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2000 ANNUAL MEETING

20 October - Afternoon Session

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BEYOND PERIPHERIES: SOVEREIGNTY, POLICY AND TRADE ON TURTLE ISLAND

Organizer: Dean M. Jacobs and David McNab (Nin.Da.Waab.Jig. Walpole Island First Nation)

Chair: Dean M. Jacobs (Nin.Da.Waab.Jig Walpole Island First Nation)

Dean J. Kotlowski (University of Ohio) The Road to Wounded Knee: The Nixon Administration and Native American Protest

Paul Williams (Solicitor, Six Nations Territory) Sovereignty, Borders and Canadian Law in the Late Twentieth Century

David T. McNab (Nin.Da.Waab.Jig. Walpole Island First Nation) Sovereignty and Trade and the Bkejwanong Territory: A Retrospective on Meeting Grounds

Dawn T. Maracle (Trent University) A Story Untold: A Community-Based Oral Narrative of Mohawk Women's Voices from Point Anne

James McClurken (Michigan State University) Ottawa Use of the Lake Huron Fishery in the 19th Century: Policy Practice and the International Boundary.

Discussant: Douglas Leighton (Huron College)


 

COMMODITIES OF CONSEQUENCE: UNRAVELLING THE STRINGS ATTACHED TO OBJECTS IN NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN COLONIAL EXCHANGES

Organizer: Cory Silverstein (McMaster University)

Chair: Cath Oberholtzer

Sherry Farrell Racette (University of Manitoba) The Trouble with Coats: Garment as Site for Cross-Cultural Dialogue and Contested Histories

Cory Silverstein (McMaster University) Bright Baubles and Blue Broadcloth: Colour Symbolism in the Aesthetics of Anishnaabe Fur Trade Dress

Cath Oberholtzer (Trent University) Baled Liberality and Veiled Christianity: The Impact of Mission Work on Cree Material Culture

Kathy M'Closkey (University of Windsor) The Devil's in the Details: Tracing the Fingerprints of Free Trade and its Effects on Navajo Weavers

Steve J. Langdon (University of Alaska, Anchorage) Kaleidoscopic Vantage Points: A Metal Object and the Klawock Tlingit

 


 

WORLDVIEW, SYMBOL AND CULTURE

Chair: TBA

Regna Darnell (University of Western Ontario) Ethnohistory, Imagined Community, and the Cultural Structures of Imagined Community

Elizabeth Guerrier (University of Western Ontario) The Marshall Decision and the Construction of First Nations Sovereignty

Rowena McClinton (Southern Illinois, Edwardsville) Native and European Divergent World Views: How Early 19th Century Christians and Moravian Missionaries Responded to Each Others' Concept Pertaining to the Mystical Properties of Blood

Wilhelm K. Meya (Indiana University) Zuni Ethnogenesis

Rosemarie N. Stremlau (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Reforming the Reformer: Native American Women, Alice Fletcher and Allotment

Maureen T. Schwarz (University of Syracuse) Collective Guilt, Conservation and other Postmodern Messages in Contemporary Westerns: "Last of the Dog Men" and "Grey Owl"


 

ETHNOHISTORY OF NORTH AMERICAN REGIONS -- II

Chair: TBA

Linda M. Clemmons (Illinois State University and the Newberry Library) 'Her Daughter was Cante Yica': Dakota Boarders and Protestant Missionaries

Paul R. Picha (State Historical Society of North Dakota) Along the Borderline: Orin G. Libby, Isaac Cowie, and the Development of International Historical Paradigms, 1903-1913

Frank R. Rzeczkowski (Northwestern University) Reimagining Community: Intertribal Relations on the Northern Plains, 1880-1930

Jeff Ostler (University of Oregon) Factionalism and Nineteenth-: Century Lakota History

Carolyn F. Podruchny (University of Winnipeg) The Lord of the Lakes: Freemen in the 18th and 19th Century Ruperts Land

 




ETHNOHISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA

Chair: TBA

Franz G. Scaramelli and Kay Tarble (University of Chicago) Cana: The Role of Aguardiente in the Colonization of the Orinoco

William O. Autry (Goshen College) The 'A-B-C's' of Colonial Period Demography in New Spain: A View from the Mixteca

Jason E. Antrosio (Johns Hopkins University) Progress on the Periphery: State-Making in the Colombian Borderland