2004 ANNUAL MEETING

30 October - Morning Session

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Room 1 (additional information TBA)

Session Title: Got Corn? How Indigenous Women Traded Corn

Organizer(s)/Institution(s): Susan Stebbins, SUNY Potsdam

Chair/Institution:  LeeAnne Howe, University of Minnesota

Discussant/Institution:  Audience

 Participants:

Debbie Reese, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “American Indian Folktales Retold in Picture Books for Children: A Comparative Analysis of Two Versions of a Zuni Pueblo Story about Dragonfly’s and Corn”

LeAnne Howe, University of Minnesota, “Ohoyo Chishba Osh: The Choctaw Woman's Got Corn!”

Pat Albers, University of Minnesota, andBeatrice Medicine, Warrior Woman, Inc, “Corn Woman Meets Buffalo Woman”

Susan Stebbins, SUNY Potsdam, “Corn Woman Stories of the Iroquois”

Room 2 (additional information TBA)

Session Title: Materializing Cultural Spaces

Organizer(s)/Institution(s): Maria del Carmen Moreno, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Stephanie Weparu Alemán, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair/Institution:  Maria del Carmen Moreno, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussant/Institution:  Neil L. Whitehead 

Participants:

Anna J. Willow, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “(Re)Presenting Indigenous Environmental Activism: Images and Their Uses at Grassy narrows First Nation, Ontario”

Steve Wernke, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Mapping Ayllus: land tenure and residence patterns in the late prehispanic and early colonial Colca valley, Peru”

Stephanie Weparu Alemán, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Shifting Nature of Evangelized Space: The Creation and Dissolution of 'Kaanashen' the Village of 'God Loves You' on the Upper Essequibo River, Guyana”

Maria del Carmen Moreno, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Changing Landscape of Lokono Identity: William H. Brett and Canon John Peter Bennett”

Room 3 (additional information TBA) (DOUBLE SESSION)

Session Title: Outsiders Looking In: Encounters Between Scholars and Native Communities                         

Organizer(s)/Institution(s): Suzanne Griset, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona and Nancy Parezo, University of Arizona

Chair/Institution:  Suzanne Griset, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona

Discussant/Institution:  TBA

Participants:

Sarah Coleman, Stephen E. Nash, and Tristan Almazan, Field Museum of Natural History, “Field Encounters: The Ethnohistoric Legacy of Three Field Museum Scholars”

Suzanne Griset, University of Arizona, Arizona State Museum, “Finding Himself: C. Hart Merriam's Visits with California Indians”

Catherine Fowler, University of Nevada, Reno, “Isabel Kelly Among the Southern Paiute, 1932-34”

Nancy Parezo, University of Arizona, “American Indian Studies, Influencing BIA Policies in the American Southwest”

Robert Alexander Innes, University of Arizona, American Indian Studies Program “Questions From Images:  Mandelbaum's 1930s Photographs of Plains Cree Sun Dances”

Tristan Almazan, Sarah Coleman, and Stephen E. Nash, Field Museum of Natural History “Two Cultures, Two Times, Two Spaces—One Field Museum”

Susan Lobo, University of Arizona, American Indian Studies, “Creative (and Relevant) Outcomes in Collaborative Research”

Helen McCarthy, Cultural Resources Consulting, “Great Expectations: Ethnohistorian Encounters Tribal Politics and Government Policy in Federal Recognition Studies”

Session Title: Native-language Christian Literatures From Colonial Spanish America: Comparative and Methodological Perspectives        

Organizer(s)/Institution(s): Alan Durston, DePaul University

Chair/Institution:  Bruce Mannheim, University of Michigan

Discussant/Institution:  John F. Chuchiak, Southwest Missouri State University 

Participants:

Alan Durston, DePaul University, “The early Christian literature in Quechua: translation practices, their contexts and implications”

Bruce Mannheim, University of Michigan, "An Inka Approach to Interpretation and its Implications for Understanding Colonial Religion"

David Tavarez, Vassar College, "Translated Christianities: Language ideologies in colonial Nahua and Zapotec devotional discourse"

Elizabeth R. Wright, University of Georgia (reporting on a collaboration with Louise M. Burkhart and Barry D. Sell), "Seduction in Translation: A Mexican Priest Adapts a Spanish Melodrama (ca. 1640)"

Room 5 (additional information TBA)

Session Title:          Interpreting Indian Land Deeds

Organizer(s)/Institution(s): Laurie Weinstein, Western Connecticut State University

Chair/Institution:  Laurie Weinstein, Western Connecticut State University

Discussant/Institution:  Audience 

Participants:

Blair Rudes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, “Sources of Conflicting Tribal Claims to Territory Claims in Southwestern Connecticut”

David Silverman, George Washington University, "Natural inhabitants, time out of Mind": "Sachem Rights" and the Art of Cultural Compromise in Colonial New England”

Laurie Weinstein, Western Connecticut State University “Interpreting Weantinock Land Deeds”

Daniel Mandell, Truman State University, “Selling the Praying Towns: Massachusett and Nipmuc Land Transactions, 1680-1730”

Room 6 (additional information TBA) (DOUBLE SESSION)

Session Title:          Ethnohistorical Contributions to Cree, Saulteaux and Metis Culture Histories

Organizer(s)/Institution(s): David R. Miller, and Neal McLeod, Indigenous Studies, First Nations University of Canada

Chair/Institution:  Willard Rollings, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Discussant/Institution:  Jennifer Brown, University of Winnipeg 

Participants:

Neal McLeod, First Nations University of Canada, “pîhkahin okosisa: A Cree Revitalization Movement”

Sherry Ferrell-Racette, First Nations University of Canada, “Negotiating Treaties and Borders:  Cree and Saulteaux Metis of the Northern Plains”

Merelda Fiddler, Canadian Plains Studies, University of Regina, “Fiddler's Map: Negotiating a Modern Metis Identity”

David R. Miller, First Nations University of Canada “Home Away from Home: Plains Cree in the Borderlands, 1875-1917”

Keith Goulet, University of Regina, “Colonization in Cree Grammer: the –Gan Concept of Artificial Substitution”

Roger Roulette, University of Manitoba, “‘Get Your Own Toys’: The Appropriation of Ojibwe Religious Ideas by Canada’s Addiction Treatment Centers”