News Updates regarding ASE and the world of Ethnohistory http://www.ethnohistory.org The American Society of Ethnohistory has named its 2009 committee for the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize for the best book-length work in the field of ethnohistory published in 2008 (copyright 2008). Books are submitted by the publishers or authors directly to the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize committee. Please send a copy to each of the committee members (mailing addresses are below). Deadline for delivery of all submissions to Committee members is MAY 15, 2009. http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/news/index.php?id=41 We are proud to announce Charlotte Gradie as the new Treasurer elect of the American Society for Ethnohistory. http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/news/index.php?id=33 The American Philosophical Society have revised the Fellowships and Research Grants section of our website, www.amphilsoc.org, for 2008. They will add an FAQ section for each program and will announce any changes to programs at their website, an so invite you to check the About the Fellowships and Research Grants section periodically. http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/news/index.php?id=30 Papers are invited for the Seventh Native American Symposium to be held November 1-2, 2007 at Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant, Oklahoma. http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/news/index.php?id=29 Registrations for the 2007 conference have started and you can benefit from an early bird special if you register before September 1st, 2007. http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/meetings/2007/registration_details.html Please take a minute to email your Senator or Representative in Congress. The Handbook of North American Indians is an enormous and heavily illustrated twenty- volume reference work (volumes are usually about 800-1000 pages in length) and which is invaluable to Indigenous peoples of the Americas, students of these rich cultural traditions, advocates of Native American rights, educators, and the general public. This precious resource is now in danger. It may no longer be updated or even easily available to us unless Congress votes to maintain funding for the project. Please be in touch with your Congressperson soon to insure the survival of this incredible source of anthropological knowledge and visual archives about First Americans. If you would, please pass this message on to interested parties. http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/news/index.php?id=26 We are currently building a photo gallery of pictures from the 2006 Ethnohistory conference in Virginia. If you attended and have photos you would like to submit to us for placement on the site, we would be happy to receive them. http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/news/index.php?id=27 Professor Bruce Trigger, one of the leaders in defining the field of ethnohistory, and former President of the American Society for Ethnohistory, died on December 1, 2006, at the age of 69. A longtime professor in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, Trigger was born in Preston, Ontario, he received a doctorate in archaeology from Yale University in 1964. His research interests include the history of archaeological research and the comparative study of early cultures. He taught at Northwestern University for a year in 1964 and since then has been in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal. He was adopted as an honorary member of the Huron-Wendat Nation. http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/news/index.php?id=25 The Department of Anthropology at the University of Tulsa in partnership with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is pleased to host the 2007 Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. The date November 16, 1907, marks the centennial of the admission of the state of Oklahoma to the Union. The thirty-eight federally recognized American Indian tribes in Oklahoma today are sovereign, self-governing nations whose presence in the state is evidence of the ability of tribal/cultural identity to transcend removal from homelands and the vagaries of federal assimilation policy. http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/meetings/2007/call_for_papers.html The 39th Algonquian Conference will be held at York University (Toronto, Ontario) the 18-22 of October 2007. This conference is an international meeting for researchers working in the area of Algonquian studies. This year the conference will have the theme of “Meeting Grounds and Gathering Places” relating to Algonquian communities both contemporary and historic. http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/news/index.php?id=24 The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) at the University of California Riverside (UCR) invites applications for The Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs. Established by the Costos in 1986, it is the first chair in the nation endowed directly by American Indians. In addition, the Costos founded The Rupert Costo Library of the American Indian, comprising thousands of books, artifacts, and the personal and professional archives of the Costos, as well as the archives of other prominent Native Americans and scholars of Native American studies. http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/news/index.php?id=23 The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications for the 2007 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Scholarly Information Resources for Humanists. Now in its fourth year, the fellowship provides new scholars in the humanities a unique opportunity to develop expertise in the new forms of scholarly research and the information resources that support them, both traditional and digital, that are challenging research institutions. The program offers fellowships to individuals who believe that there are opportunities to develop meaningful linkages between disciplinary scholarship, libraries, archives, and evolving digital tools. http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/news/index.php?id=22 American Society for Ethnohistory Election Results 2006 http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/news/index.php?id=19 Winners and Notable Mentions for the American Society for Ethnohistory Award and Prices for 2006 http://www.ethnohistory.org/sections/news/index.php?id=21