2007 ANNUAL MEETING

8 November - Afternoon Session 3:30-5:30

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Session 16: False Faces and Fancydances: Rewriting Native American Literary History

Organizer: Meredith K. James (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Chair: Meredith K. James (Eastern Connecticut State University)

Crazy Horse Dreams: Intersections of Art and History in the Works of Sherman Alexie
Jan Roush, Utah State University

“No Parole Today”: Native American Authors and the Subversion of the Captivity Narrative
Meredith K. James, Eastern Connecticut State University

Red Jacket, Role Playing, and Literary Style
Granville Ganter, St. John’s University

Session 17: Beyond the field vs. the archive: ethnohistory as a tool for discursive critique and change

Organizer: Ann M. Kakaliouras, Whittier College
Chair: Ann M. Kakaliouras, Whittier College
Discussant: Regna Darnell, University of Western Ontario

The Wild and the Tame: Sam Fathers as Ecological Indian
Robbie Ethridge, University of Mississippi

Historiography of Pueblo Archives: Classifications, Culture and Consent
Marilyn Norcini, University of Pennsylvania Museum

Native Americans and early 20th century narratives of biological authenticity: the making and unmaking of the anthropological category “Chippewa.”
Ann M. Kakaliouras, Whittier College

From Scourges and Historical Traumas to Environmental Health Fears: A Multi-temporal Case Study of Discursive (Re)constructions of Health and Well-being at the Walpole Island First Nation
Christianne V. Stephens, McMaster University

Session 18: Colonial Negotiations: Land and Politics in the Formation of Colonial Mesoamerica

Organizer: Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University
Discussant: John Chuchiak, Missouri State University

Tlatelolco’s Land Conflicts During the Early Colony: A Battle Over Water? .
Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, Tulane University

Crime, Crisis, and the Changing Political Economy of Xochimilco, New Spain, 1625-1675
Richard Conway, Tulane University

Dynastic Memory and the Formation of Colonial Yucatan
Spencer Delbridge, Pennsylvania State University

Niman konob' in Northern Huehuetenango and the Diachronic Study of Highland Maya Social Organization
Stacey Schwartzkopf, Tulane University

Cuauhquechollan: From the Fall of Tollan to the Rise of Tenochtitlan
Avis Mysyk, Cape Breton University

Session 19: Anishinaabeg Persistence and Adaptation

Organizer: Rebecca Kugel – University of California, Riverside
Chair: Rebecca Kugel – University of California, Riverside
Discussant: James M. McClurken – James M. McClurken & Associates Ethnohistorical
Consultants

The Dirt on the Middle Ground: Geography and Metaphor in Ojibwe and Dakota Country
Bruce M. White – Turnstone Historical Research

Talking Past Each Others: Ojibwe and Anglo-American Metaphors and Imagery in Treaty Negotiations
Rebecca Kugel – University of California, Riverside

Out of the Woods and Into the Museum: Charles Eastman’s 1910 Collecting Expedition Through Ojibwe Country
David Martinez, Arizona State University

7:00 p.m. Reception, Gilcrease Museum

Buses will leave the Doubletree beginning at 6:30. They will return from the Gilcrease to
the Doubletree Hotel beginning at 9:00 p.m.