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The Pacific Northwest Borderlands

Seattle, March 6, 2010

Where and when

Saturday, March 6, 2010, 8:15am – 5:30pm:
Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI)
2700 24th Ave. East (call 206-324-1126 for directions)
free parking
Join us for a day long conference exploring the Pacific Northwest Borderlands.

Saturday Conference Program
8:15 am	Registration
9:00 am	Welcome Address: Jon Olivera, Conference Coordinator - "The Pacific Northwest as Borderland and the Borders of Practice in History"
9:30 am	Shaping the Frontier, Making Civil Society: Women in the Northwest:
	Karen Haas, Public Historian, “Narcissa Whitman: Lady at the Crossroads”
	Shanna Stevenson, Coordinator of the Washington Women’s History Consortium, “Here Come the Suffragists: The Role of the Mercer Girls in the Washington Woman Suffrage Movement”
	Sharing Space, Constructing Habitats: The Human-Animal Interface:
	Fred Brown, Candidate in History, University of Washington, “The Human-Animal Borderlands in Seattle”
	Luci J. Baker, Freelance Writer and Historian, “The Reindeer Expedition: Missionaries, Teachers, Reindeer Herders, Government Officials, and Indigenous Peoples of Alaska, 1890-1900”
10:30 am	Workers, Unions, and Labor in the Northwest:
	Steven C. Beda, Candidate in History, University of Washington, “Our Bosses are the Same on Both Sides of the Border, So why Not Our Unions?”:Rethinking the 49th Parallel in the History of Northwestern Woodworker Unionism”
	Maria Quintana, PhD Student, History, University of Washington; and Oscar Rosales-Castaneda, Writer, Scholar, Activist, “Farm Workers In Washington State History Project”
	Ken House, Archivist, National Archives and Records Administration, “A New Paul Bunyan In the Woods: Weyerhauser’s Japanese-American Workforce, 1917-1942”
12:00 pm	Lunch- “Race, Wars, and State Power Across the Pacific Professor", Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington
1:30 pm	Native Settler Negotiations:
	Josh Reid, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Boston, “The Power of Wickanannish Ends Here”: Indigenous Marine Borderlands in the Late-Eighteenth Century
	Drew Crooks, Museologist, “Murder at Butler Cove”
	John Jackson, Public Historian, “Children of the Fur Trade: The Forgotten Metis of the Pacific Northwest”
	Robert Foxcurran, Procurement Agent and Project Historian for Boeing (retired), “Washington Territory’s Frenchtowns and Relocation to the Reservations”
	Trans-Pacific Connections:
	Joe Bernardo, PhD Student, History, University of Washington, “Emory Bogardus and His Brown Disciples: Filipino American’s ‘Benevolent Assimilation’ to the United States”
	Nathan Roberts, Candidate in History, University of Washington, “Imperial Forestry, National Forests: U.S. Forest Policy in the Pacific Northwest and the Philippines, 1898-1919”
	Robert Ketcherside, Independent Scholar, “Missiles of Peace”
	Junius Rochester, Independent Scholar, Radio Personality on KUOW-FM, “The Kanaka Connection: Pacific Islanders in the Northwest”
3:15 pm	Traders, Smugglers, Commodities and Contraband: Business in the Borderlands:
	Bennet Bronson and Chumei Ho, Chinese in Northwest America Research Committee, “The 19th Century Opium Trade in the Pacific Northwest”
	Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg, Independent Scholar (paper presented by Michael Eulenberg), “Borders, Boundaries and Jewish Merchants”
	Trish Hackett Nicola, Independent Scholar, Family Historian, “Halcyon: The Notorious Smuggling Schooner”
4:30 pm	Light Refreshments

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