2007 Annual Meeting, Association
of American Geographers
April 17-21 2007, San Francisco, CA
5156: Indigenous Peoples: Hegemonic Symbolism
and Discourse in Public Space
Saturday, 4/21/07, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Description:
Popular culture in Western society has constructed a disingenuous
representation of Indigenous history and culture that is manifest
in many ways on the cultural landscape, and research presented in
this session critically examines the portrayal of Indigenous people
in public space. Historical and contemporary examinations involving
the politics of commemoration, preserving the memory of conquest,
contested meanings of place, and symbolic, imperialist and neo-imperialist
landscapes are among the theoretical issues discussed.
Organizer: Ezra Zeitler - University Of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chair: Ezra Zeitler - University Of Nebraska-Lincoln
Presenters:
Drew Bednasek - Queen's University
The Colonial and the Postcolonial Landscape
of the File Hills First Nations Reserve
Mary E. Curran - Eastern Connecticut State University
Pequot in Performance: through the 'white man's
looking glass'?
Jean Evers - University of Hawai`i at Manoa
KU's journey into the West:A Hawaiian image
in space and place
Anne Godlewska, PhD - Queens University
Juxtaposing Narratives
Ezra Zeitler - University Of Nebraska-Lincoln
Commemorating Conquest: Native American Iconography
in Secondary Schools
