45th ANNUAL WHA CONFERENCE
Scottsdale, ArizonaOctober 13-16, 2005
 
 
 
 
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2005 SESSIONS
Last updated: 06-Oct-2005 
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Regular Session Blocks:
Friday, October 14 8:30 - 10:00 AM
10:30 - Noon
2:30 - 4:00 PM
Friday off-site sessions Morning Off-site Sessions
Afternoon Off-site Sessions


Saturday, October 15 8:30 - 10:00 AM
10:30 - Noon
1:30 - 3:00 PM
3:30 - 5:00 PM


Sunday, October 16 8:30 - 10:00 AM
10:30 - Noon


Friday, October 14, 2005

Friday    8:30 – 10:00 AM at Camelback Inn

The Texas Rangers and Revisionist History
Chair: R. David Edmunds, University of Texas at Dallas
Paper: Texas Rangers, Lawmen, or Murderers?
  Gary Clayton Anderson, University of Oklahoma 
Film: Border Bandits (www.borderbanditsmovie.com)
  Kirby Warnock, Big Bend, Texas
Comment: David Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego

The Challenge of Defining Boundaries
Chair: Miguel Tinker Salas, Pomona College 
Paper: The Ties that Bind, the Lines that Divide: The Political Significance of the Colorado/New Mexico Boundary
  Derek R. Everett, University of Arkansas 
Paper: Examining 19th-Century Cultural Landscapes of the US-Mexico Boundary Commission
  A. Elizabeth Moser, Northern Arizona University 
Paper: Desert Passages, Desert Barriers: The Sonoran Desert in the History of Undocumented Immigration
  Patrick Ettinger, California State University, Sacramento
Comment: Miguel Tinker Salas

Alaska, the Yukon, and the Outside World 
Chair: Erik Hirschman, University of Alaska, Matanuska-Susitna College
Paper: Athabaskans of Interior Alaska: Some Observations on Historical Approaches, Contexts, and New Directions
  John Heaton, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Paper: Alaskan Pastoral: The Matansuka Colony Resettlement Program
  Roxanne Willis, Yale University
Paper: The Transition to Yukon America: The Klondike Nugget in Dawson and Worldwide Anglo-Saxon War, 1898-1901
  Adam Arenson, Yale University
Comment: Erik Hirschman

Mining in the West
Chair: Eric Clements, Southeast Missouri State University
Paper: Gebo, Wyoming: Environment, Gender, Class, and Space at an Early 20th-Century Mining Town
    Sarah Payne, University of New Mexico
Paper: Fighting Fertigs: Guerilla Mining Engineers
    Stephen Hart, URS Corporation, Denver
Comment: David Wolff, Black Hills State University 

Roundtable: Arizona Centennial
Chair: Noel Stowe, Arizona State University
Panelist: GladysAnn Wells, Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records
Panelist: Jay Ziemann, Arizona State Parks
Panelist: Jim Garrison, Arizona State Historic Preservation Office
Panelist: Hartman Lomawaima, Arizona State Museum
Panelist: Anne Woosley, Arizona Historical Society
Comment:  Audience

MORMON HISTORY ASSOCIATION SESSION
Mormon Fundamentalism in 20th Century
Chair: Craig Foster, Family History Center, Salt Lake City
Paper: A Guide to Old Fashioned (Fundamentalist) Mormonism
  Ken Driggs, Attorney, De Kalb County, Georgia
Paper: Arranged Marriages Among Fundamentalist (Polygamist) Mormons
  Marianne Watson, University of Texas at Austin
Paper: Race and the Contemporary Status of African-Americans Among Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints
  Newell Bringhurst, College of the Sequoias
Comment: Kathryn Daynes, Brigham Young University

Creating Space: African Americans and White Institutions in the West
Chair: Lynda Dickson, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Paper: Knocking on Every Door: John C. Leftwich and Black Political Resilience in Turn-of-the-Century Oklahoma
  Melissa Stuckey, Yale University 
Paper: Boss of the White Slaves: R. Bruce Johnson and African- American Political Power in Utah
  Jeff Nichols, Westminster College
Paper: Manifestos, Bureaucracies, Race, and Identity: Black Student Protest at the University of Washington, 1967-1973
  Craig Collisson, University of Washington 
Comment: Ronald Coleman, University of Utah



Friday    10:30 – 12:00 at Camelback Inn

Disappointment in the Last Frontier: Statehood, Economics, and Colonialism in Alaska
Chair: John Whitehead, University of Alaska, Fairbanks 
Paper: The Gathering of Alaska Native Political Capability
  Elizabeth James, University of Alaska, Anchorage 
Paper: Reality Check: The Failed Promises of Alaska Statehood
  Steven Haycox, University of Alaska, Anchorage 
Paper: Alaskan Independence and the Global Tourist Industry
  Mike Dunning, University of Alaska, Southeast-Ketchikan Campus 
Comment: John Whitehead

Roundtable: Honoring Albert Camarillo
Chair: Gina-Marie Pitti, Arizona State University
Panelist: David Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego
Panelist: William Deverell, University of Southern California
Panelist: Vicki Ruiz, University of California, Irvine
Panelist: Stephen Pitti, Yale University
Panelist: Marisela Chavez, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Comment: Albert Camarillo, Stanford University

Roundtable: Frontiers: Journal of Women’s Studies
Chair: Susan Gray, Arizona State University 
Panelist: Susan Armitage, Washington State University
Panelist: Cordelia Candelaria, Arizona State University 
Panelist: Kathi George, Freelance editor, San Diego, California
Panelist: Gayle Gullett, Arizona State University

Historians in Tribal Projects: Traditions in Transition
Chair: Susan Miller, Arizona State University
Paper: Learning From the People You Write About: Building Ethical Relationships Between non-Native Scholars and Native Communities
  Jeffrey Shepherd, University of Texas, El Paso
  Lucille Watahomigie, American Indian Tribal Languages Consultant Development Institution 
Paper: Mino-Bimaadiziwin: Understanding the Past from an Anishinaabe Perspective
  Paula Sherman, Trent University 
Paper: A Historian in the Tribal Digital Village: “Don’t Let this Happen to You!”
  Ross Frank, University of California, San Diego
  Leon Acebedo, Jamul Indian Village 
Comment: Susan Miller

Roundtable: The U.S. Forest Service: A Retrospective
Chair: Steve Pyne, Arizona State University
Panelist: Paul Hirt, Arizona State University 
Panelist: Nancy Langston, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Panelist: James G. Lewis, Forest History Society
Comment:  Audience 

The Hispanic Influence on the Development of Cattle Ranching in Hawaii 
Chair: Richard Slatta, North Carolina State University 
Paper: The Arrival of Los Vaquero Californio and their Mentorship of Native Hawaiian Cowboys: The Evolution of the Paniolo as a Skilled Horseman and Ranch Hand, 1833-1905
  Billy Bergin, Paniolo Preservation Society
Paper: Vaquero influence on the Paniolo Track Apparel and Culture with Emphasis on the Hawaiian Saddle Tree, 1905-2005 
  Robert Ke’akealani, RK Livestock, Paniolo Preservation Society
Comment:  Tom Woods, Making Sense of Place, Inc. 

They Have Their Place: Race and Identity in the Mormon Church
Chair:  Thomas Alexander, Brigham Young University 
Paper:  Denying and Exposing a Racist Theology in Black Mormon Tells Her Story
    Laura Bush, Arizona State University 
Paper:  Effects of the Indian Student Placement Program on Indigenous Mormon Identities
    Megan Falater, Arizona State University 
Paper:  Assimilation Versus Cultural Pluralism: One Black Mormon’s Perspective on Attracting and Retaining African American Latter-Day Saints
    Darron Smith, University of Utah 
Comment:  James Leiker, Johnson County Community College

African American Communities in the Modern American West
Chair:  Quintard Taylor, University of Washington 
Paper:  Black Landscapes in the Valley of the Sun: African American Community in Phoenix, 1950-1970
    David Dean, Arizona State University 
Paper:  No Room for Walls: Housing and Race in San Francisco, 1940- 1964
    Deirdre Sullivan, University of Pennsylvania 
Paper:  The Contested Terrains of the “War on Poverty”: Race, Class, and Gender in the Los Angeles Community Action Program, 1964-1968
    Kazuyo Tsuchiya, University of California, San Diego 
Comment:  Mark Brilliant, University of California, Berkeley

Race and Identity in Baseball 
Chair: Duane Smith, Fort Lewis College
Paper: Nisei Baseball and the American Mainstream
    Samuel O. Regalado, California State University, Stanislaus
Paper: Arizona, Race, and the National Game: Minor Leagues to Major Leagues
  J. Stuart Rosebrook, The Orme School
Paper: “The Last Sumurai”: The Culture of American Japanese Association Baseball
  Melody Miyamoto, Arizona State University
Comment: Adrian Burgos Jr., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tour of Bank One Ballpark Friday afternoon.


Friday    2:30-4:00 PM  at Camelback Inn

Teaching Western History Through Public History
 Chair: William Bryans, Oklahoma State University
 Panelist: Rose Díaz, University of New Mexico
 Panelist: Tara Travis, National Park Service
 Panelist: Jon Hunner, New Mexico State University
 Panelist:  Robert Carriker, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Transcending Boundaries: Land and Identity in the American Southwest
Chair:  Sarah Deutsch, Duke University
Paper:  Juan Jose Herrera, the Gorras Blancas, and John Brown’s Body: Making Race and Challenging Citizenship in Territorial New Mexico
    Amanda Taylor-Montoya, University of Oklahoma 
Paper:  Fluid Boundaries in an Arid Landscape: Dispossession, Reclamation, and the Construction of Indian Identities in Southern California,  1903-1930
    Damon B. Akins, University of Oklahoma
Paper:  "Not Indians in the Proper Sense of the Word": The Yaqui Struggle for Tribal Recognition
    Eric V. Meeks, Northern Arizona University 
Comment:  Sam Truett, University of New Mexico

Roundtable: Selling the West Cover to Cover: Adventures with Western Books
Chair:  Robert Clark, Arthur H. Clark Publisher
Panelist:  Aaron L. Cohen, Guidon Books, Scottsdale
Panelist:  Al Lowman (book collector), San Marcos, Texas
Panelist:  Malcolm Margolin, Heyday Books
Panelist:  David Dary, University of Oklahoma (Emeritus)
Panelist:  Bill Howard (book collector), Scottsdale
Panelist:  Shelly Dudley, Salt River Project 
Comment:  Audience

(2:30-4:30 PM)
Film: The Greatest Good
The Greatest Good is a new two-hour film commemorating the centennial of the U.S. Forest Service. It is divided into four parts:  "The Fight for Conservation (1864-1910)," "Building the System (1911-1940)," "Boom! (1941-1970," and "The Greatest Good? (1971-2005).

The Challenge of Representing and Interpreting Native Cultures - Session Cancelled.

 


Friday Morning OFF SITE SESSION

@ Cutler-Plotkin Jewish Heritage Center
122 East Culver in Phoenix
7:30 AM - 1:00 PM including travel. Sessions 8:30 - Noon.

Session 1:  (8:30-10:00) The Challenge of Historic Preservation
Welcome: Councilman Greg Stanton
Moderator: Risa Mallin, Executive Director, Arizona Jewish Historical Society
Presentation: Saving Civic Space
  Kevin Weight, City of Phoenix Historic Preservation Office
Presentation: Saving Cultural Spaces
  Vince Murray, Arizona State University
Presentation: Saving Sacred Space - Tunisian Synagogue
    Pamela Levin, Director, Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum of Temple
    Beth Israel

Break (10:00-10:30) 
Refreshments Provided by the Arizona Preservation 
Foundation. 
Exhibit:  350 years of Jewish life in North America:  a series of 
15 posters prepared by Celebrate 350 and funded by the Arizona Humanities
Council, the Arizona Jewish Historical Society, the Jewish Community 
Foundation, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix

Session Two (10:30-12):  The Challenge of Jewish Life in Arizona
Moderator: Rabbi Albert Plotkin, Rabbi Emeritus, Temple Beth Israel
Presentation:  Pioneer Jews of Arizona
  Risa Mallin, Public Historian
Presentation: The Challenge of Saving Arizona's First Synagogue
    Eileen Warsaw, Director, Historic Stone Avenue Temple, Tucson
Presentation: The Challenge of Growing Up Jewish in Phoenix
  Jerry Lewkowitz, Attorney at Law and President of the Arizona Jewish Historical Society


Friday Afternoon OFF SITE SESSION
Bus transportation to off-site sessions is estimated at 45 min to 1 hour from Camelback Inn.

@ First Institutional Baptist Church 
(2:00 - 5:30, includes travel.  Session: 3:00 - 4:30) 

Roundtable: “It's Been a Long Time Coming”: Establishing a Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday in Arizona
Chair: Matthew Whitaker, Arizona State University 
Panelist:  Art Hamilton, Hamilton, Gullet, Davis and Roman
Panelist: Carol Coles Henry, Equal Opportunity in Phoenix 
Panelist: Rev. Warren Stewart Sr., First Institutional Baptist Church

For more information on the First Institutional Baptist Church, visit http://www.fibcaz.org.



Saturday, October 15, 2005

Saturday    8:30 – 10:00 AM

Recovering Indian Sovereignty and Governance from Colonial Experience, History, and Doctrine
Chair:  Andrew Graybill, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 
Paper: Indian Sovereignty, Manifest Destiny, and the Doctrine of Discovery
    Kent McNeil, York University 
Paper:  Nations, Tribes, and Friends: Notions of Sovereignty and Political Community Amongst Aboriginal Peoples Trading with the Hudson”s Bay Company in the Eighteenth Century
    Janna Promislow, University of Alberta 
Paper:  Governance and Conflict: The Impact of Colonialism on Conflict Management in Aboriginal Communities
    Val Napoleon, University of Alberta 
Comment:  John Wunder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Honoring Allan and Margaret Bogue
Chair:  David Rich Lewis, Utah State University
Intro: Peter Iverson, Arizona State University
Panelist:  Gordon Bakken, California State University, Fullerton 
Panelist:  Brian Cannon, Brigham Young University 
Panelist:  Robert Dykstra, State University of New York at Albany 
Panelist:  Pam Riney-Kehrberg, Iowa State University 
Panelist:  David Walker, University of Northern Iowa 
Comment:  Allan Bogue, University of Wisconsin, Madison 
    Margaret Bogue, University of Wisconsin, Madison

The Transition to Reservation Life: Environment, Education, and Economy on Three Reservations, 1880-2005
Chair:  Brian Hosmer, Newberry Library 
Paper:  Living on the Margins: Elderly Indians on the Round Valley Reservation, 1880-1941
    William Bauer, University of Wyoming 
Paper:  Adaptation and Persistence of Yanktonai Sioux on the Crow Creek Reservation
    Rob Galler, St. Cloud State University 
Paper:  The “Indian Muscle Shoals”: Hydroelectricity, Industrial Monopoly, and the Flathead Indians, 1908-2005
    Garrit Voggesser, National Wildlife Federation 
Comment:  Clyde Ellis, Elon University

Roundtable: Documenting Many Wests: Collecting Western History in the 21st Century
Chair:  Peter J. Blodgett, Huntington Library 
Panelist:  Theresa Salazar, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 
Panelist:  Paul Wormser, National Archives Pacific Region 
Comment:  Audience

Picturing the Differences: The Visual History of the Canada-U.S. Border
Chair:  Sterling Evans, Brandon University (Manitoba)
Paper: They Hunted Like Lions and Rushed Like Wolves: Visual and Textual Images of Indians as Animalistic Cannibals and the Creation of Anthropological Theory
    C. L. Higham, Davidson College 
Paper:  The Same but Different: Making and Breaking the Canada-U.S. Border Across the West, 1880s to 1920s
    Sheila McManus, University of Lethbridge
Paper:  Romantic Encounters: Film, Tourism, and the Spectacle of the “Other” in Rose-Marie (1936) and Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
    Dominique Bregent-Heald, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Comment:  Nora Faires, Western Michigan University

Estado de estudios sobre los indígenas en el norte de México 
Chair & Panelist:  Lucila León Velazco, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UABC 
Panelist: Martha Ortega Soto, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Panelist: Carlos Manuel Valdez, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila
Panelist: Patricia Aceves Calderón, Escuela de Humanidades de la UABC
Panelist: Hilarie J. Heath Constable, Escuela de Administración y Ciencias y Sociales, UABC
Panelist: Everardo Garduño, Centro de Estudios Culturales, UABC
Comment: Mario Alberto Magaña Mancillas, Centro de Estudios Culturales, UABC 

The Atomic Southwest
Chair:  Scott Zeman, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 
Paper:  The National Laboratories in the Southwest, 1943-1970
    Roger Meade, Los Alamos National Laboratory 
Paper:  J. Robert Oppenheimer and the State of New Mexico: A Reciprocal Relationship
    Ferenc Szasz, University of New Mexico 
Paper:  Los Alamos Revealed: Local Press Response to the Atomic Bomb Announcements, August-September 1945
    George Webb, Tennessee Tech University 
Comment:  Michael Amundson, Northern Arizona University

Pacific Bound: Movement, Market, Race, and Labor in 19th-Century California
Chair:  Lisbeth Haas, University of California, Santa Cruz 
Paper:  Kanakas, Californios, and Jack tars: Labor and Race along Mexico’s California Coast
    Bradley Cartwright, University of Colorado at Boulder 
Paper:  El fin deseado a que todos aspiran: Chileno Labor Contracts as “Maps” of Gold Rush California
    Kelly Sisson, University of Michigan 
Paper:  “Marketable Women”: Slavery, Race, Marriage, and Chinese Prostitution in The People of California v. Chu Quong
    Stacey Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison 
Comment:  Michael Magliari, California State University, Chico


Saturday    10:30 - Noon

WESTERN AMERICANA CURATORS SESSION
Native American History and Culture:  Resources for Research and Study
Panelist: Tamsen Hert, University of Wyoming
Panelist: Leslie Shores, American Heritage Center
Panelist: Alice Cornell, University of Cincinnati
Panelist: Patricia Etter, Arizona State University

Western Traditions & Transitions in Postwar Tourism
Chair:  Anne F. Hyde, Colorado College 
Paper:  Palm Springs and the Shaping of American Postwar Suburbia
    Lawrence Culver, Utah State University 
Paper:  The Kid Trade: Children’s TV Westerns and Tourism in the Cold War West
    Susan Rugh, Brigham Young University 
Paper:  Tourism and the Reorientation of Maritime Communities: The Shift from Production to Consumption in Ketchikan, Alaska
    William C. Barnett, University of Wisconsin, Madison 
Comment:  David Wrobel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Mexican War in the Southwest
Chair:  Floyd O'Neil, University of Utah
Paper:  “Doctor Death” and the Mormon Battalion: Surgeon George Sanderson’s Views of the Mormons and the Southwest
    David Miller, Cameron University 
Paper:  Disaster at Sacramento, February 28, 1847: The Mexican Perspective
    Harry Hewitt, Midwestern State University 
Comment:  Joseph G. Dawson III, Texas A&M

COALITION FOR WESTERN WOMEN'S HISTORY SESSION
Roundtable: New Directions in Western Women's History
Chair: Elizabeth Jameson, University of Calgary
Panelist: Joan Jensen, New Mexico State University (Emeritus)
Panelist: Darlis Miller, New Mexico State University (Emeritus)
Panelist: Maria Raquel Casas, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Panelist: Shirley Ann Moore, California State University, Sacramento
Panelist: Annette L. Reed, California State University, Sacramento
Panelist: Sarah Carter, University of Calgary
Panelist: Donna Akers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Interpretation, Mediation, and Appropriation
Chair:  Karen Anderson, University of Arizona 
Paper: Male Bonding Around the Campfire: Constructing Myths of Hohokam Militarism
    Ann Hibner Koblitz, Arizona State University 
Paper: In Hózhó I walk: Chee Dodge (1857-1947) as Culture Broker
    Ron McCoy, Emporia State University 
Paper: The Pencil in the Hand of the Indian: Cross-Cultural Interactions in Natalie Curtis’ The Indians’ Book
    Michelle Patterson, Earlham College 
Comment:  Matt Basso, University of Utah

Immigration, Ethnicity, and Labor
Chair:  Richard Etulain, University of New Mexico 
Paper: The Leadville Irish 
    James P. Walsh, University of Colorado at Boulder 
Paper:  Italian Migrants in the California Gold Rush
    Gloria Ricci Lothrop, California State University, Northridge
Paper:  “We Were Not Tramp Sheepmen”: Acculturation, Resistance and Identity In the Transnational Basque Community of Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada and Their Legal Challenge of the Taylor Grazing Act, 1890-1945
    Kevin D. Hatfield, University of Oregon 
Comment:  Elliott Barkan, California State University, San Bernardino

Languages in Hawaii and New Zealand
Chair:  Jannelle Warren-Findley, Arizona State University
Paper:  Tongue Ties to Colonialism: Bilingualism in Missionary Women’s Diaries in the Western United States and New Zealand
    Judy Nolte Temple, University of Arizona 
Paper:  Bringing “The Word” to “The Natives”: What we can Learn about the Perils and Potential of Literacy Efforts from Writings of American Missionary Women in 19th-Century Hawaii
    Daphne Desser, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Comment:  Dolores Janiewski, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Forging History: Memory, Myth, and Transformation of the American West
Chair:  Kerwin Lee Klein, University of California, Berkeley
Paper:  Memories of Mexico and the Creation of US Latin American History
    Geraldo Cadava, Yale University 
Paper:  The Ready Made Myth: John Brown, James Redpath, and Bleeding Kansas
    Robert Gilpin, Yale University 
Paper:  The Mission as Metaphor: Mythmaking in Southern California’s Citrus Communities
    Katherine Unterman, Yale University 
Comment:  William Deverell, University of Southern California

Western History Journals
 Chair:  Bruce Dinges, Journal of Arizona History
 Panelist: Marianne Keddington-Lang, Oregon Historical Quarterly
 Panelist: Michael J. Lansing, Western Historical Quarterly
 Panelist: James Riding In, Wicazo Sa Review
 Panelist: Molly Holz, Montana the Magazine of Western History


Saturday 1:30-3:00  PM

Religion in the Development of the American West
Chair:  Kim Warren, University of Kansas 
Paper:  Sunbelt Catholicism: Negotiating Post-War Realities in Phoenix and Las Vegas
    Steven M. Avella, Marquette University 
Paper: Habits and Hospitals in Western Migration: Catholic Sisters in the West and Southwest, 1865-1925
    Barbra Mann-Wall, Purdue University 
Paper:  Marginalized Church, Marginalized Native American Clergy: The Episcopal Church Among the South Dakota Sioux, 1871-1935
    David S. Trask, Guilford Technical Community College 
Comment:  Ferenc M. Szasz, University of New Mexico

Economic Crisis of Migration and Settlement
Chair:  Pete Dimas, Phoenix College 
Paper: The Effects of the Cotton Boom and Bust on Mexican Emigration to Glendale, Arizona, 1916-1921
    John Akers, Tempe Historical Museum 
Paper: Mexican Immigrant Colonias Along the South Texas Border: A Case Study of an Impoverished Ethnic Community
    James Barrera, University of New Mexico 
Paper: Bringing the Poor Farm West: Social Welfare in Rural California
    Alexandra Kindell, Iowa State University 
Comment:  Arturo Rosales, Arizona State University

Making Western Communities
Chair:  Peter Booth, Arizona Historical Society
Paper: This Ain't No Ghost Town: The Counterculture, Tourism, and the Reimagination of Western Townscapes in Modern New Mexico
    Ryan Edgington, Temple University
Paper: Urbanities and the Desert: Community and Place in the Salt River Valley
    Stephen Sloan, University of Southern Mississippi 
Paper: Hegemonic Corporation and Incipient Community in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 1876-1885
    Timothy Dean Draper, Waubonsee Community College 
Comment:  Betsy Fahlman, Arizona State University

Women and Gender in the Early 20th Century
Chair:  Katherine Morrissey, University of Arizona 
Paper: The Birth Control Movement in Arizona: Issues Related to Ethnicity and Class
    Mary Melcher, Arizona Historical Society 
Paper: Wide Open Spaces: Visualization and Urban Terrain
    Paula Petrik, George Mason University 
Comment:  Nancy J. Taniguchi, California State University, Stanislaus


Saturday 3:30-5:00 PM

Native Spaces in Unexpected Places: Indian Homesteads and Off-Reservation Allotments in the American West
Chair:  Alexandra Harmon, University of Washington
Paper: The Indians in Between: Off-Reservation Allotments and Cultural Persistence on the Columbia Plateau 
    Andrew H. Fisher, The College of William and Mary 
Paper:  Navajo Resistance, the Growth of the Navajo Reservation and the Unique Use of Dawes Act Allotments in the Off-Reservation Region of Navajo Country
    Frederick York, National Park Service 
Paper:  Persistence and Strategy: Nooksack Homesteading Act Participation, 1873-1973
    Dian Million, University of Washington 
Comment:  Emily Greenwald, Historical Research Associates

Creative Writing and History
Panelist:  Alberto Rios, Arizona State University
Panelist: Ron Carlson, Arizona State University

Roundtable: Japanese Americans in the Arizona Oral History Project  (moved to Sunset Room)
Chair: Karen Leong, Arizona State University 
Panelist: Doris Asano, Phoenix 
Panelist: Donna Cheung, Phoenix 
Comment:  Audience


Sunday, October 16, 2005

Sunday 8:30 – 10:00 AM

Performing Ethnic Identities
Chair:  Robert Trennert, Arizona State University 
Paper: The Charming Creole Character of the Ancient: Defining Community and Constructing Tradition in the 19th-Century Mississippi Valley
    Bob Morrissey, Yale University 
Paper: Ethnic Identity in Drama: The Cases of the Mission Play and the Ramona Pageant
    Kenneth Marcus, University of La Verne 
Paper: Constructing Identify via Media: The Hopi Radio Project
    Ritva Levo-Henriksson, University of Helsinki 
Comment:  David Beaulieu, Arizona State University

Rebuilding American Indian Communities in the 1960s
Chair:  Kenneth Philp, University of Texas at Arlington 
Paper:  The Development of the Denver American Indian Community in the 1960s
    Azusa Ono, Arizona State University 
Paper:  Community Action Among the Eastern and Western Cherokee During the Johnson Administration
    Tamrala Swafford, Arizona State University 
Comment:  James LaGrand, Messiah College

Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods: 20th-Century Southern California
Chair:  Vicki Ruiz, University of California, Irvine
Paper:  Repatriation, Internment, and Urban Development in East Los Angeles
    George Sanchez, University of Southern California 
Paper:  Constructing Whiteness: Realpolitik on the Desert Frontier
    Ryan Kray, University of California, Irvine 
Paper:  Negotiating Western History and Historical Memory: Activism and Residential Segregation in a Los Angeles Horse Community 
    Laura Barraclough, University of Southern California 
Comment: Phoebe Kropp, University of Pennsylvania

Expanding the Boundaries of Sexuality and Gender: Integrating and Containing the Deviant
Chair:  Peter Boag, University of Colorado at Boulder 
Paper:  Sex in the City: San Francisco’s Pacific Museum of Anatomy and Science
    Barbara Berglund, University of South Florida 
Paper:  Legitimation, Integration, Assimilation: Sexual Minorities in San Francisco’s Civic Sphere, 1961-1976
    Martin Meeker, University of California, Berkeley 
Paper:  Stella Dysart: The Uranium Queen and Containment Culture
    David Lion Salmanson, Springside School Philadelphia 
Comment:  Peter Boag

WESTERNERS INTERNATIONAL SESSION
Giants in the Land: Arizona
Chair:  Patricia Etter, Arizona State University
Paper:   Poetry and Power: Robert Frost, JFK, and Stewart Udall
    L. Boyd Finch, Tucson, Arizona
Paper:  Carl Hayden: From Hayden’s Ferry to Washington, D.C.
    Jack August, Arizona Historical Foundation
Comment:  Louis R. Sadler, New Mexico State University

Population, Politics and Prosperity in the Navajo Nation
Chair:  Colleen O'Neill, Utah State University 
Paper:  Watering the Diné Bikéyah: Federal Development, the “Indian Blanket,” and the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project
    Steven Danver, Front Range Community College
Paper:  Translating the American Dream in Indian Country: Homeownership and Economic Development on the Navajo Nation
    Scott Bruton, Rutgers University 
Paper:  Voice, Protest, and Sovereignty Among Navajo Healthcare Workers
    David Kamper, San Diego State University
Comment:  AnCita Benally, Arizona State University


Sunday     10:30 – 12:00

Myth-Making in the West
Chair:  Louis Warren, University of California, Davis 
Paper: Wyatt Earp on Trial: How Cross Examination Really Won the West
    Steven Lubet, Northwestern University
Paper: Quién es? Quién es?: The Forgotten Racial Context of the Billy the Kid Legend
    Christopher Sterba, Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY-Oneonta 
Paper: Custer Redux: Reenacting the Battle of Little Bighorn
    Michael A. Elliott, Emory University 
Comment:  Ann Fabian, Rutgers University

Colonialism, Communities, and Change: Navajo People in Historical Perspective
Chair:     David Brugge, National Park Service, Retired
Paper:     Generation of Self-Determination: Navajo College Students in the Sixties
    Sterling Fluharty, University of Oklahoma
Paper:     Changing Women: Navajo Women and Livestock Reduction
    Marsha Weisiger, New Mexico State University
Paper:     Place in Perspective: A Navajo Community Oral History Project of Tséhootsooí, Ft. Defiance, Arizona
    Gwendolyn Saul, University of New Mexico
Comment:    Jennifer Nez Denetdale, University of New Mexico
    Lloyd Lee, Arizona State University West 

Civil Rights and Education in Arizona
Chair:  Oscar Martinez, University of Arizona 
Paper:  Collective Outrage: Mexican Americans and the Fight for Educational Equality in a Tucson Public School District
    Maritza De La Trinidad, University of Arizona 
Paper:  The Historical Origins and Development of Mexican American Civil Rights in the Greater Arizona Region, 1960 to 1980
    Jose Moreno, Northern Arizona University 
Comment:   Gilbert Gonzales, University of California, Irvine

Politics in Indian Nations
Chair:  Margaret Connell-Szasz, University of New Mexico 
Paper: The Coming Storm: Dick Wilson’s Pine Ridge Presidency Prior to Wounded Knee
    Akim Reinhardt, Towson State University
Paper: Fleeced and Plundered: Conflict, Land, and Citizenship among the Choctaw and the Choctaw Freedmen, 1866-1898
    Jesse Schreier, University of California, Los Angeles
Comment:  Barbara Krauthamer, New York University 

Intermarriage and Mexican Racial Formations in the US West
Chair:  Albert Hurtado, University of Oklahoma 
Paper:  The Cosmic Race in Texas: Intermarriage, White Supremacy, and Civil Rights Politics
    Benjamin Johnson, Southern Methodist University 
Paper: Marrying Out: Mexican Men and Racial Formations in the Old West
    Gabriela Arredondo, University of California, Santa Cruz 
Comment:  Peggy Pascoe, University of Oregon

En/Countering Cultures in the American West during 1950s and 1960s: Self, Group, and Tribe
Chair:  Cathleen Cahill, University of New Mexico 
Paper:  “Our Tribe Don’t Do That”: The Racialized Politics of Manliness among Deeply Committed Hippies in the American West, 1966-1968
    Timothy Hodgdon, Duke University 
Paper:  Esalen’s Countercultural “City on a Hill”: Religious Revitalization in an Age of Science
    Linda Sargent Wood, Arizona State University
Paper:  Revolt of the Guinea Pigs: Authenticity, Encounter Group, and the “Organization Man” in Southern California
    Michael Lumish, Pennsylvania State University 
Comment:  Michael William Doyle, Ball State University

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