2005 ANNUAL MEETING

18 November - Noon Session

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Decolonizing American Indian Historiography

Chair:   Jennifer Denetdale:

Organizer: Susan A. Miller: Native America Writes Back:  Historians from Tribes Address the Master Narrative

Presenters:

Donna L. Akers: Why I Can't Stand American History

Danny Keenan: Te Pouhere Korero: Binding New Words to the Old

Recent Progress in Understanding the History of the Area Between the Basin of Mexico and the Gulf Coast, from Toltec Times to the Present, Part Two

Chair: Jerome Offner: Some Commonalities among Lost and Extant Pictoral Documents from Eastern Mexico

Presenters:

Frances F. Berdan: Resources and Resource Movements in the Eastern Aztec Empire

Alan Sandstrom: Tlazolteotl and Contemporary Nahua Curing Rituals: Ethnohistory Meets Ethnography in Northern Veracruz

Frederic Hicks: The Lesser Nobility of Aztec Mexico

Edith Ortiz: Living in the border. The Soconusco region in the XVI century: A New Spain or a Guatemalan territory?

Interpretations of Alaska Native Landscapes, History and Change

Chair: Ken Pratt: Tracking "Ulukuk" and Indian-Eskimo Boundaries in the Unalakleet River Drainage

Presenters:

Robert Drozda: "We Grew Up With Those Mountains and Rivers": The Mapping of Native Knowledge and Sites

Matt Ganley: TBA

Louann Rank: “Where the Fish Come From”:  Ethnoecology in Yup’ik Toponyms of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

Answering Research Questions Tribes Ask: Applied Ethnohistory and the Revision of Theory about Native Peoples in North America

Organizer: Heather Howard: Where do We (Not) Draw the Line? Ethnogeographic Authority and Contested Borders in Native Territoriality

Presenters:

Bruce M. White: Was Your Aunt There in 1700? How the Ojibwe Came to Minnesota and How People Talk About It

James McClurken: The Fur Trade is Dead: States, Tribes and the Stories They Tell

Victor Lytwyn: Bridging Muddy Waters: The role of historical geography in addressing Aboriginal rights to aquatic territories in the Great Lakes region.

Susan Lobo: Conceptualizing Territory, a Native Perspective

Discussant: Frank Ettawageshig                     

Plateau People's Interest Group; Enhancing Historical, Contemporary, and Topographical Boundaries of the Pacific Northwest Plateau

Organizer: William Willard: Treaties, Gold, Land, Salmon, and Hunting Grounds: Restitution, Recognition, and Restoration through the Indian Claims Act

Presenters:

Diane Pearson: From the Bear's Paw to fort Leavenworth: Mapping the Nimiipuu [Nez Perce] Journey into Exile

Alan G. Marshall: Dividing the sacred: Nez Perces and the Snake River Basin Adjudication

Darby C. Stapp: General Howard, Smohalla, and Chief Moses: Avoiding war in the hinterlands of the Pacific Northwest in 1878

Steven   L. Grafe: Plateau Photograph: the Indian photographs of Lee Moorhouse

Benedict J. Colombi: The Nez Perce Tribe vs. Elite-Directred Development on the Lower Snake River: The Struggle to Breach the Dams and Save the Salmon

Brownbag: Revolts in New Mexico

Organizer: Priscilla MacDonald: Popé and Tupatú: Saviors Or Destroyers In The Pueblo Quest For Cultural Preservation During the Revolt Of 1680

Presenters:        

Tracy Brown: Fear of the Knotted Cord: the Post-Revolt period in Colonial New Mexico

Donald Brown: Picuris and the Rebellion of 1847