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her areas of concentration are folklore and women's studies. For the past three years Jill has worked as a folklore consultant for New York State Council on the Arts and as a teaching assistant for John Mohawk, co-director of the Center for the Americas at SUNY Buffalo. As a recipient of a US Fulbright Fellowship, Jill spent a year in the Solomon Islands researching the effects of European influence on indigenous culture and folklore. Currently, Jill is working on her dissertation, which is a study and evaluation of Roycroft women as progressive thinkers and early feminists.

Krista D. Pilz
Master's Program, University of Manitoba, Department of Native Studies
umpilzk@cc.umanitoba.ca

2004 Pathways presenter:
“Canadian Arctic Missions, The Colonial Record, and Government Collusion: A Sketch of Anglican Bishop Donald Marsh”

Bio:
I completed my honours degree in Native Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. I am presently finishing my master's thesis; Anglican missionary impact on the development and implementation of Canadian Arctic social policy, in Native Studies at the University of Manitoba. I have presented papers in both Canada and the United States on a range of topics including Inuit sculpture, Anglican literary representations of Inuit, and Canadian missionary photography. I plan to begin doctoral studies in the fall of 2004 in the U of M Interdisciplinary Phd. program. I have spent six summers in Pangnirtung, Nunavut as a part of the experiential learning program offered through the university of Manitoba. This past summer I coordinated a photo archive repatriation project in Pangnirtung where I returned forty photographs for the community records. I also collected information about the photos from local Inuit in order to expand, according to Inuit expertise and knowledge, the photographic databases of the Prince of Wales Heritage Center and the Anglican church archives.

Gerald Reid
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Sacred Heart University
reidg@sacredheart.edu

Bio:
I am an anthropologist/ethnohistorian with an interest in contemporary and nineteenth century Iroquois political and cultural revitalization. Currently my research focuses on political/cultural revitalization in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake in Southern Quebec. I have a forthcoming publication (Summer 2004) from the University of Nebraska Press entitled Kahnawake: Factionalism, Traditionalism and Nationalism in a Mohawk Community

Miriam Schacht
Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas at Austin, Department of English
mschacht@mail.utexas.edu

2004 Pathways presenter:
”Transnationalism, Mobility and Indigenous Identities”

Bio:
Miriam Schacht is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Texas at Austin. Originally focused on Native American literature, her research has expanded to examine how burgeoning transnational indigenous political movements have affected Anglophone indigenous literatures. She also has an interest in 19th century Native American travel narratives, and the role that travel and mobility play in forming indigenous communities.

Carsten Schmidtke
Ph.D. student, Occupational Education, Oklahoma State University
carsten@osu-okmulgee.edu

2004 Pathways presenter:
"Vocational Education Curriculum Content at Federal Off-Reservation Boarding Schools: Lessons for the Future from the Sins of the Past"

Bio:
Carsten Schmidtke is a German citizen who has taught English and American Indian Studies in the United States for over a decade. He has been interested in this discipline ever since he was an exchange student at the University of Minnesota, but he has no desire of not being German and does not even own a pair of moccasins. His article "Nomad in White Man's Jungle," a Deleuzian interpretation of the works of Creek author Louis Littlecoon Oliver, is forthcoming in The Chronicles of Oklahoma, and a book manuscript on American Indian travelers is currently under review by a major university press. Schmidtke and his wife reside in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, with their wirehaired dachshund Sofie.

David Seibert
Master's Candidate, Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Northern Arizona University
dfs7@dana.ucc.nau.edu

2004 Pathways presenter:
”Anthropological Collisions and Collaborations in the Myriad Fields of a Sacred Wetland Restoration"

Bio:
I received a Master of Arts degree in Literature from the University of Arizona in 1995, and subsequently taught composition while I worked as a horticulturist and desert researcher for the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson for seven years. During that period I conducted research with naturalist/ethnographer Dr. Gary Nabhan, who invited me to Flagstaff to assist him in establishing the Center for Sustainable Environments (CSE) at Northern Arizona University, while I pursued a Master's in Anthropology. At CSE I have had the opportunity to assist Hopi and Navajo communities in small-scale ecological restoration and sacred spring revitalization efforts. Success in these areas--that is, doing applied anthropology in ways amenable to the two groups--led to an invitation from the Zuni Tribe to work on my current project for them. This work centers on the restoration of a wetland of extreme importance to the Tribe's history and identity, and a concurrent examination of past anthropological practices that have justifiably made the word "anthropology" an expletive within the Zuni community.

Alice Te Punga Somerville (Maori; Te Atiawa ki Waiwhetu)
PhD candidate, Cornell University, Department of English (minor: American Indian Studies), Visiting Colleague at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003-4 academic year
aas42@cornell.edu

2004 Pathways presenter:
”American Indian Studies, Indigenous m.o.”

Bio:
alice te punga somerville (te atiawa ki waiwhetu/ pakeha) comes from aotearoa new zealand. she studied at the university of auckland, and with the help of a fulbright grant is currently a phd candidate in english (with a minor in american indian studies) at cornell university; for the 2003-4 north american academic year she is a visiting colleague with the center for pacific islands studies at the university of hawaii at manoa. alice's dissertation looks at the comparative critical contexts of maori writing in english, and she has published on maori learning support and mixed race maori/ pakeha writing. she has recently presented at conferences in the areas of maori/ pasifika hiphop, oceanic womens' writing, pacific pedagogy and research methodologies, globalisation and indigenous people, and minority studies pedagogies. some of her own poetry was collected in the 2003 anthology whetu moana; contemporary polynesian poems in english.

Ashley Riley Sousa
Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University, Department of History
ashley.riley@yale.edu

Ashley Riley Sousa is a PhD candidate in History at Yale University. Her current research deals with Native American agricultural workers in nineteenth-century California. Her article titled, "'THEY WILL BE HUNTED DOWN LIKE WILD BEASTS AND DESTROYED!': A Comparative Study of Genocide in California and Tasmania," is forthcoming from the Journal of Genocide Research in summer 2004.

Jesse A. Steinfeldt (Oneida Nation)
Ph.D. student, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Counseling Psychology
jesseas2@uwm.edu

2004 Pathways presenter:
"121 Vocational Rehabilitation Projects: Empowering American Indian Tribal Communities"

Bio:
Jesse A. Steinfeldt is a 1996 graduate of Yale University (BA, Psychology) and a 2001 graduate of University of Iowa (MA, Sport Psychology). He was a three sport athlete at Yale and a former professional athlete in Europe for three years. Jesse is currently pursuing his doctorate in Counseling Psychology at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In addition to currently providing psychotherapeutic services to homeless Vietnam veterans, Jesse recently completed a clinical internship on the reservation at the Oneida Mental Health center. Jesse is interested in research issues surrounding Native empowerment, career development, and the male psychological experience as well as a bevy of topics dealing with sport psychology. Jesse is happily married and has two beautiful children under the age of two.

Sheri Tatsch (Cherokee)
Doctoral Candidate, University of California Davis, Native American Studies
gradassistant@ucdavis.edu

2004 Pathways presenter:
“Revitalization of Native North America: Issues of Intellectual Property Rights and Language Renewal”

Bio:
For the past four years I have been the Executive Director of the Native American Language Center in the Department of Native American Studies at UCD. I worked for the past two years on the Harrington Database Project, funded by the National Science Foundation #BSC01-11487, developing policy, coding J.P. Harrington's California field notes, and training Native California peoples on the coding and use of these notes in language revitalization. 2000 through 2002 I was an Associate Editor for Current Anthropology. For the academic years of 2001 through 2003 I taught Native American Studies 107, a course that teaches indigenous languages of the Americas in a university setting. I am currently the Graduate Assistant to the Dean of Graduate Studies and the Chancellor at the University of California at Davis.

Charlene Voyer
Doctoral Candidate, Chestnut Hill College
cvoyer2@comcast.net

Bio:
My dissertation explores the cultural loss experienced by attendance at Boarding Schools. I plan to interview individuals from a variety of tribes to obtain their phenomenological experiences, specifically their experience of boarding school, sense of cultural identity, and how these aspects have affected their lives. My field is clinical psychology and I am interested in how the loss of a true cultural identity affected their psychological adjustment and overall sense of self-efficacy and well-being.

Jennifer O'Neal Walele (Grand Ronde/Chinook)
Legislative Resource Center
jenniferwalele@hotmail.com

Bio:
Graduate and fellow of the University of Arizona Knowledge River program--an initiative for the study of information resources and technology issues related to American Indians and Hispanics. Recently presented a research paper at the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists and a poster at the Society of American Archivists annual meeting. Awarded the Udall Archive Internship at the University of Arizona Special Collections Library. Later, selected as the summer 2003 John Foster Dulles archive intern at Princeton University's Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. Currently serving at the Legislative Resource Center, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Additionally assisting the Grand Ronde Cultural Department with cultural collections projects. Research interests include tribal archives, archaeology, and cultural intellectual property rights.

Christopher Wetzel
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
cdwetzel@socrates.berkeley.edu

2004 Pathways presenter:
"'One Sprit, One Nation': The Potawatomi Gathering and Imagining the Nation"

Bio:
A seventh year Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at U.C. Berkeley, Chris is currently completing his dissertation on Potawatomi culture and identity from the time of forced removal in the 1830s through the present. In recent months he completed fieldwork with Potawatomi bands in Michigan and Wisconsin, having conducted oral histories with elders, elected tribal council representatives, and band members. During the summer of 2004 he will continue this work with Potawatomi bands in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Ontario. Chris' other work has examined intratribal contention over gaming as well as land seizures and occupations by Native groups in the United States from 1950 to 2000.