*Call for Papers: Native/Indigenous Studies Area* *2010 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association* *February 10-13, 20010* *Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture Association’s 31st Annual Conference in* *Albuquerque, NM* Proposals for both Panels and Individual Papers are now being accepted for the Native/Indigenous Studies Area. Listed below are some suggestions for possible presentations, but topics not included here are welcome and encouraged. *DEADLINE December 15, 2009**. * · Indigenous Methodologies · Indians in Higher Education · Teaching Popular Culture in Native American Studies · Biography, autobiography, and nonfiction works by and/or about Indigenous people · Native Literature · Public Health and Indigenous Peoples · Popular culture and religion (or, religious popular culture) · Native peoples across borders: racial/physical/economic/political… etc · Native representations in popular culture (television, comic books, video/computer games (etc) · Politics and Native peoples · Indigenous Women in Social Work · Indigenous resistance, regional or global (whaling/fishing, incarceration issues, mascots, etc.) · Panel CFPs: "Breaking Borders: Indigenous Peoples Across the Divide; ""Words of Bone, Songs of Blood: Poetry as Theoretical and Historical Dialogue;" "Native Peoples and Landscapes, Representations, Environmental Policy, and Meanings of Nature;" "Indigenous 'Deep' Space: Indigenous Absence and Presence in Sci-Fi and Comics" · More ideas encouraged! Inquiries regarding this area and/or abstracts of 250 words may be sent to L. Rain Cranford-Gomez or Citlalin Xochime at the contacts below. Please forward this email to people who would be interested in participating. *L. Rain A Cranford-Gomez* Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences [log in to unmask] American Literature and Language Arts *Citlalin Xochime* Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> New Mexico State University -- __________________________________ L. Rain A. Cranford-Gomez Area Co-Chair Native/Indigenous Studies PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences Editor Eame'ha (forthcoming) Digital Media Journal Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers _________________________________ "We are the people who left water to enter a dry world. We have survived soldiers and drought, survived hunger...It is why when we love we remember our lives in water" --Linda Hogan ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org