PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES
Feb. 2000 Reading at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC, from Shell Shaker
Feb. 2000 Reading at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, from Shell Shaker
Nov. 1999 Moderated and chaired a panel at the American Literature Association in PV. Mexico. "American Indian Literature: The Other History"
Oct. 1999 Gave Reading from new novel at the SCMLA in Memphis, TN. Dream House: The Story that Choctaw Baseball Built
April 1999 Reading at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC from Shell Shaker
March 1999 Moderated panel at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio at the Native Women's Playwrights Festival
Nov. 1998 Panel Presentation at the annual conference of ethnohistory, Minneapolis, MN: "American Indian Literature: The Other History"
Sept. 1998 Presented at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian Research at The Newberry Library in Chicago, title of my paper was "Two Million American Indian Tricksters: On destroying paradigms and creating new textual spaces. . .Indians, what will we think of next!"
Aug. 1998 Lectures series presented for a two-week summer seminar for the Center for Complexity Studies of Bucharest, Romania. This session was held at Resita in the mountains of western Romania, title of the seminar was "Cultural Communication and the Understanding of Otherness." I was an invited lecturer for the department of Anthropology
June 1998 Lecture at The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, on history of Choctaw sacred sites
May 1998 Lecture and Initiating history program at OK Choctaws, a monthly meeting of Choctaws living in Oklahoma City and surrounding area
April 1998 Reading at Texas Lutheran College, Seguin, Texas
April 1998 Lecture on Sacred Spaces and Reading, Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois
Nov. 1997 Reading Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa
Nov. 1997 Reading and lecture, Coe College. Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Nov. 1997 Reading, Southeast Missouri State Uni. Cape Giradeaux, Missouri
June 1997 Newberry Library lecture. Chicago, Illinois, Choctaw Star Stories
Aug 1997 Austin Museum of Art reading. Austin, Texas
April 1997 Reading and lecture for Minnesota College in the Schools, Literature Program, at the University of Minnesota (500 High school seniors)
April 1997 Reading and lectures, University of Wisconsin at Eau-Claire English Department
Feb. 1997 Lecture and reading: "Remembering Our Future, A Symposium" sponsored by the University of Oklahoma, Native American Studies department, and The Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities
Feb. 1997 Reading and lectures at NW Missouri State University, Maryville, MO.
Feb. 1997 Lecture and reading, Grinnell College, American Studies Dept.
Nov. 1996 Lecture and reading, University of Minnesota, English Department
Nov. 1996 Presented paper at the 1996 annual conference of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Portland, Oregon. "Matrilineal to Patrilineal in Choctaw Culture"
Oct. 1996 Reading and lecture, Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem, NC, Women's Studies Department
Oct. 1996 Reading and lecture, Davidson College, Davidson NC, Sociology/Anthropology and English Departments
July 1996 Presented my research on Choctaw women for the Indian Voices in the Academy Fellowship at The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
April 1996 Convocation speaker at Carleton College, Northfield, MN "American Indians and the Need for Religious Tolerance"
Feb. 1996 Lecture and reading, Barat College, Lake Forest, Illinois
Feb. 1996 Lecture, and reading Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Dec. 1995 Reading with author Shelby Hearon, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida
Nov. 1995 Reading MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
Oct. 1995 Reading and lecture, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois
May 1994 Reading and lecture at American Center for Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan
March 1993 Presented paper, "For Love or Money: A Case Study of Betsy Love, A Chickasaw woman who helped create the Women's Property Act of 1829" University of Iowa's Women in Development Conference
July 1993 Reading and panel workshop on writing the novel, Returning the Gift conference, University of Oklahoma
Oct. 1993 Presented lecture "Choctaw Women and Land Tenure" at UN Day Speaker for Johnson Country United Nations Associationin Iowa City, Iowa.
Nov. 1992 Reading at Central Michigan University, English Department
July 1992 Reading and invited author, Returning the Gift conference, University of Oklahoma during the year of the Columbus Quincentenary
Oct. 1990 Presented workshop on "Native Women's Writing" with Beth Brant and Chrystos at the University of Iowa
March 1990 Reading with: Paula Gunn Allen, Joy Harjo, Janice Gould, Vickie Sears, Beth Brant at the Manhattan Theater Club, New York City, NY for the Writer's in Performance Series
Sept. 1989 Reading, Caravan of Dreams Theater, Fort Worth, TX.
Aug. 1989 Presented paper, "Choctaw Mortuary Practices: Bone Picking and Our Legacy," at the annual conference, World Archaeological Congress, 1st Inter-Congress Meeting in Vermilion, South Dakota
April 1985 Elisabet Ney Museum - Austin, TX

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