2008 ANNUAL MEETING

15 November - Saturday Morning Sessions At The Eugene Oregon Hilton Hotel

‹‹ Hilton Saturday Afternoon Sessions ››

8:30-11:45

Contact, Conflict, and Accommodation: Entangled Identities in Colonial Settings

Mark Tveskov (Southern Oregon University) and Madonna Moss (University of
Oregon), Organizers

Mark Tveskov (Southern Oregon University), Chair

Deana Dartt-Newton (University of Oregon)
“Nostalgia as Epistemology: Mission Museums and the Indian/Californio
Community of the California Coast”

Beth Horton (Washington State University)
“Personnel Relationships: Gender Roles as Reflected Through Material Culture at
Fort Vancouver, Washington”


Tsim Schneider (University of California, Berkeley)
“Placing Refuge: Archaeology and Colonial Encounters in the San Francisco Bay
Region”

Mark Tveskov (Southern Oregon University) and Amie Cohen (Southern Oregon
University)
“Ambiguity and Manifest Destiny: The Changing Role of Fort Lane in the
Cultural Landscape of the Oregon Territory, 1853-2007”

Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría (University of Texas, Austin)
“Between History and Archaeology in Colonial Mexico”

William Ayres (University of Oregon) and Katherine Seikel (University of Oregon)
“Interactions between Micronesians and Euro-Americans in Early 19th Century
Pohnpei”

Madonna Moss (University of Oregon), Discussant

8:30-10:15

Circles, Paths, and Places: The Ethnogeography of Native North America

Stephen Martin (University of Oklahoma), Organizer

James Taylor Carson (Queen’s University), Chair

Ian Chambers (University of Idaho)
“Deer and Rabbit: Cherokee Stories and Understandings of Movement”

Isaac Emrick (West Virginia University)
“At a Crossroads: Place and Dispersal in the Middle Ohio Valley, 1640-1700”

Stephen Martin (University of Oklahoma)
“‘As a Guard to the Country’: Possession and Dispossession in the Mississippi
Valley, 1779-1825”

Jonathan Hancock (University of North Carolina)
“Serpentine Warnings and Riverside Renewal: Cherokee Responses to the New
Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812”

James Taylor Carson (Queen’s University), Discussant

8:30-10:15

Spanish-Indigenous Collaborations and Conflict in Colonial Mesoamerica

Bradley Benton (University of California, Los Angeles), Organizer

Camilla Townsend (Rutgers University), Chair

Spencer Delbridge (Pennsylvania State University)
“Baptizing a Conquistador: Encounters and Power in the Conquest of Yucatán”

Bradley Benton (University of California, Los Angeles)
“A Horse and a Sword for Don Juan de Alvarado: A Century of Spanish Rule in
Tetzcoco”

Alejandra Jaramillo (University of Houston)
“Litigious Paupers: Natives and Labor Demands in Tlaxcala”
R. A. Kashanipour (University of Arizona)
“Intoxicants and Incense: The “Circulation of Maya Remedies in the Late-
Colonial World”

Camilla Townsend (Rutgers University), Discussant

8:30-10:00

Patterns on the Land: Native and Euro-American Strategies in the 18th and 19th Century
Midwest

Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (Ohio State University, Newark), Organizer

Rebecca Kugel (University of California, Riverside), Chair

Justin M. Carroll (Michigan State University)
“‘They Pretend to Claim Such a Vast Extent of this Whole Continent’: Maps in
the Post-Revolutionary Ohio River Valley”

Susan Sleeper-Smith (Michigan State University)
“Terrorism and the Natural Landscape: Capturing Indian Women

Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (Ohio State University, Newark)
“Individualizing Native Land in the Early 19th-Century Midwest

Bruce White, Turnstone Historical Research, Discussant

8:30-10:00

Modes of Masculinities: Gender and Native America

Sandra Slater (University of Kentucky), Organizer

Fay Yarbrough (University of Oklahoma), Chair

Sandra Slater (University of Kentucky)
“Nought but Women: Emasculation and Warfare in the New World”

Gabriel Estrada (California State University, Long Beach)
“Homosexuality in Meso-America”
Roger Carpenter (University of Louisiana, Monroe)
“Womanish Men and Men-Like Women: The Native American ‘Berdache’ as
Warrior”

Fay Yarbrough (University of Oklahoma), Discussant

10:30-12:00

Colonial Conflict and Collaboration: Native People in the Development of Urban Spaces
and City Culture in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Verónica A. Gutiérrez (University of California, Los Angeles), Organizer and Chair

León García Garagarza (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Inquisitorial Fire and the High Abode of the God of Rain: The Trial of Don
Carlos Ometochtli and the Scramble for Mount Tlaloc in Early Colonial Mexico”

Verónica A. Gutiérrez (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Spanish-Indigenous Collaboration in Colonial Puebla de Los Angeles: el Barrio
de Santiago Cholultecapan”

Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Conflict and Coexistence: The Afro-Indigenous Obraje in Puebla de Los
Angeles”

Discussant: TBA

10:30-12:15

Space, Place and Identity: Migration and Homeland in American Indian Ethnohistory

Stephen Martin (University of Oklahoma), Organizer and Chair

Dixie Ray Haggard (Valdosta State University)
“Appalachian Ecological Ethnicity: Space and Place in Cherokee History”

A. Holly Jones (Missouri State University)
“Along the Old White River Road: A Study in Ozark Culture History”

Brice Obermeyer (Emporia State University) and Rebecca Dobbs (University of North
Carolina)
“The Delaware Settlements of the Cherokee Nation”
Katy Simpson Smith (University of North Carolina)
“‘I Look on You . . . As My Children’: Persistence and Change in Cherokee
Motherhood, 1750-1835”

James Taylor Carson (Queen’s University), Discussant

10:15-12:15

Collaboration and Conflict in Ethnohistorical Methodologies

Organizer: Program Committee

Chair: TBA

Zabelle Stodola (University of Arkansas, Little Rock) and Betty Donohue (Independent
Scholar)
“Unholy Alliances: Failed Personal and Textual Alliances in Mary Rowlandson’s
Indian Captivity Narrative”

Darlynn Dietrich (Indiana University)
“Making (Ethno) History: Four Accounts of an 1875 Dakota Murder in
Manitoba”

Christine Schreyer (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)
“Numbers Become Names and Names Become Faces”

Betty Duggan (New York State Museum)
“A Beneficial Partnering: Collaborative Work in the Eastern United States by the
Indian Arts and Crafts Board and the Eastern Cherokee’s Qualla Arts and Crafts
Mutual, Inc., 1960s-1980s”

Avis Mysyk (Cape Breton University)
“Quetzalcoatl in Cuauhquechollan”

10:30-12:15

Indian Trade and the Emergence of a Plantation South

Kristalyn Shefveland (University of Mississippi), Organizer

Robbie Ethridge (University of Mississippi), Chair

C. S. Everett (Vanderbilt University)
“The Plunder of Indian Enemies Captivated: Bacon’s Rebellion and Indian
Slavery”
Kristalyn Shefveland (University of Mississippi)
“Northeastern Influences and Indian Slaves: Susquehannock and Westo Trade
Alliances”

Laura Johnson (University of Delaware)
“‘I ask you if you ever got a good Match Coat or a good Blanket at War?’:The
Indian Trade, Textiles, and Diplomacy in Colonial Southeastern America”

Jessica Spivey (California State University, Fullerton)
“Labor and the Gift in Colonial Georgia”

Robbie Ethridge (University of Mississippi), Discussant