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2005 Annual Conference

20 November - Noon Session

 

Session Details

Decolonizing the Landscape:  Public Spaces, Historic Sites and Indigenous People

Organizer: Brenda Child: Reclaiming Fort Snelling

Presenters:  

Scott Shoemaker: Reclaiming the Indigenous Landscape

Carolyn R. Anderson: Integrity and Historical Significance: Assessing Taku Wakan Tipi as a Traditional Cultural Property Taku Wakan Tipi

Holly Herbster: History in the Backyard: Community Narratives in Southeastern New England            

Discussant:   Nora Naranjo Morse

 

Family, Biography and Border Kinship

Organizer: Susan E. Gray: “Her Cottage Mi-en-gun Walszh (Wolf’s Den) in Northport”:  Place and Identity in a Mixed-Race Family

Presenters:

Lori Stanley: Life and Intercultural Relations in an Oklahoma Territory Borderland: An American Indian Perspective

Michelle Stokely: My Father's Name was Zahtah

Myra Rutherdale: Occupying The Third Space:  Interpreters, Guides, Doctors and Missionaries In Northern Canada, 1900-1960"

Tim Bisha: Making Mascotapah: Robert Dickson and the road to 1812

 

Indigenous Nationalism and the Politics of Place

Organizer: Jeffrey Schulze: The Kickapoo Diaspora: Transnational Movements and Moments in Twentieth-Century

Presenters:

Jeffrey P. Shepherd: River Narratives, River Memories: The Colorado River and Hualapai National Identity

Richard Green: Chickasaw Leadership in Former Homeland Key to Reclaiming Past

 

Language, Text, and Identity

Organizer: Wilhelm Meya: Language and the Future of Ethnohistory

Presenters:

Gail Macleitch: Captain O’Bail a.k.a. Cornplanter: The Methodological Merits of Constructing a Cultural Biography of a Borderland Figure

Willow Roberts Powers: Translating Speech into Writing: Some Comments on Transcribing the Spoken Word

Thomas N. Sizgorich: TBA

 

Film Identities

Organizer: David T. McNab / Leanne Howe

Presenters:

David T. McNab: Ezhaaswe (William A. Elias (1856-1929))

Leanne Howe: TBA

Birgit Hans: Indian Identities and German Hobbyists Today

Ute Lischke: Centring Identities in East German Indian Films

Susan Stebbins: The Searchers and the Lost of the Wild West