“Rekindle Tecumseh’s Vision – Historical Conference”
Bkejwanong Territory, Walpole Island First Nation
Monday, September 30, 2013
AGENDA
Anglican Church Grounds
Tecumseh Rd, Walpole Island
No Admission fee
9:00 to 9:25 am
Open Prayer: Community Elder
Welcome Address: Chief Kewayosh
9:25 to 10:15 am
“Tecumseh and the War of 1812”
Keynote Speaker: Alan Taylor, University of California
10:15 to 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 to 12:00 noon
CONTEXTUALIZING TECUMSEH – NATIVE
STRUGGLES PRIOR TO AND DURING THE WAR
“Ojibwe Chief Niibaakhom ‘Night Thunderer’: A look at
Anishnaabe Oral tradions & archival documentaion for
the War of 1812”
Alan Corbiere, M’Chigeeng Local Historian
“An Era’s End? Imposing/Opposing Control in the Sault
Ste. Marie Borderlands”
Karl Hele, Concordia University
“Segnak – The Warrior History Lost”
Blake Norton, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural
Heritage Centre
12:00 to 1:00pm
Lunch on you own
1:00 to 2:30 pm
INDIAN NATIONS AND BORDERS: THE DREAM OF
THE INDIGENOUS TERRITORY
“’We are determined to defend our lands’: Tecumseh and
the British Imperial Myths of Protection and Citizenship”
David McNab, York University
Rick Hill, Indigenous Knowledge Centre/Six Nations of
the Grand River
“After the War of 1812: The Treaty of Ghent, and Drawing
the Border through the Upper St. Mary’s River”
Phil Bellfy, Michigan State University
2:30 to 2:45 pm
Break
2:45 to 4:15 pm
THE LEGACY OF THE WAR FOR NATIVE PEOPLES
“An Unsettling Legacy: The War of 1812 and the Removal
of the 1830s”
Kelli Mosteller, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural
Heritage Centre
“The Slopping Sky: War of 1812 Veteran, and later Head
Chief of the Mississauga at the western end of Lake
Ontario”
Donald Smith, University of Calgary (Emeritus)
“Inheriting Tecumseh’s Vision”
Mark Aquash, University of British Columbia
4:15 to 4:30 pm
Closing – MC/Elder
Contributors:
Alan Taylor, University of California
Mark Aquash, University of British Columbia
Alan Corbiere, M’Chigeeng Local Historian
Phil Bellfy, Michigan State University
David McNab, York University
Rick Hill, Indigenous Knowledge Centre/Six Nations of the Grand River
Karl Hele, Concordia University
Donald Smith, University of Calgary
Kelli Mosteller, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Centre
Blake Norton, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Centre
Chi-miigwech:
Government of Canada
The Walpole Island Anglican Church
Walpole Island First Nation