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Colin Calloway, “Sir William Johnson, Highland Scots, and American Indians”
Author of The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (2006), First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (1999; 3rd edition, 2007); New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (1997); The American Revolution in Indian Country (1995) and others
Colin G. Calloway received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Leeds in England. He has taught at the College of Ripon and York St. John in England, at Springfield High School in Vermont, and at the University of Wyoming. He has also served as editor/assistant director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago. At Dartmouth College, he is Professor of History and Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies. He is serving his fourth consecutive three-year term as chair of the Native American Studies Program.
His books include: The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (2006), which won the Distinguished Book Award of the Society of Colonial Wars of the State of New York; One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (2003), which won six “best book” awards; First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (1999; 2nd edition 2004; 3rd edition, 2007); New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (1997); The American Revolution in Indian Country (1995), nominated for a Pulitzer prize; The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800 (1990) and Crown and Calumet: British-Indian Relations, 1783-1815 (1987).
He has also edited several collections of essays and documents, including Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience (2004) Germans and Indians (2002); After King Philip’s War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England (1997); Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost (1996); The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America (1994), and New Directions in American Indian History (1987). He is currently the Series Editor of Penguin Library of American Indian History
He has been given awards by the Missisquoi Nation of Abenakis and the Native American Students at Dartmouth. He has just finished a book examining the experiences of Highland Scots and American Indians in dealing with colonialism and each other.
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Fintan O’ Toole
Author of White Savage: William Johnson & the Invention of America (2005)
Fintan O'Toole, columnist and drama critic for the Irish Times, is the author of seven books, including A Traitor's Kiss (FSG, 1998). His provocative new biography of the man who forged America's alliance with the Iroquois, White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America, was published in 2005. His work frequently appears in a number of American magazines. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.
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Timothy Shannon, “Development of European-Indian Relations in the Mohawk Valley, c. 1730-1770”
Author of Indians & Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: Albany Congress of 1754, “Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson & the Indian Fashion”
Timothy Shannon received his doctorate in history from Northwestern University and has been teaching at Gettysburg College since 1996. His research focuses on European-Indian relations in early America. His publications include Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 (2000), Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America (2003) and Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian Fashion in The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol. 53, No. 1, Material Culture in Early America (Jan., 1996). He has appeared on the History Channel as a guest commentator on the films The Patriot, Dances with Wolves, and King Arthur.
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Alan Taylor
Author of The Divided Ground : Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (2005)
Born in Portland, Maine on June 17,1955, Alan Taylor attended Colby College, graduating in 1977. After serving as a researcher for historic preservation in the United States Virgin Islands (1977-79), he pursued graduate study at Brandeis University, receiving his Ph.d in American History in 1986. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Virginia), he taught in the history department at Boston University from 1987 to 1994. Since 1994, he has been a professor at the University of California at Davis, where he teaches courses in early American history, the history of the American West, and the history of Canada.
He is also active in the History Project at UCDavis. This project provides curriculum support for K-12 teachers in history and social studies. In 2002 he won the University of California at Davis Award for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement and the Phi Beta Kappa, Northern California Association, Teaching Excellence Award.
Taylor is the author of five books: Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990); William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early Republic, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995); American Colonies (New York: Viking-Penguin, 2001); Writing Early American History (2005); and The Divided Ground (2006). He is also a contributing editor for The New Republic and reviews books for that journal.
William Cooper’s Town won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for American history - in addition to the Bancroft and Beveridge prizes. American Colonies won the 2001 Gold Medal for Non-Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California. His next book project, “The Civil War of 1812" will examine the political rupture of North America effected by conflict between the American republic and the British Empire.
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William J. Campbell, Ph.D.
William Campbell has just received his Ph.D. in History from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. He earned a Hons. BA in History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada in 2000. 2006-2007. He was Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, VA, Visiting Research Associate, McNeil Centre for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 2005/2006.
Research Associate, Royal Ontario Museum, Department of Anthropology, Toronto, ON. 2004/2005. Among his publications are “Seth Newhouse, the Grand River Six Nations and the Writing of the Great Laws” Ontario History, Vol. XCVI, No. 2, Autumn 2004 and (Contributor) “James Gadsden” in Treaties of Native Americans (ABC-CLIO, In Print. Expected Spring 2007).
Thomas L. Nesbitt, P.L.S.
Thomas Nesbitt has worked as a Land Surveyor for thirty years. He obtained a BA degree in American History from SUNY Oneonta and his Land Surveyor’s license in 1990. Much of his professional career has been spent working in the southeastern Adirondacks of Warren County. He has also worked at the Crown Point State Historic Site, Fort William Henry and Fort Ticonderoga, having the responsibility of providing historic programs to visitors.
Recently Mr. Nesbitt completed two research and mapping projects for the National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program that included a survey of American Revolution Battlefields and the Military Road from Fort Edward to Lake George. He is presently writing a chapter for the Warren County History to be published in 2008 and has delivered several lectures about the French and Indian War in the Glens Falls area during the last two years. Mr. Nesbitt has been interested in the French and Indian War most of his life, having grown up in the Glens Falls – Lake George area. Since 1969 he has been actively involved as a reenactor of colonial era British military units. He is presently serving as the NYS Assembly Minority appointee on the NYS French and Indian War 250th Anniversary Commemoration Commission and has been Secretary of the Commission since 2005.
Noel Levee
Noel S. Levee has been the city of Johnstown Historian since 1995 and has been on the Board of Managers of the Johnstown Historical Society since 1987. He has been involved with the French and Indian and Revolutionary War living history since 1983 and was a Co-Founder of the Burning of the Valleys Military Association. His areas of research include 18th and 19th Century local history.
Thomas S. Abler, Ph.D.
Thomas S. Abler is professor of anthropology at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. He is author (with Elisabeth Tooker) of the article “Seneca” in volume 15 of the Handbook of North American Indians (Smithsonian, 1978). He is the author or co-author of the following books: A Canadian Indian Bibliography 1960-1970 (University of Toronto Press, 1974); Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake (University of Nebraska Press, 1989, paperback edition 2004); Hinterland Warriors and Military Dress: European Empires and Exotic Uniforms (Berg, 1999); and Cornplanter: Chief Warrior of the Allegany Senecas (Syracuse University Press, 2007). With Arthur Einhorn he has published “Tattooed Bodies and Severed Auricles: Images of Native American Body Modification in the Art of Benjamin West,” American Indian Art Magazine 23 (4):42-53, 116-117 and “Bonnets, Plumes, and Headbands in West's Painting of Penn's Treaty,” American Indian Art Magazine 21 (3):44-53.
Arthur Einhorn
Arthur Einhorn has had a life-long interest in the indigenous peoples of the United States as well as the Caribbean and further afield. Formerly director of the Lewis County (NY) Historical Society & Museum, a Lewis County Historian, Chair of the History Department at Lowville Academy, he was also an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Jefferson Community College (Watertown, NY) and Associate Director for an Institute on Indians in Higher Education at St. Lawrence University (Canton, NY). In 1974 Arthur was elected as a Fellow in the American Anthropological Association.
Arthur Einhorn’s fieldwork, spanning a half-century among Amerindians, has taken him to the Cree and Algonquin of the Sub-Arctic under the aegis of the Canadian National Museum, and all the way to visiting the Carib people of Dominica in the Eastern Caribbean. His major work, however, has been with the Iroquoian peoples of New York and Canada. During the early 1970’s he was a consultant to the New York State Assembly Sub-Committee on Indian Affairs relating to laws for protecting Indian burials from collectors. His ethnohistoric research over the years has uncovered unexpected links during the colonial period between Amerindians of Northeast North America and the Caribbean. Amongst his other research interests has been a devotion to indigenous traditional technology, with the aim of fostering its revival and maintenance. Arthur’s publications have appeared in major journals, including the Encyclopedia of Anthropology, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, the American Indian Art Magazine, and most recently in the Encyclopedia of New York State. Originally a native of New York City, he graduated from the High School of Music & Art and took degrees from SUNY-Plattsburgh and the University of Buffalo. Although officially retired now, he continues research and publishing while occasionally presenting papers at professional conferences
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George R. Hamell
George Hamell is the recently retired Ethnology Collections Manager at the New York State Museum. Among his publications are “The Iroquois and the World's Rim: Speculations on Color, Culture, and Contact” in Archaeology of the Iroquois: Selected Readings & Research Sources, edited by J.E. Kerber, Syracus University Press (2007), “A New Perspective on Indian-White Contact: Cultural Symbols and Colonial Trade” (with C. L. Miller) in American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850, edited by P. C. Marshall, and J. H Merrell, Routledge, London, 2000, “Mohawks Abroad: The 1764 Amsterdam Etching of Sychnecta” in Indians and Europe: An Interdisciplinary Collections of Essays, edited by C. F. Feest. Editions Herodot, Rader-Verlag, Aachen, Germany, 1987. He also authored with W. Rogers the 2001 technical report, A Mohawk Iroquois Village: A Virtual Exhibit at the New York State Museum. New York State Museum, Albany, NY. www.nysm.nysed.gov/IroquoisVillage/
G. Peter Jemison
G. Peter Jemison is a Native American [Seneca] artist whose paintings, works on paper, mixed media, and video represent elements in the natural world in various contexts that echo the symbolic power in indigenous culture. He is known for his unique paintings, drawings, paper bag series, and innovative video work. He is also the Director of the Ganondagan State Historic Site in Victor, NY, a site is dedicated to the history, culture and continued development of the Seneca people. www.ganondagan.org He also serves as Indian Tribe/Native Hawaiian Representative Member of Federal Advisory Council On Historic Preservation (ACHP) and former Board Member at Large of Association Of American Museums (AAM).
Educated in Art Education at University of Siena, Siena, Italy, and Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY, he holds an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from SUNY Buffalo, NY. Among his many exhibitions, awards & publications, he co-edited with Anna M. Schein, Treaty of Canandaigua 1794, 200 Years of Treaty Relations between the Iroquois Confederacy and the United States (2000) and The Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art, ed. W. S. Penn
(1996)
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Geoffrey Harding
A native of Western New York, artist Geoffrey Harding has long been fascinated with the history and lore of the Eastern Woodland Indians, especially the Iroquois. Growing up in the shadows of Fort Niagara exposed him to the history and intrigue of the 18th century and inspired him to create a reflection of a now vanished way of life. Self-motivated and self-directed, Harding began to draw and paint at a very young age and has developed a uniquely personal style in the years he has dedicated to creating his art. His paintings have been long sought after by collectors and cover art for numerous publications and book covers.
Wanda Burch
Wanda Burch has been Site Manager at the Johnson Hall State Historic Site in Johnstown, NY since 1974, under the New York State Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation. Her education includes a BA in British history with advanced study at Lincoln College, Oxford University, and at Penn State University; and an MA in history museum management from the Cooperstown Graduate Programs. Prior to 1974 she held positions as registrar/gallery
teacher at the Arkansas Arts Center and curator of history at the
Arkansas Territorial Restoration, both in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has served on numerous boards relating to history and community planning and currently serves on the Town of Glen Planning Board. She is the author of articles on 18th century medicine and healing and on Sir William Johnson's private collection of curiosities at Johnson Hall in the 18th century.
Cynthia G. Falk, Ph.D.
Cynthia G. Falk is Associate Professor at the Cooperstown Graduate Program, a masters degree program in museum studies jointly sponsored by the State University of New York College at Oneonta and the New York State Historical Association. Falk is the author of the forthcoming book Architecture and Artifacts of the Pennsylvania Germans: Constructing Identity in Early America, published by Penn State University Press. Her articles have appeared in Winterthur Portfolio, American Studies, New York History, Pennsylvania History, and The Magazine Antiques. She is currently working on projects about New Yorks Palatine population and agricultural buildings in New York State.
rDavid Preston, Ph.D.
David L. Preston is assistant professor of history at The Citadel, in Charleston, S.C., where he teaches early American history and American Indian history. He is completing a book manuscript, The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler Communities on the Iroquoian Borderlands, 1720-1790, under contract with the University of Nebraska Press. He is the author of "George Klock, the Canajoharie Mohawks, and the Good Ship Sir William Johnson: Land, Legitimacy, and Community in the Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Valley," New York History (2005) and "Squatters, Indians, Proprietary Government, and Land in the Susquehanna Valley," in Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania (2004), edited by Daniel Richter and William Pencak.
Rick Hill (Tuscarora)
Rick Hill is an artist, writer and curator who lives at the Six Nations Community of the Grand River Territory. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received a Master of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has been involved in numerous North American cultural associations such as the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers Association in Hamilton, Ontario; the North American Indian Museum Association; and the Native American Centre for the Living Arts in Niagara Falls, NY. Formerly he served as the Manager of the Indian Art Centre, Ottawa, Ontario; Director of the Indian Museum at the Institute of American Arts in Santa Fe, NM; and the Assistant Director for Public Programs at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; and Manager of the Haudenosaunee Resource Center. He has organized many exhibitions on Native art and history, and has exhibited his own art work in Canada and the United States. Currently he is the Coordinator for the Joint Stewardship Board at Six Nations to develop an environmental interpretation centre and is the manager of the Six Nations Virtual Archives Project.
Paul Williams, Esq. (Onondaga)
Paul Williams, from Ohsweken, Ontario, is counsel to the Six Nations in the Grand Rivers Territory. He is a graduate of SUNY Buffalo Law School, where his thesis was “The Covenant Chain: The General Council of the Six Nations, and the Delegates from different Bands in Western and Eastern Canada, June 10, 1870 (1982).
Dan Roronhiake:wen Longboat, (Mohawk)
Roronhiake:wen, ”He Clears the Sky”, of the Turtle Clan of the Mohawk Nation, a Citizen of the Haudenosaunee; The Six Nations Confederacy from Ohswe:ken, at the Grand River Territory. Longboat earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Native Studies, with an interest in Psychology from Trent University. He received with distinction, a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies from York University and is currently completing a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies at York University, in Toronto.
Recent past professional employment includes Aboriginal Policy and Project Advisor for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Board member of the Premier’s Roundtable Council on the Economy and Environment. As Project Co-ordinator, he developed Trent University’s Indigenous Environmental Studies Program. He was the Conference Co-ordinator for the Haudenosaunee Search Conference, Chair for the Haudenosaunee University Planning Committee, and has presented at numerous conferences. Longboat’s strong commitment to Indigenous communities is evident in his involvement as a Director for the Rotinonhson:ni Language Development Centre, Director of The Indigenous Nation’s Sanctioned Research Program for Graduate Studies, Consultant to The Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation on First Nations Solid Waste Management and as Project Evaluator for the Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment for the US Environmental Protection Agency. Currently, he serves on The Advisory Board for the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, First Nations Technical Institute’s Indigenous Health and Environment Program, The Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force. He is currently an Assistant Professor and Director for the Indigenous Environmental Studies Program at Trent University.
SYMPOSIUM UPDATES:
Oren Lyons will be at an Indigenous Peoples Conference in Sweden in October and is unable to attend. His place on Sunday’s Haudensaunee panel will be taken by Dan Longboat (Mohawk), Assistant Professor & Director of the Indigenous Environmental Studies Program at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Enhance your symposium experience
Register for an optional conference package that enables you to attend a pre-symposium reception at Johnson Hall State Historic Site on Friday night and includes a box lunch on Saturday, a printed copy of all symposium presentations, guaranteed theater seating (up to 15 minutes before opening) and a special conference bag – all for $45.00. Pre-registration for this package is required. Use attached form.
Enjoy an 18th Century Dinner
A limited number of tickets are available for an 18th Century Dinner at Union Hall in Johnstown, Saturday Oct 20, 7:30-9:00 pm. Eighteenth century attire is optional. Menu will feature local specialties typical of Sir William Johnson’s hospitality. $35 per person. Pre-registration is required. Use attached form.