*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
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and Language Arts

*Citlalin Xochime*
Area Chair, Native/Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
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           New Mexico State University





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Area Co-Chair
Native/Indigenous Studies
PCA/ACA Annual Regional Conferences
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