Racist
Stereotypes and Cultural Appropriation in American Sports
Thursday, November
1, 2012, 10:00 a.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Rasmuson
Theater
National
Museum of the American Indian
4th Street
and Independence Avenue, SW
Washington,
D.C.
Join commentators, scholars, authors,
and representatives from sports organizations for a Symposium of panel
discussions on racist stereotypes and cultural appropriation in American
sports. Explore the mythology and psychology of sports stereotypes and mascots,
examine the retirement of “Native American” sports references and collegiate
efforts to revive them despite the NCAA’s policy against “hostile and abusive” names
and symbols, and engage in a lively community conversation about the name and
logo of the Washington, D.C. professional football organization. A reception
will follow immediately after the Symposium.
National
Museum of the American Indian Symposium:
Racist
Stereotypes and Cultural Appropriation in American Sports
PROGRAM
Welcome
10:00 a.m.
Hon. Kevin Gover, Esq., Director,
National Museum of the American Indian
Mascot
Origin Myths
10:15 a.m.
Dr. Manley
A. Begay, Jr., Moderator. Associate Social Scientist/Senior Lecturer,
American Indian Studies Program, The University of Arizona; and Co-Director,
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University
Dr. C. Richard King, Co-Editor, Team Spirits, Native Athletes in Sport and Society, and Encyclopedia of Native Americans in Sports; and Professor and Chair, Department of
Critical Gender & Race Studies, Washington State University
Dr. Ellen
Staurowsky, Professor, Department of Sport Management, Goodwin School
of Professional Studies, Drexel University
Ms. Linda M.
Waggoner,
Author, Fire Light: The Life of Angel De
Cora, Winnebago Artist; and Editor, “Neither
White Men Nor Indians”: Affidavits from the Winnebago Mixed-Blood Claim
Commissions, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, 1838-1839
Lunch on your own
12:15 p.m.
Case Studies
1:30 p.m.
Dr. Suzan
Shown Harjo, Moderator. President,
The Morning Star Institute; Past Executive Director, National Congress of
American Indians; and a Founding Trustee, National Museum of the American
Indian
Dr. Jerry C.
Bread, Sr., Outreach Coordinator, Facilitator and Adjunct Associate
Professor, Native American Studies, The University of Oklahoma
Ms. Lois J.
Risling,
Educator and Land Specialist for the Hoopa Valley Tribes; and Retired Director,
Center for Indian Community Development, Humboldt State University
N. Bruce
Duthu, Esq., Chair and Professor, Native American Studies, Dartmouth
College
Hon. Oren
Lyons,
Council of Chiefs, Onondaga Nation, and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
and Professor Emeritus of American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, University
of Buffalo
Delise
O’Meally, Esq., Director of Governance and International Affairs, National
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
Break
3:30 p.m.
A Community Conversation
3:45 p.m.
Dr. Philip J. Deloria, Moderator. Author, Playing Indian and Indians in Unexpected Places; Professor, History and American
Studies, and Associate Dean, Undergraduate Education, College of Literature,
Science and the Arts, University of Michigan
Hon. Judith
Bartnoff,
Esq., Deputy Presiding Judge, Civil
Division, District of Columbia Superior Court
Mr. Erik
Brady, Sports
Reporter, USA Today
Rev. Graylan
Hagler, Plymouth
Congregational United Church of Christ, and Immediate Past President, Ministers
for Racial, Social and Economic Justice
Mr. Robert
I. Holden, Deputy Director, National Congress of American Indians
Mr.
Mike Wise, Sports Columnist, The Washington Post
