Deutsche und Indianer / Indianer und Deutsche

Cultural Encounters Across Three Centuries

May 13 -- 16, 1999
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

Organized by the Native American Studies Program and the Department of German Studies

DEFINITION: The fantasy of a German-Indian brotherhood, of a special affinity between the two cultural groups,dates back to the late 1700s and is addressed in a wide variety of fictional accounts, novels, plays, as well as, more recently, films. It has stimulated not just writers and artists, but historians, ethnographers, and anthropologists, who, like Franz Boas, went abroad to explore tribal histories and traditions. Furthermore, the fantasy is re-enacted almost daily in the so-called Indianerclubs, social meetings in which Germans dress up in "authentic" Indian costume.Througho ut the last three hundred years, fictional encounters have triggered real encounters, and real encounters have been transformed into fictions.

This three-day conference will take a closer look at imaginary and real relations between Germans and Indians.We will consider some of the mutual preconceptions that have been entertained for centuries, but will also move beyond fantasy to explore, from an interdisciplinary perspective, how Germans and Indians actually interacted in historical reality.We will question long-held beliefs,challenge myths, and break through confining national or ethnic boundaries by investigating areas of common interest and cultural or imaginary overlap.

All events will be held in Dartmouth's Alumni Hall unless otherwise indicated.

PROGRAM:

Thursday, May 13, 1999 3:30 p.m. WELCOME
Session I: Mutual Reflections, Mutual Projections (4:00 - 5:30 p.m.)
Chair: Gerd Gemuenden (German Studies, Dartmouth College)

• Hartmut Lutz (American Studies, Universitaet Greifswald, Germany)
  "'Deutsche Indianertuemelei'/'German Indianthusiasm': On the Historical Origins and Contemporary Functions of a Socially Constructed German National(ist) Myth"
• Katrin Sieg (German Studies, Indiana University)
  "Race and Reconstruction: Winnetou in Bad Segeberg, 1952-54"

KEYNOTE ADDRESS - 105 Dartmouth Hall

8:30 p.m. Christian Feest (North American Studies, Universitaet Frankfurt)

-- "Germany's Indians in a European Perspective"

Friday, May 14, 1999

Session II: Encounters and Representations
(9:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon)
Chair: Dale Turner (Native American Studies, Dartmouth College)

• Wynfried Kriegleder (German Studies, Universitaet Wien)
  "The America n Indian in German Novels up to the 1850s"
• Jeffrey Sammons (German Studies, Yale University)
  "Nineteenth-Century German Representations of Indians from Experience: Charles Sealsfield, Balduin Moellhausen, and Friedrich Gerstaecker, with a Contrasting Glance at Karl May"
• Markus Kreis (Pedagogy, Universitaet Dortmund)
  "Reports from Germany and America in the 1890s on Encounters between Germans and American Indians"
• Elsa Muller (American Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
  "Active Here, Different There: Welskopf-Henrich and the American Indian Movement"

Session III: Moravian Roundtable
(2:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)
Chair: Darryl K. Stonefish (Tribal Historian, Moravian Band Delaware Nation, Thamesville, Ontario, Canada)

• Katherine Faull Eze (Modern Languages, Bucknell)
  "Cultural Encounters of Moravian and Native American Women in the Eighteenth Century"
• William Starna (Anthropology, SUNY Oneonta); and Corinna Dally-Starna (Schrift Research)
  "'Amongst the Brown Flock': American Indians and Moravians in Southern New England"
• Carola Wessel (History, Universitaet Goettingen)
  "'We are now one people': Encounters between Delawares and Moravian Missionaries during the Revolutionary War"
• Maia T. Conrad (History, Northwestern University)
  "Self-Identification in a Blended Community: Moravian Converts and Missionaries on the Ohio Frontier"
• Rowena McClinton (History, Middle Tennessee State University)
  "European Values and Cherokee Adaptations to Traditional Life: Moravians and Cherokees in the Early Nineteenth Century"

Friday Evening Program

A Talk and Presentation with slides 105 Dartmouth Hall

• Beeke M. Sell Tower (Goethe Institute, Boston)
  "'Ich als Indianer': German Artists and Native Americans in the Twentieth Century"

Saturday, May 15, 1999

Session IV: Shared and Contested Territories
(9:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon)

• Liam Riordan (History, University of Maine)
  "'We tracked him by his blood for some duration': The American Revolution as a German-Indian Struggle on the Pennsylvania Frontier"
• Ingo Schroeder (History, University of New Mexico)
  "Pastor Francis Uplegger: A German Missionary Meets the Apache"
• Gerhard Grytz (History, University of Nevada)
  '"Old Shatterhand and Winnetou in Arizona? Myth and Reality of German-American Indian Relations in 19th-Century Arizona"
• Russel Barsh (Native American Studies, University Lethbridge)
  "German Immigrants and Ethnic Patterns of Intermarriage with American Indians in the Pacific Northwest"

Session V: Investigating the Other
(2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Chair: Sergei Kan (Native American Studies, Dartmouth College)

• Bernd Peyer (North American Studies, Universitaet Frankfurt)
  "A Nineteenth-Century Ojibwa Conquers Germany"
• Glenn Penny (History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  "On Display: 'The American Indian' in Germany, 1880-1910"
• Barbara Saunders (Cultural Anthropology/ Philosophy, University of Leuven)
  "Boas' Legacy"
• Diane Krumrey (American/Native American Studies, Universitaet Dortmund)
  "The Image of Germans in Indian Popular Culture"

For Additional Information Contact:

Susanne M. Zantop, Chair, German Studies, 6084 Dartmouth Hall,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 Tel: 603-646-3515; Fax: 603-646-1474
susanne.m.zantop@dartmouth.edu
(or)
Colin G. Calloway, Chair, Native American Studies, Sherman House,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 Tel: 603-646-2076; Fax: 603-646-0333
colin.calloway@dartmouth.edu

This conference would not have been possible without the generous support of the following sponsors:

The Department of German Studies and the Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College; The Dickey Endowment; John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professorship; German Academic Exchange Service; The Hewlett Foundation; The Bildner Endowment; The Ed & Molly Scheu Symposium Fund; and the Max-Kade Foundation.

Quelle = Email <H-Soz-u-Kult>

From: Colin.G.Calloway@Dartmouth.EDU (Colin G. Calloway)
Subject: Konferenz: Deutsche und Indianer ... Mai '99, Dartmouth College
Date: 5.3.1999

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