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You’re warmly invited to an October 14 symposium on Indigenous Poetry and Periodicals, featuring scholars in Native American and Indigenous Studies and a lunchtime conversation and reading by poet Kimberly Blaeser, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets.  RSVP for the lunch here.

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Indigenous Poetry and Periodicals: A Symposium on the Ojibwe Muzzeniegun/Literary Voyager

Friday, October 14, 10 am-4 pm, University Hall, 201, Northwestern University, Evanston IL

The Indigenous Poetry and Periodicals symposium brings Native American and Indigenous Studies scholars to Northwestern to consider nineteenth-century Indigenous poetry and its publication or circulation in periodicals.  The symposium centers on the first Indigenous-edited periodical, the Ojibwe Muzzeniegun, or Literary Voyager.  Edited by the Ojibwe poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and her U.S. husband Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in 1826-1827, the Muzzeniegun consists of 15 manuscript issues.

Speakers will take the Johnston family’s translations and poetic creation for the magazine as one starting point for considering the relations between Indigenous poetry and periodicals.  What genealogies of Indigenous poetry exist, and what are their relations to periodicals (newspapers, magazines, zines, literary journals, anthologies)—moving from the Johnstons both backward and forward in time?

Schedule, October 14, University Hall 201

9: 45 Welcome

10-11:30 AM, Panel 1, Indigenous Poetry and Periodicals: Texts and Contexts

Angela Calcaterra, University of North Texas, “Fetters of Force”: The Violent US State in 19th-Century Indigenous Poem and Picture

Kathryn Walkiewicz, University of California, San Diego, Indian Territory's Poetic Printscapes

Rochelle Zuck, Iowa State University, “An Indian Chautauqua Movement”: Arthur C. Parker,

Carlos Montezuma, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkála-Šá) and the Editing of the American Indian Magazine

11:30 AM-1 PM, Lunch/Conversation about Indigenous Poetry with Kimberly Blaeser,  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, inaugural director of Indigenous Nations Poets. RSVP

1:15-2:45 PM, Panel 2, Indigenous Poetry and Periodicals: The Johnstons, the Muzzeniegun, and Anishinaabeg Literature

Barbara Bair, Library of Congress, The Allegorical Vine and Oak: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft in context of the Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Papers

Kai Pyle, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Periodicals, Pamphlets, Scrolls, and Special Issues: 300+ years of Ojibwe-language poetry from Baawiting”

Jill Doerfler, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Anishinaabeg Literature: A Tradition of Innovation

3-4 PM, Keynote Reading, Kimberly Blaeser