2008 ANNUAL MEETING

13 November - Thursday Morning Sessions in Eugene Hilton Hotel

‹‹ schedule | Longhouse Morning Sessions | Hilton Afternoon Sessions ››

8:30-10:00

Archaeological and Archival Investigations into Colonial Mixtec Life

Organizer: Program Committee

Chair: TBA

Ronald Spores (Fundación Alfredo Harp Helu) and Sebastian Von Duesberg (Fundación
Alfredo Harp Helu)
“The Yucundaa-Teposcolula Project: A Methodological Ethnohistorical-
Archaeological Convergence Related to the Study of the Postclassic-Early
Colonial Transformation in Teposcolula, Oaxaca, Mexico”

Carlos Rincón Mautner (Archaeological Research, Inc.)
“History and Cartography in the Preservation of Native Dominions of the Early
Colonial Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico”

John Chance (Arizona State University)
“From Lord to Landowner: The Predicament of the Late Colonial Mixtec”

8:30-10:15

The Contested Path to Statehood: Ojibwe and Dakota History and the Making of
Minnesota

Brenda Child (University of Minnesota), Organizer and Chair

Bruce White (Turnstone Historical Research)
“The Myth of the Forgotten Treaty: Written Evidence of the Oral Tradition”
Brenda Child (University of Minnesota) and Eric Redix (University of Minnesota)
“Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota Territory? Rethinking the Sandy Lake
‘Tragedy’”

Annette Atkins (Saint John’s University/St. Benedict College)
“Hiding in Plain Sight: Mixed Bloods and the Dakota War of 1862”

Katherine Beane (University of Minnesota)
“Unkanna Mitawa (My Grandfather): The Family Letters of John Eastman”

8:30-10:30

Use, Abuse, and Development of Anthropology: Anthropological Conceptions in Politico-
Legal Discourses

Mark Ebert (University of Saskatchewan), Organizer

Keith Thor Carlson (University of Saskatchewan), Chair

Mark Ebert (University of Saskatchewan)
“The Shadow of the Armchair: Continuing Unilineal Ideas in Legal Contexts”

Bill Angelbeck (University of British Columbia)
“The Legacy of Marks on Trees: A History of Ripple Effects of an
Archaeological Designation of Culturally Modified Trees”

Daniel Boxberger (Western Washington University)
“Who Owns History? Indigenous Communities, Courts, Anthropologists and
Traditional Knowledge”

Allice Legat (Wek’eezhii Renewable Resources Board)
“The Use and Abuse of Anthropological Understandings”

Sophie Grow (University of Oregon)
“The Influence of Associations: The Reasons Behind Romanticizing Indian
History and the Legends and Myths We Fabricate and Glorify”

Exhibition, Exploration, and Travel

Organizer: Program Committee

Chair: TBA
Christopher Butler (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“Fraternal Sympathies: Exploring Masonic Indian Ethnology”

Michael Cox (University of California, Riverside)
“Brother Barnet’s Traveling Salvation Show: The Life (and Afterlife) of a
Christian Convert”

Melissa Rinehart (Valdosta State University)
“Pupils on Parade: St. Joseph’s Indian Normal School and the Chicago World
Exposition of 1893”

Methodological and Theoretical Collaborations

Organizer: Program Committee

Chair: TBA

Sebastian Braun (University of North Dakota)
“Non-Collaboration as a Significant Marker; or, Is Collaboration to History as
Non-Collaboration to Anthropology?”

Chelsea Horton (University of British Columbia)
“Ethnohistory from the Inside and Out: Thoughts from the Confluence of
Indigenous and Religious Studies”

Paul Picha (State Historical Society of North Dakota)
“Adam Smith, George Catlin, and Interdisciplinary Collaboration in
Ethnohistory”

10 :30-12:00

Racial Construction among the Seminoles

Theda Perdue (University of North Carolina), Organizer

Michael Green (University of North Carolina), Chair

Troy Smith (University of Illinois)
“‘You Are Not My Favorite’: Oral History and Racial Formation in
U.S./Seminole Diplomacy”
Mikaëla Adams (University of North Carolina)
“The Three Creations of Breathmaker: Racial Formation among the Florida
Seminoles, 1858-1935”

Kevin Mulroy, University of Southern California
“Race in the Seminole Nation at Oklahoma Statehood”

Tim Garrison, Portland State University, Discussant

10 :30-12:00

Westward the Iroquois

Jean Barman (University of British Columbia), Organizer

Heather Devine (University of Calgary), Chair

Nicole St. Onge (University of Ottawa) and Jan Grabowski (University of Ottawa)
“Iroquois Voyageur Contracts Made During the Western ‘Fur Trade Wars’”

Bruce Watson (Vancouver Community College)
“Iroquois in the Pacific Northwest Fur Trade”

Jean Barman (University of British Columbia)
“Iroquois Persistence in the Pacific Northwest”

Carolyn Podruchny (York University), Discussant

10:30-12:00

Anthropological Practice and the Indian Land Question in Early Twentieth Century
Canada

Dorothee Schreiber (University of Victoria), Organizer

Arthur Ray (Princeton University), Chair

Susan Roy (University of British Columbia)
“The Geological Survey of Canada and the Politics of Collecting and Archiving
an Indigenous West”

Siomonn Pulla (Carleton University, Ottawa)
“Thinking Outside the Grid: Land Claims, Frank Speck and the Mapping of
Aboriginal Geographic Knowledge in Canada during the Early 20th Century”
Dianne Newell (University of British Columbia) and Dorothee Schreiber (University of
Victoria)
“Nuxalk Territories as Sites of Exploration and Science: Harlan I. Smith’s
Fieldwork in Bella Coola, 1920-1924”

Lisbeth Haas (University of California, Santa Cruz), Discussant

10:45-12:00

“The Last Hurrah”? Post 1973 AIM Activism in a Transnational Context

Kate Williams (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Organizer

Jean O’Brien-Kehoe (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Chair

Doug Miller (University of Illinois, Chicago)
“Our Diplomatic Arm: Intellectual Roots and Early Years of the International
Indian Treaty Council”

Sheryl Lightfoot (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
“Leading Change: The International Treaty Council at the United Nations”

Kate Williams (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
“Cyd-Safiad (Standing Together): Welsh and American Indian Rights’
Movements in the 1980s”

10:30-12:00

Indian Conquistadors: Native Peoples in the Conquests of Mesoamerica, Part I

Peter Villella (University of California, Los Angeles), Organizer

Peter Villella (University of California, Los Angeles), Chair

John Chuchiak (Missouri State University)
“Unlikely Allies: Indigenous Laborers and Porters in the Conquest of Yucatan”

Yanna Yannakakis (Montana State University)
“Indian Conquistadors, Vanquished Others, and the Making of Indian Identity in
Colonial Oaxaca”

Peter Villella (University of California, Los Angeles)
“The Tapias of Queretaro and the Legacies of ‘Peaceful’ Conquest”

Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University), Discussant