1999 ANNUAL MEETING

Friday 22 October - Afternoon 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 II
 
Organizer and Chair:
Pauline Turner Strong (University of Texas-Austin)
 
Larry Nesper (Ball State University) Gete-dibendaasewinanwigamig, a place that holds things: The George W. Brown, Jr. Ojibwe Museum and Cultural Center

Stephanie A. May (University of Texas at Austin) Facing the Future Representation and Tourism at the Alabama-Coushatta Reservation in Texas

John Bodinger de Uriarte (University of Texas at Austin) “The Rainmaker”: Narrating Indigenous History in Public Space

Jennifer M. Karson (University of Texas at Austin) Beyond Museum Walls: Cultural Property, “Kennewick Man,” and Umatilla Self-Representation
 
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 II
 
Organizers and Chairs:
Blenda Femenias (Brown University) and Maria Elena Garcia (Brown University
 
Elayne Zorn (University of Central Florida) Time and History in Taquile, Peru

Blenda Femenias (Brown University) Imperial Past, National Future: How Peruvian Political Culture Reinterpreted the Incas in the 1920s

Maria Elena Garcia (Brown University) From Mutilated Incas to Manipulating Keyboards: Language, Education, and the "Resignification" of Quechua Identity

Waskar Tupai Ari [Juan Felix Arias] (Georgetown University) Chullpa Puchus, Jallp'a Sangres and Phichuwawas: The Invention of  New "Tradition" in the Bolivian Andes, 1936-1964
 
Discussants:
Thomas Abercrombie (New York University)
Deborah Poole (New School)
 

BLOOD LINES: MIXED RACE IDENTITY IN INDIAN TERRITORY
 
Organizer:
Wendy St. Jean (Springfield College)

Chair:
Gregory Evans Dowd (Notre Dame)
 
Tiya Miles (Dartmouth College) Purely in the Indian Style': Mixed Race Identity in Indian Territory

Wendy St. Jean (Springfield College) Levi Colbert's 'Ascendancy' in the Chickasaw Nation in the Early 19th C

Celia Naylor-Ojurongbe (Duke University) The Intermingling of Blood: Slaves' Constructions of their 'Mixed' Racial Identities in Indian Territory

Risa Ryland (University of Virginia) A Cherokee Indian Girl of Fine Education and High Literary Attainments': Constructing an Indian Identity in the Jim Crow South
 
Discussants:
Daniel Littlefield (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)
George Miles (Yale University)
 
 

NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORIES
 
Chair:
To be announced
 
Jon Parmenter (St. Lawrence University) "Kahnawakes, Kanehsatakes, Akwesasnes, and Mingos:  Migration and Ethnogenesis among the 18th Century Iroquois"

David Ghere (University of Minnesota) The True Stimulus for the Fort William Henry Massacre

Dawn Marsh (University of California, Riverside) Out of the Woods: Pennsylvania Indians and Strategies for Survival

Izumi Ishii (University of Kentucky) Cherokee Sovereignty and Alcohol

Ingo Schroder (University of Marburg) Performing Community in Western Apache Culture: Reflections and Contestations of Modernity

Gray Whaley (University of Oregon) Indigenous Slavery and the Columbia Fur Trade: Towards an Understanding of Southern Oregon, 1790s-1850s

Julie Davis (Arizona State University) "Nanabozho Speaks to the Seventies": American Indian Alternative Schools in the Twin Cities

Samuel Cook (Virginia Tech) Miscegenation Law as Indian Policy: A Virginia Case Study

NEW ENGLAND ETHNOHISTORY
 
Chair: To be announced
 
Timothy Binzen (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Living in the Borderlands: Native American Villages of the Upper Housatonic River During the Colonial Period

Kathleen Bragdon (College of William and Mary) 17th Century Linguistics on Martha's Vineyard

Brian Carroll (University of Connecticut) Patriarchy, Puritanism and Punishment: Native American Women in the 18th Century New England Legal System

Michael Nassaney (Western Michigan University) Assessing Native Gender Relations in 17th Century Southeastern New England

Micah Pawling (University of Maine, Orono) Negotiation with the Written Word: 19th-Century Maliseet and Passamaquoddy Petitions

David Silverman (Princeton University) The Costs of Debt: The Impact of Indentured Servitude on the Indians of Colonial Southeastern New England