CENTER FOR INDIGENOUS LAW, GOVERNANCE & CITIZENSHIP
4TH HAUDENOSAUNEE CONFERENCE
November 3, 2007 
Goldstein Student Center

Revised Agenda
(10/23/07) 

8:00 - 8:30 Registration

8:30 - 8:45 a.m. Welcoming Remarks 

     Robert Odawi Porter, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship

     David Smith, Emissary to the Haudenosaunee

8:45 - 9:30 a.m. Presentation No. 1 – History (pre-1789)

“The Iroquois, the Empire, and the Province: New York's Re-Writing of Its Early History”

     Michael Oberg, Professor of History, SUNY Geneseo

9:30 - 10:15 a.m. Presentation No. 2 – History (1789-1842)

“Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State”

     Laurence Hauptman, Professor of History, SUNY New Paltz

10:15 - 10:30 a.m. Break

10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Presentation No. 3 – Jurisdiction

“Competing Conceptions of Jurisdiction over Haudenosaunee Lands”

     Robert Odawi Porter

11:30 - 12:30 p.m. Lunch

12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Keynote Address –

     Maurice A. John, Sr. (Seneca) President, Seneca Nation of Indians 

1:30 - 1:45 p.m. Break

1:45 - 3:00 p.m. Presentation No. 4 – Culture and Education 

     Drs. Oberg and Hauptman

     Dr. Stephanie Waterman (Onondaga), Assistant Professor of Education, University of Rochester

     Lana Redeye (Seneca), Former Education Director, Seneca Nation

     Kandice Watson (Oneida), Education and Cultural Relations Director, Oneida Indian Nation

     Jenna Gansworth (Tuscarora), Syracuse University Haudenosaunee Promise student

3:00 - 3:15 p.m. Break

3:15 - 4:30 p.m. Presentation No. 5 – Advocacy

     Joseph Heath, Esq., General Counsel, Onondaga Nation

     Peter Carmen, Esq., General Counsel, Oneida Nation

     Robert Odawi Porter--moderator

  
4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks