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The 2007-2008 Annual Public Symposium
 Indians
& Energy:
Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest
Held Saturday, April 12,
2008 on the campus of
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
This symposium was offered in two venues:
the first was September 28-29, 2007 at the
School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico
and and the second was April 12, 2008 at the
Clements
Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, Texas.
The
symposium and the resulting book of essays will provide
an historical context for energy development on Native
American lands and put forth ideas that may guide future
public policy formation. Collectively, the presentations
will make the case that the American Southwest is
particularly well-suited for exploring how people have
transformed the region's resources into fuel supplies
for human consumption. Not only do Native Americans
possess a large percentage of the region's total
acreage, but on their lands reside much of the nation's
oil, coal, and uranium resources. Regional weather
patterns have also enabled native people to take
advantage of solar and wind power as effective sources
of energy. Although presentations will document
histories of resource extraction and energy development
as episodes of exploitation, paternalism, and
dependency, others will show how energy development in
particular has enabled many Indians to break from these
patterns and facilitated their social, economic, and
political empowerment.
SAR
Press published the papers as an edited volume.
Click
here to view the day's
program.
Symposium organizers and book editors:
Sherry Smith,
Professor of History, Southern Methodist University and
Associate Director of the Clements Center for Southwest
Studies
Brian Frehner,
Assistant Professor of History, Oklahoma State
University and former Clements Center Fellow.
James F. Brooks,
President of the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe
Contributors
include: Benedict J.
Colombi, Susan Dawson, Donald L. Fixico,
Brian Frehner, Leah S. Glaser, Barbara Rose
Johnston, Dailan J. Long, Gary Madsen,
Andrew Needham, Colleen O'Neill, Dana E.
Powell, Sherry L. Smith, Rebecca Tsosie,
Garrit Voggesser
Co-sponsored
by:
The William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University
and
School for Advance Research, Santa
Fe, New Mexico
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