2007 ANNUAL MEETING

8 November - Morning Session

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Session 1: Cherokee Persistence, Adaptation, and Conflict in the Twentieth Century

Organizer: Andrew Denson, Western Carolina University
Chair: Andrew Denson, Western Carolina University
Discussant: Julia Coates, University of California - Davis

The Gadugi and the Government Agent: Land Use Decisions in Depression-Era Cherokee, North
Carolina
Tamrala G. Swafford, Arizona State University

Cherokee and American: Ruth Muskrat Bronson and the Struggle for Dual Citizenship
Gretchen Harvey, Concordia College

Philanthropy and Nationhood in Post-WWII Oklahoma
Andrew Denson, Western Carolina University

Devils in Disguise: Anthropology and the Politics of Anticommunism in the Cherokee Nation
Daniel M. Cobb, Miami University

Session 2: Making Indian Arts: Evaluating the History and Legacy of Craft Programs within Native Communities

Organizer: Adriana Greci Green, Michigan State University
Chair: Adriana Greci Green, Michigan State University

The Indian Arts and Crafts Board, the Eastern Band of Cherokees, and the Construction of
Authenticity, 1935 – 1987
Joshua S. Haynes, University of Georgia

The New Deal Sponsorship of Indian Art in Oklahoma
Anne Albright, University of Central Oklahoma

Tamacraft: An Ethnohistorical Appraisal
Timothy James McCollum, Oklahoma Baptist University

“To Rehabilitate and Provide Employment”: The Michigan WPA Indian Arts and Craft Program
Adriana Greci Green, Michigan State University

Session 3: Interdependence and Adaptation: Apache-Hispanic Community Formation in
the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680-1831

Organizer: Matthew M. Babcock/Southern Methodist University
Chair: Cynthia Radding/University of New Mexico
Discussant: James F. Brooks/School of American Research (Santa Fe, NM)

Making Borderland Communities: The Chiricahua Apaches and Janos Presidio, 1680-1750
Lance R. Blyth, Air Force History & Museums, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico

Bárbaros into Soldiers: Negotiating Authority in the late-colonial Mexican North
Paul T. Conrad/University of Texas-Austin

Mutual Adaptation: Assessing Spanish-run Reservations for Apaches in Practice, 1786-1831
Matthew M. Babcock/Southern Methodist University

Turkey Dances, Fandangos, and Balls: Dancing in the East Texas Borderlands in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries
Carla Gerona, Georgia Institute of Technology

Session 4: Knowledge and Cultural Change in a Maori Community: the case of Kai Tahu

Organizer: Tony Ballantyne, University of Otago
Chair/Discussant Fred Hoxie, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Literacy and the Transformation of an Indigenous Knowledge Order
Dr. Tony Ballantyne, University of Otago

The Census and Indigenous Politics in Southern New Zealand
Dr. Angela Wanhalla, University of Otago

The Whale That Never Slept – indigenous resource use, epistemology and identity in southern New Zealand. Michael J. Stevens, University of Otago

Session 5: Mesoamericans in the Casta Crucible, Part One

Organizer(s): Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University, and Kevin Terraciano, UCLA
Chair: Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University
Discussant: Kevin Terraciano, UCLA

Mulata, Hija de Negro y India: Inter-Ethnic Families and Early Afro-Mexicans
Robert Schwaller, Pennsylvania State University

“They shall be pure and noble Indians, untainted by inferior idolatrous races” Aristocratic
Discourses and Indigenous Politics in Eighteenth-Century Mexico”
Peter B. Villella, UCLA

Los Ausentes: Choosing Ethnic Identity in Colonial Mexico
Jason Frederick, Lawrence University