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

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Thursday Registration, Exhibits, Meetings, and Special Events

Registration, 7:30 am–5:00 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans

Books and Exhibits, 8:00 am–5:00 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans

Executive Board Meeting, Cathedral, 8:00-10:00 am

Coffee reception for Native South journal (sponsored by University of Nebraska Press)l, 3:00-4:00 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans

Editor’s Session Wine & Cheese Reception (sponsored by Duke University Press), 5:15-6:15 pm, location TBA

Opening Reception (sponsored by The Historic New Orleans Collection), 6:30 – 8:00 pm,
The Counting House

Thursday Morning Sessions

Symposium: Strategies for Survival Among Nahua, Mixtec, and Zapotec Elites in Colonial Mesoamerica, Part 1: Competing for Resources

Room: Queen Anne Parlor
Organizer: Kevin Terraciano (University of California, Los Angeles)
Chair: Louise Burkhart (State University of New York, Albany)

8:00-8:20 Margarita Vargas-Betancourt (Tulane University)
Land Tenure in 16th-century Santiago Tlatelolco: don Diego Mendoza de Austria Moctezuma’s Niece versus a Pochteca

8:20-8:40 Xóchitl Flores-Marcial (University of California, Los Angeles)
Zapotec systems of reciprocity in the Tlacolula arm of the Oaxacan Central Valley: A look into the distribution of local resources in colonial Oaxaca

8:40-9:00 Erika, R. Hosselkus (Tulane University)
“This, my statement, is not to be neglected”: Testaments and Remembrance in Death and Beyond the Grave among Colonial Puebla’s Elite Nahuas

9:00-9:20 Bradley Benton (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Much Damage and Harassment”: Land and Water Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Tetzcoco

9:20-9:40 Kevin Terraciano (University of California, Los Angeles), Discussant

9:40-10:00 Discussion

General Session: Southwestern North America Ethnohistories

Room: Bonnet Carré
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Brian S. Collier (University of Notre Dame)

8:00-8:20 Fernando Serrano Jr. (San Diego State University)
Casas Grandes (Paquimé): Bridging the Gulf between the American Southwest and Mesoamerica

8:20-8:40 Tracy M. Duvall (Georgia Gwinett College) The O’odham and Tumacácori NHP: Questionable but convincing claims of affiliation

8:40-9:00 Tai E. Johnson (University of Arizona) Nutritional Shadows and the Politics of Subsistence: Food, Farming, and Health Among the Hopi People, 1936-2007

9:00-9:20 Brian S. Collier (University of Notre Dame) "To Bring Honor to My Village" Steve Gachupin and the Community of Jemez Pueblo and Native Running

9:20-10:00 Discussion

Symposium: Bridging Ethnohistories, Contextualizing Communities: Papers in Honor of Raymond J. DeMallie, Part 1

Room: Orleans
Organizer: Sebastian Braun (University of North Dakota)
Chair: David Reed Miller (First Nations University)

8:00-8:20 David Reed Miller (First Nations University)
Borders and Layers, Symbols and Meanings: Raymond J. DeMallie’s Commitment to “Thick Description” and “Symbolic Anthropology”

8:20-8:40 Patrick Moore (University of British Columbia)
Indigenous Histories: Challenges in Interpreting a Kaska Story

8:40-9:00 Mindy J. Morgan (Michigan State University)
Heteroglossia in the Archives: Bridging Indigenous Language Studies and Ethnohistorical Methods

9:00-9:20 Wyman Kirk (Northeastern State University)
Jalagi Gawonihisdi Gohlisdohdi: Using the Cherokee Language as an Ethnohistorical Tool

9:20-9:40 Brenda Farnell (University of Illinois)
Precision in Meaning

9:40-10:00 Kellie J. Hogue (Indiana University)
"I don't lecture, I tell stories": Narrative and the Collective Improvisation of Raymond J. DeMallie

10:00-10:20 Carolyn Anderson (St. Olaf College)
Emulation with Trepidation: Eastern Sioux Ethnohistorical Explorations Building on DeMallie’s Research

10:20-10:40 Raymond D. Fogelson (University of Chicago), Discussant

10:40-11:00 Discussion

Symposium: Indigenous Literacy in Mesoamerica and the Colonial World

Room: Iberville
Organizer: Kathryn E. Sampeck (Illinois State University)
Chair: Kathryn E. Sampeck (Illinois State University)

8:00-8:20 Judith W. Maxwell (Tulane University)
Who writes for whom? Kaqchikel documents from the 1500s to present

8:20-8:40 Timothy Knowlton (Berry College) and Gabrielle Vail (New College of Florida)
A Re-evaluation of Ethnohistoric Sources Concerning the Yax Cheel Cab

8:40-9:00 Amy George-Hirons (Tulane University)
She knows many wise things: The Book of Chilam Balam of Kaua as Evidence of Colonial (Yucatecan) Maya Literacy

9:00-9:20 Heather J. Abdelnur (Augusta State University)
Capturing Crime in the Periphery: Guatemala, Louisiana, and Florida, 1770-1810

9:20-9:40 Javier Villa Flores (U of Illinois, Chicago)
When the Medium is the Message: Literacy and Rebellion in New Spain's Northern Frontier (Tepic,1801)

9:40-10:00 Paja L. Faudree (Brown University)
Lost in Translation: The Politics of Linguistic “Conversion” on the Margins of New Spain

10:00-10:20 Break

10:20-10:40 Kathryn E. Sampeck (Illinois State University)
Reconstructing the Lost Prototypes of Pipil Pictorial Manuscripts

10:40-11:00 Laura Matthew (Marquette University)
Beyond a lingua franca: Some Aspects of Colonial Central American Nahuatl

11:00-11:20 Robert M. Hill, II (Tulane University), Discussant

11:20-12:00 Discussion

Symposium: Biography, Identity, and Cultural-Brokerage in a New North American World

Room: Bienville
Organizer: Kathryn V. Muller (McGill University)
Chair: Kathryn V. Muller (McGill University)

8:00-8:20 William J. Campbell (California State University, Chico)
A Patriotic Loyalist? Identity and Opportunism on the Revolutionary Borderlands

8:20-8:40 James Paxton (Moravian College)
A Murder at Grand River: A Crisis of Community in One Haudenosaunee Settlement

8:40-9:00 Patricia McCormack (University of Alberta)
James Thomson and his Fur Trade Wives: Fur Trade Reality or the Soap Opera of Fort Chipewyan?

9:00-9:20 Cecilia L. Morgan (University of Toronto)
“Master Johnnie improving very much”: Biography and the “Country-Born” Children of the Fur Trade in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

9:20-9:40 Jennifer Brown (University of Winnipeg), Discussant

9:40-10:00 Discussion

General Session: Media Images: Literary and Motion Picture Perspectives on North American Indian Cultures

Room: Cabildo
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: TBA

8:00-8:20 Peter L. Cook (University of Regina)
Native American Kings in English and French Colonial Writing, 1500-1800

8:20-8:40 Anne B. Keary (University of Utah)
Re-reading the first “Nez Perce Reading Book”: Protestant missionaries, the Nez Perce, and the introduction, transformation, and appropriation of written language

8:40-9:00 Christopher N. Butler (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Honor and Vengeance: John Rollin Ridge and The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta

9:00-9:20 Robert D. Miller (University of California, Riverside)
American Indian Writers and Indian Territory

9:20-9:40 Jeremy M. Planteen (University of Wyoming)
The 101 Ranch, Inceville, and the Native American Stereotype

9:40-10:00 Roger Carpenter (University of Louisiana, Monroe)
Striving for Authenticity: “Real” Indians, Scalping, and The Last of the Mohicans

Symposium: Bridging Cultural Borders, Part 2: Strategies for Survival Among Nahua, Mixtec, and Zapotec Elites in Colonial Mesoamerica

Room: Queen Anne Parlor
Organizer: Kevin Terraciano (University of California, Los Angeles)
Chair: Stafford Poole (Independent Scholar)

10:20-10:40 Jonathan Truitt (Central Michigan University)
What’s in a Name?: The Moctezuma Family in Sixteenth-Century Mexico Tenochtitlan

10:40-11:00 Peter B. Villella (University of California, Los Angeles)
Keeping History Alive: The Sanchez y Salazars of Eighteenth-Century Tlaxcala

11:00-11:20 Robert Schwaller (Pennsylvania State University)
Indios Principales and Elite Mestizos: Marriage strategies in early New Spain

11:20-11:40 Kevin Terraciano (University of California, Los Angeles)
The Contested Claims of Caciques to History and Power in New Spain: The Case of the “Casa de la Cacica”

11:40-12:00 Susan Schroeder (Tulane University), Discussant

12:00-12:20 Discussion

Symposium: Writing Creole: The Caribbean Influence in the Art and Idealism of Four New Orleans Writers, 1840-1920

Room: Bonnet Carré
Organizer: Caryn Cosse Bell (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)
Chair: Sir Hilary Beckles (University of the West Indies)

10:20-10:40 Sheri L. Abel (Wheaton College)
Charles Testut’s, Le Vieux Salomon : Influences of the Circum-Caribbean

10:40-11:00 Caryn Cosse Bell (University of Massachusetts, Lowell)
The Common Wind’s Legacy in the Writings of Pierre Aristide Desdunes, a Civil War Soldier and Civil Rights Activist

11:00-11:20 Mary Niall Mitchell (University of New Orleans)
Madame Couvent’s Legacy: Madame Couvent’s Legacy: New Orleans’s Creoles of Color, l’Ecole des Orphelins Indigents, and the Creation of Historical Memory after Plessy

11:20-11:40 Lawrence N. Powell (Tulane University), Discussant

11:40-12:00 Discussion

Symposium: Tribal Nations, Native Resources, Law and Politics

Room: Bienville
Organizer: Brian Hosmer (University of Tulsa)
Chair: Brian Hosmer (University of Tulsa)

10:20-10:40 Anthony F. C. Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)
Tuscarora Political Domains: Nation, Community, and Confederacy

10:40-11:00 Andrew Fisher (College of William and Mary)
Loose Cannons on the Tribal Ship of State: David Sohappy, Sr., and Mid-Columbia Indian Treaty Fishing Rights

11:00-11:20 Nathan Roberts (University of Washington)
Conservation Colonialism: Progressive Forestry among American Indians

11:20-11:40 Brian Hosmer (University of Tulsa), Discussant

11:40-12:00 Discussion

Symposium: Performing the American Body: Dancing, Weeping, and Parading

Room: Cabildo Organizer: Paul Scolieri (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Chair: Paul Scolieri (Barnard College, Columbia University)

10:20-10:40 Paul Scolieri (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Dancing in the ‘Age of Discovery’: Columbus, Cabeza de Vaca and Díaz del Castillo

10:40-11:00 Karin A. Vélez (Northeastern University)
Devoted Weeping in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World: Jesuit Interpretations of Public Crying in the Huron,Moxos and Slavic Missions

11:00-11:20 Carrie Stern (independent scholar) Slovak Jokes on Parade

11:20-11:40 Rayya S. El Zein (City University of New York)
Phantasmagoria of New York: Masculine dialogues towards the construction of an ideal Antebellum American Citizen

11:40-12:00 Discussion

General Session: International Comparisons and Influences

Room: Orleans
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: TBA

11:20-11:40 Colleen E. Boyd (Ball State University)
A Preliminary Analysis of Salmonidae Knowledge and Folklore in Irish and Coast Salish Cultures: A Foundation for Future Comparative Research

11:40-12:00 Demetri Debe (University of Minnesota)
Iberianizing the British Atlantic - Moving From North America to the Caribbean

12:00-12:20 James D. Cullingham (York University, Seneca College) Jacques Soustelle Caught Between Indigenismo and Imperialism

12:00-1:30 LUNCH