1999 ANNUAL MEETING

Thursday 21 October - Afternoon Sessions

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NORTH MEETS SOUTH: SYNTHESIZING UNDERSTANDINGS OF HISTORIC NATIVE CULTURE ON THE EASTERN SEABOARD - PART II
 
Organizers:
Ann McMullen (Milwaukee Public Museum) and Jason Baird Jackson (Gilcrease Museum)

Chair:
Karen Blu (New York University)
 
Jason Baird Jackson (Gilcrease Museum) Indian Territory as a Model for Woodland Social History

Ann McMullen (Milwaukee Public Museum) No Bounds On Us: Cycles of Regional Interaction in Native Southern New England

Claudio Saunt (University of Georgia) An American Family: The Graysons of the Creek Nation and the Legacy of Race

Blair A. Rudes (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) The Complexities of Racial and Tribal Identity among Western Connecticut Algonquians

Discussant:
Jack Campisi (Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center)

THE PAST IS PRESENT: REVEALING COMMUNITY PERSISTENCE IN MUSEUMS
 
Organizer:
Patricia Pierce Erikson (Smith College)

Chair:
Margaret Bruchac (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
 
Margaret Bruchac (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Walking Off the Page: The Indian Doctor Meets the Yankee Physician

Patricia Erikson (Smith College) Making the Invisible: Harris Hawthorne Wilder and the Smith College Anthropology Museum

Holly Izard (Worcester Historical Museum) Presence and Persistence: Nipmuc Indians in New England

Leah Rosenmeier (Brown University) “The People They are Here": Representing 20th Century Mi'kmaw Experiences
 
Discussants:
James Bradley (Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology)
Ramona Peters

THE VIEW FROM THE HOUSATONIC: SEVERAL CENTURIES OF SETTLEMENT
 
Organizer and Chair:
Laurie Weinstein (Western Connecticut State University)
 
Melinda Belles (Western Connecticut State University) The Bridgeport Wood Finishing Company: Turn-of-the-Century Manufacturing and Employment in New Milford, CT.

Lucianne Lavin (American Cultural Specialists) The Schaghticoke Nation and the Moravian Movement: Tribal Revitalization without Assimilation

Laurie Weinstein and  Desiree Heme (Western Connecticut State University) Weantinocks, Pootatucks and the Story of Lover’s Leap

Claire Carlson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Gender and Farming at the Weantinock Indian Planting Fields
 
Discussant:
Trudie Lamb Richmond (Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center)
 
 

NATIVE AMERICAN MIGRATIONS: A COMPARATIVE VIEW
 
Organizer and Chair:
John A. Strong (Long Island University)
 
Naila Clerici (University of Genoa) We Place our sa-bo-gas here for we will need to take them up again": The Role of Internal stress and factionalism in tribal migrations during the Civil War

Anthony Wonderley (Oneida Indian Nation) The Brotherton Migration to Oneida Country in the Late Eighteenth Century.

Karim Tiro (University of Pennsylvania) Emigration, Identity, and the Practice of Place: the Oneida Migrations to Wisconsin, 1820-1850.
 
Discussant:
Helen C. Rountree (Old Dominion University)
 
 

HISTORIOGRAPHY
 
Chair:
To be announced
 
Andreas Hemming (Philipps University, Marburg, Germany) The Great Law of the Iroquois Between Word and Text

Wilhelm Meya (Loneman School District Oglala) The Band Histories Within Lakota Winter Counts

George Milne (New York University) Buried Beneath the "Middle Ground", Accommodation and Colonialism's Modes of Conquest

Javier Ruedas (Tulane University) Issues of Cultural Translation in the Production of Historical Text from Indigenous Oral History

George Sabo III (Arkansas Archaeology Survey) Electronic Ethnohistory: Interactive Software for Studying Native American Encounters with Europeans in the Mississippi Valley