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2008 ANNUAL MEETING

14 November - Friday Morning Sessions at the Eugene Hilton Hotel

‹‹ schedule | Hilton Friday Afternoon Sessions ››



8:30-11:30

Heritage and Identity Today


Organizer: Program Committee

Chair: TBA

Heather Devine (University of Calgary)
“Big Fish and Lost Graves: Cultural Resource Management in the Shadow of
Oka”

Afton Sells (Diné College) and Miranda Haskie (Diné College)
“Ahil Neelnishgoo Nihizaad Hodooleel (Through Collaborations We Strengthen
Our Tribal Language)”

Matthew Jennings (Macon State College)
“Reclaiming Ocmulgee”

Kathleen McIntyre (University of New Mexico)
“Religious Conflict, Mixtec Autonomy, and Cultural Revitalization”

Lynn Stephen (University of Oregon)
“Negotiating Hierarchies and Promoting Indigenous Culture: Oaxacan Immigrant
Youth in California and Oregon”

Daniel Monteith (University of Alaska, Southeast)
“Struggles for Autonomy and Subsistence: An Ethnohistory of Political Issues for
Saxman, Alaska”

Paula Renaud (University of Wyoming)
“Native American Sweatlodge: A Story of Transformation, Appropriation and
Authenticity”


 

8:30-12:00

The Past in the Present: Indigenous Peoples and Commemoration in North, Central, and
South America


Sergei Kan (Dartmouth College), Organizer and Chair

Keith Thor Carlson (University of Saskatchewan)
“Commemorations and the Designing of Counter-memories among the Coast
Salish”

Sergei Kan (Dartmouth College)
“The Centennial Potlatch of 2004: History, Memory, and Politics among the
Tlingit”

Paul Liffman (Centro de Estudios Antropológicos El Colegio de Michoaccán)
“Commemorating Huichols in the Mexican National Space: One Pageant and
Two Rituals”

Patrick McNamara (University of Minnesota)
“Commemorating Hidalgo’s Army: Mexican Indians and the Performance of
Race in 1910”

Juan Avila (St. Mary’s College of California)
“‘Kavaeka te yo’ora waate (We must remember the elders)’: 100th Anniversary of
the Maso Koba Massacre, Yoem Pueblo, Arizona”

Amos Megged (University of Haifa)
“The Metaphorical Layers of Nahua Social Memory: Commemoration and
Transcendence (Late Postclassic to 1750)”

Frank Salomon (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“Inca Civil War Reenactors”

Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University), Discussant




8:30-10:00

Landscape, Community, and Identity: Thinking About Place in a North Ameri
can Context

Alanna Rice (Queen’s University), Organizer

James Taylor Carson (Queen’s University), Chair
Dawn Marsh (Purdue University)
“Delaware Diaspora: New Homelands in the Old Northwest”

Alanna Rice (Queen’s University)
“To Live Without Oysters and Clams: Montaukett Christianity, Community, and
Place Following the First Great Awakening”

Trina Zeimbekis (Queen’s University)
“A Place for Arctic Space”

Daniel Usner (Vanderbilt University), Discussant

8:30-10:00

Post-Conquest Migrations and Native Society in Colonial Mexico 1570-1780

Richard Conway (Tulane University) and Dana Velasco-Murillo (University of
California, Los Angeles), Organizers

Yanna Yannakakis (Montana State University), Chair

Richard Conway (Tulane University)
“Migration and Community in Xochimilco, New Spain, 1570-1650”

Tatiana Seijas (Miami University)
“Chinos in Pueblos de Indios”

Dana Velasco-Murillo (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Regenerating the Community: Indigenous Migration Patterns in Colonial
Zacatecas, 1710-1780”

Cynthia Radding (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Discussant


 

9:00-11:15

Collaborative Research in New England: Linking Past, Present, and Future


Holly Herbster (Public Archaeology Laboratory), Organizer and Chair

Christina Hodge (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology), Diana Loren
(Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology), Patricia Capone (Peabody Museum
of Archaeology and Ethnology), and William Fash (Peabody Museum of Archaeology
and Ethnology)
“Indigenizing Harvard's History”
Guido Pezzarossi (University of Massachusetts, Boston), Heather Law (University of
Massachusetts, Boston), Stephen Mrozowski (University of Massachusetts, Boston), and
Andrew Fiske (Memorial Center for Archaeological Research)
“Exploring Victorian Characterizations of the Nipmuc: Interpreting the
Stratigraphy of Local Histories in Grafton, MA”

Jason R. Mancini (Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center/University of
Connecticut)
“Revisiting Historic Period Exhibits at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum”

Kevin A. McBride (Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center/University of
Connecticut)
“The Memory and Legacy of the Pequot War”

Holly Herbster (Public Archaeology Laboratory)
“Public Archaeology and Collaboration: Understanding the Past in the Present”

Diana Loren (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology), Discussant




10:30-12:00

Bodies at Risk: Challenging Historical and Contemporary Discursive Representations of
Aboriginal Health


Mary-Ellen Kelm (Simon Fraser University) and Christianne Stephens (McMaster
University), Organizers

Regna Darnell (University of Western Ontario), Chair

Mary-Ellen Kelm (Simon Fraser University)
“Sex and Surveillance: Knowledge Production in the Early Research on
HIV/AIDS and Aboriginal People”

Jennifer Seltz (Western Washington University)
“Explaining Illness and Reshaping Space around Puget Sound, 1855-1900”

Christianne Stephens (McMaster University)
“Toxic Talk: Calibrating Divergent Aboriginal and Biomedical
Conceptualizations and Understandings of Risk and Environmental Illness in a
Contemporary Native Community”

Regna Darnell (University of Western Ontario), Discussant


 

11:00-12:00

Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building, Session 1, Part 1


Gary Dunham (SUNY Press), Brian Hosmer (University of Illinois, Chicago), and Larry
Nesper (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Organizers

Brian Hosmer (University of Illinois, Chicago), Chair

Cèline Swicegood (Newberry Library/La Sorbonne Paris 3)
“The Saginaw Chippewa Indians of Michigan, a Sovereign Nation?”

Gerald Reid (Sacred Heart University)
“Khanawà:ke: Political Activism in an Iroquoian Community”

Anthony F. C. Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)
“Tuscarora Political Domains: Nation, Community, Confederacy”