NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2009.
• "Broken Chains of Custody: Possessing, Dispossessing and Repossessing Lost Wampum." Paper presented at the 41st Algonquian Conference at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. October 30, 2009.
•
"Sleeping With the Enemy: Indigenous Informants and American
Anthropologists, circa 1920." Chair, and paper presented for "Ethnographic
Representation and Museums" session. Native American
and Indigenous Studies Conference, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN. May 22, 2009.
• "Lost and Found: Deconstructing Archaeological Constructions of
Indigenous Funerary Objects." Paper presented at the "Indigenous
Materialities and Archaeologial Analysis in the Northeast Woodlands"
session. Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Atlanta,
GA. April 25, 2009.
• "Indigenous Archaeology and Nipmuc History." Discussant for session. "The Ties That Divide: Trade, Conflict
& Borders." Society for Historical Archaeology Conference on
Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
January 11, 2009.
2004.
• "Recovering
Deerfield’s Native History." Invited speaker at the "1704–2004:
Historians of Deerfield Look Back" plenary session. The 10th Annual
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference,at Smith College, Northampton, MA. June 13, 2004.
2003.
• "Walking With the Indian Doctress." Paper presented for the “Issues,
Models, Projects for Tribal Reappropriation of History and Culture in
New England” session. Native American Arts Studies Association
Conference, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. November 8, 2003.
• "Collecting Indians for the Colleges:
Constructing Native Invisibility along the Connecticut River." Paper
presented at the "Decolonizing a Region – New Directions in Researching
and Interpreting the Connecticut River Valley" session. The 5th World
Archaeological Congress, at Catholic University, Washington, DC. June
23, 2003.
• "From Pine Hill to Bark
Wigwams: Reconsidering Historical Memory in the Connecticut River
Valley." Paper presented with Elizabeth Chilton at the "Memory, Power
and the Archaeology of Rural New England" session. The 36th Annual
Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Society for
Historical Archaeology Conference, in Providence, RI. January 16, 2003.
2001.
• "Odzihozo and Amiskwolowakiak:
Algonkian Indian Giants." Paper presented at the Wanapitei Aboriginal
History and Politics Colloquium, Trent University, Ontario, Canada.
September 1, 2001.
• "Mounded Earth and Ancient Memory in the Northern
Netherlands." Paper presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the
Northeastern Anthropological Association, Hartford, CT. March 30, 2001.
2000.
• “Earthshapers and Placemakers: Reconsidering Algonkian Indian Stories
and the Landscape” Paper presented at the “Indigenous Archaeologies”
session. American Anthropology Association, San Francisco, CA. November
17, 2000.
• “Princess, Doctress, Indian Chief: 19th Century
Images of Algonkian Indian Women.” Paper presented for “Representations
of Native American Leaders” panel. Northeast Popular Culture/American
Culture Association Conference, Springfield College, Springfield, MA.
November 3, 2000.
1999.
• "Walking Off the Page: the
Indian Doctor Meets the Yankee Physician." Chair and paper presented at "The Past is Present: Revealing Community Persistence in Museums" session. American Society for Ethnohistory Conference at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, Ledyard, CT. October 21, 1999.
1997.
• "Costuming the Indian Doctress." Paper
presented with Lynne Bassett for "Dressing the Role: Interpreting
History Through Costume." Costume Society of America Conference at Old
Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA. April 27, 1997.
INVITED COLLOQUIA AND SYMPOSIA
(partial list)
2009.
• "Vanishing Indians: Anthropological Acts of Possession and Dispossession in the early 20th Century.” Invited speaker at Smith College, Northampton, MA. November 17, 2009.
• "Indigenous People and the Environment." Chair, symposium at the University of Connecticut at Avery Point, Groton, CT. October 21, 2009.
• "Welcome to Ndakinna." Keynote speaker for Masters Program in International Diplomacy at the School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT. September 1, 2009.
• "Indian Lake is the Scene You Should Make: Emma Camp Mead, Indian Doctor/ Entrepreneur/Activist/Fashion Plate." Invited speaker for Native American History Symposium, Smith College, Northampton, MA. March 5-6, 2009.
• "On Nature's Own Terms: Indigenizing Environmental Relations." Keynote speaker for Masters in Environmental Business Administration Program at Marlboro College, Brattleboro, VT. January 11, 2009.
2008.
• "Algonkian Stories and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge." Invited speaker for Mary Tefft White Cultural Center lecture series at Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI. November 17, 2008.
• "Beaver Coats and Justacorps: 17th Century Indian Fashions in the Connecticut River Valley." Invited speaker for "Western Massachusetts Native American History and Archaeology, circa 1400-1700" symposium. Renaissance Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. November 1, 2008.
• "Questioning the New Public Paradigm: Views on Civic Engagement from
Four Public Disciplines." Invited speaker for Public Anthropology
Roundtable, Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium, at Tufts
University, Medford, MA. April 18, 2008.
• "Engaging Indigenous Critiques: Reconsidering Race, Gender and Politics in
New England Native History." Invited speaker for panel hosted by Native American
Student
Society, Plimoth Plantation, and Harvard University Native American
Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA. February 12,
2008.
2007.
• "Native
People in the Adirondacks: Ancient Places and Hidden Histories."
Invited speaker, as the McLellan Distinguished Visiting Professor in
North Country History and Culture. History Department, State University
of New York, Plattsburgh, NY. April 5, 2007.
• "Maligeet, the Abenaki Doctress."
Invited performance at the "Feminine Folklore and Masculine Myths"
symposium. Department of Folklore and Mythology, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA. February 10, 2007.
2006.
• "Reassembling
Native New England: Taking Responsibility for Scattered Collections."
Invited speaker for "Identity and Community in Native Southern New
England" panel discussion. Institute for American Indian Studies,
Washington, CT. October 28, 2006.
• "Re-colonizing
Methodologies in Writing Pilgrim and Wampanoag History." Invited
speaker for "Telling History: Including Indigenous Voices" panel
discussion. The University of Massachusetts and Plimoth Plantation, at
the University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA. October 10, 2006.
• "Reflections
on the Displaced Native Communities of the Sacandaga and Quabbin River
Valleys." Invited speaker for "Dis-placement and Re-membering: the
Quabbin and Hetch Hetchy Canyon" panel discussion. Mount Holyoke
College Center for the Environment at Mount Holyoke College, South
Hadley, MA. September 28, 2006.
• "Native
Women and Memory." Invited speaker at the "Material Evidence: Women and
the Tangible Past" panel. "Acts of Reconstruction in Artistic,
Political, Social, and Historical Spheres" symposium. Mount Holyoke
Weissman Center at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. May 6, 2006.
2005.
• "Through a Glass Darkly: Collecting Invisible Indians." Invited speaker
at the "Native American Science and Western Science: Possibilities for
a Powerful Collaboration" panel discussion. Physics Department, Amherst
College, Amherst, MA. March 9, 2005.
2004.
• "Native Historical
Erasure and Cultural Recovery in the Connecticut River Valley." Invited
speaker at the "Native Representation in Art, Archaeology, History and
Museums" symposium. The 11th Annual Deerfield-Wellesley Symposium, at
Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA. November 4, 2004.
2003.
• "Abenaki Perspectives on the Deerfield Raid." Invited speaker for "One
Blood: A Contemporary Musical Interpretation as a Commemoration of the
Deerfield Attack on its 300th Anniversary" panel discussion. The Boston
Cantata Singers and the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA.
October 7, 2003.
• "Digging Where We Stand, the Legacy of
Wilder’s Indian Collections." Invited speaker for "Reparations in a
Global and Local Context" symposium. The Kahn Institute, Smith College,
Northampton, MA. March 31, 2003.
• "The Indian Doctor
Meets the Yankee Physician." Invited speaker for “American History
Lectures.” History Department, University of Southern Maine, Portland,
ME. March 13, 2003.
2002.
• "Stories
Connected to Place." Keynote speaker for "Deep Presence: Abenaki Indian
History in the Monadnock Region”"symposium. Monadnock Institute of
Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH.
October 5, 2002.
• "Understanding Abenaki Stories, Language and
Culture." Invited speaker at the "Why Language: Language Issues at the
School for International Training and Beyond" conference. School for
International Training, Brattleboro, VT. March 22, 2002.
2000.
• "Listening to the Ancestors: Connecting Past and
Present." Coordinator and moderator for Five College Native American
Speakers’ Forum. Five College Native American Indian Studies Curriculum
Committee, held at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. September 21, 2000.
1998.
• "Interweaving Indigenous Culture and Academic Traditions."
Coordinator and moderator for Five College Native American Speakers’
Forum. Five College Native American Indian Studies Curriculum Committee
Native American Elders’ Conference, held at Smith College, Northampton,
MA. October 2, 1998.
REGIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(partial list)
2009.
• "Indigenizing a Student Learning Community at
UConn Avery Point." Chair of panel for Integrative
Learning in Practice: Innovative Pedagogy & Course Redesign IX
conference at the Center for Academic Excellence, Fairfield University,
Fairfield, CT. June 5, 2009.
2008.
• "Close Encounters of the Material Kind: Native Transformations of European Trade Goods." Invited speaker for "Realities and Relationships at First Contacts Between the Indigenous Peoples and Europeans." Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, Vergennes, VT. September 25, 2008.
2006.
• "Restoring Parts of Native New England: Thoughts on Scattered Collections." Paper presented for "Archaeology in the Kaleidoscope: Adjusting the Focus." The 26th Annual Conference on New England Archaeology at Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA. May 13, 2006.
2005.
• "Hidden Histories:
Interpreting Native American Indian Artifacts in New England Museums."
Paper presented for "Native American Collections: Old Challenges and
New Solutions" panel, for "Risky Business: Museums in an Ever-Changing
World." The New England Museum Association Annual
Conference, Burlington, MA. November 18, 2005.
• "Schaghticoke Refugees: Resistance and Persistence." Paper presented at the 6th Annual Algonquin Seminar, Native American Institute of the Hudson River Valley, Kinderhook, NY. October 8, 2005.
2004.
• "Native Perspectives: War in the Connecticut River Valley and Beyond." Paper presented at the 9th Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War. Fort Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga, NY. May 23, 2004.
• "Research as Reanimation." Chair, and paper presented at the "Recovering and Reanimating Algonkian Indian Women" plenary session. The 44th Annual Northeast Anthropology Association Conference, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. March 27, 2004.
2003.
• “Walking With the Indian Doctress.” Paper presented at the “Issues, Models, Projects for Tribal Reappropriation of History and Culture in New England” session, Native American Arts Studies Association Conference at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. November 8, 2003.
• "In Search of the Indian Doctress, Rhoda
Rhoades." Paper presented at the 4th Annual Algonquin Seminar. The
Native American Institute of the Hudson River Valley, at the New York
State History Museum, Albany, NY. March 2003.
2002.
• "Hidden Histories - Native Artifacts
in New England Museums." Workshop presented at the "Objects Talk! New
Trends in Material Culture" conference. Bay State Historical Society
Annual Meeting at Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA. June 10, 2002.
2001.
• "Squaw: Algonkian Linguistics,
Colonial Politics" Invited speaker for plenary session. Women’s Studies
Conference, Southeastern University, New Haven, CT. October 12, 2001.
• "The
Role of Storytelling in Northeastern Native America in the 21st
Century." Invited speaker for Algonkian Indian special session. National Storytelling Association
Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI – Featured Speaker. July 13, 2001.
• "Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience." Planning committee and panel chair for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts Conference at Old Sturbridge Village, MA. April 21-22, 2001.
2000.
• "Remembering Adirondack Women." Invited speaker for "Adirondack Women, Hearts and Hands." Adirondack Women’s Conference, Black Crow Network, North Creek, NY. October 27-28, 2000.
• "Thanks for the Memories: Pageants and Pilgrims in the 19th Century." Invited speaker for "Thanks But No Thanks - Mirroring the Myth: Native Perspectives on Thanksgiving" conference. Wampanoag Indian Program, Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, MA. September 9, 2000.
• "Relics
of Forest Life: Costuming the Indian Doctress." Paper presented with Lynne Bassett at the
30th Annual Association of Living History and Farm Museums Conference.
Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT. June 12, 2000.
1999.
• "Walking Out of the Woods: Native Women Telling Stories.” Invited speaker for "Crossing Boundaries: Arts and Social Activism," panel at "What’s Next? American Pluralism and the Civic Culture," National Conference on Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Smith College, Northampton, MA. November 5, 1999.
• "The Indian Doctor Meets the Yankee Physician." Paper presented at "Borders and Bridges in the Americas," Crossroads in the Study of the Americas Conference at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. April 17, 1999.
1998.
• "Kahnawake Portraits in Memorial Hall Museum." Paper presented at the Five College Undergraduate Anthropology Conference, Smith College, Northampton, MA. April 18, 1998.
• "Imagining the Indian: Folklore and History." Paper presented at 29th Annual Perspectives in Children’s Literature Conference. School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. April 10, 1998.
• "Molly Geet, the Indian Doctress." Invited speaker for "Union of Spirits." The 28th Annual Association of Living History and Farm and Agricultural Museums Conference, Deerfield, MA. March 28, 1998
1996.
• "Reliving the Past, Giving Voice to the Present: Playing the Stage Indian as Researcher." Paper presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Conference, Northeastern Chapter, Smith College, Northampton, MA. April 1996.
