2007 ANNUAL MEETING

9 November - Afternoon Session

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Session 34: Lessons Learned from the American Indian Fatherhood Project

Organizer: Margaret Bender, Wake Forest University
Chair: Lisa Lefler, Western Carolina and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Discussant: Margaret Bender, Wake Forest University

The American Indian Fatherhood Project: Initial Goals and What Has Been Learned
Lisa J. Lefler, Western Carolina and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

History and Culture as Sources of Strength for Chickasaw and KCA Men
Margaret Bender, Wake Forest University

The Role of Men’s Warrior Societies Among Contemporary KCA Men
Blas Preciado, University of Oklahoma

Session 35: Contact and Adaptation in the Trans-Appalachian West during the Long 19th Century

Organizer: Program Committee/Cox
Chair: Dr. Ian Chambers, University of Idaho
Discussant: Dr. Rebecca “Monte” Kugel, University of California, Riverside

Wyandot Encounters with Christianity in the First Decade of the 19th Century
Michael L. Cox, University of California, Riverside

Identity and Cultural Dilation in the Postbellum Choctaw Nation
K.D. Motes, University of California, Riverside

Native Voice and Resistance: Changing Identities in Crow Country, 1905-1932
Jon C. Ille, University of California, Riverside

The Dissemination of Cherokee Literacy
James D. Sarbaugh, Independent Scholar

Session 36: Challenges to Nation-Building

Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Sebastian Braun
Discussant: Audience

Cultural Persistence through Constitution Making: The New Apsaalooke Constitution
Kelly Branam, Indiana University

Tribal Constitutions Before and After the IRA: The Turtle Mountain Experience
Keith Richotte, Jr., University of Minnesota

From Braids and Shades to the World Stage: Native North America’s Leadership in the Global Indigenous Rights Movement
Elizabeth Castle, University of South Dakota

Indigenous Nations, Politicized Cultures, and the Foundations of Ethnicity
Sebastian Braun, University of North Dakota

Session 37: Uncommon Connections: Ethnohistorical Perspectives on Exchange and Everyday Life

Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Lucy Murphy, Ohio State University, Newark
Discussant: Alison Brown, University of Aberdeen

Remembering Prairie du Chien’s “Frenchtown” Neighborhood: Land, Community, and Ethnicity
Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Ohio State University, Newark

Intermarriage as a Persistnet, yet Accommodative Practice Among Miami Indian Women
Melissa Rinehart, Valdosta State University

Fur Trade Artefacts and Family Histories, Christina Massan’s Beadwork
Alison Brown, University of Aberdeen

Dress as Text: Reading the Sartorial Choices of Blackfoot Leadership, 1750-1930
Blanca Tovias, University of New South Wales

Session 38: Back to the Sources

Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Maureen Konkle, University of Missouri
Discussant:

LaFlesche’s Osage Texts as Source for Interpreting Cahokia, and Beyond
Alice B. Kehoe, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

The Johnstons and Mrs. Jameson
Maureen Konkle, University of Missouri

Tradition, T.K. Hopkins, Commodity Chains, and Culture History: Revisiting Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa Tribalization
Paul R. Picha, State Historical Society of North Dakota

Session 39: Memory and Place

Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: George Sabo, III
Discussant: Audience

The Past is Telling: Sioux Valley History and Memory Narratives
Darylnn Dietrich, Indiana University, American Indian Studies Research Institute

Contested Memories, Contested Places: Progress, Identity, and Historical Memory in the Little Tennessee River Valley
Robert Gilmer, University of Minnesota

Re-Interpreting Identity: Native Americans’ Creative Adaptations of Public History and Museum Programs and their Move Toward the Repatriation of their Intellectual Pasts and Presents
Deirdre E. Huff, Independent Ethnohistorian

Constructing Identity at the Caddo Heritage Museum
George Sabo, III

Session 40: Revisioning Archives and Artifacts

Organizer: Program Committee
Chair:
Discussant:

The History of Historical Preservation at the Shasta Nation’s Tribal Archives
Brian I. Daniels, University of Pennsylvania

The Archival Field: An Anthropological View
Tim D. Bisha, University of Western Ontario

Recalling Cahokia: Indigenous Influences on Trade and Diplomacy in Proprietary South Carolina
William K. Wall, Ethnohistorical Consultants, Lansing, Michigan

Session 41: Ethnohistorical Perspectives on the Southeast

Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Patricia Galloway?
Discussant: Patricia Galloway?

Divining the Past: Interpreting Cherokee History Through a Cherokee Lens
Heidi M. Altman, Georgia Southern University and Tom Belt, Western Carolina University

Beyond the Middle Ground: Chickasaw and Wichita Interaction during the Eighteenth Century
Timothy G. Baugh, Chickasaw Nation and Stephen M. Perkins, Oklahoma State University

By Others Named: The Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Alabama Tribes
John P. Dyson, Indiana University

Re-Evaluating the Origins of the Sixtowns Band of Choctaw
Patrick C. Livingood, University of Oklahoma

Session 42: Conceiving and Confronting Supernatural Power

Organizer: Cindie Landrum
Chair: Brad Duren - Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Discussant: Ron Petrin - Oklahoma State University

Shapeshifters, Ghosts, and Residual Power: An Examination of Northern Plains Spiritual Beliefs and How They Relate to Geographic Location and Material
Cindie Landrum - Clark College

Surrounded by Witches: Witchcraft, Medicine, and Supernatural Warfare Among the Arikara Indians
Mark van de Logt - American Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University

Those Wicked Witches of “Civilization:” An Archaeological Perspective on Militancy and Adaptation Among the Michiana Potawatomi
Ben Secunda - University of Notre Dame