• Proceedings of the 2010 Delta Symposium

Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, Louisiana
September 26, 2009

• Introduction - Dr. Shane Rasmussen
• Carter, Cecile Elkins - This Land Was Made for You and Me (Keynote Address)
• Aiello, Dr Thomas - Violence is a Classroom: The 1972 Grambling and Southern Riots and the Trajectory of Black Southern Student Protest
• Avery, Dr. George - French Influence at Los Adaes
• Breedlove, Carolyn - Confluence and Divergence: Nineteenth Century Plantation Lifestyle Along Red River
• Delery, Dr. Clayton - Thieves, Queers and Fruit Jars: The Community and Media Responses to the Fire at the Up Stairs Lounge
• Foster, Derek W - Sad and happy at once - Intolerance and Hypocrisy in Shirley Ann Grau s The Homecoming
• Gallagher, Dr. Bernard - Trailer Trash Talks Back: John Dufresne s Louisiana Power and Light
• Jones, Dr. Hardy - Blessing from a Woman of the Good God
• LeBrun, W. Charlene - Salt, Nails and Prayer: Horseracing and Superstition
• Rasmussen, Dr. Shane, with Margie Armstrong, Henry Edwards, Bobbie Jackson, and Lily Wilson - Shaking out the clothes for spiders: Folklife Traditions along Louisiana s Cane River Lake
• Riehm, William Henry - Material Culture of Socially Mobile Acadians in Ascension Parish Louisiana 1840-1860: Laudry Family Case Studies of Evolution into Landownership and Comfortable Wealth
• Sutherlin, John W. - Louisiana s Alternative Energy Policy: How the Bayou State Could Become the Biomass State
• Thorson-Barnett, Dr. Susan and Neeru Deep - The Atta Boy or Atta Girl Notebook: What Louisiana Students Need to Know about an Academic Portfolio
• Ulentin, Anne - Opportunists or Saints? Slavery and Free Women of Color in Antebellum New Orleans
• West, Melinda G. - Camp Claiborne and Segregation: The Mystery or Not of the Lee Street Riots
• Williams, Dr. Arthur S. - Literature and Ethnology in the Career of Caroline Dormon