2007 ANNUAL MEETING

9 November - Morning Session 8:30-10:15

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Session 24: Christianity, Nativism, and Belonging: Understanding Factionalism After the Seven Years’ War

Organizer: Kathryn V. Muller, Queen’s University
Chair: Kathryn V. Muller, Queen’s University
Discussant: Gerald Reid, Sacred Heart University

The Creation of Oneida Town: Factionalism and Nativism from the Seven Years’ War to the American Revolution
James Paxton, Moravian College

Algonquian Christianity and Creole Community: Inclusion and Exclusion at Brotherton, New York
Alanna Jane Rice, Queen’s University

“Brothers Makeyays we are now both Kings Together”: Peace-Making and Political Centralization in Shawnee Communities, 1759-1765
Sami J.P. Lakomaki, University of Oulu

Session 25: Beyond Dichotomizing Discourses: Indigenous Persistence, Conflict and Creativity within Historically Created Contexts

Organizer: Mindy J. Morgan, Michigan State University
Chair: Paula Wagoner, Juniata College
Discussant: Raymond J. DeMallie, Indiana University

Indigenous vs. Cosmopolitan Dialectics: Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Contradictions
Jeffrey Anderson, Colby College

Identity Politics and the Politics of History: The Mdewakanton Dakota in Minnesota and Wolfchild v. United States
Carolyn Anderson, St. Olaf College

Gifts and Profits: Struggles over Commodification and Incorporation in Ho-Chunk Cultural Performance
Grant Arndt, St. Olaf College

A Matter of Positioning: Modern Media, White Buffalo Calf Woman, and Impeachment on Pine Ridge, 2006
Paula Wagoner, Juniata College

Re-imagining Ethnolinguistic Categories: Language Politics and Policies in the Yukon Territory, Canada since the late 1800s
Barbra A. Meek, University of Michigan

One Language, One Nation: Historical Language Ideologies and the Limits of Nationalist Language Rhetorics
Mindy Morgan, Michigan State University

Session 26: Religious Ritual and Related Cultures in Colonial Mesoamerica, Part Two

Tzitzimime Deities and the Terror of History in Mesoamerica
Leon García, UCLA

Death and Dying in Indigenous New Spain: A Case Study
Erika R. Hosselkus, Tulane University

“With the Consent of Her Husband”: Female Confraternities in Late Colonial Tecamachalco, Mexico
Annette McLeod, Skidmore College

Late Nahuatl Testaments from the Toluca Valley: Filling the Gap of Independence
Miriam Melton-Villanueva, UCLA, and Caterina Pizzigoni, Columbia University

K’iche’ Religious Expression in Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century Colonial Highland Guatemala
Owen H. Jones, University of California, Riverside

Organizer: Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University, and Mark Christensen,
Pennsylvania State University

Chair: Susan Kellogg, University of Houston
Discussant: Davíd Tavárez, Vassar College

Session 27: Working in the Tradition of Patricia Albers: New Directions in American Indian Labor History

Organizer: Chantal Norrgard, University of Minnesota
Chair/Discussant: Martha Knack, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The “Chippewa Indian Historical Project:” Ojibwe Perspectives on Labor and Treaty Rights in the Lake Superior Region, 1938-1942
Chantal Norrgard, University of Minnesota

Working and Belonging on Wind River
Brian Hosmer, University of Illinois at Chicago

Working the Yosemite Indian Field Days, 1916-1929
Boyd Cothran, University of Minnesota

Exploring the Northwoods: Tourism, Anishinaabe Labor, and Politics in Northern Wisconsin, 1910-1950
Melissa Rohde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Session 28: Innovative Indigenous Masculinities: Evolving Understandings of Manhood in Native American History

Organizer: Rose Stremlau, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Chair: Katherine Osburn: KOsburn@tntech.edu
Discussant: Greg O’Brien

“A Mania for Cattle”: Indigenous Men Adapt Herding on the Pacific Northwest Plateau,
1830-1850
Mary C. Wright, University of Washington: wrightm@u.washington.edu

Response to “Self-constituted Guardians and Interested Intermeddlers”: Cherokee Masculinity and the Opposition to Allotment”
Rose Stremlau, University of North Carolina--Pembroke: stremlau@uncp.edu

Session 29: Kinship, Constitutionalism, and Land Tenure: Expressions of Indigenous Legal Systems

Organizer: Kathryn V. Muller, Queen’s University
Chair: Kathryn V. Muller, Queen’s University
Discussant: Mark Walters, Queen’s University

Traditional Narratives and Customary Kinship Law on the Northern Plains
Robert Alexander Innes, University of Saskatchewan

Planting the Great Tree of Peace: Two Eras in Haudenosaunee Constitutionalism
Kathryn V. Muller, Queen’s University

The Woman Who Married A Beaver:” A Re-examination of Anishinaabe Land Tenure in Federal Indian Law and Aboriginal Rights
Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, University of Minnesota

Session 30: Rising from the Ashes: Politics, Language, Land, Salmon, and American Indian Survival.

Organizer: J. Diane Pearson, University of California Berkeley.
Chair: J. Diane Pearson, University of California Berkeley

Imperial medicine and the American Indian: The Politics of Disease, native American Practitioners, and the Fight for Life
J. Diane Pearson, University of California

Phinney and Nimiiputimit: The Legacy
William Willard, Washington State University, Pullman

Rising from the Ashes
Alan Marshall, Lewis and Clark State College

Salmon Nation: A Nez Perce Policy
Benedict J. Colombi, University of Arizona