Abstracts from the Seventeenth Annual NAES Conference

Johnnella Butler, chair of Afro-American Studies at the University of Washington, directed the seventeenth annual Conference on Ethnic and Minority Studies in Seattle. Graduate students and staff from the Department of American Ethnic Studies provided support for the planning and several students from the University of Washington participated either as presenters or observers. Participants from throughout the United States arrived in Seattle during a rare spring snowstorm to hear papers on the conference theme, Ethnicity in America: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Participants were welcomed by James D. Nason, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, and the General Session featured Leonard Forsman, Director of the Suquamish Museum and Secretary of the Tribal Council of the Suquamish Indians, who addressed issues faced in Seattle and elsewhere