CFP: AHA New Orleans Jan 3-6 2013, Native Women at the Frontiers

[Leila Monaghan]

*Drop me a note at Leila.Monaghan at gmail.com if interested, best, Leila*

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*Call for Papers American Historical Association 2013 (New Orleans, Jan
3-6):  The Lives and Stories of Native Women at the Frontiers*



“Did the men ever tell you anything about a woman who fought…on the
Rosebud?"

"No," I replied, wondering.

"Ahh, they do not like to tell of it," she chuckled (Pretty Shield,
Crow[1]<#_ftn1>
)



Frederick Jackson Turner’s influential Frontier Thesis[2]
<#_ftn2>described the implications of Euro-American men moving into
virgin
territory. The territory white settlers moved into, however, was inhabited
by Native men and women. Here the frontier is  “territory or zone of
interpenetration between two previously distinct societies.”[3] <#_ftn3>  This
panel focuses on the lives of the Native women at frontier—those who taught
and learned, those who fought and were sometimes killed, those who
maintained tradition and adapted to new ways.  Their stories shed crucial
light on these interpenetrations of cultures at frontiers. We seek one
paper and a discussant to join a session with papers on Wampanoag and
Mohawk women and girls learning to read and write in Colonial New England
(E. Jennifer Monaghan) and Lakota, Cheyenne, Sioux, and Crow women in the
battles of 19th century West including the Washita Massacre and the Battle
of the Rosebud (Leila Monaghan).  Please contact Leila Monaghan at
Leila.Monaghan at gmail.com by Monday February 6 if you are interested with
proposed paper title and a 100 word abstract or a brief description of your
qualifications as a discussant.





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[1] <#_ftnref1> Linderman, Frank (1972 [1932]) *Pretty Shield: Medicine
Woman of the Crows. *Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, p. 228.

[2] <#_ftnref2> Turner, Frederick Jackson (1977 [1893]) Statement of the
Frontier Thesis. *In *R.A. Billington, ed. *The Frontier Thesis: Valid
Interpretation of American History? *Huntington, NY: Robert Krieger
Publishing, pp. 9-20.

[3] <#_ftnref3> e.g., Thompson, Leonard and Howard Lamar (1981) Comparative
Frontier History. In L. Thompson and H. Lamar (eds) *The Frontier in
History: North America and Southern Africa Compared.* New Haven and London,
p.7.

-- 
Leila Monaghan, PhD
Department of Anthropology
University of Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming