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2001 ANNUAL MEETING

19 October - Afternoon Session

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Landscape and its Meanings
East Grove: 1:40 4:00

Organizers: Program Committee
Chair: Diane Austin (University of Arizona)

David G. Lewis and Scott Byram (University of Oregon) The Ourigan Trail: Historical Perspectives on an Indigenous Place Name

Michael E. Harkin and Peter Hobson (University of Wyoming) Site-ing the Past: Ethnohistory of the Powder River Basin

Holly Herbster (Public Archaeology Laboratory/University of Massachusetts, Boston) From Moshop to Mayhew: History and Archaeology on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

Break

Patricia E. Rubertone (Brown University) Memorializing the Narragansett: Monuments, Place, and Community Persistence in the Aftermath of Detribalization

Thomas F. Thornton (University of Alaska Southeast, St. Lawrence University) Borderlands of History: Alaska Natives and Yukon First Nations and the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

 


 

Out of Slavery and Colonization: Creating Identities and Multi-Ethnic Communities in the Andes
Acacia A: 1:00 2:20

Organizer: Rachel Sarah O'Toole (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Chair: Martha Few (University of Miami)

Leo J. Garofalo (University of Wisconsin, Madison) To Drink with Friends: The Dynamics of Gender and Ethnicity in the Andeanization of Peru's 17th Century Inns and Hispanic Shops

Rachel Sarah O'Toole (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Traders & Thieves, Lovers & Friends: Strategic Affinities and Long-Term Alliances of the Gente de la Baja Esfera (17th century northern coastal Peru)

Discussant: Karen V. Powers (Northern Arizona University)

 


 

Southeastern Indian Diplomacy

West Grove: 1:20 2:40

Organizer: Greg O'Brien (University of Southern Mississippi)

Chair: Michael D. Green (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Joshua Piker (University of Oklahoma) "It Was Nothing Like a Talk": The Role of Towns in 18th Century Creek-Cherokee Diplomacy

Greg O'Brien (University of Southern Mississippi) "We Have Got the English Fast": Choctaw Indians and a Forgotten Episode of the Seven Years War, 1757-1763

James Taylor Carson (Queens University) The Language of Liberty: Native Appropriation of American Political Rhetoric in the 19th Century South

Discussant: Daniel Usner, Jr. (Cornell University)

 


 

Indian Mexico in the 16th Century and Beyond: Community and Autonomy

Park Theater: 1:40 4:00

Organizer & Chair: Frederic Hicks (University of Louisville)Michael S. Werner (University of Chicago) Space, Water and Memory: An 18th Century Boundary on the Rio Grande del Norte

 


 

The Shifting Sands of Peoplehood: Tribal Diasporas and Ethnic Identity in the Southeast, 1600-Present
Acacia B: 1:40 3:40

Organizer: Samuel R. Cook (Virginia Tech)

Chair: J. Cedric Woods (University of Connecticut)

Heriberto R. Dixon (State University of New York, New Paltz) A Saponi by Any Other Name is Just as Siouan

Samuel R. Cook (Virginia Tech) Cycles of Ethnogenesis: (Re)Birth of the Monacan Nation
James Cedric Woods (University of Connecticut) Ethnohistory and Southeastern Non-Recognized Tribes: Connecting Families with Polities
Break

Dante Desiderio (Sappony Indians of Pearson County) Algonquian Dispersal and Amalgamation in the Southeast, 1607-Present

Tom Holm (University of Arizona) Warfare, Statehood, and the Cherokee Diaspora, 1775-1835

 


 

Representations of Native Peoples
Acacia A: 2:40 4:00

Organizers: Program Committee
Chair: Kari McBride (University of Arizona)

Nancy J. Parezo (University of Arizona) The Special Olympics: Testing Racial Strength and Endurance at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Michael S. Taylor (Syracuse University) The Life and Death of the Saltine Warrior: A Photohistory of Native American Mascot Imagery at Syracuse University

Madonna L. Moss (University of Oregon) Visual Representations of Gender Ideologies on the Northwest Coast of North America: Insiders' and Outsiders' Views

Alison K. Brown (Pitt Rivers Museum Research Centre) Photo-Elicitation among the Kainawa Nation (Alberta, Canada): A Cross-Cultural Re-Engagement with History

 


 

Engendering Metissage in the Mid-Western Borderlands
West Grove: 3:00 4:20

Organizer and Chair: Carolyn Podruchny (Western Michigan University)

Catherine J. Denial (University of Iowa) "On Account of the Hostile Incursions of the Sioux Indians": Wisconsin Territory and the Strange Case of Margaret McCoy's Divorce

Thresa Schenck (Washington State University) Mixed-blood, Metis and Half Breed: Variations on aTheme

Carolyn F. Podruchny (Western Michigan University) The Meaning of Cannibal Monsters in 18th and 19th Century Voyageur Tradition

Discussant: Lucy Murphy (Ohio State University)