# Indigenous Cultures **2004 Annual Seminar** Tuesday, August 3 SESSION 1: Natives on the Margins: The Northeast Chair: **Colin Calloway**, Dartmouth College **Andrew Miller**, Johns Hopkins University “Abenaki-European Relations before 1725: Adaptation, Persistence, or Evolution?” **Daniel R. Mandell**, Truman State University “Indians in Eighteenth-Century Anglo-America: Indigenous Peoples and Racial Proletariat” SESSION 2 Persistence, Slavery, and Gifts in the Southeast Chair: **Colin Calloway**, Dartmouth College **Denise Ileana Bossy**, Yale University “‘A White Eagle Wing and a Yamasee Boy’: Indian Slavery in South Carolina after the Yamasee War, 1721-1732” **Jessica Ross Stern**, Johns Hopkins University “Gifts in Southeastern American Indian and Anglo-American Exchange” Wednesday, August 4 SESSION 3 Myths, Symbols, and Cultural Encounters: Rattlesnakes and Amazons Chair: **Peter Wood**, Duke University **Philip Levy**, University of South Florida “Rattlesnakes and the Competition between Indian and European Fellow Travelers” **Astrid Steverlynck**, Oxford University “The Women of Matininó: Amazons, Exchange, and the Origins of Society” SESSION 4 *Plenary Session* **Peter Wood**, Duke University “Atlantic History on Canvas: A Fresh Look at Winslow Homer's *The Gulf Stream*” Thursday, August 5 SESSION 5 Mexico: Survival and Persistence Chair: **R. Douglas Cope**, Brown University **Andrew B. Fisher**, Carleton College “Primordial Identities Imagined and Contested: Peasant Communities and Memory in the Eighteenth-Century Hot Country of Guerrero, Mexico” **Edward Osowski**, St. Michael's College “Underneath Triumphal Arches: Eighteenth-Century Indigenous Survival in New Spain's Urban Core” Friday, August 6 SESSION 6 Resistance, Negotiation, and Continuity in Mesoamerica Chair: **R. Douglas Cope**, Brown University **Leonardo Hernandez**, SUNY—Oswego “The Periphery of the Periphery: Pre-Atlantic and Atlantic History as Seen from Southeastern Mesoamerica” **Irene Vasquez**, University of California at Los Angeles “From Indigenous to Native Others: The Changing Constructs of Hijos de la Frontera in Eighteenth-Century Northern Mexico” SESSION 7 The Church as Cultural Negotiator: Jesuits and the Inquisition Chair: **Susan Kellogg**, University of Houston **José Gabriel Martínez-Serna**, Southern Methodist University “Instruments of Empire: Jesuit-Indian Encounters in the New World Borderlands” **Patricia Lopes Don**, San José State University “Death of an Aztec: The Inquisition of the Native Leader Don Carlos of Texcoco in Early Mexico, 1539” Saturday, August 7 SESSION 8 Courts and Law: Uses and Re-Uses Chair: **Susan Kellogg**, University of Houston **R. Jovita Baber**, University of Chicago [“Vexatious Outsiders: The Shaping of Colonial Spaces in Tlaxcala, New Spain, 1550-1590”](/Baber-wp04013) **Carmen Alveal**, Johns Hopkins University [“Land, Politics, and Society in Colonial Brazil: A Native Perspective”](/Alveal-wp04014) Monday, August 9 SESSION 9 Appearance and Disappearance in Trinidad and the Danish Caribbean Chair: **David Barry Gaspar**, Duke University **Gunvor Simonsen**, European University Institute “African and African-Caribbean Voices in the Lower Courts of the Danish West Indies” **Maximilian C. Forte**, University College of Cape Breton “Writing the Caribs Out: The Construction and Demystification of the ‘Deserted Island’ Thesis for Trinidad” SESSION 10 The Portuguese in Nigeria and Brazil: Languages and Cultures Chair: **Joseph C. Miller**, University of Virginia **David Aworawo**, University of Lagos [“Cultural Atavism and Adaptation: The Varying Responses to Western Culture in Benin and Warri, 1520”](/Aworawo-wp04017) **Kittiya Lee**, Johns Hopkins University “Among the Vulgar, the Erudite, and the Sacred: The Oral Life of Colonial Amazonia” Tuesday, August 10 SESSION 11 Accommodation and Continuity in the Illinois Country and the Eastern Great Lakes: Prehistory, Cross-Cultural Alliances, and Marriage Chair: **Eric Hinderaker**, University of Utah **Alan G. Shackelford**, Hendrix College “Navigating the Opportunities of New Worlds: The Land of the Illinois in Prehistory, Protohistory, and History” **Heidi Bohaker**, University of Toronto “Contesting the Middle Ground: The Dynamic Tradition of Indigenous Kinship Networks and Cross-Cultural Alliances in North America's Eastern Great Lakes Region, 1600-1700” **Sophie White**, University of Notre Dame “‘Dressed in the French Manner’: Illiniwek Wives of Frenchmen in the Illinois Country during the French Regime”