September 28
FIRST CONTACT: HOLLYWOOD VS. NATIVE AMERICANS
Time/Location: 6:00 p.m., Education Center, Room 116
Lecture with film clips by Professor Christophe Boucher, History Department
Various western film-makers have tried to immortalize the historic encounter between Columbus and the Tainos. However, these cinematographic interpretations reflect only a Western perspective. This presentation surveys the ways in which Western film-makers have conceptualized this event and examines how Native Americans in Northeastern North America rationalized the arrival of these newcomers.

October 5
LOCAL NATIVE AMERICANS THROUGH STUDENT FILMS
Time/Location: 6:00 p.m., Education Center, Room 116
Join us for an evening with College of Charleston students as they share the short documentaries they have produced about local Native Americans. Topics include Catawba History; Cherokees and the Casino Industry, and "Dragging Canoe,"a well-known Cherokee Resistance Leader.

October 12
ALCATRAZ IS NOT AN ISLAND (1999, 70 min., Documentary Film)
Time/Location: 6:00 p.m., Education Center, Room 116
Co-hosted by Professors George Hopkins and Christophe Boucher, Department of History. Discussion to Follow.
In 1969 a small group of Native American students and urban Indians began the occupation of Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. This action forever changed the way Native Americans viewed their culture and their sovereign rights. This film documents their extraordinary struggle.

About the Presenters
Christophe J. M. Boucher (Native American History, History of the American West, and Atlantic World History) is an Assistant Professor who received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 2001. He is currently writing an ethnohistory of the Wyandots, an influential Northern Iroquoian people in the Great Lakes region to the nineteenth century. Professor Boucher also has research interests in the early modern Western representation of Otherness.

George W. Hopkins (History of American Social Movements, US Labor and Urban History, Vietnam War) is a Full Professor and former chair of the Department of History. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His publications include "Constructing the New Mythic West: Dances With Wolves as a Revisionist Western" and " 'May Day' 1971: Civil Disobedience and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement." His interest in social movements includes AIM (American Indian Movement) and other Native American efforts, past and present, to maintain independence and cultural autonomy.