ANNUAL MEETING 2009 (Please note the early dates: Sept. 30-Oct. 4, 2009)

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Thursday Registration, Exhibits, Meetings, and Special Events

Symposium: Don Pedro’s Catechism: Tiers of Meaning in a Testerian Manuscript

Room: Queen Ann Parlor
Organizer: Louise Burkhart (State University of New York, Albany)
Chair: Stafford Poole (Independent Scholar)

1:30-1:50 Elizabeth H. Boone (Tulane University) The Pictorial Rhetoric of Devotion: Ideography and Extra-linguistic Content in a Mexican Catechism

1:50-2:10 Louise Burkhart (State University of New York, Albany) These Pictures Speak Nahuatl: Some Linguistic Features of the FM399 Pictorial Catechism

2:10-2:30 David Tavarez (Vassar College) Reclaiming Rulership: A Strategic Rereading of a Nahua Pictorial Catechism

2:30-2:50 Susan Schroeder (Tulane University), Discussant

2:50-3:10 Discussion

General Session: The Innovative North: New Approaches in Northern Plains, Alaskan, Canadian, and Métis Ethnohistory

Room: Bonnet Carré
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: TBA

1:30-1:50 Denis G. Lamourex (University of Ottawa)
From the North West to Montréal: Retracing Métis ancestry with the help of fur trade contracts

1:50-2:10 Tim D. Bisha (University of Western Ontario) Of Beasts and Burglars: metaphor and order on the Upper Canada frontier

2:10-2:30 Omeasoo K. M. Butt (University of Saskatchewan)
The Cree and Dene of Northern Saskatchewan 1819-1827: The Good Life

2:30-2:50 Katrin A. Simon (University of Aberdeen)
The Meaning and Use of Narratives in a Central Yup’ik Community: The Scammon Bay “Fireball Story”

2:50-3:10 Erin R. M. Dolmage (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)
Microhistory:An “Exceptional-Normal” Biographical Approach to Métis in Fort St. John

3:10-3:30 Keith Steven Richotte, Jr. (University of North Dakota)
Rethinking Tribal Constitutionalism Beyond the Colonialist/Revolutionary Dialectic: The Turtle Mountain Experience

3:30-3:50 Meagan E. Gough (University of Saskatchewan)
Repatriation as a Reflection of Stó:lô Cultural Values: Tset Tháyeltxwem Te lálém S’olh etawtxw (We are Building a House of Respect)

3:50-4:10 Sarah Nickel (Simon Fraser University)
The Politics of Activism: A Discussion of the Understanding and Implementation of Sto:lo Political Activism

General Session: Stories of Interaction: Images and the Fur Trade across North America

Room: Orleans
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: TBA

1:20-1:40 James Darrin Russell (University of Aberdeen)
Wild Men and Windigos: the performance of "civility" and "savagery" in seventeenth century New France

1:40-2:00 Ashley Riley Sousa (Yale University)
Trapped?: The Fur Trade and Debt Peonage in Central California

2:00-2:20 Lyndsey N. Albrecht (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)
The 'Good Indians' of the Hudson's Bay Company Beaver Magazine

2:20-2:40 Discussion

Editor’s Session: Engaging One Another: Views of Indigenous Contestation, Negotiation, and Participation in the Americas

Room: Iberville
Organizer: Autumn Quezada-Grant (University of Mississippi)
Chairs: Michael Leroy Oberg (State University of New York, Geneseo) and Susan Kellogg (University of Houston)

1:30-1:50 Erin M. Woodruff (Vanderbilt University)
The First American Slave Revolt: Indian and African Maroons in Hispaniola, 1519-1548

1:50-2:10 Tara M. Dixon (Northeastern University) Saints, Sinners and Savages: How Native Peoples Appropriated Colonial Traditions into Their Faith

2:10-2:30 José Cuello (Wayne State University) The 'mitote' as the Central Institution for Nomadic Native Adaptation to Spanish Colonialism on the Seventeenth Century North Mexican Frontier

2:30-2:50 Blanca I. Tovias (University of Sydney) Blackfeet Diplomacy and Contestation before and after the 1870 Massacre of Pikuni

2:50-3:10 Autumn Quezada-Grant (University of Mississippi)
For the Power to Dispute Like the Rich!: The Resurrection of the Office of the Protector de Indios in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas 1870-1882

3:10-3:30 Break

3:30-3:50 Christopher A. Siekmann (Texas Christian University)
Smacked by the Right, Pushed to the Left: The Intensification of Guatemalan Grassroots Indigenous Activism

3:50-4:10 John Dillon (University of Arizona)
The Hupa Tribe and the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement: A Timely Opportunity So Far Diverted

4:10-4:30 Kathleen DuVal (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Discussant

4:30-4:50 Susan Kellogg (University of Houston), Discussant

4:50-5:10 Discussion

Symposium: Reassessing the Ethnohistory of Religious Experience in the Americas

Room: Bienville
Organizer: Michael Pasquier (Louisiana State University)
Chair: Kenneth Mills (University of Toronto)

1:20-1:40 Linford D. Fisher (Brown University)
Christian Indians? On the Dangers of Homogenizing Indians’ Religious Experiences in Colonial New England

1:40-2:00 Martin Nesvig (University of Miami)
Criollo Priests along the Internal Frontiers of New Spain

2:00-2:20 Michael P. Gueno (Florida State University)
Contact Religion in Nuevo Mexico: Reevaluating the Spectrum of Religious Variation in colonial Pueblos

2:20-2:40 Karen B. Graubart (University of Notre Dame)
Finding Order in the Colonial City: Learning from cofradias de morenos e indios in 17th century Lima

2:40-3:00 Michael Pasquier (Louisiana State University)
Overlooking the Tunica Treasure: Colonial Ruptures and New Moralities in French Louisiana

3:00-3:20 Paul Harvey (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs), Discussant

3:20-3:40 Discussion

Symopsium: Trade, Travel, and Communication: Indian Agents in the Colonial Southeast

Room: Cabildo
Organizer: Alexandra Dubcovsky (University of California, Berkeley)
Chair: William Ramsey (Lander University)

1:30-1:50 Alexandra Dubcovsky (University of California, Berkeley)
Meeting Emperor Brims: Spanish and English Diplomacy in Creek Country

1:50-2:10 Paul Grady (University of South Carolina, Upstate)
Henry Woodward: Carolina’s First Diplomat 2:10-2:30 George Milne (Oakland University) Right in the Jesuit’s Eye: Partisan Perspectives in French Louisianan Travel Narratives

2:30-2:50 Steven C. Hahn (St. Olaf College)
Mary Musgrove and the Social Contexts for Additive Bilingualism

2:50-3:10 William Ramsey (Lander University), Discussant

3:10-3:30 Discussion

Symposium: Bridging Ethnohistories, Contextualizing Communities: Papers in Honor of Raymond J. DeMallie, Part 2

Room: Orleans
Organizer: Sebastian Braun (University of North Dakota)
Chair: Paula Wagoner (Juniata College)

3:00-3:20 Paula Wagoner (Juniata College)
Was Iktomi Diogenes?

3:20-3:40 Sebastian Braun (University of North Dakota) Breaking Structures: An Ecology of Community Relationships on the Northern Plains

3:40-4:00 David Posthumus (Indiana University)
The Extermination of the Buffalo and the Lakota Sioux: An Ethnohistorical Approach

4:00-4:20 Kelly M. Branam (Saint Cloud State University)
Ethnographers, Ethnohistorians, and Political Landscapes

4:20-4:40 Darlynn Dietrich (Indiana University)
Making (Ethno)History: Four Accounts of an 1875 Dakota Murder in Manitoba

4:40-5:00 Benjamin Kracht (Northeastern State University)
Paradigms Lost: New Interpretations of Revitalization Movements

5:00-5:20 Raymond D. Fogelson (University of Chicago), Discussant

5:20-5:30 Discussion

Symposium: Nindinawemaganidok: Bkejwanong and Bridging the Gulf in the Wider World

Room: Queen Anne Parlor
Organizer: David T. McNab (York University)
Chair: Dean M. Jacobs (Walpole Island First Nation Heritage Centre)

3:30-3:50 David T. McNab (York University)
Bridging the Gulf by Taking the Longest Way Around: A Story from BKEJWANONG: EZHAASWE (WILLIAM A. ELIAS), c. 1851-1929

3:50-4:10 Karen J. Travers (York University)
“Contrary to the Governor General’s Instructions”: Quakejwan’s Settlement in Bosanquet Township, Upper Canada, 1800-1860

4:10-4:30 Maureen Riche (York University)
Divided Spaces, Divided Stories: Animal Control Programs in Canada’s Indigenous Communities

4:30-4:50 Clarice Nahdee (Bkejwanong First Nations), Discussant

4:50-5:10 Ute Lischke (Wilfrid Laurier University), Discussant

5:10-5:30 Discussion

General Session: Scientific Methods and Medical Ethnohistory

Room: Bonnet Carré
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: TBA

4:30-4:50 Diana E. French (University of British Columbia, Okanagan)
Misery Knows No Boundaries: A Comparison of the Carville, Louisiana and the Canadian D’Arcy lsland Leprosaria During the Late 19th Century

4:50-5:10 Samuel Redman (University of California, Berkeley)
Old Science, New Museum: Defining Racial and Disciplinary Boundaries through Human Remains in late Nineteenth Century America

5:10-5:30 Daniel L. Boxberger (Western Washington University)
Confessions of a (Reluctant) Forensic Ethnohistorian

Symposium: “Arts of Resistance:” Connecting Subversive Women across Native America

Room: Bienville
Organizer: John T. Ellisor (Columbus State University)
Chair: Katherine Osburn (Tennessee Technological University)

3:50-4:10 Susan M. Abram (Auburn University)
Cherokee Women: Sixty Years of Resistance to American Expansion, 1770-1830

4:10-4:30 John T. Ellisor (Columbus State University)
“Temper of the Mule:” Resistant Creek Women, 1833-1843

4:30-4:50 Becky F. Matthews (Columbus State University)
“Faithful to Their Families and Tribe:” Subversive Crow Women, 1890-1940

4:50-5:10 Katherine Osburn (Tennessee Technological University), Discussant

5:10-5:30 Discussion

General Session: 18th and 19th Century Ohio Valley and Northeastern North American Ethnohistory

Room: Cabildo
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: TBA

3:50-4:10 Clark T. Sage (Indiana University)
They Adopted Mice As Younger Brothers

4:10-4:30 Laurie Weinstein (Western Connecticut State University)
Native Peoples in Western Connecticut during the Revolutionary War

4:30-4:50 Christine N. Reiser (Brown University)
Community-Keeping and Movement in 18th and 19th Century Indian Southern New England

4:50-5:10 Michael L. Cox (University of California-Riverside)
Killing Leatherlips: The History of an Early American Execution

5:10-5:30 Discussion