1999 ANNUAL MEETING

Thursday 21 October - Morning Sessions

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NORTH MEETS SOUTH: SYNTHESIZING UNDERSTANDINGS OF HISTORIC NATIVE CULTURE ON THE EASTERN SEABOARD, PART I
 
Organizers:
Ann McMullen (Milwaukee Public Museum) and Jason Baird Jackson (Gilcrease Museum)

Chair:
Karen Blu (New York University)
 
Patricia Galloway (Mississippi Department of Archives and History) The 16th-Century Southeastern Sociopolitical Knowledge Environment: How Do We Find and Portray Complexity?

Trudie Lamb Richmond (Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center) The Legitimization of a Tribal Nation: Strategies for Survival

Bruce Bourque (Maine State Museum) The Wabanaki Confederacy: A Brief History

Pam Innes (University of North Carolina-Greensboro) The Creeks Past and Present: Balancing Autonomy and Confederacy
 
Discussant:
William C. Sturtevant (Smithsonian Institution)
 

CHANGING PRACTICES: FIRST NATIONS, PEOPLE, MUSEUMS, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND ETHNOHISTORY
 
Organizer:
Laura Peers (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)

Chair:
Trudy Nicks (Royal Ontario Museum/McMaster University)
 
Alison Brown (Oxford University) Telling Stories: Perspectives on Collecting Expeditions to the Canadian Prairies

Tom Hill and Keith Jamieson (Woodland Cultural Centre) Mohawk Ideals, Victoria Values: Oronhyateka M.D. ­ A Museum Exhibition

Trudy Nicks (Royal Ontario Museum/McMaster University) Across Borders: Beadwork in Iroquois Life

Laura Peers (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford) Objects, the Ojibwe, and Oxford: Thoughts on the Meanings of a Collection

Sherry Farrell Racette (Gabriel Dumont Institute and University of Manitoba) The Continuing Problematic of Metis Inclusion in Museum Representation

Cory Silverstein (McMaster University) Personal, Political, Public: Reflections on a Workshop for Anishnabek at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
 
Discussant:
Shepard Krech III (Brown University)

CONFRONTING THE CANONS: REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIVE CULTURE AND HISTORY FROM ETHNOHISTORICAL TEXTS
 
Organizer and Chair:
Patricia E. Rubertone (Brown University)
 
Margaret H. Williamson (Mary Washington College) “Civilising” the Powhatan: European Political Rhetoric in John Smith's Ethnography

John Dempsey (Freelance) Editing “Canaan” for the 21st Century

Russell Handsman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Imagining Wampanoag Indian Homelands and Histories through Mourt's Relation

Jeffrey Hantman (University of Virginia) "When That Unhappie Discoverie of Monacan was Made": John Smith's Ethnography and its Contemporary Impact

Patricia E. Rubertone (Brown University) Rethinking "A Key" Into Narragansett Culture and History
 
Discussants:
Barry O’Connell (Amherst College)
Raymond D. Fogelson (University of Chicago)

MAKING DO: NATIVE MESOAMERICAN AND COLONIAL/NATIONAL-ERA CHRISTIANITY
 
Organizer and Chair:
Susan Schroeder (Tulane University)
 
John F. Chuchiak (Assumption College) The Extirpation of Idolatry and Interethnic Relations: Maya-Christian Conflicts of a Colonial Frontier, 1580-1645

Edward Osowski (Pennsylvania State University) Mestizos or Mexicanos?  Misidentification in the 18th-Century Tribunal of Natives

Frances Karttunen (University of Texas, Austin) The Day of the Dead, Past and Present

Stafford Poole (Vincentian Studies Institute) After Las Casas: The Pro-Indian Movement in the Later Years of Philip II

David Tavarez (University of Chicago) From Cantares Zapotecos to “books of the Devil”: The Extirpation of a Zapotec Doctrinal Genre in Villa Alta, 1700-04

Daniela Traffano (El Colegio de Mexico) “…Pero todo lo de ese cuadrante ya es letra muerta”: Communities, Churches, and Parish Priests in Oaxaca during the Time of Juarez
 
Discussant:
Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University)

ECONOMICS AND ETHNOHISTORY
 
Chair:
To be announced
 
George Castile (Whitman College) "Les Jeux sont faits": Federal Indian Policy and Indian Gaming

Thomas Johnson (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point) The Politics of Economic Ethnohistory among the Wind River (WY) Shoshone and Arapaho

Victor P. Lytwyn (Walpole Island First Nation) "Perfectly Free and Unmolested in Their Trade": The Three Fires Confederacy at Detroit and International Trade in North America

Christopher Oakley (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) "Golden Calf" or "New White Buffalo?" Indian Gaming and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

Jeffrey Shepherd (Arizona State University) Land, Labor, and Leadership: The Political Economy of Hualapai Community Building, 1910-1940

Mary Wright (University of Washington) 200 Years of Economic Initiative by the Yakama Nation