2007 ANNUAL MEETING

10 November - Morning Session 8:30-12:00 (Doubletree Hotel, Tulsa)

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Session 48: Identity, Transformation and Adaptation along the British (Canada)–USA Borderlands

Organizer(s): Lisa Philips,University of Alberta; Allan McDougall, The University of Western
Ontario
Chair: Allan McDougall, The University of Western Ontario

The Transformation of the Shawanoe Township (1796-1830)
Allan McDougall, The University of Western Ontario

The Birth of a border and ‘Canadian Indians’ in the Sault Ste. Marie region, c.1830 to 1859
Karl Hele, The University of Western Ontario

The Ojibwe of the Kaministiquia-Grand Portage border area (1768-1854)
Theresa Schenck, University of Wisconsin

Canadien or Metis or Indian? Cultural Constructions in the Pacific Northwest
Daniel Boxberger, Western Washington University

Thomas McKay and the Shifting Social Landscape in the Pacific NW (1796-1860)
Lisa Philips, University of Alberta

Session 49: Graphic Pluralism

Organizer(s): Frank Salomon,U. of Wisconsin, Madison; Sabine Hyland, St. Norbert College
Chair: Frank Salomon/U. of Wisconsin, Madison; Sabine Hyland/St. Norbert College
Discussant/Institution: To Be Announced

Reading Anishinaabe Identities: Understanding a Regional Communication System
Heidi Bohaker, University of Toronto

The Pragmatics of Language Learning on Colonial Martha’s Vineyard: Evidence from Word Lists and Native Writings
Kathleen Bragdon, College of William and Mary

Multiple Media and Semiotic Heterogeneity in the Andes
Galen Brokaw, University of Buffalo

“Ah Dzib Cahob yetel lay u hunilob lae”: Village Scribes and Maya Literacy in Colonial Yucatan, 1555-1750”
John Chuchiak, Missouri State University

Mundane Quechua Writing and Indigenous Literacy in Colonial Peru
Alan Durston, York U.

Zapotec Time, Alphabetic Writing and the Public Sphere
David Tavarez, Vassar College

Three Texts in One: Images of the Conquest of Mexico in Book XII of the Florentine Codex
Kevin Terraciano. UCLA

“A Writing Lesson” Revisited: Writing, Accounting and Power in the Inka Khipus
Gary Urton, Harvard U.

Session 50: Resilience, Identity, and, Cultural Revitalization and Preservation: Case Studies from Indigenous North America

Organizer: Kathleen A. Van Vlack, American Indian Studies, University of Arizona
Chair: Kathleen A. Van Vlack, American Indian Studies, University of Arizona

The Trees Grew to Protect the Rocks: Sioux Ethnobotany and Ethnohistory at Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota
Nathanial O’Meara, BA, Northern Arizona University

Nuwuvi Nee-Yahvee: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resilience of the Southern Paiute High Chief System
Kathleen Van Vlack, MA, American Indian Studies, University of Arizona

Paa’oatsa Hunuvi- Puha Path to Water Bottle Canyon
Richard W. Stoffle, BARA, University of Arizona

Building Log Cabins in Teetlit Gwich’in Country: Vernacular Architecture, Local History, and
Continuities
Robert P. Wishart, University of Aberdeen

Session 51 Disputing Official Histories: Indigenous People and the Public Record in North America and New Zealand/Aotearoa

Organizer: Gray H. Whaley, Southern Illinois University--Carbondale
Chair: David G Lewis, University of Oregon/Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
Discussant: Akim Reinhardt, Towson University

Hearsay or Indigenous Knowledge?: Contesting Indian Land Claims in Western Oregon, 1919-1938
Gray H. Whaley, Southern Illinois University--Carbondale

Making History Public: Treaty Claims in Canada and Aotearoa/New Zealand
Miranda Johnson (University of Chicago)

Describing Colonial America; With a Note on the Frontier
Matthew J. Kelly, University of Chicago, ANDERSON TUELL LLP

The Battle for Fighting Island: Three Fires and Wyandot Claims to Fighting Island in Detroit River
Victor P. Lytwyn, Historical and Geographical Consulting

Session 52 : Toward an American Indian Ethnogeography: Case Studies in Indigenous Place-Making

Organizer: Angela Pulley Hudson (Texas A&M University)
Chair/Discussant: Dawn Marsh Riggs (Purdue University)

Speaking of Buffalo Creek: Oral Tradition and Oratory about a Haudenosaunee Place
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, (Yale University)

”Keeping our Path White and Strait”: Territory and Mobility in Creek Country, 1790s-1820s
Angela Pulley Hudson, (Texas A&M University)

Black Goose’s Map of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in Oklahoma Territory”
William C. Meadows, Missouri State University

The Space between Us: Indigenous Mapmakers in Colonial Oaxaca
Alexander Hidalgo, University of Arizona