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1999 ANNUAL MEETING

Saturday 23 October - Morning Sessions

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MEETING GROUNDS: CULTURAL AND DISCIPLINARY ENCOUNTERS IN NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES - PART I: INTERROGATING SOURCES
 
Organizers:
Karen I Blu (New York University) and Robert E. Moore (New York University)

Chair:
Karen I Blu (New York University)
 
Karen O. Kupperman (New York University) Mirror Images: The Hermeneutics of Encounters

Barry O’Connell (Amherst College) Complex Resistances: Literacy and the Cherokees

Alice Nash ( University of Massachusetts, Amherst) St Francis Abenaki, c. 1924: Photos by A. Irving Hallowell

Michael Hittman (Long Island University) Pyramid Lake Unu Puhugweedadu (“Green-Blues”): Mabel Wright‘s Prayer-Protest

Sally McLendon (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York) “Our Only American Art”: The Market for Pomo Indian Baskets at the Turn of the Century
 
Discussion led by:
the participants of Part II


CONTESTING IDENTITY: ETHNICITY, GENDER AND CLASS IN COLONIAL GUATEMALA
 
Organizer and Chair:
Todd Little-Siebold (College of the Atlantic)
 
Todd Little-Siebold (College of the Atlantic) "Yes Virginia There is an Identity Police": Ethnic and Social Boundary Maintenance in Colonial Guatemala

Christopher Lutz (Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies) Quiche Memory: Veracity and Embellishment in Colonial
Titulos and Contemporary Narrative.

Martha Few (University of Miami/The Newberry Library)  Chocolate and Sex in 17th-Century Guatemala.


TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY AND SURVIAL IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
 
Organizer:
Clara Sue Kidwell (University of Oklahoma)

Chair:
R. David Edmunds (University of Texas)
 
Clara Kidwell (University of Oklahoma) The Dissolution of Chickasaw Sovereignty

Loretta Fowler (University of Oklahoma) Tribal Sovereignty and the Historical Consciousness: A Cheyenne-Arapaho-Example

Donald L. Fixico (University of Kansas) The Five Civilized Tribes and the Long Road of Sovereignty
 
Discussant:
Peter Iverson (Arizona State University)


MIGRATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS OF EASTERN WOODLANDS INDIANS
 
Organizer:
Laurence M. Hauptman (State University of New York, New Paltz)

Chair:
James Wherry (Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation)
 
Laurence M. Hauptman (State University of New York, New Paltz) Daniel Bread & the Diaspora of the Oneida Indians to Wisconsin
Heriberto Dixon (New School) The Diaspora of the Tutelo Indians
 
Discussant:
Ron Welburn (University of Massachusetts)


MATERIAL CULTURE
 
Michelle Hamilton (University of Western Ontario) "Curios and Mementoes of a Long-Ago Past": Control and Reinterpretation of First Nations Material History

Carolyn McClellan (United States Department of/Bureau of Indian Affairs) Spectres of Authenticity: The Impact of Tourism on Mohave Pottery Figures, 1880-1920

John Norder (University of Michigan) Coming to Terms with the Native American Pipe in Eastern North America

Joyce Szabo (University of New Mexico) Encoding History: 19th-Century Plains Drawing and Painting

Gaynell Stone (Suffolk County Archaeology Association) Prehistoric Long Island Native Communication and Beliefs: The Material Evidence

Laurier Turgeon (Laval University) The Cultural Transfer of Objects: Beads and Bodies in France and North America During the 16th Century