ASE Program 2023

2023 ETHNOHISTORY CONFERENCE

All Rooms Have a COmputer, PowerPoint, Projector, a USB Drive, and Internet Access. 

The conference begins Thursday evening with a plenary session and reception and lasts until late Saturday afternoon. We urge all participants and registrants to stay for the full duration of the conference.

The receptions on Thursday and Friday and the lunches on Friday and Saturday are included as part of the registration fee.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, Held at Mission San Luis, 2100 W Tennessee St.

ROUNDTRIP TRANSPORTATION TO THE MISSION IS BEING PROVIDED BY THE DOUBLETREE AND HOTEL INDIGO. THE VANS WILL BE SHUTTLING ATTENDEES THROUGHOUT THE EVENING.
FREE PARKING IS ALSO AVAILABLE FOR ANYONE WHO IS DRIVING. 

 

Welcome, 5:00pm

Plenary Session, 5:15pm

Partnering with Indigenous Nations, Tribal Historical Preservation Offices
Tina Osceola, Seminole Tribe of Florida
Woneonah Haire, Catawba Nation
Miranda Panther, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Raelyn Butler, Muscogee (Creek) Nation

  • Special thanks to The Gable Foundation at the University of Georgia for supporting this panel.

Welcoming Remarks and Opening Reception 6:30-9:00 or immediately Following the Plenary

  • The reception has been generously sponsored by the History Department at the University of North Florida.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 3, Held at the Turnbull Conference Center at FSU

A special thanks to The Allen Morris Fund in Florida History for sponsoring the day's coffee and snacks. For more information on the Allen Morris Forum on the Native South see <https://nais.fsu.edu/upcoming-events/morris-forum>.

ASE Executive Committee Meeting, 8:00-9:00am (ROOM 205)
FRIDAY Session 1: 9:00-10:30am

Panel 1: Gender in the Native South, A Reinterpretation: Part 1 (Room 114)
Organizers: Jennifer McCutchen and Jamie Myers Mize
Chair: Evan Nooe, University of South Carolina, Lancaster
Commenter: Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside
Presenters:

  • "Masculine Sovereignty: Markets, Men, and Choctaw Removal," Greg O’Brien, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • "ᎳᎵ ᏧᏓᎾᏙᎩ (Two Hearts): Histories of Gender Fluidity in Cherokee Country," Gregory D. Smithers, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • "Women of the Native South: A Reappraisal of Their Gender Roles," Jamie Myers Mize, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
  • "Gunpowder Accessories and Firearm Furnishings in the Late Eighteenth-Century Creek World—A Gendered Reinterpretation," Jennifer McCutchen, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Panel 2: Spatial Histories of Resilience and Environmental Justice: Voices from the Past and Present, Part 1 (Room 101 with a remote presentation)
Organizers: Justyna Olko and Cynthia Radding
Chair: Lidia Gómez García, Colegio de Historia, FFyL
Presenters:

  • "The Spatial Dynamics of Climate Change and Mass Mortality in Mexico, 16th and 17th centuries: Methods and Preliminary Results." Bradley Skopyk, Binghamton University
  • "The Environment as Agent: New Historiographic Trends." Barbara E. Mundy, Tulane University
  • "Tepagüi: Traditional Knowledge, Governance, and Protest in Historical Struggles for Environmental Justice in Northwestern New Spain," Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • "Spatial History of Sustainable Diversity: Multiethnic Corporate Government in Early Modern and Contemporary Mexico," Szymon Gruda, University of Warsaw, Justyna Olko, University of Warsaw

Panel 3: Dispersed Trading Towns, Staring at Us (Room 201)
Organizer: Alice Kehoe
Chair/Commenter: Gregory Waselkov, University of South Alabama
Presenters:

  • "Dispersed Towns, How Widely Distributed? When? at Cahokia before the Cholulan Merchant Post?" Alice Kehoe, Marquette University
  • "Post-Mississippian Settlement in the Black Prairie of Alabama and Mississippi," Ashley Dumas, University of West Alabama, V. James Knight, University of Alabama, and Edmond Boudreaux, Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University
  • "Quivira from the Early Spanish Documents," Donald Blakeslee, Wichita State University

Panel 4: Changing Winds in the Northeast: Algonquian Persistence in the Face of Destabilization (Room 214 with a remote presentation)
Organizer: Tyler E. Daniels
Chair: Bradley J. Dixon, University of Memphis
Commenter: Miller S. Wright, Old Dominion University
Presenters:

  • "From Nipmuck Sachem to Praying Town Elder: Waban’s Search for New Diplomatic and Spiritual Power in a Puritanizing World," Tyler E. Daniels, Valdosta State University
  • "Understanding Odawa Warfare: 1615-1700," Eric Paul Morningstar, Western Michigan University
  • "Charles Meiachka8at’s prophetic movement (17th Century) and its remembrance among contemporary Innu," Émile Duchesne, McGill University
  • “To Rule by Customes”: Powhatan Territorial Possessions and the Virginia Company, 1606-1622," Joe Borsato, Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario)
Break, 10:30-10:45am

A special thanks to the Allen Morris Fund at Florida State University for sponsoring today's coffee and snacks.

FRIDAY Session 2, 10:45am-12:15pm

Panel 5: Gender in the Native South, A Reinterpretation: Part 2 (Room 114)
Organizers: Jennifer McCutchen and Jamie Myers Mize
Chair: Christine A. Rizzi, Florida State University
Commenter: Alan Gallay, Texas Christian University
Presenters:

  • “'Of themselves or from their Grandmothers advise': Women’s Communication Networks and Maintenance of Muscogee Cultural Sovereignty, 1796-1814," Keely Smith, Princeton University
  • "Gender Violence in the Native South—'Trading Girls' in the Carolinas and Virginia," Kristalyn Marie Shefveland, University of Southern Indiana
  • "'They had their women and children concealed': Mississippian Women and Colonial Violence," Aubrey Lauersdorf, Auburn University
  • "'to save the poor captive women and children': Gender, Age, and Captivity in the Tuscarora War," Michelle Le Master, Lehigh University

Panel 6: Spatial Histories of Resilience and Environmental Justice: Voices from the Past and Present, Part 2 (Room 101 with a remote presentation)
Organizer: Justyna Olko, University of Warsaw
Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chair: Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Presenters:

  • "The Political Ecology of Water in the Highlands of Seventeenth Century New Spain," Cody Love, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • "The longue durée of water rights crisis. Inter-ethnic conflict and environmental justice in the region of the volcano Matlalcueye/Malintzin, Tlaxcala," Justyna Olko, University of Warsaw
  • "La desecación del lago de Chalco y la región de Tláhuac (1894-1905): lucha civilizatoria y expolio territorial," Baruc Martínez Díaz, Museo Regional de Tláhuac
  • "The Enduring Cultural Resilience of the Great Dismal Swamp," Christy Hyman, Cornell University and Mississippi State University

Panel 7: Subjects, Allies, Sovereigns: Indigenous Legal Status in Moments of Crisis (Room 214 with a remote presentation)
Organizer: Brad Dixon, University of Memphis
Chair/Commenter: Michael Leroy Oberg, State University of New York, College at Geneseo
Presenters:

  • “'Our Hereditary Right': The Mohegan Petition and an Indigenous Vision of Empire, c.1703," Craig Yirush, UCLA
  • "Southern Indigenous Imperial Reformers and the War of the “Woman King,” 1702-1714," Brad Dixon, University of Memphis
  • "Wampum and the Royal Proclamation in the Common Dish: Negotiating Hunting Grounds in the St. Lawrence River Valley, 1791-1830," Julia Lewandoski, University of California San Diego
  • "Agency and Resilience in Canada: The Diplomatic Relationships between the French Empire and their Native Allies in the XVIIIth Century," Maxence Terrollion, University of Quebec at Montreal

Panel 8; Indigenous Soundscapes, Dance, and Art (Room 205)
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair/Commenter: Sarah Eyerly, Florida State University

  • "Andean Ontologies of Breath and Sound: Transference and Transition as Realized in North Coast Ocarinas," Nicole Jozwik, Tulane University
  • "Sounds of the Seashell: Indigenous Women’s Work and the Materials of Dance in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Caribbean," Heather Kopelson, University of Alabama

  • "Rethinking Northern Subsistence: The Art of Maureen Gruben," Tess McCoy, Florida State University

Lunch in the ballroom, 12:15-1:30pm
FRIDAY Session 3, 1:30-3:00pm

Panel 9: 25 Years of Cherokee Women with Theda Perdue (Room 114)
Organizers: Rose Stremlau, James Brooks, and Denise Bossy
Co-Chairs: Co-chairs: Julie Reed and Rose Stremlau
Participants:

  • Brooke Bauer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Alejandra Dubcovsky, University of California, Riverside
  • Catherine Foreman Gray, History and Preservation Officer, Cherokee Nation
  • Rebecca Kugel, University of California, Riverside
  • Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, The Ohio State University
  • Julie Reed, Pennsylvania State University
  • Christina Snyder, Pennsylvania State University
  • Rose Stremlau, Davidson College 

Panel 10:  Spatial Histories of Resilience and Environmental Justice: Voices from the Past and Present: A Roundtable (Room 101)
Organizers: Justyna Olko and Cynthia Radding
Moderators: Justyna Olko, University of Warsaw and Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
Presenters:

  • "Mixtec sacred landscape: 500 years of resilience for the territory of the Ñuu Savi people," Omar Aguilar Sánchez, ARENET-UACO
  • "La ciudad de Cholula, crisol de resistencias: El caso de los negros esclavos en una república de indios, siglo XVII," Lidia E. Gómez García & Ingrid Noemí Arias Rosales, Colegio de Historia, FFyL, Benemérita Universidad Autonóma de Puebla
  • "Storytelling of spatial histories of resilience and environmental (in)justice in O’dam Narratives," Selene Yuridia Galido Cumplido, Independent Scholar
  • "Epistemic justice inherent in recovering and mapping Indigenous toponymy," Joanna Maryniak, University of Warsaw

Panel 11: Roundtable and Q&A: Publishing Ethnohistory (Room 205)
Organizers: Denise Bossy and Andrew K. Frank
Presenters: 

  • Matt Bokovoy (University of Nebraska Press) 
  • Rob Schwaller (Ethnohistory)
  • Alessandra Tamulevich (University of Oklahoma Press)

Panel 12: Crisis and Resilience in Mexico, 14th to 18th Centuries (Room 214 with a remote presentation)
Organizer: Program Committee
Chair/Commentator: Brendan Weaver, Florida State University
Presenters:

  • "The Colhuacan's fall of 1336 and the arrival of the Colhua nobility to Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Erik Damián Reyes Morales, National Autonomous University of Mexico
  • "Diagrams in divinatory codices as cosmographical maps?" Katarzyna Mikulska, University of Warsaw
  • "Nahua Hands, the Feast of Toxcatl, and the Depth of Wounding," Servando Z. Hinojosa, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  • "Crisis and Resilience: Huaquechula (Valley of Atlixco, Mexico) versus Hacienda Atzitzihuacan (1706-1804)," Avis Mysyk, Cape Breton University
Poster Session 2:30-4:00 (in Atrium)
  • "Native American Resilience in the Coastal Plain Region, 1824-1850: Accounts of Indigenous Survival, Militia, and Residents Occupying the Wiregrass Regions," Vickie Everitte, Valdosta State University
  • "Reviving Native-American Languages: Face-to-face and Digital Strategies," Carolina González, Florida State University
  • "Linguistic Outcomes of Language Contact: Quechua and Spanish across the Andes," Antje Muntendam, Florida State University
  • “'The Most Polluted Lake in America?': Witnessing the Role of the Museum in Mediating Knowledge of Environmental Crises at the National Museum of the American Indian," Christopher Lindsay Turner, National Museum of the American Indian

Poster abstracts are limited to 100 words.
Posters will be displayed on easels provided by the conference center.

    Break 3:00-3:15pm
    FRIDAY Session 4, 3:15-4:45pm

    Panel 13: Indigenous Peoples and Land-Grant Universities in the U.S. South: A Roundtable (Room 114)
    Organizer: Angela Pulley Hudson
    Chair: Aubrey Lauersdorf, Auburn University
    Commenter: Angela Pulley Hudson, Texas A&M University
    Participants:

    • Brooke Bauer, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
    • Joshua Catalano, Clemson University
    • Samuel Cook, Virginia Tech University
    • Shawn Lambert, Mississippi State University
    • Kenneth Sassaman, University of Florida

    Panel 14: A Workshop on Primary Sources from North and Mesoamerica (Room 101)
    Organizer: Mónica Díaz
    Chair: Rebecca Dufendach, Loyola University Maryland
    Presenters:

    • "Beware the Ellipsis: Transcriptions and the Omission of Indigenous History," Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, San Diego
    • "Historical Memory, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, and Vaccine Hesitancy During the 1862 Smallpox Epidemic," Keith Carlson, University of the Fraser Valley
    • "Questioning a Sixteenth-Century Letter and its Form," Amber Brian, University of Iowa
    • "Missing from the Transcript: The Unexpected Appearance of Enslaved Native Women," Bradley Benton, North Dakota State University
    • "Wau-pe-man-qua v. Aldrich and Indigenous Identity in the Post-Removal Midwest," Stephen Warren, University of Iowa
    • "A Pocket Prayer of the Rosary in Nahuatl at the Colegio of San Gregorio" Mónica Díaz, University of Kentucky

    Panel 15: Ethnohistorian Careers in Cultural Resource Management (Room 214 with a remote presentation)
    Organizers: Maureen Meyers and Julie Coco
    Presenters: 

    • Maureen Meyers, New South Associates
    • Julie Coco, New South Associates
    • Amanda Griffis, National Park Service
    • LaDonna Brown, Chickasaw Nation

    Panel 16: Native Biography as Process and Product: Perspectives on History, Storytelling, and Knowledge Production (Room 205)

    Organizer/Chair: Rachel Wheeler
    Participants:

    • Sarah Eyerly, Florida State University
    • Kallie Kosc, Oklahoma State University
    • Anthony Trujillo (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo), Harvard University
    • Max Mueller, University of Nebraska
    • Forrest Cuch, Ute Tribe of Utah (Community Partner)

     

    Friday 5:00-6:15pm
    Special Plenary Session Celebrating Robbie Ethridge (Room 114)

    Organizers: Denise Bossy and Maureen Meyers
    Presenters:

    • Denise Bossy, University of North Florida
    • Maureen Meyers, New South Associates
    • Jay K. Johnson, University of Mississippi
    • Tony Boudreau, Mississippi State
    • Angela Pulley Hudson, Texas A&M University
    • Christina Snyder, Pennsylvania State University
    • Greg O’Brien, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
    • Kristalyn Shefveland, University of Southern Indiana
    • Jeffrey Washburn, University of Texas Permian Basin
    Reception Honoring Robbie Ethridge, 6:15-7:00 PM (Held in the upstairs Hall)

    The reception has been generously sponsored by Duke University Press.

    The Presidential Banquet, 7:00-9:30pm <included with registration>

    The reception has been generously sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida State University.

    SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, Held at the Turnbull Conference Center at FSU

    A special thanks to Native South and its editors for sponsoring today's coffee and snacks. The editors will be available in the exhibit room from 8:30am-10:00am to talk with prospective authors and the submission process.

    SATURDAY Session 5, 9:00-10:30am

    Panel 17: The Deep Ethnohistory of Indigenous Florida (Room 205)
    Organizers: Denise Bossy and Erin Stone
    Chair/Commenter: Aubrey Lauersdorf, Auburn University
    Presenters: 

    • “'Returned to Their Land:' Indigenous Allies, Spanish Imperial Expansion, and the 1559-1561 Luna Settlement," Christina Bolte, University of West Florida
    • "Guale Children, Imperial paternalism, and Franciscan Constructions of Childhood: Revisiting the Guale War of 1597," Amarilys Sánchez, University of North Florida
    • "Broad-scale Excavations at Sarabay: Insights into the Center of a Timucua Town," Keith Ashley, University of North Florida and Kaia Lacey, University of North Florida
    • “'Of the few that have remained, where they are is unknown:' An Overview of Indigenous West Florida in the Late 17th and Early 18th Centuries," John E. Worth, University of West Florida

    Panel 18: Quechuan Languages in Flux: Navigating an Ever-Changing World of Linguistic, Cultural, and Ethnic Influences (Room 101)
    Organizer: Eden Gordon Stafstrom 
    Chair/Commenter: Diego Mejia Prado, Florida State University
    Presenters:

    • "Spanish Influence, Linguistic Transfer, and the Fight to Maintain Cuzco Quecha," Edƒsen Gordon Stafstrom, Florida State University
    • "The Multilingual Matrix of Eastern Ecuador: Inter-ethnic Unions, Unified Kichwa, and the Notion of Nations between the Andes and the Amazon," Austin Howard, Florida State University
    • "Renata Flores: Contextualizing Modern Quechua Music in Peruvian History," Rosny Vargas, Florida State University

    Panel 19: Indigenous Mobility, Family Making, and Social Change in Colonial Mexico (Room 214 with a remote presentation)
    Chair/Commenter: Brandon Weaver, Florida State University
    Presenters:

    • "Resulto ser indio: Bigamy, Identity Theft, and a Man on the Run in Eighteenth Century Yucatán," Micaela Wiehe, Pennsylvania State University
    • "The Imposed Socio-cultural Change and Economic Sustainability of the Indigenous Communities in Early Colonial Mexico," Katarzyna Granicka, University of Warsaw, Poland
    • "El Desaparecido Diego de Soto: Bigamy and Transatlantic Mobility," Mariana Sabino, University of Texas at Austin

    Panel 20: Cherokees and Creeks in Crisis in the 18th Century (Room 114)
    Organizer: Michael Morris
    Chair/Commenter: Alice Taylor-Colbert, South Carolina Humanities, Consultant
    Presenters:

    • "Clan, Town, and the Metaphysical in the Causation, Conduct, and Conclusion of the Anglo-Cherokee War, 1759-1761," Dixie Haggard, Valdosta State University
    • "The Fort Prince George Massacre and the Challenge to Cherokee Leadership," Michael Morris, College of Coastal Georgia
    • "They came in all black": Convincing the Cherokee to Fight, 1775," Kevin Kokomoor, Coastal Carolina University

    Panel 21: Indigenous Land Dispossession and Removal (Room 201) -- PLEASE NOTE CHANGE FROM PRINTED SCHEDULE
    Organizers: Program Committee
    Chair: Kristophe Ray, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
    Commentator: Christopher Thrasher, Pennsylvania State University
    Presenters:

    • "Potawatomi Nationhood and Diplomatic Diversity in the Post War of 1812 Central Great Lakes," John Peyton, Indiana University
    • “'universal consent of the nation': The Treaty of the Chickasaw Nation and Its Political Ramifications in the Native South," Jeffrey Washburn, University of Texas Permian Basin
    • “'Their old form of government has been abandoned': Legitimacy and Authority in the Choctaw Nation in an Age of Attritional Ethnic Cleansing, 1825-1850," Edward P. Green, Pennsylvania State University
    • "'Going to California to pick up gold nuggets': Cherokees and Gold Rush Capitalism, 1849-1852," Rhiannon Turgel-Ethier, Florida State University
    Break 10:30-10:45am
    SATURDAY Session 6, 10:45am-12:15pm

    Panel 22: Expanding our Toolkit: Archaeology for Ethnohistorians: A Roundtable (Room 101)
    Organizers: Denise Bossy and Maureen Meyers
    Presenters: 

    • Robbie Ethridge, University of Mississippi
    • Maureen Myers, New South Associates
    • Gregory Waselkov, University of South Alabama

    Panel 23: Native Language Historical Documents (A Roundtable) (Room 205)
    Organizer/Chair: Alejandra Dubcovsky
    Participants:

    • Shawn Austin, University of Arkansas
    • George Aaron Broadwell, University of Florida
    • Doug Henning, Independent Scholar/High School Teacher
    • Seth (Dani) Katenkamp, Yale University
    • Yanna Yannakakis, Emory University

    Panel 24 Losing Land and Maintaining Agency. Indigenous Communities in the Face of Ley Lerdo (Room 214 with remote presentations)
    Organizer: Katarzyna Granicka
    Chair: Cynthia Radding, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Presenters:

    • "Prácticas políticas de antiguo régimen frente al sistema jurídico liberal, durante el proceso de desamortización en Cholula, 1856-1869," Lidia E. Gómez García & Jesús Salvador Romero Aldama, Colegio de Historia, FFyL, BUAP
    • "Facing the loss of the common lands. Indigenous communities’ responses to 1856 Ley Lerdo in the region of Tlaxcala," Katarzyna Granicka, University of Warsaw
    • "Papantla from the Ley Lerdo to Agrarian Compression: Disentailment in Long-Term Perspective," Sam Holley-Kline, University of Maryland
    • "What does a 1908/1909 bureaucratic application of the Lerdo Law tell us about the Indigenous community of San Miguel Tenango, Puebla?" Joanna Marynia, University of Warsaw

    Panel 25: Persistence of Place: Shifting Indigenous Landscapes in Southern Appalachia (Room 114)
    Organizer: Emily Hougland
    Chair/Commenter: Christina Snyder, Pennsylvania State University
    Presenters:

    • “Coosa Crisis: The Spanish Invasion of Coosa and Native Persistence” James Pegler
    • "Nickajack & Running Water: Chickamauga Cherokee’s Long Resistance to Settler Colonialism in Chattanooga," Stephen Simmons 
    • "The Brainerd Neighborhood: Cherokees, Missionaries, and the Landscape of Removal," Ashley Riley Sousa
    • "Remembering Hiwassee: Exploring the legacy of Hiwassee Island and the Cherokee Removal Memorial Park," Emily Hougland

    Panel 26: Conflict After Conquest: Indigenous Resilience in the 16th Century Spanish Borderlands (Room 201)
    Organizer: Erin W. Stone
    Chair/Commenter: Kris Lane, Tulane University
    Presenters:

    • “They were Imprisoned and Punished”: Indigenous Resistance and Retaliation in the Chichimeca War: 1550-1580," Dana Velasco Murillo, University of California, San Diego
    • “Their Religion is Vengeance, Which They Call Barter”: Spanish-Chiriguano Conflict and Exchange on the Sixteenth-Century Peruvian Frontier," Chad McCutchen, Minnesota State University, Mankato
    • “The Land of War”: Mapuche Resistance and Ethnogenesis in the War of Arauco," Erin W. Stone, University of West Florida
    LUNCH in the ballroom, 12:15-1:15pm (Room 108)
    ASE Members Business Meeting, 1:15-2:15pm (Room 114)
    SATURDAY Session 7, 2:30-4:00pm

    Panel 27: Ethnohistorians and Archaeologists as Advocates  (Room 205)
    Organizer: Brooke Bauer and Traci Ardren
    Chair/Commenter: Brooke Bauer
    Presenters: 

    • "The Responsible Historian: Partnerships, Projects, and Accountability to Indigenous Communities," Denise E. Bates, Tufts University
    • "Milwaukee’s Urban Indian Community: Collaborative Activism Inside & Outside the Classroom in Southeastern Wisconsin," Bryan C. Rindfleisch, Marquette University
    • "Advocating for the Tequesta Capital during the Redevelopment of Downtown Miami," Traci Ardren, University of Miami
    • "Documenting Catawba Places," Mary Beth Fitts, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    Panel 28: History Matters: A Roundtable on the Codex Huexotzingo (Room 214 with a remote presentation)
    Organizer: Barbara E. Mundy
    Participants:

    • "Grinding, Grinding Finely: Nahua Pigment Production and Aesthetics in the Codex Huexotzinco," Allison Caplan, Yale University and Mary Elizabeth Haude, Library of Congress
    • "La conformación territorial y jurisdiccional de la región Cholula-Huejotzingo, siglos XVI y XVII," Lidia Gómez Garcia, Benemérito Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
    • "Slaves and storytellers: historic and contemporary perspectives on the Codex Huexotzinco," Maria Carrillo-Marquina and Barbara E. Mundy, Tulane University
    • "Características identitarias de los nombres y apellidos en las ciudades de Cholula y Huexotzinco. Una mirada comparativa a través de los antropónimos en náhuatl," Georgina Tochimani Tochimani, cronista of Cholula

    Panel 29: ECHT (Eastern Cherokee Histories in Translation): Interdisciplinary Work in Syllabary Documents (Room 101 with a remote presentation)
    Organizer: Stuart Marshall
    Chair: Sara Snyder Hopkins, Western Carolina University
    Commenter: Audience
    Participants:

    • Tom Belt, Cherokee Nation
    • Barnes Powell, Western Carolina University
    • Jakeli Swimmer, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
    • Sara Snyder Hopkins, Western Carolina University
    • Stuart Marshall, Sewanee: The University of the South

    Panel 30: Re-examining Archives of Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century Native South and Southwest (Room 114)
    Organizer: Justin Rogers
    Commenter: James Brooks, University of Georgia
    Participants:

    • Southern Confluences: Making Black Slavery in the Native South,”Justin Isaac Rogers, University of North Florida
    • “Sold Down the River: The Domestic Slave Trade in the Native South,” Nakia D. Parker, Michigan State University
    • “Black in Native Texas: Violence, the ‘Borderlands,’ and a Search for a Usable Methodology,” Brooks Winfree, Michigan State University 

    Panel 31: Indigenous Childhood in Crisis and Resilience (Room 201)
    Organizer: Program Committee
    Commenter: Audience
    Participants: 

    • "The Missing Sobrina: Indigenous Kidnapping and Recovery Efforts of Women and Children in Early Colonial Colombia," Katherine Godfrey, Pennsylvania State University
    • "American Indian Schools and Student Enrollment: 1819 to 1940," Arland Thornton, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and Linda Young-DeMarco, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    • "A Dark Legacy in Canadian History: Campaign of Forced Assimilation of Indigenous Children," Prescott C. Ensign, Wilfrid Laurier University 
    • “'For Better and More Meaningful Services': The Alaska Native Fight for Sovereign Education, 1950s through the 1960s," Timothy Houge, Marquette University
    Break 4:00-4:15pm
    SATURDAY Session 8, 4:15-5:45pm

    Panel 32: Digital and Public Ethnohistory Workshop (Room 101)
    Organizers: Denise Bossy, James Brooks, and Bob Morrissey
    Workshop leader: Jennifer Guiliano, Indiana University-Purdue

    Panel 33: Borders of Violence in Florida and the Native South (Room 114)
    Organizer: Evan Nooe
    Chair: Jeffrey Washburn, University of Texas Permian Basin
    Commenter: Daniel Murphree, University of Central Florida

    • "Swamp Diplomacy: Seminole Communities and Wartime N egotiation in Civil War Florida," Christine A. Rizzi, Florida State University
    • "Sharing Jane Johns’ Suffering: Florida Settler Memory and Seminole Dispossession," Evan Nooe, University of South Carolina Lancaster
    • "Steal, Settle, Burn: Seminole Manhood and Evolving Violence in the Florida Borderlands," Logan Buffa, Rice University
    • "Settling the Records: Native Land and Imperial Ambition in the Assembly of Florida’s Archives," Adam Beauchamp, Florida State University

    Panel 34: Friendship in Indigenous Histories Across the Americas (Room 214 with a remote presentation)
    Organizers: James Andrew Whitaker and Gary Van Valen
    Chair: James Andrew Whitaker, Troy University and University of St. Andrews
    Commenter: Michael Harkin, University of Wyoming
    Presenters:

    • "Southeastern Indian Coalescent Societies: Rising out of a Shatter Zone," Robbie Ethridge, University of Mississippi
    • "Seventeenth-Century Mojo Relations of Friendship: Sharing, Trade, and Identity Formation," Gary Van Valen, University of West Georgia
    • "What Are Friends For? Revisiting Wabanaki-French Relations in the Eighteenth Century," Ian Saxine, Bridgewater State University
    • "Friendship and Predation in Historical Makushi Relations in Guyana," James Andrew Whitaker, Troy University and University of St. Andrews
    • "Friends, Spouses, Associates: Relationships of North American Native Women," Clarissa Confer, Pennsylvania Western University, California

    Panel 35: The Long History of Indigenous Medicine (Room 201)
    Organizers: Program Committee
    Chair/Commenter: Barbara Mundy
    Presenters:

    • “'Some of These Midwives Are Very Knowing in Several Medicines that Carolina Affords': Native Women, Health Care, and Botanical Remedies in the U.S. South up to 1860" Jewel Parker, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    • "Prescription and Power: Agency Physicians, Medicine Men, and Medical Autonomy on the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation, 1867-1895," Jessica Borsellino, Duke University
    • "Nursing, Translation, and Health Education in Twentieth-Century Oaxaca, Mexico," Marissa Nichols, Emory University

    Panel 36: Strategies of Resistance and Survivance in Postclassic to Contemporary Mesoamerica and the Southwest (Room 205)
    Organizer: Gabrielle Vail
    Chair/Commenter: Cynthia Radding
    Presenters:

    • "Evoking the Ritual-Mythic World as a Survivance Strategy in Yucatec Maya Texts and Ceremonies," Gabrielle Vail, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • "Pikb’il as Survivance in the Alta Verapaz of Guatemala: A Weaver’s Perspective," Concepción Poou Coy Tharin, Dunedin Fine Arts Center and Gabrielle Vail, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • “'Rough Land of Little Value': Environmental Colonialism and Chemehuevi Resilience in the 20th Century," Dean Michel, Florida State University
    • "Resistance and Resilience in Reading Navajo “Crime” Data from the Early 20th Century: Whose Story is It?" Sondra Leftoff, John Jay College, CUNY