ANNUAL MEETING 2009 (Please note the early dates: Sept. 30-Oct. 4, 2009)

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Saturday Registration, Exhibits, Meetings, and Special Events

Symposium: Environment and Ethnohistory in Colonial Mexico

Room: Queen Anne Parlor
Organizer: Spencer R. Delbridge (Pennsylvania State University)
Chair: Richard M. Conway (Montclair State University)

1:30-1:50 Richard M. Conway (Montclair State University) Lakes, Canoes, and Navigating the Colonial Economy in Central Mexico, 1550-1725

1:50-2:10 Spencer R. Delbridge (Pennsylvania State University), Unexplored Roads: Sixteenth-Century Sacbeob in Yucatán

2:10-2:30 Jake A. Fredrick (Lawrence University) Rights, Responsibilities, and Rivers in Colonial Mexico

2:30-2:50 Kris Lane (College of William & Mary), Discussant

2:50-3:10 Discussion

Symposium: Confronting Invaders, Constructing Gender: Agency, Resistance, Alliance and Native Women

Room: Bonnet Carré Organizers: Christina Gish-Berndt (College of William & Mary), Tai S. Edwards (University of Kansas), and Ethan A. Schmidt (Texas Tech University)
Chair: Theda Perdue (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

1:30-1:50 Christina Gish-Berndt (College of William & Mary) “He Didn’t Abuse Her:” Captivity, Identity, and Sovereignty Among the Northern Cheyenne

1:50-2:10 Tai S. Edwards (University of Kansas) Osage Gender: Change and Continuity During French and Spanish Colonization

2:10-2:30 Ethan A. Schmidt (Texas Tech University) Cockacoeske, Weroansqua of the Pamunkey and Indian Resistance in Seventeenth-Century Virginia 2:30-2:50 Theda Perdue (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Discussant

2:50-3:10 Discussion

Symposium: Coastal American Ethnohistories and the Common Crisis of Climate Change

Room: Orleans
Organizer: Ann S. Holder (Harvard University)
Chair: Ann S. Holder (Harvard University)

1:30-1:50 Andrea Lampis (CIDER – University of Los Andes) Environmental change and cultural patterns: the relevance of an ethno-development approach in the low coastal city of Tumaco, Colombia

1:50-2:10 Amy E. Lesen (Dillard University) The need for culturally inclusive environmental research in climate-change-vulnerable coastal communities: a case study in post-Katrina New Orleans

2:10-2:30 Lynnell L. Thomas (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Destination NOLA: Tourism, Katrina, and the Racial Climate of Catastrophe

2:30-2:50 Ann S. Holder (Harvard University), Racial and Ethnic Formation in the Americas: New Orleans, Katrina and the Myth of Exceptionalism

2:50-3:10 Discussants: all panelists

Symposium: Ethnohistory and Archaeology in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Current Practices and Perspectives

Room: Iberville
Organizer: Rob B. Mann (Louisiana State University)
Chair: Rob B. Mann (Louisiana State University)

1:30-1:50 C. Ray Brassieur (University of Louisiana, Lafayette) and Mark A. Rees (University of Louisiana, Lafayette) Colonized and Contested Landscapes: Creating and Re-Creating Homelands in Acadiana

1:50-2:10 David T. Palmer (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), Chip McGimsey (Louisiana Division of Archaeology), and Kimberly Walden (Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana) Southwest Louisiana Native American Life in the late pre-colonial and early colonial eras: archaeological evidence

2:10-2:30 Andrea P. White (University of New Orleans) The Protohistoric Native American Landscape in the Vicinity of New Orleans

2:30-2:50 Rob B. Mann (Louisiana State University) Persistent Pots and Durable Kettles: Aboriginal Pottery Production during the Colonial Period in the Lower Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes

2:50-3:10 Break

3:10-3:30 Gregory A. Waselkov (University of South Alabama) and Ashley A. Dumas (University of West Alabama) Archaeological Clues to a Seventeenth-Century Pan-Southeastern Revitalization Movement

3:30-3:50 D. Ryan Gray (University of Chicago)
Identity and the Material Dimensions of Public and Private Practice: Archaeology of a Chinese Laundry in New Orleans

3:50-4:10 Charles D. Chamberlain (Louisiana State Museum)
and Katherine Kovich (Louisiana State University)
Interpreting Native American History at Public History Institutions: The Louisiana State Museum’s traveling exhibit as a case study

4:10-4:30 Diana DiPaolo Loren (Peabody Museum, Harvard University), Discussant

4:30-4:50 Discussion

General Session: Politics and Indigenous Identities in Guatemala

Room: Bienville
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: TBA

1:30-1:50 Stacey A. Schwartzkopf (Arizona State University) Bridging the Gulf Between Colonial Indian Identity and Contemporary Indigenous Politics in Mesoamerica

1:50-2:10 Michael Fry (Fort Lewis College)
Identity & Community: Demise of the Indian Republic in the Guatemalan Montaña, 1700-1840

2:10-2:30 Jean-François Bélisle (University of Ottawa) Macy’s vs. Ubico: When the State defined the Mayan textile Tradition

2:30-2:50 Betsy Konefal (College of William & Mary)
May All Rise Up? The Lessons of 1970s Activism by Mayas in Guatemala

2:50-3:10 Julie A. Gibbings (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“The Just Punishment of God for the Evil of our Time”: Q’eqchi’ Cosmography and the Making of Race, Labor and Progress in Alta Verapaz, 1880-1898

3:10-3:30 Catherine A. Nolan-Ferrell (University of Texas, San Antonio)
“De Facto Mexicans:” Imposing Nationality on the Guatemalan/Mexican Border, 1931-1941

3:30-3:50 Nancy Appelbaum (State University of New York, Binghamton), Discussant

Symposium: Marriage, Infancy, Kin, and Ideology: Case Studies of Power and Gender among the Natives of Mexico and Guatemala

Room: Cabildo
Organizer: Margarita R. Ochoa (University of New Mexico)
Chair: Deborah Kanter (Albion College)

1:30-1:50 Annette D. Richie (State University of New York, Albany) Choosing Friends and Family in Colonial Mexico: Ethnic and Gender Dimensions of Godparent and Marital Choice

1:50-2:10 Nadia Marin-Guadarrama (State University of New York, Albany) Babies in Nahuatl Texts: Colonial Discourses on Practices of Love, Birth, and Childrearing for Nahua Parents

2:10-2:30 Margarita R. Ochoa (University of New Mexico), Marriage, Power, and Authority: Urban Indians in Late Colonial and Early National Mexico City, 1692-1829

2:30-2:50 Owen H. Jones (University of California, Riverside) Bi-gendered Obligations in Colonial K’iche’ Society 2:50-3:10 Susan Kellogg (University of Houston), Discussant

3:10-3:30 Discussion

Symposium: ‘The World is A Dangerous Place:’ Epistemologies of Horror in Modern Latin America and the Caribbean

Room: Queen Anne Parlor
Organizer: Robinson A. Herrera (Florida State University)
Chair: Robinson A. Herrera (Florida State University)

3:30-3:50 Anne M. Phillips (Duke University) Resurrecting Child Brides and Dancing Girls: Fear, Sexual Violence, and the Making of Gendered East Indian Subjects in 19th-Century British Guiana

3:50-4:10 James F. Jenkins (University of Texas, Austin) A Diplomatic Counterrevolution: Nicaraguan Indians, Native American Activists, and U.S. Foreign Policy 1979-1990

4:10-4:30 Sarah Ashley Kistler (Rollins College) Overcoming Fear: Aj Pop B’atz and the Re-construction of Q’eqchi’ Identity

4:30-4:50 Felipe F. Cruz (University of Texas, Austin) Urban Peripheries and Terror in the Brazilian Airspace

4:50-5:10 Robinson A. Herrera (Florida State University), Discussant

5:10-5:30 Discussion

Symposium: Discourses of Indianness in the 20th Century

Room: Bonnet Carré
Organizer: Robert A. Gilmer (University of Minnesota)
Chair: Brian Hosmer (University of Tulsa)

3:30-3:50 Robert A. Gilmer (University of Minnesota) Indians that Refused to Cry: Discourses of the Environmental Indian and the Tellico Dam Controversy

3:50-4:10 Doug K. Miller (University of Oklahoma) Red Power, White Collar: Father Peter Powell and Indian Activism in 1960s Chicago

4:10-4:30 Kate Williams (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) “Indian People From Other Nations”: Representations of Indianness in the American Indian Movement’s Transnational Alliances

4:30-4:50 Boyd D. Cothran (University of Minnesota) “In the Interest of American Civilization”: Identity and the Indian War Veteran Pensions, 1913-1930

4:50-5:10 Raymond D. Fogelson (University of Chicago), Discussant

5:10-5:30 Discussion

Symposium: Ojibwe and Miami Community Life in the Great Lakes: From Village to the Indian City

Room: Orleans
Organizer: Brenda J. Child (University of Minnesota)
Chair: Brenda J. Child (University of Minnesota)

3:30-3:50 Eric M. Redix (University of Minnesota) Misko-biiwaabik Dibaajimowin: Copper, Colonialism, and Ojibwe Culture in Nineteenth Century Upper Michigan

3:50-4:10 Chantal M. Norrgard (Lawrence University) “Subsistence” and “Labor “in the Context of Ojibwe Treaty Rights

4:10-4:30 Scott Shoemaker (Macalester College) nihsweehikolo (Divide it up): Narrating Meshingomesia Reservation Allotment of the Indiana Miami

4:30-4:50 Brenda J. Child (University of Minnesota) The Renaissance of American Indian Everything: Ojibwe Women’s Activism and Labor in Postwar Minneapolis

4:50-5:10 R. David Edmunds (University of Texas, Dallas), Discussant

5:10-5:30 Discussion

General Session: Pacific Encounters and Ethnohistory

Room: Bienville
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: TBA

4:10-4:30 Seth D. Archer (College of William & Mary) “Singularly Reduced”: Missionary Physicians and the Depopulation of Hawaii

4:30-4:50 John W. Troutman (University of Louisiana, Lafayette) Kika Kila! Bridging the Pacific through the Kanaka Maoli invention of the Steel Guitar

4:50-5:10 Michael P. Belgrave (Massey University) “Exclusive possession” Custom in the Courts: From the Indian Claims Commission to New Zealand’s Treaty Settlements

5:10-5:30 Discussion

Symposium: World’s Fairs as a Nexus for the Americas

Room: Cabildo
Organizer: Nancy J. Parezo (University of Arizona)
Chair: Lisa L. Munro (University of Arizona)

3:50-4:10 Kevin Gosner (University of Arizona) John Lloyd Stephens and Justo Sierra O’Reilly on Race, Citizenship, and Ancient History

4:10-4:30 Nancy E. Egan (University of California, San Diego) Constructing Indians, Constructing Culture: Bolivia and Bolivians at U.S. Expositions

4:30-4:50 Nancy J. Parezo (University of Arizona) From Human Remains to Artifacts to Art: Displaying Mexico and South America at American Expositions

4:50-5:10 Lisa L. Munro (University of Arizona) Dr. Karl Sapper’s Visit to the Fair: An Anthropologist on the Loose at the 1897 Central American Exposition

5:10-5:30 Melissa Rinehart (Valdosta State University) Native Participation at the World's Fair