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1999 ANNUAL MEETING
Thursday 21 October - Morning Sessions
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NORTH MEETS SOUTH: SYNTHESIZING UNDERSTANDINGS OF HISTORIC NATIVE
CULTURE ON THE EASTERN SEABOARD, PART I
Organizers:
Ann McMullen (Milwaukee Public Museum) and Jason Baird Jackson
(Gilcrease Museum)
Chair:
Karen Blu (New York University)
Patricia Galloway (Mississippi Department of Archives and History) The
16th-Century Southeastern Sociopolitical Knowledge Environment: How Do
We Find and Portray Complexity?
Trudie Lamb Richmond (Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center)
The Legitimization of a Tribal Nation: Strategies for Survival
Bruce Bourque (Maine State Museum) The Wabanaki Confederacy: A Brief
History
Pam Innes (University of North Carolina-Greensboro) The Creeks Past and
Present: Balancing Autonomy and Confederacy
Discussant:
William C. Sturtevant (Smithsonian Institution)
CHANGING PRACTICES: FIRST NATIONS, PEOPLE, MUSEUMS, MATERIAL CULTURE,
AND ETHNOHISTORY
Organizer:
Laura Peers (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)
Chair:
Trudy Nicks (Royal Ontario Museum/McMaster University)
Alison Brown (Oxford University) Telling Stories: Perspectives on Collecting
Expeditions to the Canadian Prairies
Tom Hill and Keith Jamieson (Woodland Cultural Centre) Mohawk Ideals,
Victoria Values: Oronhyateka M.D. A Museum Exhibition
Trudy Nicks (Royal Ontario Museum/McMaster University) Across Borders:
Beadwork in Iroquois Life
Laura Peers (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford) Objects, the Ojibwe, and Oxford:
Thoughts on the Meanings of a Collection
Sherry Farrell Racette (Gabriel Dumont Institute and University of Manitoba)
The Continuing Problematic of Metis Inclusion in Museum Representation
Cory Silverstein (McMaster University) Personal, Political, Public: Reflections
on a Workshop for Anishnabek at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Discussant:
Shepard Krech III (Brown University)
CONFRONTING THE CANONS: REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIVE CULTURE AND HISTORY
FROM ETHNOHISTORICAL TEXTS
Organizer and Chair:
Patricia E. Rubertone (Brown University)
Margaret H. Williamson (Mary Washington College) “Civilising” the
Powhatan: European Political Rhetoric in John Smith's Ethnography
John Dempsey (Freelance) Editing “Canaan” for the 21st Century
Russell Handsman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Imagining Wampanoag
Indian Homelands and Histories through Mourt's Relation
Jeffrey Hantman (University of Virginia) "When That Unhappie Discoverie
of Monacan was Made": John Smith's Ethnography and its Contemporary
Impact
Patricia E. Rubertone (Brown University) Rethinking "A Key" Into
Narragansett Culture and History
Discussants:
Barry O’Connell (Amherst College)
Raymond D. Fogelson (University of Chicago)
MAKING DO: NATIVE MESOAMERICAN AND COLONIAL/NATIONAL-ERA CHRISTIANITY
Organizer and Chair:
Susan Schroeder (Tulane University)
John F. Chuchiak (Assumption College) The Extirpation of Idolatry and
Interethnic Relations: Maya-Christian Conflicts of a Colonial Frontier,
1580-1645
Edward Osowski (Pennsylvania State University) Mestizos or Mexicanos? Misidentification
in the 18th-Century Tribunal of Natives
Frances Karttunen (University of Texas, Austin) The Day of the Dead,
Past and Present
Stafford Poole (Vincentian Studies Institute) After Las Casas: The Pro-Indian
Movement in the Later Years of Philip II
David Tavarez (University of Chicago) From Cantares Zapotecos to “books
of the Devil”: The Extirpation of a Zapotec Doctrinal Genre in
Villa Alta, 1700-04
Daniela Traffano (El Colegio de Mexico) “…Pero todo lo de
ese cuadrante ya es letra muerta”: Communities, Churches, and Parish
Priests in Oaxaca during the Time of Juarez
Discussant:
Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University)
ECONOMICS AND ETHNOHISTORY
Chair:
To be announced
George Castile (Whitman College) "Les Jeux sont faits": Federal
Indian Policy and Indian Gaming
Thomas Johnson (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point) The Politics
of Economic Ethnohistory among the Wind River (WY) Shoshone and Arapaho
Victor P. Lytwyn (Walpole Island First Nation) "Perfectly Free and
Unmolested in Their Trade": The Three Fires Confederacy at Detroit
and International Trade in North America
Christopher Oakley (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) "Golden
Calf" or "New White Buffalo?" Indian Gaming and the Eastern
Band of Cherokee Indians
Jeffrey Shepherd (Arizona State University) Land, Labor, and Leadership:
The Political Economy of Hualapai Community Building, 1910-1940
Mary Wright (University of Washington) 200 Years of Economic Initiative
by the Yakama Nation
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