Attending were eight members of the Native American Studies faculty B Hap McCue, Greg Dowd, Phil Deloria, Tiya Miles, Joe Gone, Andy Smith, Michael Witgen, Gavin Clarkson B some ten graduate students, some half-dozen other University of Michigan faculty  (mostly from Asian American Pacific Islander American Studies and the Department of English) and the invited participants themselves.  

The program began on the first day with an Introductory Public Address by C. Matthew Snipp (Cherokee) of Stanford University on the history of Native American Studies.  Following that were introductions and overviews of the pre-circulated papers.  The afternoon session featured a discussion of method and epistemology by Gavin Clarkson (Choctaw) of U-M, Joe Gone (Gros Ventre) of U-M, Dale Turner (Anishinabe) of Dartmouth College) and Michael Tsosie (Mohave) of the University of Victoria.  The next day, the session began with a discussion of representations by Robert Collins (Choctaw) of the University of California, Angela Gonzales (Hopi) of Cornell Univeristy, Dian Million (Alaska Native) of the University of Washington, and Angela Riley (Potawatomi) of Southwestern University Law School.  The afternoon session featured a discussion of sovereignty and identity by Jennifer Denetdale (Navajo) of the University of New Mexico, J. Kehaulani Kauanui (Native Hawaiian) of Wesleyan Univeristy, and Brian Klopotek (Choctaw) of the University of Oregon.   That evening, Jean O'Brien-Kehoe (Ojibwe) of the University of Minnesota delivered a closing address.