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1999 ANNUAL MEETING

Friday 22 October - Morning Sessions

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FROM MUSEUMS AND MONUMENTS TO CULTURAL CENTERS, TOURIST COMPLEXES, AND WEBSITES: TWENTIETH-CENTURY PUBLIC REPRESENTATIONS OF INDIGENOUS CULTURES AND HISTORIES - PART I
 
Organizer and Chair:
Pauline Turner Strong (University of Texas-Austin)
 
Sergei A. Kan (Dartmouth College) Historical Particularism and Evolutionism at the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology

Marianne B. Kinkel (University of Texas at Austin) Circulating Race: The Various Lives of Malvina Hoffman’s Races of Mankind Sculptures

Melissa Biggs Coupal (University of Texas at Austin) Open and Shut Cases: The Indigenous Past and Present at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City

Michael Trujillo (University of Texas at Austin) Onates Foot and Contested Histories in New Mexico

Jacqueline Peterson (Washington State University) “Whose Story is This?”: Collaboration, Media, and Representation in the Sacred Encounters Exhibition
 
Discussants:
Thomas Buckley (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
Rayna D. Green (Smithsonian Institution)


HISTORY, MEMORY, AND REPRESENTATION: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND POLITICAL LEGITIMACY IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SOUTH AMERICA - PART I
 
Organizers and Chairs:
Blenda Femenias (Brown University) and Maria Elena Garcia (Brown University)
 
S. Elizabeth Penry (Fordham University) Community Formation and Identity Projects in the Colonial Andes

Karen Spalding (University of Connecticut) Managing Ethnicity: The Manipulation of Allegiance in Local Andean Society in the 18th Century

Carolyn Dean (University of California, Santa Cruz) Inka (In) Vestments in Cuzco: Mid-Colonial Rewritings of the Pre-Hispanic Past

Karen Graubart (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) Imperial Representations: Colonial Rewritings of the Pre-Hispanic History of Peru


INDIAN-BLACK RELATIONS AND RACE, RELIGION, AND IDEOLOGY IN AMERICA 1780-1880
 
Organizer:
William Hart (Middlebury College)

Chair:
Jean M. O’Brien (University of Minnesota)
 
William Hart (Middlebury College) John Stewart, the "Hesent See" ("Black") Apostle of the Wyandots: Race, Religion, and Ideology in Early 19th Century America

Anthony Marsh (Princeton University) Black-Indian Religious Encounters: John Marrant Among the Cherokee

Joanne Melish (University of Kentucky) Real Indians: The Racial Reconfiguration of the Narragansetts in the 19th Century
 
Discussant:
Ruth W. Herndon (University of Toledo)


APPLYING TODAY’S STANDARD TO THE PAST: DEER ISLAND, BOSTON HARBOR - A PANEL
 
Organizer:
Jean S. Forward (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
 
Panelists:
Jean S. Forward (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Sammy Sapiel (Penobscot Nation)

Gary McCann

Darryl Stonefish (Moravian Town Band Office)
 
Discussants:
Jean S. Forward (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Neal Salisbury (Smith College)


REPRESENTATIONS
 
Chair:
To be announced
 
Paul Picha (State Historical Society of North Dakota) George Catlin Among the Mandans, 1832: Chronicles in Visual Representations and Written Text

Jane Haladay (University of Arizona) Double Vision: Native American Writers Represent White Imaging of Indianness

Hartman Lomawaima (Arizona State Museum) Hopi Views of Edward S. Curtis' Photography: Then and Now

Arthur Smith (Royal Ontario Museum) Metamorphosis of a Missionary Collector

Marley Brown (College of William and Mary) From Savage to Savage: The Fate of Virginia's Native Peoples at Colonial Williamsburg

Sean Daley (University of Connecticut) Hey Chief, Do you Mind if I Borrow This?: The Commercialization of the American Indian