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

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Friday Registration, Exhibits, Meetings, and Special Events

Symposium: Colonial Origins, Modern Controversies: The Shadow of the Pre-Independence Past on Contemporary Ethnic Identities and Rights Movements

Room: Queen Anne Parlor
Organizer: Mark Lentz (University of Louisiana, Lafayette)
Chair: Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University)

1:30-1:50 Mark Lentz (University of Louisiana, Lafayette) Interpreters of Yucatan: The Right to Legal Translation in the Colonial and Modern Era

1:50-2:10 Judith W. Maxwell (Tulane University) Colonial Documents in Highland Mayan Languages as Tools and Weapons in the Struggle for Modern Legitimacy

2:10-2:30 Sandra K. Mathews (Nebraska Wesleyan University) The Cruzate Grants (1689) and Modern Pueblo Land Claims: Deciphering Land Fraud through the Centuries

2:30-2:50 David S. Bennett (University of Louisiana, Lafayette) The Inherent Difficulties with the Point-au-Chien Indian Tribe's Federal Recognition Process

2:50-3:10 Tatiana Seijas (Miami University), Discussant

3:10-3:20 Discussion

General Session: Ethnicities and Ethnohistory in Louisiana

Room: Bonnet Carré
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Wendy St. Jean (Purdue University, Calumet)

1:20-1:30 Laura D. Kelley (Tulane University)
Bayou Retreat: Survival by Strategic Migration, The Formation of Native American Communities in Southern Louisiana

1:30-1:40 Ann M. Ostendorf (Gonzaga University) The Invention of Ethnic Music Genres along the Lower Mississippi

1:40-2:00 J. Daniel D’Oney (Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences)
Fire, Water and Government Know Nothing of Mercy: Court Cases Which Determined Houma Identity

2:00-2:20 Lucy M. Cohen (Catholic University of America)
New Orleans Newspapers, 1850-1870 and the Ethnohistory of the Chinese in Louisiana 2:20-

3:00 Daniel H. Usner, Jr. (Vanderbilt University) Crafting a Traditional Community in Progressive America: Chitimacha Indian Basket Weavers, 1880-1940

3:00-3:20 Katie Berchak (Louisiana State University) Nueva Orleans

3:20-3:40 Wendy St. Jean (Purdue University, Calumet), Discussant

Symposium: Beyond Two Worlds: Thinking with Place, Space, and Landscape in Native North American History – A Tribal Worlds Session, Part 3

Room: Iberville
Organizers: C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa (Illinois College) and Brian Hosmer (University of Tulsa)
Chair: Larry Nesper (University of Wisconsin)

1:30-1:50 Kent Blansett (University of New Mexico)
Complicating the Urban Indian Experience: Intertribalism and the advent of an "Indian City," Seattle 1920-1970

1:50-2:10 Dan M. Cobb (Miami University)
Two Worlds Are Not Enough: Toward on Ethnobiography of D’Arcy McNickle

2:10-2:30 David Martinez (Arizona State University)
The Myth of Living In Two Worlds: Carlos Montezuma and the Salt River Pima

2:30-2:50 Cathleen Cahill (University of New Mexico)
An Ojibwe among the Navajo and Other Stories: Intertribal Exchange in the Federal Indian Service

2:50-3:10 Break 3:10-3:30 Susan Gray (Arizona State University), Discussant

3:30-3:50 Coll Thrush (University of British Columbia), Discussant

3:50-4:10 C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa (Illinois College), Discussant

4:10-4:30 Brian Hosmer (University of Tulsa), Discussant

4:30-5:00 Discussion

Symposium: Culture and Coushatta Identity in Southwest Louisiana

Room: Orleans Organizer: Jay Precht (McNeese State University)
Chair: Bertney Langley (Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana)

1:20-1:40 Crystal Williams (Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana) Coushatta Dance: The Revitalization of a Lost Tradition

1:40-2:00 Jay Precht (McNeese State University) Pine-needle Basketry and Identity Politics: The Coushatta Road to Federal Re-recognition

2:00-2:20 Linda Langley (McNeese State University) Kowasaaton Ilhaalos, The Coushatta Heritage Project: Language and Identity in the Coushatta Tribal Community

2:20-2:40 Ray Miles (McNeese State University), Discussant

2:40-2:50 Discussion

General Session: Early Mesoamerican and Spanish Encounters with Native North Americans

Room: Bienville
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: TBA

1:30-1:50 Alice B. Kehoe (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Mississippian and Mesoamerica

1:50-2:10 Christopher B. Rodning (Tulane University), Robin A. Beck, Jr. (University of Oklahoma) and David G. Moore (Warren Wilson College)
The Archaeology of Joara and Fort San Juan: Sixteenth-Century Spanish Contact in Western North Carolina

2:10-2:30 David Shorter (University of California, Los Angeles)
Histories Bizarre and Incredible: Reconciling Cabeza de Vaca with Indigenous Oral Traditon

2:30-2:50 Nancy Hickerson (Texas Tech University)
Cabeza de Vaca's Route: a short history of a long argument

2:50-3:10 Mariah Wade (University of Texas, Austin)
The vise of trade or how Athanase de Mezieres politicized trade in Louisiana and Texas

3:10-3:30 Discussion

Symoposium: Ojibwe Histories

Room: Cabildo
Organizer: Rhonda M. Telford (Historical Research & Consulting Services)
Chair: Rhonda M. Telford (Historical Research & Consulting Services)

1:30-1:50 Jim McClurken (Cambridge Research Consultants)
The Mille Lacs Conspiracy, Minnesota, the Ojibwe and the Reservation [1855-1889]

1:50-2:10 Rhonda M. Telford (Historical Research & Consulting Services),
The Indian Land Management Fund OR How Britain and Canada Made the Indians Pay for Their Own Colonization [1822-1914]

2:10-2:30 Victor Lytwyn (Historical and Geographical Consulting)
Mapping Traditional Knowledge at Bkejwanong (Walpole Island): Linking the Past to the Future

2:30-2:50 Dean Jacobs (Walpole Island First Nation Heritage Centre)
How Far Have We Come? Who’s Being Left Behind? Protecting Heritage, Affirming Indigenous Rights, and Fostering Community Well-Being: Challenges and Future Possibilities for Walpole Island First Nation

2:50-3:10 Discussant: TBA

3:10-3:30 Discussion

Symposium: Creek Government and Society in Crisis: A Panel Honoring Michael D. Green

Room: Orleans
Organizer: Tim Alan Garrison (Portland State University)
Chair: Tim Alan Garrison (Portland State University)

3:10-3:30 Robbie Ethridge (University of Mississippi)
A New Synthesis on the Origin of the Creeks

3:30-3:50 Christina N. Snyder (Indiana University)
Andrew Jackson’s Indian Son

3:50-4:10 Rowena McClinton (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville)
Tennessee and Cherokee Volunteers in the Creek War

4:10-4:30 Kathryn H. Braund (Auburn University)
Portrait of a Nation: The 1825 Creek Treaty Delegation

4:30-4:50 Steven C. Hahn (St. Olaf College), Discussant

4:50-5:10 Michael D. Green, Discussant

5:10-5:30 Discussion

General Session: Political Economy and Rebellion in Colonial Spanish America

Room: Bienville
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: TBA

3:50-4:10 Pascale Villegas (Universidad Autónoma de Campeche)
From disturb to continuity in the colonial trade of New Spain (XVI century)

4:10-4:30 Avis Mysyk (Cape Breton University) Royal Grants (Mercedes Reales) in Terms of Huaquechula

4:30-4:50 Ari Zighelboim (Tulane University) A Case of Unrequited Loyalty: Juan de Bustamante Carlos Inga, His Native Correspondents, and the Aborted Indian Rebellion of Lima, circa 1750

4:50-5:10 Rachel Corr (Florida Atlantic University) Ritual, Rebellion, and Rumor in the Eighteenth Century North Andes

5:10-5:30 Discussion

Symposium: American Christianities

Room: Cabildo
Organizer: Mark Z. Christiansen (Pennsylvania State University)
Chair: Martin Nesvig (University of Miami)

3:50-4:10 Kathleen J. Bragdon (College of William & Mary)
Indigenous Christianity in Southern New England

4:10-4:30 Kris Lane (College of William & Mary)
Retroactive? Witchcraft and Race in Colonial Colombia

4:30-4:50 Mark Z. Christiansen (Pennsylvania State University)
“So let it be written, so let it be done!”: Native Language Religious Texts in Colonial Mesoamerica

4:50-5:10 Martin Nesvig (University of Miami), Discussant

5:10-5:30 Discussion

Symposium: Eastern Dreams - Western Realities: The Emergence of Metis Peoples in the Context of the Fur Trade

Room: Bonnet Carré
Organizer: Carolyn Podruchny (York University)
Chair: Carolyn Podruchny (York University)

4:00-4:20 Nicole St.-Onge (University of Ottawa)
Blue beads and Branding - from voyageurs to free traders in the early nineteenth century

4:20-4:40 Carolyn Podruchny (York University)
Becoming Metis in Fur Trade Folklore: The Case of Jean Cadieux

4:40-5:00 Brenda Macdougall (University of Saskatchewan)
Metis Identity Across the Medicine Line

5:00-5:20 Discussion

Symposium: Travel, Homeland, and Place: First Peoples in the Americas and Beyond

Room: Queen Anne Parlor
Organizer: Alanna Rice (Queen’s University)
Chair: James Taylor Carson (Queen’s University)

3:40-4:00 Tyler Will (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) “This Indian World”: Native Christianity, the British Atlantic, and the Cultural Politics of Empire

4:00-4:20 Alanna Rice (Queen’s University) ‘I Safely arrived to my Native place’: Mobility, Masculinity, and the Travels of Joseph Johnson

4:20-4:40 Sami Lakomaki (University of Oulu) “The Greatest Travellers in America:” Place, Kinship, and Community during the Shawnee Migrations, 1680–1720

4:40-5:00 Colin G. Calloway (Dartmouth College), Discussant

5:00-5:20 Discussion