Thursday, September 12, 2024
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6:00pm – 9:00 PM |
KEYNOTE: Ben Hoy, University of Saskatchewan Reimagining Prairie History Through Games *a presentation followed by an evening of playing Ben Hoy’s original prairie history board game. Louis Loft, 93 Campus Drive University of Saskatchewan Campus Light dinner & Cash Bar |
Friday, September 13, 2024
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8:00 AM 8:15-8:45 AM 8:45-9:30 AM |
Bus pick up at Parktown Hotel Registration Coffee and Pastries provided Greetings from Elders and Hosts |
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Room: Beaver/Deer |
KEYNOTE: Sarah Nickel, University of Alberta Coming Home: Creating Halfway Houses for Indigenous Women in Kanata’s West |
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10:45-11:00 AM HEALTH BREAK |
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11:00-NOON |
Session One |
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Room: Beaver/Deer |
Land-based Histories: Reappraising Ownership of the Prairies Chair: Adele Perry, University of Manitoba Presenters: Sarah Carter, University of Alberta Who owns the prairies? A history of the land, 1871-2021
Jessy Lee Saas, University of Saskatchewan “They Were Often in Our Kitchen”: Indigenous Presence in Saskatchewan Settler Family Memoires, 1880-1910
Cheryl Troupe, University of Saskatchewan Subsistence and Justice: Rethinking Métis Womne's Relationship to the Land |
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Room: Eagle |
Reimagining Identity through Religion in the Twentieth Century Chair: Karissa Patton, University of Edinburgh Presenters: Dasha Guliak, University of Saskatchewan Migrations and Missionaries: A Prairie Woman’s Identity in China, 1919-1972
Bethany Knowles, University of Saskatchewan The “Saint of Science:” Darwin’s Impact on Protestant Leaders in the early Twentieth Century
Zhixi (Jordan) Wang, University of Alberta From Institutional Church to Inner-City Prophet: All People’s Mission and the Social Gospel as Urban Religion in Edmonton, 1908-1975 |
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12:00-12:45 PM LUNCH Lunch is provided |
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12:45-1:45 PM |
Session Two |
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Room: Beaver/Deer |
Race, Activism, Law and the State Chair: Nancy Janovicek, University of Calgary Presenters: Letitia Johnson, University of Victoria Lasting Local Effect: Examining How Japanese Canadian Internment Changed Remote and Rural Medicine in Western Canada
SooBean Kim, University of Calgary “Compassion with realism”: Vietnamese lived experiences and the realities of Canada’s immigration and multiculturalism policies, 1970s-1990s
Suzanne Lenon, University of Lethbridge Exclude, Restrict, Segregate…Resist! A Socio-Legal History of Chinese Laundries in Lethbridge, Alberta - 1893-1911. |
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Room: Eagle |
Women in the Media Chair: Valerie Korinek, University of Saskatchewan Presenters: Maddie Knickerbocker, Kwantlen Polytechnic University “An Awful Lot of Women”: Women’s Words at the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs for the Province of British Columbia, 1913-16
Hanna Fantin, University of Lethbridge Girls Making Media on the Rocking P Ranch
Derek Cameron, University of Saskatchewan Pioneering Anti-vaccination: Exploring Winnipeg as a Hub City for Anti-vaccine Networks |
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Room: Tatanka |
Jewish and Mennonite Settlement on the Prairies Chair: Ryan Eyford, University of Winnipeg Presenters: Sarah Benson, Carleton University Ships, Trains, and Wagons: The Migrations of Three Jewish Families to the Prairie West
Elizabeth Jansen, York University Immigrant Experiences on Indigenous Land: The Mennonites of Namaka Farm
Alex Tepperman, University of Winnipeg Little Shtetl on the Prairie: Crime in Jewish Winnipeg, 1990-2024 |
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1:45-2:00 PM BREAK |
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2:00-3:15 PM |
Session Three |
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Room: Beaver/Deer |
Expanding Rupert’s Land Histories: Locating Enslaved Peoples and Trans-Atlantic Indigenous Families in the Imperial Archive Chair: Tolly Bradford, Concordia University Presenters: Anne Lindsay “The Slave Woman:” Revisiting the story of Thanadelthur
Krista Barclay, University of Toronto Migration and Colonial Categories of Identity: The Finlayson Family in Rupert’s Land and Scotland
Erin Millions, University of Winnipeg Finding ‘Missing’ Indigenous Children in the Imperial Archive: The Case of the Ballenden Family |
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Room: Eagle |
Prairie Legal History Chair: Ben Hoy, University of Saskatchewan Presenters: Max Hamon, University of Northern British Columbia The Case of White Nail’s Murder: Transregional Approaches to History before Western Canada
Kiera Mitchell, University of Saskatchewan “Farm Folk Behind the Bronze Doors: Saskatchewan’s impact on women’s property rights and Rathwell v. Rathwell (1978) in The Supreme Court of Canada”
Charles Smith, University of Saskatchewan “‘Workers in Saskatchewan Now Have a Clear-Cut Bill of Rights’: Labour Law, Social Democracy, and the Saskatchewan Trade Union Act, 1944–1950 |
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Room: Tatanka |
Print Media and the Making of Prairie Communities Chair: Jarvis Brownlie, University of Manitoba Presenters: Hannah Roth Cooley, University of Toronto “the first line of defense”: Indigenous journalism organizations, advocacy, and anti-colonial solidarity building
Shelisa Klassen, University of Alberta “So little is known of this country”: Manitoba Newspapers, Immigration, and Empire in the 1870s
Areej Syed, University of Calgary “We Couldn’t Have Fought Back Alone”: How Newspapers Inked a Community |
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3:15-4:00 PM Discover Wanuskewin 4:00 PM Bus pick up at Wanuskewin and return to Parktown Hotel |
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
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8:30 AM 9:00-9:30 AM |
Bus pick up at Parktown Hotel Coffee and Greetings |
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9:30AM-10:30AM |
Session One |
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Room: Beaver/Deer |
Affirming Indigenous Heritage Sovereignty: Perspectives on Community-Engagement and Relationships in History and Museum Practice Chair: Claire Thomson, Parks Canada Presenters: Stephanie Danyluk, Canadian Museums Association Locating Dissent: Activating Indigenous Sovereignty in Engagement Practices
Frank Royal, Whitecap Dakota First Nation Whitecap Dakota Nation’s History and Heritage Rights
Elizabeth Scott, Western Development Museum A Shared Authority: Practicing Space-Making with Indigenous Partners in a Provincial Museum |
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Room: Eagle |
Developing Relationships in the Fur Trade Era Chair: Shannon Stunden Bower, University of Alberta Presenters: Keiran Leggo-Henderson, University of Saskatchewan Dividing Lines: Navigating Indigenous-Settler Community in Lac La Biche, Alberta, 1853-1930
Tristan Paron, University of Calgary “The Islanders and the Bay.”
Ryan Eyford, University of Winnipeg The First Nations Population of Manitoba in 1870 |
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Room: Tatanka |
Prairie Masculinities: Health, Media, and Politics Chair: Kristine Alexander, University of Lethbridge Presenters: Erin Gallagher-Cohoon, Queen’s University Discipline & Education: Conservative Boyhood in the Alberta Report
Emily Kaliel, University of Guelph “A Remarkable Increase in Vitality”: The Camp Experience and Nutrition Education for Albertan Boys, 1943
Mack Penner, McMaster University Killers of the Calgary School: Hunting, Fishing, and Politics in Southern Alberta |
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10:30-10:45 AM BREAK |
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10:45-11:45AM |
Session Two |
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Room: Beaver/Deer |
Reinterpreting Indigenous-Settler Relations Chair: Erin Millions, University of Winnipeg Presenters: Karen Brglez, University of Manitoba and Claire Thomson, Parks Canada “A Friend of the Canadian Indians”: Reconceiving Relations between Catherine Motherwell and Indigenous Peoples in Saskatchewan
Taryn Goff, University of Saskatchewan “Until the Place Assumed a Prosperous Aspect:” Western Expansionists Vision and Landscape Ideals at Western Canadian Residential Schools, 1884 to 1920
Avery Shtykalo, University of Victoria “Beyond its Threads: The Kokum Scarf as a Symbol of Early and Contemporary Ukrainian-Indigenous Relationships.” |
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Room: Eagle |
Restructuring Regional Economies after the Depression Chair: Rhonda Hinther, Brandon University Presenters: James Naylor, Brandon University Faint Echoes of 1919? Winnipeg after World War II
Brian Payne, Bridgewater State University Gathering at City Council: Debating the Rights of the Poor in Depression-Era Western Canada
Molly Rozum, University of South Dakota A “Sense of Really Belonging to the Community and the Region”: To Gather Settler Colonial Rural Study Groups in Manitoba and South Dakota in the 1940s |
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Room: Tatanka |
Energy and Commodities in Global Markets Chair: Jim Clifford, University of Saskatchewan Presenters: Donica Belisle, University of Regina Violence of History: Helen Fordham Johnson, A Canadian Plantation Wife in Colonial Fiji
Justin Fisher, University of Saskatchewan ‘Low-energy’ and ‘high-energy’ dreams, and the rippling effects of migrating ideas and technologies in Western Canada
Patrick Lee, University of Saskatchewan Planting Eastern European Influence in Saskatchewan Agriculture |
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11:45-12:45 PM LUNCH Lunch is provided |
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12:45-1:45 PM |
Session Three |
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Room: Beaver/Deer |
Archives and Museums: Re-examining the Prairies Chair: Elizabeth Scott, Western Development Museum Presenters: Robyn Jensen, University of Regina Goodbye, Old Country (Viszontlátásra, Régi Orság)
Kristine Alexander, University of Lethbridge and Liam Devitt, Concordia University “Queer Youth Curating Queer History in Southern Alberta”
Rhonda Hinther, Brandon University Public History on the Prairies |
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Room: Eagle |
Migration, War and Medicine Chair: Erika Dyck, University of Saskatchewan Presenters: Heather Stanley, University of Lethbridge Migration to the Asylum: How Rural Women and Families Experienced Madness in British Columbia before World War II
Christine Fiddler, University of Saskatchewan A History of Nēhiyawak (Plains Cree) Traditional Medicine & Healing in Northwest Saskatchewan: 1900-1980
Eric Story, Brock University When Johnny Comes Marching Home: Western Canada’s Homecomings of the Great War, 1915–1919 |
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Room: Tatanka |
Missionary Influence in the Treaty Period Chair: Betsy Jameson, University of Calgary Presenters: Tolly Bradford, Concordia “I promise that I will use my influence to make our efforts a success”: Ahtahkakoop, John Hines, and the Indigenous-missionary relationship before Treaty Six"
Clinton Westman, University of Saskatchewan Reapprasising the mission, ethnology, and theology of Roger Vandersteene, OMI
Jayson Gislason, University of Manitoba Treaty Discussions During Lord Dufferin’s Visit to Roseau and St. Peter’s |
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1:45-2:00 PM BREAK |
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2:00-3:15 PM |
Session Four |
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Room: Beaver/Deer |
Roundtable on Critical Reflections on Reproductive Justice & History: Interdisciplinary Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Activism Facilitator: Carol Williams, University of Lethbridge Presenters: Chloe Crosschild, Iitapiit’saanskiakii, University of Lethbridge Iitsim’kaatsita: Enhancing nursing relations and health-related experiences within a perinatal context for Blackfoot women. Journeying toward transformative reconciliation to foster maternal health equity.
Jennifer Holland, University of Oklahoma “Special Rights” and the “New Dred Scott”: Racial and Sexual Resentments in the Western Social Conservatism
A.J. Lowik, University of Lethbridge Challenging Cisnormativity: Towards a Gender-Inclusive Future of Reproductive Justice, Rights and Health in Western Canada
Karine Coen-Sanchez, University of Ottawa Empowering Voices: Navigating Reproductive Justice in the 21st Century
Karissa Patton, University of Edinburgh Women’s Health in Women’s Hands?: Self-Screening, Cervical Health, and Reproductive Justice in Western Canada (co-authored with Whitney Wood) |
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Room: Eagle |
The Promise and Perils of Water on the Prairies Chair: Geoff Cunfer, University of Saskatchewan Presenters: Jarvis Brownlie, University of Manitoba Seeking Solutions: Displacement, Accountability, and Cree Communications about Northern Manitoba Hydro Dams
Jonathan Hildebrand, University of Manitoba Re-orienting Settler Histories: Mennonite Memory, Mapping, and Indigenous Presence in Southern Manitoba
Shannon Stunden Bower, University of Alberta Irrigate or Migrate: Considering Saskatchewan’s mid-20th Century Efforts to Develop Irrigation amid Farmers’ Determination to Continue with Dryland Agriculture |
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Room: Tatanka |
Rethinking Local Communities Chair: Michel Hogue, Carleton University Presenters: Linda Mahood, University of Guelph “You could smell the rain coming…” Hitchhiking the Prairies in the 1970
Connor Thompson, University of Alberta The Local, the Provincial, the National Pioneer: Portraying Prairie Society in Local Histories, 1945-1976
Harris Ford, University of Saskatchewan Integration Before Isolation: Saskatoon’s Chinese Population in the Early 1900s |
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3:15-3:45 PM Discover Wanuskewin 3:45 PM Bus pick up at Wanuskewin and return to Parktown Hotel |
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Saturday September 14, 2024 – BANQUET Celebrating Sarah Carter (ticketed event)
Delta Bessborough Hotel, 601 Spadina Crescent
5:30 PM Cocktails
6:30 PM Dinner Buffet with Cash Bar
7:15 PM Program
Sunday, September 15, 2024
10:00 AM Optional Tours:
Western Development Museum (ticketed event)
Gabriel Dumont Institute Métis Museum (ticketed event)
1:00 PM-4:00 PM Métis Beading Workshop at Gabriel Dumont Institute (ticketed event)