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Tune into Clubhouse for opening session of #Pretendians conference

The highly anticipated (and much discussed) conference “(Un)settling Genealogies: A Forum on Pseudo Indians, Race-Shifting, Pretendians and Self-Indigenization in Media, Arts, Politics and the Academy” is about to kick off!

Organizers have seen great interest in the event, due to the subject nature of Pretendians and Pretendianism. More than 400 people have registered over Zoom as of Thursday morning, March 17, 2022.

If you can’t get to your Zoom client and are interested in tuning into the opening session, please join Indianz.Com on Clubhouse for a live broadcast at 7pm Eastern. The room is open to members of the Indianz.Com Club on Clubhouse, so if you aren’t on the platform yet, you can join with the following link:

https://www.clubhouse.com/join/Indianz.Com/G7JsLi8g

You’ll just need to download the Clubhouse app for your iOS or Android device and you’ll be all set!

The opening session features remarks from George Cornell, a citizen of the Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians; Ben Barnes, the chief of the Shawnee Tribe; and Kim Tallbear, a citizen of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate.

The conference is hosted by Gordon Henry, a citizen of the White Earth Nation who serves as the inaugural Audrey and John Leslie Endowed Chair in North American Indian and Indigenous Literary Studies at Michigan State University.

“(Un)settling Genealogies” is the First Annual Leslie Chair Conference on American Indian Literature, Art, and Social Justice. Here’s more information from the conference program:

The Leslie Chair’s Conference on American Indian Literature, Arts and Social Justice is dedicated to writing, research, scholarly inquiry and public conversation on important issues of social justice and the ways those issues inform, intersect and impact the lives of American Indian people and our creative, literary, artistic work. While the initial conference will be held virtually at Michigan State University, the organizers for the conference, including the Leslie Chair, Professor Gordon Henry, are committed to extending the written spirit of the MSU land acknowledgemeCnt by holding the conference in tribal communities on tribal land, in coming years.