CIC American Indian Studies ConsortiumCIC American Indian Studies ConsortiumSummary of Activities, 2002-04
D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History
The Newberry Library
The CIC AISC graduate student workshops provide a valuable introduction to American Indian Studies, the Newberry Library, CIC AISC faculty, to one another, and to the CIC AISC generally. Organized around a central theme of major import and led by leading scholars from CIC institutions, the workshops offer a unique opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary research and further cultivate a community of scholars.
· 2002 Fall Graduate Student Workshop, 18-21 September 2002
Theme: “Indians and Borderlands”
Instructor: Ned Blackhawk (Shoshone), Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Description: “Indians and Borderlands” explored the experiences of Native peoples on the “margins” of empire. Locating Native peoples at the center of the North American colonial experience, the workshop interrogated recent controversies over the place (as well as nomenclature) of “borderlands” historiography; grounded such discussions in selected readings from the field; and exposed students to the Newberry Library’s vast collection of primary sources.
Participants: Tim McCollum (Indiana University)
Susan Dominguez (Michigan State University)
Owen Stanwood (Northwestern University)
M. Melissa Wolfe (Ohio State University)
Axel Utz (Penn State University)
Angela Jaime (Purdue University)
Rebekah Mergenthal (University of Chicago)
Mary Anne Lyons (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Michael Sherfy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Catherine Denial (University of Iowa)
Christina Berndt (University of Minnesota)
Ricardo Romero (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Veronica Pasfield (University of Michigan)
Alyssa Mt. Pleasant (Cornell University—Newberry Library Francis C. Allen Fellow)
Evaluation: By any measure, the workshop was a great success. The thirteen graduate students, one from each of the CIC institutions, explored readings assigned by Ned Blackhawk, were introduced to the Newberry Library’s holdings, and benefited from a presentation by Fred Hoxie. Just as importantly, they had a chance to interact with students from other institutions who share broad interests. Student reactions were overwhelmingly positive, even as some indicated a desire for more “group building” activities, such as common lunches, dinners, etc.
· 2003 Fall Graduate Student Workshop, 10-12 September 2003
Theme: “The Aesthetics and Politics of Memory: American Indian Literature as
Indigenous History”
Instructor: Chadwick Allen, Assistant Professor of English, Ohio State University
Description: “The Aesthetics and Politics of Memory: American Indian Literature as Indigenous History” investigated examples of American Indian literature that attempt to represent distinctively indigenous perspectives on significant events in American Indian history. Organized around two case studies—contemporary representations of the Navajo Long Walk and contemporary representations of the Plains Indian wars—it probed the nature and history of an “Indian aesthetic.”
Participants: Lingling Zhao (University of Michigan)
Teresa Garcia (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Tol Foster (University of Wisconsin)
Denene De Quintal (University of Chicago)
Letha Rain Cranford (Michigan State University)
Awndrea Shar Caves (Ohio State University)
Christina E. Burke (Indiana University)
Tamarah Pfeiffer (Penn State University)
Megan MacDonald (Purdue University)
Katy Chiles (Northwestern University)
John McKinn (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Steven Williams (University of Iowa)
Evaluation: The workshop received extremely positive reactions. “It was such
a wonderful experience—sharing with and learning from my fellow grad students,” wrote one participant. “The discussions have sent my own thinking off in new directions. This was my first workshop and, definitely, I would come back here for another workshop.” We also received quality recommendations for future improvements regarding public relations/advertising, logistics of travel and lodging, stipends, and the like.
· 2004 Fall Graduate Student Workshop, September 2004
Theme: “The New Faces of an Ancient People: American Indian Identity in the Twenty-First Century”
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Instructor: John Sanchez (Apache), Associate Professor of Journalism and News Media Ethics in the Department of Communications at Penn State University
Description: The New Faces of an Ancient People” investigated the complexities of 21st century American Indian Identity through the intersection of the news media, public schools and American Indian cultures. The workshop prompted the participants to write reaction papers to news media accounts of American Indians and to documentary films about American Indians. In addition, they were introduced to the Newberry collection of American Indian research and holdings and learned how to negotiate the collections. The participants explored the ways in which American Indian identities are appropriated and portrayed for mass consumption, and what type of impact this has on contemporary Native lives.
Participants: Meghan McCune (Michigan State University)
Megan Bang (Northwestern University)
Heather Wright (Ohio State University)
Miranda Brady (Penn State University)
Angela Jamie (Purdue University)
Miranda Johnson (University of Chicago)
Karen Crane (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Jamie Singson (University of Illinois-Urbana)
Felix A. Sanchez (University of Iowa)
Veronica Pasfield (University of Michigan)
Joel Helfrich (University of Minnesota)
Rob Harper (University of Wisconsin)
Timothy McCollum (Indiana University)
Evaluation: The workshop participants seemed very pleased with John Sanchez and his very personable teaching style. One wrote that the workshop was “extremely useful.” Another took advantage of one of the primary benefits of the CIC AIS consortium, noting that he “was taking this workshop in order to be introduced to an area of AIS that I knew very little about.” The workshop this year overlapped with the CIC fall research conference. This overlap produced mixed results, only because the students were faced with perhaps too many productive activities: one of the participants remarked that “because the conversations we were having [in the workshop] were so interesting we literally did not want to stop and go upstairs [to the CIC conference]. On the other hand, the things happening upstairs were interesting too.”
· 2005 Fall Graduate Student Workshop, September 2005
Theme: “[Re-]Situating Indigenous Genders and Sexualities
Instructor: Wesley Thomas (Navajo), Assistant Professor, Departments of Anthropology & International Studies, Indiana University
Description: The need to re-dress and address gender identities and sexualities will be the core of this workshop. Over the centuries, Indigenous gender (including ethnic) identities have changed, become skewed, and/or become altered, and this took place without conversations with Indigenous populations. Colonialism has its impact on contemporary Native lives through its history. Due to silences, as one example, in various Native communities today, gender is defined according to colonial ideology and these definitions are even viewed as “normal.” Due to assimilation and acculturation, cultural identity and ethnicity (two distinct ideologies) have an impact on current Indigenous gender identity and sexuality. The main goal of this workshop is to illuminate the bridge between Indigenous gender theory and Western gender construction.
Participants: TBA
Evaluation: TBD
The CIC AISC Graduate Student Fellowships provide for twenty (20) months of graduate student fellowships at $1,500 a month for a total allocation of $30,000. This typically works out to six to eight fellowships annually, awarded to graduate student from CIC institutions. These fellowships will support between one and three months of research (with stipends of $1,500 per month) to cover research and travel expenses to libraries and archives. All fellowship recipients must spend a portion of their time at the Newberry Library and are encouraged to participate in the Library’s informal works-in-progress seminars and other gatherings. As their involvement in the CIC-AISC graduate student conferences and annual meetings of professional organizations attests (see below), graduate students carry their fellowship experiences into other realms of professional activity.
· 2002-2003 Graduate Student Fellows
Jason Eden (University of Minnesota)
“Gender and Cosmology among Puritans and Indians of Martha’s Vineyard, 1620-1750”
Bradford Jarvis (University of Minnesota)
“The Brotherton Indians: Community and Identity in the Early Republic”
Brad Martin (Northwestern University)
“Landscapes of Power: Native Peoples, National Parks, and the Making of a Modern Wilderness in the Hinterlands of North America, 1955-1985”
Rebecca McNulty (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
“Education for Empire: Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth Century American Missionary Education”
Kathleen Thomas (University of Minnesota)
“‘Their Habits were Startling’: Strategies and Ethnic Identities of Mixed-Heritage Families in the Fur Trade Culture of the Great Lakes Region”
Kerry Wynn (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
“Embodied Interactions: Eastern Oklahoma as Colonial Context, 1880-1940”
· 2003-2004 Graduate Student Fellows
Matthew Jennings (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
“‘This Country is Worth the Trouble of Going to War to Keep It’: Colonization, Communities, and the Conflict in South Carolina, 1650-1740”
Michael Sherfy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
“Narrating Black Hawk: Constructing and Reconstructing a Native American Historical Subject, 1832-2002”
Catherine Denial (University of Iowa)
“Hostile Incursions and Mutual Desires: The Political Dimensions of Kinship in Wisconsin
and Minnesota, 1825-1845”
Owen Stanwood (Northwestern University)
“Creating the Common Enemy: Religion and Race Relations on the English Imperial
Frontier, 1685-1713”
· 2004-2005 Graduate Student Fellows
Christina Berndt (University of Minnesota), “Ethnogenesis on the Plains: The Affects of the Imposition of a U.S. Definition of the Nation on the Cheyenne.”
Susan Dominguez (Michigan State University), Gertrude’s Gallery: the Life Story of a Yankton American.”
Rob Harper (University of Wisconsin—Madison), Revolution and Conquest: Politics, Violence, and Social Change in the Ohio Valley, 1774-1803.”
Rachel Leibowitz (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Gazing at Window Rock: The Landscape Legacy of the new Deal in the Capital of the Navajo Nation.”
Matthew Martinez (University of Minnesota), “Imaging Ourselves: Tourism and Photography Endeavors Among the Northern Pueblos of the Rio Grande.”
Rebekah Mergenthal (University of Chicago), “The People of the Lower Missouri River Valley and the Expansion of the United States, 1803-1855.”
Sarah Quick (Indiana University), Métis Identity and Métis Music
· 2005-2006 Graduate Student Fellows
Kelly Branam (Indiana University), “Political Change in Crow Country, 1948 to the Present.”
Jill Doerfler (University of Minnesota), “Fictions and Fractions: Reconciling Citizenship Regulations with Cultural Values Among the White Earth Anishinaabeg.”
Michel Hogue (University Wisconsin), “Marking the Medicine Line: Race and Nation Along the Forty-Ninth Parallel.”
Joel Helfrich (University of Minnesota), “Sacred Sites, Scientific Rites: The Struggle over Mount Graham (dzi? nchaa si’an).”
James J. Buss (Purdue), “The Winning of the West with Words: Clearing the ‘Middle Ground’ for American Pioneers.”
Dennis Christafferson (Indiana University), “From Convert to Missionary: The First Generation of Sioux Clergy in the Episcopal Church.”
C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa (Michigan State University), “’Shall We Now Adopt a Wise Indian Policy?’: Reformers, Native Peoples, and the Controversies of Assimilation.”
The CIC AISC Faculty Fellowship offers an eleven-month stipend of $35,000. In addition to spending an academic year at the Newberry Library working on an independent research project, the faculty fellow leads a Spring seminar for graduate students from CIC institutions (see CIC AISC Spring Graduate Student Seminars below).
· 2002-2003 CIC AISC Faculty Fellow
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Professor of History, Michigan State University
· 2003-2004 CIC AISC Faculty Fellow
David Martinez (Gila River Pima), Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota
· The 2004-2005 CIC Faculty Fellow
Phillip Round, Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Iowa
· The 2005-2006 CIC Faculty Fellow
Convened at The Newberry Library and led by the CIC AISC Faculty Fellow, this seminar is designed to take advantage of the CIC infrastructure where graduate students can earn credit for participating. The graduate student seminars afford an opportunity for students to engage important topics from an interdisciplinary perspective. Not only do they learn from leading figures in the field, but they also engage in primary source research and help to build a community of scholars that will, in time, reshape the field of American Indian Studies.
· 2003 Spring Graduate Student Seminar
Theme: “Creating North American Indian History in Nineteenth-Century Museums”
Instructor: Susan Sleeper Smith, Professor of History, CIC AISC Faculty Fellow, Michigan State University
Participants: John Beaver (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Jim Buss (Purdue University)
Tyler Cornelius (University of Michigan)
Sarah Delaporte (University of Chicago)
Joseph Genetin-Pilawa (Michigan State University)
Jennifer Guiliano (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Michael Hogue (University of Wisconsin)
Matthew Martinez (University of Minnesota)
Anne Peterson (University of Iowa)
Robin Powell (Penn State University)
Jefferson Slagle (Ohio State University)
Paul Rene Tamburro (University of Indiana)
· Spring 2004 Graduate Student Seminar
Theme: “Lessons in Assimilation: American Indian Intellectuals, 1890-1934”
Instructor: David Martinez (Gila River Pima), Professor of American Indian Studies, CIC AISC Faculty Fellow, University of Minnesota
Participants: Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán (Michigan State)
Kelly Branam (Indiana University)
Tol Foster (University of Wisconsin)
Dagmar Frerking (Purdue University)
Frank C. Gaugler (Northwestern University)
Matthew Kelly (University of Chicago)
Jennifer McGovern (University of Iowa)
Brent Peacock (Ohio State University)
Jamie Singson (UIUC)
Cynthia Soto (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Annette Watson (University of Minnesota)
Lingling Zhao (University of Michigan)
· Spring 2005 Graduate Student Seminar
Theme: “Authors and Indians: Performance, Manuscript, and Print in Nineteenth-Century Native America”
Instructor: Philip Round, Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Iowa
Participants: Dennis Christafferson (Indiana University)
Qwo-Li Driskill (Michigan State University)
Megan Bang (Northwestern University)
Rochelle Raineri Zuck (Penn State University)
Alice D’Amore (Purdue University)
Sandra Garner (The Ohio State University)
Miranda Johnson (University of Chicago)
MaryAnne Lyons (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Cristina Stanciu (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign)
Jennifer McGovern (University of Iowa)
Meghan C.L. Howey (University of Michigan)
Jill Doerfler (University of Minnesota)
Michael W. Simpson (University of Wisconsin)
The CIC AISC National Conferences provide a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue on key issues in the field of American Indian Studies. They also serve as a place for faculty members, graduate students, and individuals from Indian and non-Indian communities from across the country to network. But of even greater overarching concern are tangible outcomes. That is to say, the national conferences have been and continue to be guided by a mandate to produce something more than just interesting conversation.
· 2003 Inaugural National Conference, “American Indian Perspectives on the Humanities in the 21st Century: A National Conference and Conversation,” 24-25 January 2003
Attendance: 152 registered attendees
Represented 21 States and Canada
Represented 34 colleges and universities
Every school in the CIC consortium (59 individuals)
Broad regional representation (California, North Dakota, Texas, Maryland)
Representatives from local institutions and organizations
Art Institute of Chicago
American Indian Center
Chicago Public Schools-Office of Language and Cultural Education
Chicago Coalition American Indian Community
Illinois State Museum--Chicago
Kelly High School, Chicago
Representatives from Tribal Colleges/Communities
Fort Berthold Community College
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College
Northwest Indian College
Mashantucket Pequot Times
Representatives from significant scholarly institutions
Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
National Museum of the American Indian
The Program:
Keynote Addresses
Jack Forbes (Lenape)
“Challenges for Native Scholars: Facing Eurocentrism”
Janine Pease-Pretty on Top (Crow-Hidatsa)
“The Role of the Humanities in Tribal Colleges”
Kathryn Shanley (Assiniboine/Nakota)
"Coyote's Heart: Survival of the American Indian Intellectual"
Discussion Sessions
“Barriers to Progress in Building a Native Presence in the Humanities and in the Academy” (Friday)
“Strengthening Ties Between Tribal Colleges and the University” (Saturday)
"The Role of Interdisciplinarity in American Indian Studies" (Saturday)
· 2003 National Conference, “Decolonizing American Indian Studies,” 19-20 September 2003
Attendance: 104 registered attendees
Represented 16 States and Canada
Represented 32 colleges and universities
Every school in the CIC consortium (57 individuals)
Broad regional representation (Oklahoma, Washington, Arizona, British Columbia, New York)
Representatives from significant scholarly institutions
American Indian Graduate Center
NAES College
National Museum of the American Indian
School of American Research
The Program:
Keynote Addresses
Tsianina Lomawaima (Creek/Cherokee) and David Wilkins (Lumbee)
“Repatriating American Indian Studies: Cultural Patrimony Energized by
Imagination”
Paul Robertson and Eileen H. Iron Cloud (Oglala Lakota)
“Dreaming Decolonization in Oglala Country”
Clara Sue Kidwell (Choctaw/Ojibwe)
“Who Speaks for American Indians?”
Discussion Groups (led by Indian and non-Indian scholars from CIC institutions)
Phil Deloria (University of Michigan)
LaVonne Ruoff (University of Illinois, Chicago)
John Sanchez (Penn State University) (withdrew due to inclement weather)
Susan Sleeper-Smith (Michigan State University)
Jean O’Brien (University of Minnesota)
Joe Gone (University of Minnesota)
Greg Dowd (University of Michigan)
Fred Hoxie (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Brenda Farnell (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Jay Stauss (University of Arizona)
Roundtable Discussion
Ray Fogelson (University of Chicago)
Amy Stillman (University of Michigan)
· 2004 National Conference, “Native Peoples and Museums: Building Reciprocal Relationships for the Twenty-first Century,” September 10-11, 2004
Attendance: 86 registered attendees
Represented 17 States and New Zealand
Represented 20 colleges and universities
Every school in the CIC consortium (45 individuals)
Broad regional representation (New Zealand, Washington, Maryland, Arizona, California, Oklahoma)
Representatives from local institutions and organizations
Art Institute of Chicago
Floating Feather Press
Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery
National Archives-Great Lakes Region
Spurlock Museum, UIUC
The Field Museum
American Indian Center
Representatives from Tribal Colleges/Communities
Spirit Lake Dakota Nation, MD
Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma
Representatives from significant scholarly institutions
National Museum of Natural History
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
The Program:
Featured Speaker:
Susan Power (Yanktonnai Dakota)
Roundtable Discussion (led by Indian and non-Indian scholars from museums, cultural centers, and CIC institutions)
Nina Archabal (Minnesota Historical Society)
Brenda Child (University of Minnesota)
Ray Fogelson (University of Chicago)
Jonathan Haas (The Field Museum)
Emma Hansen (Buffalo Bill Historical Center)
Arapata Hakiwai (Museum of New Zealand Ta Papa Tongarewa)
Joe D. Horse Capture (The Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
Amy Lonetree (San Francisco State University)
Cheryl Metoyer (University of Washington)
Richard F. Townsend (The Art Institute of Chicago)
John Vanausdall (The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art)
CIC AISC Graduate Student Conferences
The CIC AISC Graduate Student Conferences offer students the opportunity to present their work before an audience of student colleagues, faculty, and community members. They began in 2000 with an inaugural meeting hosted by the University of Iowa. The University of Minnesota organized the second conference in 2001, and Michigan State University was the sight for the 2002 gathering. The Newberry Library hosted its first conference in the spring of 2003. Therefore, we have only limited data for the first three years. What is clear, however, is that students have used this venue to preview works in progress. As the list of CIC-AISC participants at the 2002 and 2003 meetings of the American Society for Ethnohistory indicates, the graduate conference has lead to major presentations hosted by national professional organizations.
· First CIC AISC Graduate Student Conference, University of Iowa
36 papers + awards
76 registered attendees
· Second CIC AISC Graduate Student Conference, University of Minnesota
36 papers + awards
83 registered attendees
· Third CIC AISC Graduate Student Conference, Michigan State University
21 papers + awards
50 registered attendees
· Fourth CIC AISC Graduate Student Conference, The Newberry Library, 25-26 April 2003
22 papers
4 awards
Workshop on book publishing by Gary Dunham, University of Nebraska Press
Concert by Bill Miller (Mohican), Native American Music Award-Winning Artist
71 registered attendees
· Fifth CIC AISC Graduate Student Conference. University of Michigan, 16-17 April 2004
27 papers
3 awards
est. 70 registered attendees
· Sixth CIC AISC Graduate Student Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 8-9 April
2005
Other Professional Activities
(Note: This is an incomplete list. If you have any additions, please forward them to us at mcnickle@newberry.org
American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meetings
2004 Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Chicago, Illinois, 27-31 October 2004
· The Newberry Library will host the 2004 ASE meeting in Chicago, Illinois. The CIC AISC shows an integral presence, beginning with the all-CIC AISC Steering Committee.
· As the information that follows indicates, CIC AISC students and faculty members have been active participants in the 2002 and 2003 meetings of the American Society of Ethnohistory. Many of current and former CIC AISC fellows presented versions of papers that were either first delivered at CIC AISC events or crafted during their tenures as fellows.
2002 Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Quebec City, Quebec, 16-20 October 2002
· CIC AISC Paper Presenters:
Brian Klopotek (University of Minnesota), “Tunica Treasures: Sovereignty, History, and
Identity after Repatriation”
Melody Nowaczyk (Michigan State University), “The Multivariate Approach to Engendering the Fur Trade: Examining Gender Relations at Fort Michilimackinac From 1715 to 1761”
Mindy J. Morgan (Michigan State University), “Transitions and Translations: The
Federal Writers’ Project in Montana”
Christina Berndt (University of Minnesota), Fall 2002 Workshop Participant, “The Early Silent Film Era: Attempting to Overcome Stereotypes of the American Indian”
Theresa Schenck (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “What's in a Word?: Shifting Meanings of the Term ‘Totem’”
Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University)
“Agony as Entertainment: Ritual Violence and Public Executions in Spanish America”
Robert Hall (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Charles Réaume, Juge de Paix à la Baye”
Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (Ohio State University, Newark)
“‘A Mixed Breed’ of Prairie du Chien: The Demography of Metissage and Colonization in the Nineteenth-Century Great Lakes”
Susan Sleeper-Smith (Michigan State University), CIC AISC Faculty Fellow, “Fictive Frenchmen and Invisible Indians”
Carol Miller (University of Minnesota), “One Size Doesn’t Fit All”
Owen Stanwood (Northwestern University), 2002 Fall Workshop Participant, CIC Graduate Fellow, “Agents of Empire: Northeastern Indians in a Global Conflict, 1685-1700”
Grant Arndt (University of Chicago), “No Middle Ground: Trials of the Warrior in the Making of Wisconsin, 1828-1906”
Greg Dowd (University of Michigan), “Native Americans without the Republic: Comparisons and Counterfactuals”
Tiya Miles (University of Michigan), “Slavery, Race and Constructions of Womanhood in the 19th-Century Cherokee South”
Theresa Schenck (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Using French Records to Illuminate Ojibwa History”
Javier Villa-Flores (University of Illinois, Chicago), “Look Who's Talking: Ventriloquism and Divination among Afro-Mexican Slaves in New Spain”
Stephen Rosecan (University of Chicago), “Unpacking Relationships Among Choctaw Indians, African Slaves, and the Louisiana French During the 1730s”
· CIC AISC Session Chairs, Organizers, & Discussants:
Matthew Restall (Pennsylvania State University), Organizer: “Ritual Violence in the
Latin American Colonies”
Neil Whitehead (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Discussant: “Ritual Violence in the Latin American Colonies”
Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (Ohio State University, Newark), Organizer: “Reassessing
Encounter in the Western Great Lakes”
Jean M. O’Brien (University of Minnesota). Chair: “Through the Eye of Texts: Reading
and Interpreting American Indian Strategies for Sovereignty in Historical, Documents,
Literature, Film, Art, and Museums”
Theresa Schenck (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Chair: “Aspects of Native-
Euroamerican Relations on the Pacific Slope, 1700s to 1850s”
Raymond D. Fogelson (University of Chicago), Discussant: “Southeastern Native and
Ethnic Women: Crafting Objects, Traditions, and Myths”
Javier Villa-Flores (University of Illinois, Chicago), Organizer: “Colonial Racial
Boundaries and Transgressive Speech among Blacks, Mulattoes, and other groups in
Colonial Mexico”
Neil Whitehead (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Chair/ Discussant: “Negotiating
Boundaries in Colonial Contexts”
David L. Ghere (University of Minnesota), Roundtable: “Oral Tradition in the 21st
Century”
2003 Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Riverside, California, 5-9 November 2003
· CIC AISC Paper Presenters:
Rebecca McNulty (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),CIC Graduate Student Fellow, ”Sovereignty on whose terms?: ABCFM Missionaries, Native Hawaiians, and the Boarding Schools”
Cathleen Cahill (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), CIC Graduate Student Fellow, “Civilized Enough to Marry a White Woman: Indian-White Intermarriage and the Problem of Race in the Late 19th Century”*
Kerry Wynn (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), CIC Graduate Student Fellow
”Citizenship and Cross Cultural Marriage in the Cherokee Nation and the United States, 1880-1920”*
Mathew Jennings (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), CIC Graduate Student Fellow, “Looking Back From Ocmulgee”*
Brad Jarvis (University of Minnesota), CIC Graduate Student Fellow, "‘Your People’ and ‘Our People’: Paternalism and the Preservation of "Indian" Lands in Brothertown, 1785-1805”
Jason Eden (University of Minnesota), CIC Graduate Student Fellow, “Beyond Survival: Native Americans in Southeastern Massachusetts and Bermuda, 1620-1750”
Heidi Stark (University of Minnesota), “Treating the Spiritual: Anishinaabe Political Strategies, Spiritual Practices, and Treaty Three”*
Melissa Rinehart (Michigan State University), “A Legacy of Forced Migration: The Removal of the Miami Tribe in 1846”*
Joel Helfrich (University of Minnesota), “Morass on the Mountain: The Annexation of
Dzil Nachaa Si'am at the University of Minnesota”*
Céline Miceli (University of Chicago), “The Catholic Potawatomi of Michigan:
Catholicism, Cement for Tribal Unity”*
Jill Doerfler (University of Minnesota), “Fictions and Factions: Determining Citizenship Among the White Earth Anishinaabeg”*
*These individuals also presented papers at the spring 2003 CICAISC Spring Graduate Student Conference held at The Newberry Library in Chicago.
· CIC AISC Session Chairs, Organizers, & Discussants
Lucy Murphy (Ohio State University), Chair: “Pictographic Representation”
Jean O'Brien (University of Minnesota), Chair: “Beyond Survival: Native Americans Confront Colonization”
Susan Sleeper-Smith (Michigan State University), CIC Faculty Fellow, Discussant for “Cross Cultural Marriage”
2004 Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Chicago, Illinois, 27-30 October 2004
· CIC AISC Paper Presenters:
Shannon Lee Dawdy (University of Chicago), “Staking Claims with the Archaeological
Archive: an Epistemological View”
Patrick Hajovsky (University of Chicago), "Escudos, Genealogies and Fame: Noble Descendants and the Mark of Legitimacy in Spain and New Spain”
Alexs D. Thompson (University of Chicago),”The Pequot War: Polemics Not Resources”
Brendan Swagerty, (University of Chicago), “Insurgency and War in the Southeast, 1813-1815”
David Aftandilian (University of Chicago), “What Did Owls Mean to the Illinois Mississippians?”
Laura Waterbury (University of Illinois-Chicago), “A Land With Two Laws: Justice in Colonial Mexico”
Michael Sherfy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Narrating Black Hawk”
Jeremy Engels (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “‘Spoken Daggers’: Jane McCrea and American Empire”
Debbie Reese (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “American Indian Folktales Retold in Picture Books for Children: A Comparative Analysis of Two Versions of a Zuni Pueblo Story about Dragonfly’s and Corn”
Matt Jennings (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Native Migrations in the First American Borderlands”
Jennifer McCann (University of Illinois), “Jones and the Warroad Indians”
Jason Baird Jackson (Indiana University), “Introduction: Yuchi History in Time and Space”
Wilhelm Meya (Indiana University), “Early Reservation-Era Tiospaye”
Raymond J. DeMallie (Indiana University), “‘There Is Nothing to Pray to but You’: Historical Changes in the Conception of Prayer in Lakota Culture”
Dennis Christafferson (Indiana University), “‘You Know How Indians Are’: The Ambivalent Attitudes of Episcopal Missionaries Toward Sioux Clergy”
Christina Burke (Indiana University), “Drawing Power: Graphic Representations of Lakota Rituals and Visions”
Rani-Henrik Andersson (Indiana University), “The Ghost Dance of 1890 and the Traditional Lakota Belief System”
Kelly Branam (Indiana University), “Constitutional Events: The Crow and Ethnohistory”
Sarah Quick (Indiana University), “Historical Epochs and Personal Histories: the Circular Dialogue of Diaspora and Renewal in Métis Heritage”
David Shorter (Indiana University), “The Colonial Legacy of ‘Conversion’”
Timothy McCollum (Indiana University), “Settling Meskwaki Education: The Place and Process of Schooling”
John P. Dyson (Indiana University), “Early Chickasaw Encounters with the Native Other: A Map of Trade, Diplomacy and Warfare”
John Norder (Michigan State University), “Before Contact: Ethnohistory and Archaeology in the Upper Great Lakes”
Mindy J. Morgan (Michigan State University), “‘The letter is in the form of a petition’: English Language Documents and Responses to Regulation on the Fort Belknap Reservation, 1887-1921”
Melissa Rinehart (Michigan State University), “A Forty-Year Slumber: The ‘Then’ and ‘Now’ of the Miami Language”
Adriana Greci Green (Michigan State University/Nokomis Learning Center), “Anishinaabe Arts of Quillwork on Birchbark”
Susan Applegate Krouse (Michigan State University), “Urban Indian Organizations in Milwaukee”
Heather Howard-Bobiwash (Michigan State University), “Our bodies take it in and we store it”: Applied Ethnohistory and Native Health”
Susan Rose Dominguez (Michigan State University), “Memory of Old Strike: Ihanktonwan-Corps of Discovery Encounter and the Destiny of Yankton America, 1804-2004”
Bruce Mannheim (University of Michigan), "An Inka Approach to Interpretation and its Implications for Understanding Colonial Religion"
Chantal Norrgard (University of Minnesota) “Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance: Ojibwe Responses to the Sandy Lake Tragedy”
Christina Gish Berndt (University of Minnesota) “Defining the Northern Cheyenne as a Nation: Responses to the U.S. Imposition of the Nation State”
Jill Doerfler (University of Minnesota) “‘No, no there was no mixed bloods’: Twentieth-Century Anishinaabeg Perceptions of Identity”
Brad Jarvis (University of Minnesota) “A Tedious Perplexing, and Harassing Dispute: Encounters Over Land and Sovereignty in Michigan Territory, 1820-1834”
Heidi Stark (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Biindigodaadewin) “‘To Enter Each Others’ Lodges’: Ojibwe Spiritual Practice, Political Thought,
and Alliance Formation”
David Martinez, University of Minnesota, “Before Indians Became Americans: The Society of American Indians and the Fight for US Citizenship”
Patrick McNamara (University of Minnesota) “Zapotec Workers: The Unmaking of a Mexican Working Class, 1870-1930”
LeAnne Howe (University of Minnesota) “Ohoyo Chishba Osh: The Choctaw Woman's Got Corn!”
Pat Albers (University of Minnesota, Warrior Woman, Inc), “Corn Woman Meets Buffalo Woman”
James Brown, PhD (Northwestern University), “Whence the Caddo North of the Red River”
Richard Shiels (Ohio State University), “Tomochichi’s Grave”
Anna J. Willow (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “(Re)Presenting Indigenous Environmental Activism: On Histories of Management and Sovereign Futures at Grassy Narrows First Nation, Ontario”
Stephanie Weparu Alemán (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “The Shifting Nature of Evangelized Space: The Creation and Dissolution of 'Kaanashen' the Village of 'God Loves You' on the Upper Essequibo River, Guyana”
Maria del Carmen Moreno (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Changing Landscape of Lokono Identity: William H. Brett and Canon John Peter Bennett”
Jason Yaeger (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “The Changing Place of the San Pedro Maya in British Honduras”
· CIC AISC Session Chairs, Organizers, & Discussants:
Ellen Baird (University of Illinois, Chicago), Discussant: “Encountering the Self in Colonial Mexico”
Brian Hosmer (University of Illinois, Chicago/CIC/McNickle Center), Chair: “Remembering Indigenous Relocations”
Mindy Morgan (Michigan State University), Chair: “New Perspectives on Removal & Resistance”
Susan Sleeper Smith (Michigan State University), Chair: “CIC American Indian Studies Consortium, Special Graduate Student Session”
Susan Sleeper Smith (Michigan State University), Chair: “Native Lives, Cultural Appropriation, and the Politics of Memory”
David Wilkins (University of Minnesota), Discussant: “Activists & Manipulators: Twentieth-Century American Indian Politics II”
Brenda Child (University of Minnesota), Chair: “Museums, Native Peoples, & Methodological Debates”
Brenda Child (University of Minnesota), Chair: “New Perspectives on Indian School Experiences”
Neil L. Whitehead (Ethnohistory, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Roundtable Discussant: “Isn’t that Anthropology?: Historians, Ethnohistory and Indigenous Studies”
Ray Fogelson (University of Chicago), Chair: “Birds in Native American Ethnohistory and Archaeology”
Larry Nesper (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Discussant: “Cultural Appropriation, Performance, and Memory”
CIC AIS Participants:
Gregory Dowd, University of Michigan
Axel Utz, Pennsylvania State University
Jean O’Brien, University of Minnesota
Brian Hosmer, CIC/Newberry Library/UIC
· CIC AISC Presentations, Fall 2002 McNickle Center “Brown Bag” Colloquia
Brad Jarvis (University of Minnesota), CIC AISC Graduate Student Fellow, “The Brothertown Indians: Land and Identity in the Early Republic,” 20 November 2002
Kerry Wynn (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), CIC AISC Graduate Student Fellow, “The Embodiment of Citizenship: Sovereignty and Wardship in the Cherokee Nation, 1880-1920”
· CIC AISC Presentations, Winter-Spring 2003 McNickle Center “Brown Bag” Colloquia
Brad Martin (Northwestern University), CIC AISC Graduate Student Fellow, “Early Landscapes of Power,” 12 March 2003
Jason Eden (University of Minnesota), CIC AISC Graduate Student Fellow, “Beyond Survival: New England Indians in Bermuda and Southeastern Massachusetts, 1620-1750,” 9 April 2003
Susan Sleeper Smith (Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University), CIC AISC Faculty Fellow, “How Indians Became Frenchmen,” 23 April 2003
· CIC AISC Presentations, Fall 2003 McNickle Center “Brown Bag” Colloquia
Owen Stanwood (Northwestern University), CIC AISC Graduate Student Fellow, “Murder in Hadley: The Politics of Intercultural Violence on the New England Frontier,” 22 October 2003
David Martinez (Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota), CIC AISC Faculty Fellow, “The Myth of Walking in Two Worlds: Carlos Montezuma on Acculturation,” 17 December 2003
· CIC AISC Presentations, Spring 2004 McNickle Center “Brown Bag” Colloquia
Michael Sherfy (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), CIC AISC Graduate Student Fellow, “Narrating Black Hawk: constructing and Reconstructing a Native American History Subject, 1832-1902,” 10 March 2004
Matthew Jennings (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), CIC AISC Graduate Student Fellow, “Cultures of Violence in the Colonial Southeast,” 14 April 2004
· CIC AISC Presentations, Fall 2004 McNickle Center “Brown Bag” Colloquia
Susan Rose Dominguez (Michigan State University), CIC Graduate Student Fellow, "New Indian Biography: The Pleasures (and a few pains) of Interdisciplinarity" 8 September 2004
Rachel Leibowitz (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), CIC AISC Graduate Student Fellow, "Creating 'the Center of the Navajo World': Landscape and Power at Window Rock" 13 October 2004
· CIC AISC Presentations, Winter/Spring 2005 McNickle Center “Brown Bag” Colloquia
Matthew J. Martinez (University of Minnesota), ““Shooting Back: Tourism & Photography Endeavors Among the Northern Pueblos of the Rio Grande”
Christina Berndt (University of Minnesota), "Rethinking the American Indian Struggle for Sovereignty: the Northern Cheyenne Use of Kinship to Resist U.S. Imposition of the Nation-State"
Rebekah Mergenthal (University of Chicago), "To ‘establish a natural boundary’: Creating, Enforcing, and Traversing lines of separation in the lower Missouri River Valley"
Sarah Quick (Indiana University), "Performing Heritage: Metis Identity, Politics and Culture in a Multi-Cultural State"
John R. Harper (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Title TBA