2002 ANNUAL MEETING

19 October - Afternoon Session

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Colonial Racial Boundaries and Transgressive Speech among Blacks, Mulattoes, and other groups in Colonial Mexico

Organisateur/Organizer: Javier Villa-Flores, University of Illinois, Chicago

Présidente/Chair: Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Carleton University

13:30-15:00 Salle/Room Dufour I

13:30 Andrew Fisher, University of California, San Diego, The Battle of 'Indian and Mulatto Dogs': Asserting Community and Ethnic Boundaries by the Sword and the Word in the Tierra Caliente of Eighteenth Century Guerrero, Mexico

13:50 Joan Bristol, George Mason University, Witchcraft and its Beholders: Defining Black and Mulatto Curers in 17-Century Mexico

14:10 Javier Villa-Flores, University of Illinois, Chicago, Look Who's Talking: Ventriloquism and Divination among Afro-Mexican Slaves in New Spain

14:30 Commentatrice/Discussant: Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Carleton University

Negotiating Boundaries in Colonial Contexts

Organisateur/Organizer: Program Committee

Président/Chair: Neil Whitehead, University of Wisconsin, Madison

13:30-15:00 Salle/Room Dufour II

13:30 Stephen Rosecan, University of Chicago, Unpacking Relationships Among Choctaw Indians, African Slaves, and the Louisiana French During the 1730s

13:50 Beverly S. Sylvester, Emory University, Negotiating Unacceptable Behavior: The Southeastern Indians and the Evolution of Intercultural Law on the Southern Colonial Frontier

14:10 Loretta Fowler, University of Oklahoma, “You May Not Know It”: Cheyenne-Arapaho Critiques of Colonial Discourse

14:30 Commentateur/Discussant: Neil Whitehead, University of Wisconsin, Madison

In Search of Ancient Places: Using First Nations Toponyms and Old Maps for Discovering Archaeological Sites in Québec

Organisateur/Organizer: Daniel Arsenault, Université Laval & UQAM

Président/Chair: Daniel Arsenault, Université Laval & UQAM

13:30-17:00 Salle/Room Drapeau

13:30 Daniel Arsenault, Université Laval & UQAM, In Search of Ancient Places in Native Québec: A Theoretical Perspective in Archaeology and Ethnohistory

13:50 Claude Gélinas, Université de Sherbrooke, The potential of Early Surveyors Archives for Archaeological Research: the Case of the Upper St. Maurice Region in the 19th Century

14:10 Christian Marcotte, Université Laval, Pinpointing Ancient Sites in Innu Territory from Old and More Recent Maps: A Fruitful Model for Pursuing Fieldwork Inland on the North Shore Area of the St. Lawrence River

14:30 Charles A. Martijn, freelance archaeologist and ethnohistorian, & Danielle Cyr, York University, Using Mi’kmaq toponyms in archaeology and ethnohistory

14:50 Pause/Break (Café-bar l'Emprise)

15:10 Daniel Gendron, Avataq Cultural Institute, The use of Inuit toponyms for archaeological research in Nunavik

15:30 Roland Viau, Université de Montréal, A Slave Cemetery at Nigger Rock, Eastern Townships, Quebec

15:50 Daniel Arsenault & Pascale Vaillancourt, Université Laval, Two Hundred Years, Two Thousand Kilometers, and Still a Similar Name for Naming Rock-Art Sites!

16:10 Commentateur/Discussant: Henri Dorion, Université Laval

Diasporic and Mixed Communities

Organisateur/Organizer: Program Committee

Présidente/Chair: Ann McMullen, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian

13:30-15:30 Salle/Room 108

13:30 Rosalyn Howard, University of Central Florida, The Promised Island: Black Seminole Sanctuary in the Bahamas

13:50 Louis-Pascal Rousseau, CELAT, GETIC, Université Laval, The Use of French Among the Native People of the Northwest Territories

14:10 Pause/Break (Café-bar l'Emprise)

14:30 Brenda Macdougall, University of Saskatchewan, Wahkohtowin and Metis Identity and Family: Ramifications for Kinship Studies

14:50 Thomas H. Johnson University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Ignace to Eneas to Enos: A Three Stage Change in Tribal Identities

15:10 Commentateur/Discussant: the audience

Table ronde/Roundtable: Oral Tradition in the 21st Century

Présidente/Chair: Alice Nash, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

13:30-15:30 Salle/Room 115

13:30 David L. Ghere, University of Minnesota

13:50 Pauleena MacDougall, Maine Folklore Center, University of Maine, Orono

14:10 Pause/Break (Café-bar l'Emprise)

14:30 William C. Wicken, York University

14:50 Andrea Bear Nicholas, St. Thomas University