2000 ANNUAL MEETING

21 October - Afternoon Session

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COLONIAL IDEOLOGIES, NATIVE AGENDAS

Organizer: Loretta Fowler (University of Oklahoma)

Chair: Loretta Fowler (University of Oklahoma)

Stephen Warren (Eastern Kentucky University) Rethinking the Philanthropy of Assimilation: Shawnee Christian Practice, 1830-1860

Deborah Bernsten (University of South Carolina, Beaufort) Opening the Treaty Medicine Chest: Sociopolitical Uses of Biomedicine among Plains Apaches

E.R. Jethro Gaede (University of Oklahoma) The American Indian Exposition, 1932-1950: Rejecting Assimilation Initiatives and Inverting Cultural Stereotypes

Discussant: Thomas Biolsi (Portland State University)

ETHNOHISTORICAL EXPLORATION ABOUT CREE GRANDFATHERS: METAPHORIC, TANGIBLE AND SYMBOLI

Organizer: David R. Miller

Chair: Jennifer Brown (University of Winnipeg)

George Fulford (University of Winnipeg) Towards a Symbolic Understanding of Cree Concepts of "Grandparents"

Louis Bird (University of Winnipeg) Gizhi William

Maureen Mathews (CBC Radio) A Proper Grandchild

Neal McLeod (SIFC) Cree Narratives of Change

David R. Miller (SIFC) Edward Ahenakew, Becomes a Cree Grandfather: Details in the Tutelage of Edward Ahenakew by Paul Wallace

SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO ETHNOHISTORY

Chair: TBA

Neil Ferris (Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation and McMaster University) Natives as Newcomers: The Southwestern Ontario Moravian Delaware at Fairfield, 1792-1813

David J. Norton (University of Western Ontario) Samson Occom Revisited

Lisa Valentine and Allan McDougall (University of Western Ontario) Reading Stoney Point History through Bourdieu

Norman Shields (Queen's University, Kingston) The Principle of Autonomy in the Union of Ontario Indians

Colin Buchanan (University of Calgary) Band Government Legislation, 1869-1895: Establishing the Elective System on Canadian Indian Reserves

Richard Holt (University of Western Ontario) TBA

CONSTRUCTING PUERTO RICO: CULTURES, HISTORIES, PEOPLES

Organizers: Frederic W. Gleach and Vilma Santiago-Irizarry (Cornell University)

Chair: Frederic W. Gleach (Cornell University)

Frederic W. Gleach (Cornell University) Images of Puerto Rico: Representing a Cultural Identity

Vilma Santiago-Irizarry (Cornell University) "Americanization" and Puerto Rican Exceptionalism: Constructing an Oppositional Identity in an Indian School

Mavette Perez (Smithsonian Institution) "A Collector's Vision of Puerto Rico": Imperialism and Identity in the Smithsonian