Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group

Selected Sponsored sessions,
Association of American Geographers
2002 Annual Meeting,
Los Angeles: March 19 - March 23

 


 

Indigenous Geography I: Representation & Identity

Organiser: Steven Silvern, Mount Holyoke College

Chair: Steven Silvern, Mount Holyoke College

Presenters:

Gundars Rudzitis & Aimee Shipman:
The Social Construction of Local Racist Discourses and Resource Conflicts on the Nez Perce Reservation.
Abstract.

Evelyn Peters and Kathleen Wilson:
Renegotiating the Boundaries of Cultural Identities: Exploring the Struggles of Urban First Nations peoples in Canada.
Abstract.

Rosa de la Fuente:
Mapping the indigenous resistance in Chiapas.
Abstract.

Gwendolin McCrea, University of Minnesota:
Displacement, Mobility, Diaspora and Indigenous Peoples, Or, Rootedness Might Not Mean What You Think It Means.
Abstract.

Steven E. Silvern, Mount Holyoke College:
Place Names and the Politics of Indigenous Identities.
Abstract.


 

Indigenous Geography II: Borders, Territories and Identities

Organizer: Joan Kendall, Kutztown State University

Chair: Joan Kendall, Kutztown State University

Presenters:

Soren C. Larsen, The University of Kansas:
Political Borders, Ethnic Relations, and Regional Identity in Northern British Columbia.
Abstract

Ken Madsen, Arizona State University:
Many Nations, Divided: Native American Tribes Along U.S. Borders.
Abstract

Frank Shockey, University of Minnesota:
The Legal Evolution of American Indian Reservations as Discrete Polities.
Abstract

Douglas Deur:
The Contested Spaces of Iwamkani: The Resource Site as Cross-Cultural Locus.
Abstract

Joan Kendall, Kutztown State University:
With Friends Like This...The Pennsylvania Lenni Lenape's Struggle for State Recognition.
Abstract


Indigenous Geography III: Imag(in)ing Identities

Organizer: RDK Herman, Towson University

Chair: Rebecca Dobbs, University of North Carolina

Presenters:

Leo Zonn, University of North Carolina, and
Dick Winchell, Eastern Washington University:
Urban Indian landscapes from the documentary film "The Exiles".
Abstract

Wendy Shaw, The University of New South Wales:
I'm Dreaming of a White ... [postcolonial city].
Abstract

Matthew D. Mason, University of Memphis
Native in the Frame: Viewing the Ho-Chunk Nation (HoChunkgra Wazijaci) in the Studio Portraiture of Charles J. Van Schaick in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1870-1930.
Abstract

Richard Howitt, Macquarie University, Australia
The Dreaming, power and indigenous rights: challenging the 'heart of darkness' in Australia's postcolonial geographical imaginaries.
Abstract

Chris Gibson, The University of New South Wales:
Indigenous cultural industry development in remote Australia.
Abstract


 

Indigenous Geography IV: Resources, Practices, and Identities

Organizer: RDK Herman, Towson University

Chair: Kenneth Madsen, Arizona State University

Presenters:

Malcolm Comeaux, Arizona State University:
A Death Among the Pima.
Abstract

Laura Hansen Smith, University of Minnesota:
Promoting American Indian Land Management Goals with GIS
Abstract

Zoltan Grossman, University of Wisconsin, Madison:
Effects of White Privilege on Interracial Environmental Alliances.
Abstract

Nick Kohler, University of Oregon:
Protected Areas and village landscapes: Using (abusing) spatial technology for conservation in mainland Southeast Asia
Abstract

Diana Hershey, University of California Davis:
Indigenous People Re-defining Themselves: The Case of the Scott's Valley Pomo
Abstract


 

Indigenous Geography V: Indigenous Voices, Perspectives, and Issues from the Pacific - Displacement/Replacement

Organizer: Renee Louis, University of Hawai'i

Chair: Carlos Andrade, University of Hawai'i

Presenters:

Brian Murton, University of Hawai'i / Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki Research Unit:
The Textual Displacement of Maori in Early Colonial Northern Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Abstract

Jay Johnson, University of Hawai'i:
Bicultural Resource Management and Maori Self-determination.
Abstract

Albertus Pramono, University of Hawai'i:
A Review of Counter Mapping in the Pacific Rim.
Abstract

Kali Fermantez, University of Hawai'i:
Post-Colonial Cannibalism: the travails of the Ni'ihau Punana Leo on Kaua'i.
Abstract

RDK Herman, Towson University:
Pacific Worlds: Re-presenting Indigenous Geographies in the Pacific Islands.
Abstract


 

Indigenous Geography VI: Indigenous Voices, Perspectives, and Issues from the Pacific - Contested Spaces, Places, Rights, and Identity

Organizer: Renee Louis, University of Hawai'i

Chair: Jay Johnson, University of Hawai'i

Presenters:

F. L. (Rick) Bein, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis:
Reconnecting with Tribal Elders Remembering Environmental Traditions and Lore in Papua New Guinea.
Abstract

Anna Naupa, University of Hawai'i:
Social Consequences of a modern political system on traditional land tenure in peri-urban areas, Port Vila, Vanuatu
Abstract not available.

Williams Ganileo, University of Hawai'i:
Traditional land ownership and a modern political system in North Pentecost, Republic of Vanuatu.
Abstract.

Carlos Andrade, University of Hawai'i:
Ha'ena Ahupua'a
Abstract

Camille Kalama, University of Hawai'i:
Ku`e: the Native Hawaiian Gathering Rights Issue.
Abstract


Indigenous Geography VII: Indigenous Identity and Modernity
Panel Discussion

Organizer: RDK Herman, Towson University.

Panelists:

RDK Herman, (Chair)
Towson University

Carlos L. Andrade
The University of Hawai‘i

Wendy Shaw
The University of New South Wales

Richard L. Howitt
Macquarie University - Sydney

Chris R. Gibson
The University of New South Wales

Brian J. Murton
The University of Hawai‘


 

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