Cherokee Spirituality
Chair. Joel Martin

Devlin, Meg
Cherokee Conversion to Christianity: American Church Board Churches, 1817-1839

Jackson, Jason Baird
What Can We Make of James Adair's Feast of Love: Contextualizing a Native American Ceremonial from the Lower Mississippi Valley, ca. 1765

McLachlan, Carrie
Cherokee Political Structure of the Eighteenth Century: A Model for Understanding Mississippian Chiefdoms of the Sixteenth Century?

Disc. Joel Martin

Barragan, Luis
Cupeno Place Names

Leavelle, Tracy
Contesting Sacred Spaces: Religion and Geography in Cultural Conflicts

Ortiz-Diaz, Edith
The Sacred Spaces of the Ancient Highland Zapotec in the Caxonos River Basin at the Time of Contact

Svingen Orlan J.
"Who Are the Lemhi Shoshones and Where Is Their Home?"

Disc. Peter Iverson

Chávez, Raúl
Native Americans, Film and Television: Sustaining the White Conscience

Martinez, Mathew
Blue Horses, Stuffed Squirrels and Trickster Tales: Conversations with Linguist and Storyteller Esther Martinez
Rosenthal, Nicolas
Picturing Indians: Native Actors on Hollywood's Frontier

Disc. Michelle Raheja

Indigenous Identity and Adaptation
Chair: Robert Patch

Anderson, E.N.
Chunhuhub: The Modern History of a Maya

Gasco, Janine
Historical Ethnoecology in the Soconusco Region of Chiapas, Mexico
Jones, Owen
Idolatry. Treason Against God: Identity, Identification, Mayanization and Mestizaje in Colonial Yucatan 1557-1810

Gomez, Lidia
Negotiating Power:
The Nahua Cabildo in Seventeenth Century Puebla.

Indigenous Schools, Sovereignty, and the State
Chair. Tsianina Lomawaima

Brienan, Marten
The Bolivian Indigenous Schools, 1900-1940

Loupe, Leleua
Making Indians Useful: Students at Perris School and Sherman Institute, 1900-1910

McNulty, Rebecca
Sovereignty on whose terms?: ABCFM Missionaries, Native Hawaiians, and the Boarding Schools

Disc. Tsianina Lomawaima

Participants.
Paul Wormser
Director of the National Archives, Pacific Southwest Region

Meg McDonald
United States Forest Service

Jeff Smith
United States Forest Service

Judy Stapp
Director of Cultural Affairs, Cabazon Band of Mission Indians

Larry Burgess
Director of Smiley Library

Anthea Hartig
Professor of American History and Public History, La Sierra College

Chmara-Huff, Fletcher P.
Keepers of the Mountain: The Pahrump Tribe of the Southern Paiute

Carroll, Alex K.
Ghost Dancing and the Iron Horse: American Indian Use of the Railroad and the 1890s Ghost Dance Movement

Stoffle, Richard W.
Tribal Perspectives on the Nevada Test Site (NTS) Consultations

Cohn, Linda
Sharing a Vision of Land Management: Department of Energy (DOE) for Two Unique Tribal Books

Disc. The Audience

Sanchez-Barnett, Susan
The Selling of California: The Indian Claims Commission and the Case of
the Indians of California vs. The United States

Castaneda, Terri
The Indian Claims Commission and Pan-Indian Activism in Northern California: The Federated Indians of California

Makley Matthew
Title: “So That We May Live”: Rethinking the Dawes Act, Washoe Land, Washoe
Sovereignty .

Daniels, Brian
"Finding a Home Place": The Dawes Act and the Landless Shasta Indians in Northern California

Disc. The Audience

Sovereignty and Revitalization
Chair. Don Fixico

Miller, Mark
The Yaquis and the Great Society: Building Toward Sovereignty

Mt. Pleasant, Alyssa
Rethinking Revitalization: The Case of Buffalo Creek

Precht, James
The Coushatta Battle For Sovereignty in Rural Louisiana

Disc. Don Fixico

Boxberger, Daniel
The San Juan Band: The Ethnogenesis of a Métis Community

Leighton, J. Douglas
The Late Eighteenth-Century Trans-border Community in the Detroit Corridor: Some Preliminary Observations

McDougall, Allan and
Valentine, Lisa
Marginalization on the St. Clair: Northwest Confederacy-Settler Relations, 1780-1840

Disc. Regna Darnell

Participants

Kurt Anschuetz

Stanley Hordes

Fran Levine

Sylvia Rodríguez

Marianne Stoller

Van Vlack, Kathleen
A Ground Truthing: George Wheeler in the Spring Mountains Cultural Landscape Study

Hittman, Michael Ethnohistory and the Wovoka Centennial

Arnold, Richard
Historic Memory and The Numic Spread: An Indian Perspective

Zedeno, Nieves
The Collaborative Process of Writing an Indian History

Disc. The Audience

Cahill, Cathleen
Civilized Enough to Marry a White Woman: Indian-White Intermarriage and the Problem of Race in the Late 19th Century

Demers, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Mitchell and the Mackinac Fur Trade: Intermarriage and Commerce in the Early Republic

Wynn, Kerry
Citizenship and Cross Cultural Marriage in the Cherokee Nation and the United States, 1880-1920

Disc. Susan Sleeper-Smith

Eden, Jason
Beyond Survival: Native Americans in Southeastern Massachusetts and Bermuda, 1620-1750

Jarvis, Brad
"Your People" and "Our People": Paternalism and the Preservation of "Indian" Lands in Brothertown, 1785-1805

Jennings, Mathew
Looking Back From Ocmulgee

McCormack Patricia A. Popularizing Contact: Thanadelthur, the Sacajawea of the North

Discussant Daniel Usner

Harkin, Michael E.
About the House: Missionary-led Changes in House Form among the 19th Century Heiltsuk

Karr, Steven
Allotment, Drought, and White Intrusion: A Reanalysis of the Ghost Dance among Southern California's Mission Indians

Stark, Heidi
Treating the Spiritual: Anishinaabe Political Strategies, Spiritual Practices, and Treaty Three

Disc. Thomas Buckley

Moderator Cliff Trafzer

Participants

Elizabeth Kennedy Gische

George Horse Capture

Helen Scheirbeck

Bruce Bernstein

Hartman Lomawaima

Paul Chaat Smith

Bowes, John P.
Migration Networks: Contexts for Indian Relocation from the Southern Great Lakes Region

Haake, Claudia
A Nation within a Nation - The United States and the Removal of the Delawares to the Cherokee Nation
Schenck Theresa
William Warren and the Chippewa Removal, 1850-51

Rinehart, Melissa
A Legacy of Forced Migration: The removal of the Miami Tribe in 1846

Disc. Leroy Miranda

Buckley, Thomas
Seaman's Lives in the 19th Century: "Cultural Determination" in the North Atlantic Basin

Wilson, Karen
Indian and African Spiritual Practice: A Place of Meeting

Brown, Jennifer Through the Looking Glass on Hudson Bay: Omens and Mysteries of First Encounters

DePasquale, Paul European Ambivalence, Inuit Agency: Martin Frobisher in Meta Incognita, 1756-78

Lutz, John
First Contact as Spiritual Performance: Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Encounters on the Northwest Coast

Moore, Patrick
Dene Contact Narrative Traditions in the Yukon and Northwest Territories

Disc. Laurier Turgeon

Summitt, April
River of Life: The Interconnection between Cherokee Ethos and Environment in the Tennessee River Valley

Levey, Philip
"'On His Shoulders': Travelers, Physicality, and Contested Spaces on the
Early American Trail."

Chambers, Ian
Space the Final Frontier

McLachlan, Carrie
Cherokee Political Structure of the Eighteenth Century: A Model for Understanding Mississippian Chiefdoms of the Sixteenth Century?

Disc. James Carson

Earle, David D.
The Chemehuevi and Foreign Penetration of the Mojave Desert in the 19th Century: Population Movements
and New Subsistence Adaptations

Johnson, John R.
Consequences of California Indian Relocations during the Mission Period

Thorne, Tanis & Daly, Heather Ponchetti.
The Relocation of the Capitan Grande Bands to Barona and Viejas in the 1930s

Disc. Lowell Bean

Childs, Matt
African Fraternal and Mutual Aid Societies in the Colonial Cuba

de Carvalho Soares, Mariza
From Gbe to Yoruba: Ethnic Changes within the Mina Nation in Rio De Janeiro

Lohse, Russell
The African Background to Slave Flight in Colonial Central America

Procter Frank
African Diasporic Ethnicity and Slave Community Formation in Mexico City to 1650

Disc. Matthew Restall

Lokensgard, Kenneth
Bringing Home the Importance of Repatriation: The Repatriation Movement and Cultural Revitalization

McClellan, Carolyn
Facing the Challange of NAGPRA Compliance within a Federal Agency

Phillips, George
Tejon, 1852-1864: The Birth and Death of a California
Reservation

Disc. The Audience

Interpreting Material Culture
Chair. Debye Dozier

Berden, Frances
The Technology of Featherworking in Aztec Mexico
Muller, Kathryn
The Two Row Wampum: Historic Fiction, Modern Reality

Turgeon, Laurier
Beads, Bodies, and Regimes of Value in France and North America (ca. 1500 - ca. 2000)

Disc. Debye Dozier

Meya, Will
The Semiotics of Winter Counts

Smyth, David
Blackfoot Winter Counts

Szabo, Joyce
Drawing Life's Changes: Late Nineteenth-Century Drawings from Hampton and Carlisle

Disc. Lucy Murphy

Ethridge, Robbie
Shatterzone: The Early Colonial Slave Trade and Its Consequences for the Natives of the Eastern Woodlands

Kelton, Paul
Biological Implications of Diffusion and Coalescence in the Pre Contact Southeast

Milne, George
French Enslavement of Chickasaws

Disc. Joel Martin

Howe, James
When The Kuna Became Their Own Ethnographers

Long, Thomas
Keeping Traditional Languages Alive: Luiseno and Coast Miwok Language Instruction Programs

McCoy, Robert "Told it to Please Themselves" Nez Perce History

Disc. Michael Harkin

Helfrich, Joel
Morass on the Mountain: The Annexation of Dzil Nachaa Si'am at the University of Minnesota

Herbster, Holly
History in the Backyard: Community-Wide Archaeological Surveys in Massachusetts

Mann, Rob
Intruding on the Past: The Reuse of Ancient Earthen Mounds by Native Americans

Disc. The Audience

Trafzer, Clifford E.
Angels or Assimilationists: Field Nurses Among Southern California Indians

Weiner, Diane
Changing Views of Cancer: Three Decades of Native California Perspectives

Keller, Jean
Designed for Healthy Students: Planning Sherman Institute

Disc. Lowell Bean

Collier, Brian
American Indian Education Converts: St Catherine Indian School and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament

Miceli, Céline
The Catholic Potawatomi of Michigan: Catholicism, Cement for Tribal Unity

Wright-Rios, Edward
Re-Visions of Oaxacan Catholicism: Indian Women, Revelation and the Emergence of Modern Religious Practice, 1911-1934

Disc. Kevin Terraciano

Hahn, Steven
Seminolization: The Social and Political Consequences of Geographic Mobility among the Creek Indians, 1691-1760

Shuck-Hall, Sherie Marie
Coalescence of the Alabamas and Coushattas

St. Jean, Wendy
Chickasaw Out-migration in the Eighteenth Century: Why Are Chickasaws "Chickasaw" and Not "Creeks"?

Disc. Joseph Hall

Lytwyn, Victor
A Political Road Map to Ruin: Fifteen Fires versus Three Fires in the 1795 Greenville Treaty

Riggs, Dawn
The Lenape's Peaceable Kingdom: "[T]hey are a free people, submitted to none"
Telford, Rhonda The Attempted Relocation of the Lake Nipigon Peoples

Disc. Monte Kugel

Many Gray Horses, Deloria
Photography and the Ethnohistory of the Blackfoot Motokiks Society and the Mandan White Buffalo Cow Society

Nordwall, Sean
Great, Great Grandfather Roan Horse and the Wild West Show: Identification of Historical Photographs of Pawnee Participants

Pearson, J. Diane
Theories and Methods in Restoring Identity to Photographs of American Indians

Disc. Will Meya

Chuchiak, John F.
The Sins of the Fathers: Franciscan Missionaries and the Sexual Conquest of the Yucatec Maya, 1545-1745

Herrera, Robinson
Unseating Santiago: Interspecies Intercourse in Late Colonial Guatemala

Horswell, Michael
From Morisco luxuria to Inca sodomía: The Invention of Indigenous Sin in Colonial Andean Ecclesiastical Literature

Spike, Tamara
Healing Hermaphrodites: The Timucan Berdache

Disc. Kimberly Gauderman

Ryan, Luke C.
Hunting for
Civilization? Emigrant Indian, Hegira, and Culture Change in the West

Doerfler, Jill
Fictions and Factions: Determining Citizenship Among the White Earth Anishinaabeg

Johnson, Thomas
Changes in Wind River Enrollment, 1940-2000

Reid, Gerald
"Must we Reign Ourselves to such Injustice": The Roots of Traditionalism and Nationalism in the Mohawk Community of Kahnawake in the Early Twentieth Century

Disc. Stephen Warren

Dewar, David
Kaskaskia Migration and Change in Settlement and Marriage Practices to 1765

Haggard, Dixie
Following the Anigaduwagi and the Sacred Fire: Religious Foundations for the Arkansas Cherokees, 1700-1830

Lucas Castro, Wendy
Transgendering Indians: Benjamin Hawkins, the Creeks, and the Consequences of Civilization

Disc. Kathleen DuVal

Colombi, Benedict
Dammed in Region Six: The Nez Perce, Agribusiness, and the Inequality of Scale

Pearson, J. Diane
Developing Reservation Economies: American Indian Teamsters, 1858-1920

Willard, William
Comparative Analysis of the Impact of the Bureau of Reclamation and Irrigation Projects on Yakama and Mohave Fisherman and Flood Water Farmers

Wazaney, Brad
Leasing Pine Ridge, 1900-1955

Disc.TBA

Parezo, Nancy
The Nature of Celebrity: Promoting Indigenous Peoples at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904

Darnell, Regna
Qualitative Social Science or Mere Anecdote?

Taylor, Michael
The Salamanca Warriors: A Case Study of Cultural Identity in the New York State Mascot Discourse

Disc. TBA

Sigal Pete
Changing Images of Nahua Homosexualities

Sousa, Lisa
How Nahuas Talked About Sex

Terraciano, Kevin
Las Casas de la Cacica in Teposcula, Oaxaca

Disc. Caterina Pizzigoni

Snyder, Christina
“T]hey took them as prisoners and made them slaves”: Captives in Revolutionary Era Creek Country

Leigh, Cynthia
The Wage Labor Experience of an Apache Population

Cobb, Daniel
Stealing Horses: An Ethnohistorical Perspective on Indian Politics in the 1960s

Hungate, Adam
TBA

Disc. Duane Champagne