2008 ANNUAL MEETING

14 November - Friday Morning Sessions at the Eugene Hilton Hotel

‹‹ schedule | Hilton Saturday Morning Sessions ››

1:30-2:30

Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building, Session 1, Part 2

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

Christina Gish Berndt (College of William and Mary)
“Kinship as a Strategy for Maintaining Indigenous Sovereignty”

Jon C. Ille (University of California, Riverside)
“Adoption as a Means of Social Reconstruction among the Crow Indians, 1884-
1919”

Brian Hosmer (University of Illinois, Chicago), Discussant

1:30-3:15

Mesoamerican Testaments and Testators

Mark Christensen (Pennsylvania State University), Organizer

Stafford Poole (Independent Scholar), Chair
Caterina Pizzigoni (Columbia University)
“Nahuatl Testaments in the Eighteenth Century: Insights from the Toluca Valley”

Erika Hosselkus (Tulane University)
“Moving East: The Nahuatl Testaments of the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley”

Jonathan Truitt (Tulane University)
“Painting Saints: Indigenous Religious Images in Mexico Tenochtitlan, 1550-
1700”

Mark Christensen (Pennsylvania State University) and Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania
State University)
“Return to Ixil”

Stephanie Wood (University of Oregon), Discussant

1:30-2:45

Indigenous Peoples and the Development of State Institutions in British North America

Brian Gettler (Université du Quebec á Montréal), Maxime Gohier (Université du Quebec
á Montréal), and Nelly Laudicina (University of Ottawa), Organizers

Chair: TBA

Brian Gettler (Université du Quebec á Montréal)
“Controlled Money: State Formation and the Improvident Indian in Quebec and
Ontario, 1830-1950”

Maxime Gohier (Université du Quebec á Montréal)
“‘The Great Object is to Discourage them Resorting to Town’: British Authorities
and the Administration of Native Claims in Quebec (1775-1830)”

Nelly Laudicina (University of Ottawa)
“Ruling Red River: Negotiating Law and Order with the Council of Assiniboia,
1820-1869”

1:30-3:00

Anishinaabe and Métis Stories

Rhonda Telford (Historical Research and Consulting Services), Organizer

Victor Lytwyn (Historical and Geographical Consulting), Chair
Alan Corbiere (Ojibwe Cultural Foundation)
“Kikinawaajichigan: Marks of Distinction in Anishinaabe-British Diplomacy”

Rhonda Telford (Historical Research and Consulting Services)
“Anishinaabe Copper and Lakes Superior and Huron”

Theresa Schenck (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“Indian or White? Ojibwe Mixed Bloods and the U.S. Government ”

Victor Lytwyn (Historical and Geographical Consulting)
“Métis Communities along the Boundary Waters Canoe Route from Fort William
to Red River”

1:30-4:00

Mapping Indigenous America

Mark Nicholas (University of St. Thomas, Houston), Organizer

James Taylor Carson (Queen’s University), Chair

Angela Pulley Hudson (Texas A&M University)
“Calibrating the ‘Wicked Instrument’: Indians and Surveyors in the Early
Republic Southeast”

Mark Nicholas (University of St. Thomas, Houston)
“GIS as Ethnohistory: Mapping the Shawnee Reservation in Kansas”

Elisabeth Rose Middleton (University of California, Berkeley)
“Seeking Spatial Representation: Mapping Mountain Maidu Allotment Lands”

David Neufield (Parks Canada)
“Indigenous Storytelling as Map Making: Learning to Navigate the Yukon River”

David Reed Miller (First Nations University of Canada)
“The Allotment Era on the Fort Peck Reservation: Ideas for an Atlas”

Anne Godlewska (Queen’s University), Discussant

2:45-5:00

Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building, Session 2

- 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

Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
“‘We worked and made beautiful things with no thought of time nor money’:
Kiowa Women, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Nationhood, 1900-1940”

Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (University of Minnesota, Duluth)
“‘We Do Not Need any Line’: Anishinaabe Nationhood, Treaty Making, and the
(Re)Construction of Borders”

Chantal Norrgard (Michigan State University)
“Beyond Folklore: Historical Writing and Treaty Rights Activism in the Bad
River WPA, 1936-1942”

Josh Reid (University of California, Davis)
“Articulating a Traditional Future: Makah Sealers and Whalers, 1800-2007”

Adriana Greci Green (Northern Michigan University)
“Marketing Market Arts: The WPA Indian Craft Initiative in Michigan”

Larry Nesper (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Discussant

3:15-4:45

Ethnogenesis and Extinction in the Colonial North Andes

Karen Vieira Powers (Independent Scholar), Organizer

Karen Vieira Powers (Independent Scholar), Chair

Rachel Corr (Florida Atlantic University) and Karen Vieira Powers (Independent
Scholar)
“How the Masaquizas Became Salasacans: Emergent Identities in the 18th
Century North Andes”

Deborah Truhan (University of Pittsburgh)
“Demographic Collapse and Ethnogenesis in Hatun Cañar, 16th and 17th
Centuries: A Hypothesis”

Kris Lane (College of William and Mary)
“Cultural Extinction and Backhanded Ethnography in the North Andes: Tales
from the Muzo and Sindagua Wars of c. 1560-1640"

Frank Salomon (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Discussant

3:15-4:45

Colonialist Approaches to Indigenous Societies in Latin America

Organizer: Program Committee

Chair: TBA

Tien-Ann Shih (University of Chicago)
“Problematic Spaces: The Constituciones Sinodales and the Reform of Indigenous
Spatial Practices, 1539-1639”

Lisa Munro (University of Arizona)
“The Problem of Indian Clothing in Late Colonial Guatemala”

Pilar Herr (University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg)
“Collaboration or Resistance? The Role of Parlamentos in Early Nineteenth
Century Chile”

Owen Jones (University of California, Riverside)
“K’iche’ Town Government in Colonial Guatemala: The Traditional Adaptation
of a Civil-Religious Hierarchy”

3:15-4:30

Imperialism, Genocide, and Trafficking

Organizer: Program Committee

Brian Daniels (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Question of Native American Genocide in Northern California”

Robert D. Miller (University of California, Riverside)
“Native Americans and American Imperialism at the Turn of the Twentieth
Century”

Stacey Smith (Oregon State University)
“Trafficked Native Women, Antislavery Politics, and the Law in Reconstruction-
Era California”