1980: The Indian Experience in the Southeast

The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians in the Early Colonial Period

Charles Hudson, University of Georgia
Patricia Galloway, Mississippi. Department of Archives and History

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

10:00 AM

The Formulation and Implementation of Indian Policy in the Nineteenth Century

Wilcomb E. Washburn, Smithsonian Institution
Ronald Satz, University of Tennessee, Martin

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

2:00 PM

Buffet Dinner

Conference Participants

The Grove

5:30 PM

The Re-emergence of the Mississippi Band of Choctaws

John Peterson, Mississippi State University
Arthur DeRosier, College of Idaho

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

7:30 PM

American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century

Lon Kile
Jesse O. McKee, University of Southern Mississippi

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

9:30 AM

Panel Discussion

Chief Phillip Martin, Mississippi Band of Choctaws
Robert Ben, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Edwin R. Smith, Choctaw Legal Defense Association
Robert Ferguson, Mississippi Band of Choctaws
Constance Slaughter-Harvey, Mississippi. Governor's Office of Human Development

Ole Miss Union Ballroom

2:30 PM

New Directions in the Study of Southeastern Indians

Arrell M. Gibson, University of Oklahoma
Choctaw Central Indian Chorus
Porter L. Fortune Jr., University of Mississippi

Fulton Chapel

7:00 PM