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

Friday Registration, Exhibits, Meetings, and Special Events

Honored Guests Luncheon (tentative), time and place TBA, (invitation only)
Wine and Cheese reception honoring the retirement of Professor Mike Green, 5:30-6:30, location TBA

6:30-7:30 Business Meeting, 6:30-8:00 pm, Iberville

Friday Sessions

Symposium: Weaving Native Traditions and History into Educational Settings

Room: Queen Anne Parlor
Organizer: Noemie Waldhubel (Indiana University)
Chair: Noemie Waldhubel (Indiana University)

8:00-8:20 David Martinez (Arizona State University)
The Hohokam: From Those Who Have Gone Before to Those Who Never Left

8:20-8:40 Brad Kroupa (Indiana University)
Under the Watchful Eye of Mother Corn": A Historical Account of the Arikara

8:40-9:00 Noemie Waldhubel (Indiana University)
The Heartbeat goes on: Case Study on Urban Indian Education

9:00-9:20 Mariella Arredondo I. (Indiana University)
Born indigenous, growing up mestizos: An ethnographic account of an urban school in Arequipa, Peru

9:20-9:40 Donald Warren (Indiana University), Discussant

9:40-10:00 Discussion

Symposium: Beyond Two Worlds: Thinking with Place, Space, and Landscape in Native North American History – A Tribal Worlds Session, Part 1

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

8:00-8:20 Kathryn Magee (Ohio State University)
Set in Bone: ‘Two Worlds’ and Encounter in Seventeenth-Century Wendake

8:20-8:40 Kristalyn Shefveland (University of Mississippi)
"Willingly complyed and removed to the Fort": The secret history of Anglo-Indian Visions of Virginia's Southwest

8:40-9:00 Justin M. Carroll (Michigan State University) ‘I found that it made me sick to sleep in a house’: Rethinking the Landscapes of Families in John Tanner’s Captivity Narrative

9:00-9:20 Lucy E. Murphy (Ohio State University) Insulting Lewis Cass: Adjusting to shifting methods of conflict resolution in Michigan Territory, 1820-1824

9:20-9:40 Susan Sleeper-Smith (Michigan State University), Discussant

Symposium: Medical Ethnohistories in the Spanish Americas

Room: Bonnet Carré
Organizers: Martha Few (University of Arizona), Ryan A. Kashanipour (University of Arizona), and Adam W. Warren (University of Washington)
Chair: Kevin Gosner (University of Arizona), Chair

8:00-8:20 Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick) Humoralism and the Colonial Body

8:20-8:40 Martha Few (University of Arizona)
“The Devil's Knife”: Mesoamerican Practices of Medicinal Bloodletting in Colonial Guatemala

8:40-9:00 Pablo Gomez (Vanderbilt University) 'They Learned From Each Other': West Central African Healing Practices in the Early-Modern Spanish Caribbean

9:00-9:20 Ryan A. Kashanipour (University of Arizona) A Medicinal Mélange: The Circulation of Medical Knowledge in Eighteenth Century Yucatán

9:20-9:40 Paul F. Ramirez (University of California, Berkeley) Dissecting Rumors: Branding, Bewitching, and Other Realities of Mexico’s Early Immunization Efforts

9:40-10:00 Marianne B. Samayoa (University of Minnesota) Medical Research in Late Colonial Latin America: Informing the Spanish King of Lizard Experiments

10:00-10:20 Adam W. Warren (University of Washington) Dissection, Poetry, and Spectacle among Lima’s Afro-Peruvian Surgeons

10:20-10:40 David Noble Cook (Florida International University), Discussant

10:40-11:00 Discussion

Symposium: Imagi-Nation: Indigenous Peoples, Nation-States, and Nationhood

Room: Bienville
Organizers: Christine Schreyer (U of British Columbia, Okanagan) and David A. Nichols (Indiana State University)
Chair: Frank Salomon (University of Wisconsin)

8:00-8:20 David A. Nichols (Indiana State University) Indigenous Economies and the Nation-State: The Case of the U.S. Indian Trading Factories

8:20-8:40 Pilar Herr (University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg) The Nation-State According to Whom? The Chilean Republic and Araucanía in the Early Nineteenth Century

8:40-9:00 Karen Caplan (Rutgers University, Newark) State before Nation: Indigenous Citizenship in Southern Mexico in the Early Nineteenth Century

9:00-9:20 Christine Schreyer (U of British Columbia, Okanagan) “All the posts in the Country” - All the names of the Nation

9:20-9:40 Andrew Denson (Western Carolina University) The Next Minority: Native Americans in Cold War Public Diplomacy

9:40-10:00 Christianne V. Stephens (University of Western Ontario) and Regna Darnell (University of Western Ontario) (Un)Natural Divides: Exploring Indigenous Constructions of Nationhood through the Lens of Environmental Advocacy

10:00-10:20 Brian Delay (University of California, Berkeley), Discussant

10:20-10:40 Discussion

Symposium: Contemporary Ethnography and the Influence of Histories of Anthropological Representation

Room: Cabildo
Organizers: David W. Dinwoodie (University of New Mexico) and Suzanne Oakdale (University of New Mexico)
Chair: David W. Dinwoodie (University of New Mexico)

8:00-8:20 David W. Dinwoodie (University of New Mexico)
Current Research and the Politics of Ethnohistory in Canada

8:20-8:40 Sara Jameison (University of Northern Colorado)
Ethnography and the Politics of Culture in Venezuela

8:40-9:00 Jill M. Ahlberg Yohe (Franklin and Marshall College)
Ethnography of Navajo Daily Life and the Legacy of Gladys Reichard

9:00-9:20 Kristen Adler (University of New Mexico)
Theory and Politics in the Ethnography and Ethnohistory of Evon Vogt

9:20-9:40 Suzanne Oakdale (University of New Mexico)
Culture as National Resource: The Role of the Xingu Indigenous Park in Mid-Twentieth Century Brazil

9:40-10:00 Raymond D. Fogelson (University of Chicago), Discussant

10:00-10:20 Discussion

Symposium: The Structures of Everyday Life in Mexico: Connecting Ethnohistories to the Archaeological Record, AD 1450-Present

Room: Orleans Organizer: Rani T. Alexander (New Mexico State University)
Chair: Rani T. Alexander (New Mexico State University)

8:00-8:20 Susan Kepecs (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Patricia Fournier García (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia) Mexico City, the Yucatan Periphery and the World: The effects of Kondratieff Waves on Everyday Life Along the Colonial / Postcolonial Trajectory

8:20-8:40 Thomas Charlton (University of Iowa) Continuity and Change in the Basin of Mexico AD 1450-1970

8:40-9:00 Janine Gasco (California State University, Dominguez Hills) Everyday Life in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Soconusco: Perspectives from Ethnohistory and Material Culture

9:00-9:20 Judith Zeitlin (University of Massachusetts, Boston) Grounding sociocultural identities in postconquest Mesoamerica

9:20-9:40 Rani T. Alexander (New Mexico State University) Caste War Archaeology in Yucatán: hidden transcripts of resistance and representations of the past

9:40-10:00 John F. Chuchiak (Missouri State University), Discussant

10:00-10:20 Joel Palka (University of Illinois, Chicago), Discussant

10:20-10:40 Discussion

Symposium: Beyond Two Worlds: Thinking with Place, Space, and Landscape in Native North American History” – A Tribal Worlds Session, Part 2

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

10:00-10:20 C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa (Illinois College)
The Indians’ Capital City: Diplomacy, Place, and ‘Two Worlds’ Discourse

10:20-10:40 Sakina M. Hughes (Michigan State University)
Under one Big Tent: Race, Resistance, and Community Building in Nineteenth-Century Circus Towns

10:40-11:00 Jim J. Buss (Oklahoma City University)
A Muddled Middle Ground: Intimate Relationships of Trade in Early Nineteenth Century Native America

11:00-11:20 Kellie Jean Hogue (Indiana University)
Crossroads, Crossworlds: Contextualizing Multi-Temporal Geographies of Native Catholic Identity

11:20-11:40 Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Centering Place: Fairs, Performance, and Politics in Southwestern Oklahoma

11:40-12:00 Nancy Shoemaker (University of Connecticut), Discussant

Symposium: The Gilded Age in Indian Territory

Room: Queen Ann Parlor
Organizer: Malinda Maynor Lowery (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Chair: Donald Fixico (Arizona State University)

10:20-10:40 Rose Stremlau (University of North Carolina, Pembroke) Cataloging Kinship: Cherokees and the Making of the Dawes Rolls

10:40-11:00 Malinda Maynor Lowery (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Enterprising Indians: Labor and Capital in the Choctaw Nation

11:00-11:20 David A. Y. O. Chang (University of Minnesota) Debating Liberalism and Race in Tulsa: Gilded Age Ideologies and the Structuring of Muscogee (Creek) Allotment

11:20-11:40 Clara Sue Kidwell (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Discussant

11:40-12:00 Discussion

General Session: Encounters with Trans-National Business in the Americas

Room: Bonnet Carré
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: Angela Pulley Hudson

11:20-11:40 Andrew Sluyter (Louisiana State University)
The Hispanic Atlantics Tasajo Trail

11:40-12:00 John-Paul Wilson (St. Johns University)
Enclave Society: A Case Study of British and North American Corporate Enterprise on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast

12:00-12:20 Yuka Mizutani (Hokkaido University)
Yaqui People and Tourism in the 1920s and 1930s

Roundtable: A Conversation with Honored Guests from the Louisiana and Mississippi Indian Nations (topic TBA)

Room: Orleans
Organizers: Program Committee
Chair: TBA Guests TBA

Symposium: Inventing Indigenous Sexualities in the Colonial Americas

Room: Bienville
Organizer: Jennifer M. Spear (Simon Fraser University)
Chair: Mary Ellen Kelm (Simon Fraser University)

11:00-11:20 Pete Sigal (Duke University) Inventing Demonic Sexuality: The Spanish Appropriation of Nahua Goddesses

11:20-11:40 Jennifer M. Spear (Simon Fraser University) The priests and the historians: Indigenous sexualities in colonial North America

11:40-12:00 Mary Ellen Kelm (Simon Fraser University), Discussant

12:00-12:20 Discussion

Symposium: Women in New Spain’s Northern Frontier

Room: Cabildo
Organizer: Dana Velasco Murillo (University of California, Irvine)
Chair: Susan Deeds (Northern Arizona University)

10:40-11:00 Cynthia Radding (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Between Slavery and Freedom : Nicolasa de Ibarra in the northwestern borderlands of New Spain

11:00-11:20 Raphael B. Folsom (University of Oklahoma) Slave, Concubine, Diplomat, Princess: La India Luisa and the Negotiation of Empire in the Sonoran Borderlands

11:20-11:40 Dana Velasco Murillo (University of California, Irvine) Indian Women of a Silver Mining Town, Zacatecas, Mexico

11:40-12:00 Leslie Offutt (Vassar College), Discussant

12:00-12:20 Discussion

12:00-1:30 LUNCH