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

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Saturday Registration, Exhibits, Meetings, and Special Events

Awards Ceremony and Keynote Address, Saturday 6:30-8:00 pm, Iberville (cash bar)

Presidential Closing Reception, Saturday 8:00-10:00 pm, Queen Anne Ballroom, (ticket holders only; you can purchase your tickets in advance; only limited number of tickets available at the meetings)

Saturday Sessions

General Session: Governmental Relations and Contemporary Identities in North America

Room: Queen Anne Parlor
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: TBA

8:00-8:20 Jon C. Ille (University of California, Riverside)

8:20-8:40 Maureen A. Clark (University of Minnesota)
The Social Construction of Urban American Indian Teen Identity

8:40-9:00 Liam Haggarty (University of Saskatchewan)
Welfare: Indigenous Systems of Sharing and the Rise of Social Assistance in Western Canada

9:00-9:20 Brandi L. Hilton-Hagemann (University of Oklahoma)
“Together We Win”: WWII on the Wind River Reservation Home Front

9:20-9:40 Mary C. Wright (University of Washington)
Spatial Injustice: The Cowlitz Tribe’s Casino and Land-in-trust Battle

9:40-10:00 Amy D. Bergseth )University of Oklahoma)
Reflections on the History of the University of Oklahoma’s American Indian Student Association

10:00-10:20 Discussion

General Session: Art, Material Culture, and Memory in Mesoamerica and Beyond

Room: Bonnet Carré
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: TBA

8:00-8:20 Magnus Pharao Hansen (University of Copenhagen) The Post-classic Mesoamerican Hero-tale: revealing the tricks of the trade of ancient mesoamerican historians 8:20-8:40 Stacey Loyer (Carleton University) Tracing Cultural Alchemies: Gruzinski’s “Mestizo Phenomena”and Nineteenth Century Onkwehonwe Material Culture

8:40-9:00 Marco A. Calderon (El Colegio de Michoacán)
On the Tulane expeditions to Mexico and Middle America: 1925-1929

9:00-9:20 Tracy A. Brandenburg (Wells College)
In Search of the Invisible World: Uncovering Mesoamerican Rhetoric in Contemporary Mexico

Symposium: The Mashantucket Pequot Ethnohistory Project: Connecting People, Traditions and Landscapes on a Regional and Global Scale

Room: Orleans
Organizers: Kevin McBride (University of Connecticut) and Kimberly C. Kasper (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Chair: Kevin McBride (University of Connecticut)

8:00-8:20 Brian D. Jones (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Pre-Contact Native Histories at Mashantucket

8:20-8:40 Kathleen J. Bragdon (College of William & Mary)
Argonauts of Long Island Sound: Maritime Networks in Southern New England in the Protohistoric Period

8:40-9:00 Kimberly C. Kasper (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Navigating the Land: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives on Mashantucket Pequot Plant Use

9:00-9:20 Akeia Benard (Wheelock College)
Liminality and Prestige: Interpreting the Status of Native American Children Using Burial Data

9:20-9:40 Jason R. Mancini (Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center)
Beyond Reservation: Pequot Responses to Dispossession in the 18th and 19th Centuries

9:40-10:00 Break 10:00-10:20 Kevin McBride (University of Connecticut)
The Cultural landscape of the Pequot War: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

10:20-10:40 Amy E. Den Ouden (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
History, Justice and Reservation – Local Knowledge at Mashantucket

10:40-11:00 Marley Brown (College of William & Mary), Discussant

11:00-11:20 Discussion

Symposium: Stories of the Land: Indigenous Representation of Place in Northeastern North America

Room: Iberville
Organizer: Kathryn V. Muller (McGill University)
Chair: James Taylor Carson (Queen’s University)

8:00-8:20 Arnaud Decroix (Université de Montréal)
The legal possession of land at the Seigneurie du Sault St. Louis in the 18th century

8:20-8:40 Daniel Rueck (McGill University)
"The White man has turned the land management upside down": Mapping land practices in nineteenth-century Kahnawake

8:40-9:00 Philippe Charland (Université du Québec à Montréal and CéGep du Vieux Montréal)
Aln8baïwi Kdakinna: Our World the Abenaki Way - The reconstruction of the W8banaki Territory through Toponymy in Québec

9:00-9:20 Kathryn V. Muller (McGill University)
The Lands was to be theirs for ever’: The Two Dog Wampum and the People of Kanehsatake

9:20-9:40 James Taylor Carson (Queen’s University), Discussant

9:40-10:00 Discussion

General Session: Mississippi Valley and Greater Southeast Connections, Disruptions, and Identities

Room: Bienville
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair: TBA

8:00-8:20 Edward Noel G. Smyth (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Violence, Trade, Co-existence, and Destruction: Rethinking the Colonial Encounter of French and Natchez, 1688-1740s

8:20-8:40 Robert Englebert (University of Saskatchewan)
The Public Entanglement of Private Discord: Separation and Divorce in Upper Louisiana and the Illinois Country, 1763-1803

8:40-9:00 F. Evan Nooe (University of Mississippi)
“From One Family, All Sons of the South,” Southern Volunteers and Regional Identity

9:00-9:20 Sheri M. Shuck-Hall (Christopher Newport University)
Keeping a Sense of Place: The Alabamas and Coushattas’ Struggle to Maintain a Homeland in the Late 19th Century

9:20-10:00 Matthew H. Jennings (Macon State College)
?They Can’t Believe I’m a Real Indian’: A Creek Homecoming in the 1970s

Symposium: Ethno-Ethnohistory and the Study of Indigenous Historicities through Syntagmatic/Paradigmatic Narrative Analysis

Room: Cabildo
Organizers: Jalh Dulanto (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and David L. Haskell (Independent Scholar)
Chairs: Jalh Dulanto (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and David L. Haskell (Independent Scholar)

8:00-8:20 Jalh Dulanto (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and David L. Haskell (Independent Scholar)
Syntagmatic / Paradigmatic Approaches to Indigenous Historicities: An Introduction

8:20-8:40 David L. Haskell (Independent Scholar)
Tarascan Legendary History in the Relación de Michoacán: Mexico’s Pachacuti and the Quetzalcoatl that Wasn’t

8:40-9:00 Carl J. Wendt (California State University, Fullerton)
An Analysis of the Syntagmatic Structure of the Chilam Balam of Chumayel

9:00-9:20 Susan D. Gillespie (University of Florida)
Historias or Historia? The Syntagmatic Structure of the Popol Vuh 9:20-9:40 Nestor I. Quiroa (Wheaton College) The Título de Totonicapán: A Syntagmatic/ Paradigmatic Approach

9:40-10:00 Jalh Dulanto (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
The Children of Paria Caca and the Materialization of History in the Mythical and Ritual Landscapes of Huarochirí: A Syntagmatic / Paradigmatic Approach

Symposium: Creating New Worlds: African-Indigenous Interactions in the Americas

Room: Bonnet Carré
Organizers: Matthew Padrón (Pennsylvania State University) and Program Committee
Chair: Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University), Chair

9:40-10:00 Matthew Padrón (Pennsylvania State University) Inseparable Elements: The Formation of Afro-Indigenous Communities in Colonial Mexico

10:00-10:20 Norah Andrews (Johns Hopkins University) “I Could Not Determine the Truth”: Afromexican and Indian Disputes in Bourbon Tribute Courts

10:20-10:40 Kevin Kokomoor (Florida State University) 'Slaves but in name': Seminoles, Africans, and Tribute on the Florida Frontier

10:40-11:00 Nathaniel Millett (St. Louis University) Anti-Slavery Seminoles and Fearful Creeks: Slavery and the Racial Thought of Two Southeastern Tribes

11:00-11:20 Alix A. Chapman (University of Texas, Austin) Black Queer Crosscurrents: Performing Resistance in Trinidad and New Orleans

11:20-11:40 Kenneth J. Blume (Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) That Voodoo That You Do : John Stephens Durham, Caribbean Cultures, and African-American Racial Identities, 1865-1914

11:40-12:00 Celia Naylor (Dartmouth College), Discussant

12:00-12:20 Discussion

Symposium: Spanish America, Portuguese America, and Early America: The Ethnohistories of Evangelization in the New World

Room: Iberville
Organizer: Verónica A. Gutierrez-Sermino (University of California, Los Angeles)
Chair: Verónica A. Gutierrez-Sermino (University of California, Los Angeles)

10:20-10:40 Verónica A. Gutierrez-Sermino (University of California, Los Angeles)
The Sons of St. Francis, the Sons of Quetzalcóatl, and the Re-mapping of a Sacred Mesoamerican Landscape

10:40-11:00 Anne-Marie Liberio (Paris IV – Sorbonne)
“Christenings Make not Christians”: Comparing Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American and Luso-Brazilian Evangelization Practices

11:00-11:20 Rochelle Raineri Zuck (University of Minnesota, Duluth)
“There was Power in His Words”: Samson Occom, William Apess, and the Development of the American Indian Jeremiad

11:20-11:40 Erika Perez (University of California, Los Angeles)
Evangelizing through Compadrazgo in Alta California, 1769-1834

11:40-12:00 Osvaldo Pardo (University of Connecticut), Discussant

12:00-12:20 Discussion

Symposium: Civil and Savage: Spanish Colonialism and Maya Identity

Room: Bienville
Organizers: Ryan A. Kashanipour (University of Arizona) and John F. Chuchiak (Missouri State University)
Chair: David E. Tavarez (Vassar College)

10:20-10:40 John F. Chuchiak (Missouri State University) Ah Otochnalob yetel Ah Chun Kaxob: Indios de Campana, Indios Idolatras, and the Colonial Re-Construction of Maya Ethnic Identity, 1590-1700

10:40-11:00 Robert L. Scott (University of Arizona) Embedding Indigeneity in a Guatemalan Pueblo de Indios, 1547 – 1587

11:00-11:20 Owen H. Jones (University of California, Riverside) K’iche’an Frontiers: Colonial Culture and Societal Integrity from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries in Guatemala

11:20-11:40 Ryan A. Kashanipour (University of Arizona) Hach winik and indios bárbaros: Lacandones and the Colonial Maya Lowlands

11:40-12:00 Kevin Gosner (University of Arizona), Discussant

12:00-12:20 Discussion

Symposium: Indios and Bárbaros: Native Communication and Conflict on the Colonial Frontier

Room: Cabildo Organizer: Heather Flynn Roller (Stanford University)
Chair: Susan Deeds (Northern Arizona University)

10:20-10:40 Sean F. McEnroe (University of California, Berkeley) War Parties and Town Plans: The Social Geography of Mexico’s Multi-Ethnic Frontier Settlements

10:40-11:00 Cecilia Sheridan (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social) Alianzas, conflictos y estrategias territoriales entre los nativos del noreste novohispano

11:00-11:20 Heather Flynn Roller (Stanford University) In Search of /Gente Nova/: The Resettlement Process in the Portuguese Amazon

11:20-11:40 Mary Karasch (Oakland University) Christian Vassals and Gentile Nations: Indigenous Relations in Central Brazil

11:40-12:00 Cynthia Radding (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Discussant

12:00-12:20 Discussion

Symposium: Taking stock and telling stories: Creative indigenous claims to place, identity, and justice in resource management contexts

Room: Queen Anne Parlor
Organizer: Lisa M. Blee (Wake Forest University)
Chair: Jean O’Brien (University of Minnesota)

10:40-11:00 Lisa M. Blee (Wake Forest University) Stories of Principle: Nisqually paths to historical justice through the 20th Century

11:000-11:20 Laurie S. Richmond (University of Minnesota) Have you heard the one where…?: What contemporary stories from the coastal village of Old Harbor, AK reveal about the American indigenous experience in a fishing context

11:20-11:40 Amanda B. Fehr (University of Saskatchewan) Relationships: A Study of Memory, Change, and Identity at a Place Called I:yem

11:40-12:00 Keith Carlson (University of Saskatchewan), Discussant

12:00-12:20 Discussion

12:00-1:30 LUNCH