2005 ANNUAL MEETING

19 November - Morning Session

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Personhood and Identity: Marking and Crossing Boundaries in the Americas

Organizer: Barbara Sommer: Wigs, Weapons, Tattoos, and Shoes: Visual Identity in 18th-Cent Amazonia

Presenters:

Amy Bushnell: For to Lie Out This Winter Season":  Yamassee Hunters  in Jonathan Dickinson's Journal (1699)

Kristine Jones: Identity, Self, and Being Mapuche: What counts as autobiography?

Ken Lokensgard: Adoption and Identity: the Blackfoot Acceptance of Cultural

Maureen Schwartz: I Chose Life

Border Politics

Organizer: Roger L. Nichols: Borders as Refuge, 1784-1886: Tribal Flights for Survival

Presenters:

Claudia Haake: Losing Life’s Center – The Deportation of the Yaquis to Yucatán

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: A Border as Geopolitical Tool: Mískitu Communities on the Wanki in the Contra War

Regna Darnell: Border Resources and First Nations Risk Management

George Ironstrack: Living Life on the Edge: The Value of Borders for the Miami Indian Village of Pickawillany

Borders and Identity Formation in the Pacific Northwest: John McLaughlin, William Fraser Tolmie and Ranald McDonald

Chair:

Daniel L. Boxberger: Mediating Across Boundaries: The Legacy of William Fraser Tolmie

Presenters:

Allan K. McDougall: Business with a Heart: McLaughlin's Odyssey

Lisa Philips Valentine: Ranald McDonald: The Long Trip Home

Discussant:    TBA

Blackfoot, Redbones, Brass Ankles and Pied Noir: ‘Colorful' Identities, Creative Strategies

Chair:   Carol Morrow: The Blackfoot Tribe of the Midsouth

Presenters:

Noemie Waldhubel: The Pied Noir of Algeria

Theresa Burchett-Anderson: Multi-Racial Identities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains

Discussant:   Theda Perdue          

On The Edge: Expressions of Indigenous Nationhood and Borders

Chair: Keith Richotte, Jr.: Tribal Borders, Nationhood Defined: The Turtle Mountain Reservation and its Constitution

Presenters:

Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark: "Our country is a large matter to us": Expressions of Anishinaabe Nationhood in the negotiations of Treaty Three

Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote: Envisioning Nationhood: Kiowa Material and Expressive Culture, 1900-1940

Chantal Norrgard: Ojibwe Subsistence in Transformation