American Indian Law and Literature
Fourth Annual Indigenous Law Conference
Michigan State University College of Law
October 18 & 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”
