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Schedule

Friday, May 22, 2009: Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auditorium

8:30 – 9:00 am                  Registration and Coffee

9:00 – 9:15 am                  Welcome

Dean Anna Gramberg, College of Liberal Arts

9:15 – 9:45 am                  A Deliberate Passion: Creating and Commemorating the First National Park in Alabama

Marianne Mills, Superintendent, Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

9:45 – 10:15 am                Thinking Outside the Circle: Tecumseh’s 1811 Mission

Gregory Dowd, University of Michigan

10:15 – 10:30 am              Discussion

10:30 – 10:45 am              Break

10:45 - 11:15 am               The Battle of Burnt Corn

Robert Collins, Auburn University

11:15 – 11:45 am             "Dancing with the Red Sticks": Creek War Ritual and Practice

Kathryn H. Braund, Auburn University

11:45 – 12:00 pm              Discussion

12:00 – 1:00 pm                Lunch at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art

1:00 – 1:30 pm                  Before Horseshoe: Jackson’s Campaigns in the Creek War Prior to Horseshoe Bend

Tom Kanon, Tennessee State Library and Archives

1:30 – 2:00 pm                  Cherokee Warriors at the Horseshoe:  Changes, Challenges, and 

Conflicts in the Creek War

Susan Abram, Western Carolina University

2:00 – 2:30 pm                  Ft. Jackson and Aftermath

Gregory Waselkov, University of South Alabama

2:30 – 2:45 pm                  Discussion

2:45 – 3:15 pm                  Break

3:15 – 3:45 pm                  “We Bleed Our Enemies in Such Cases to Give Them Their Senses’:  Americans’ 

                                          Unrelenting Wars on the Indians of the Transappalachian West, 1810-1814”

                                          John Grenier, Norwich University

3:45 – 4:15 pm                 “Where All Behaved Well”: Fort Bowyer and the War on the Gulf, 1814-1815

David Heidler, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Jeanne Heidler, United States Air Force Academy

4:15 – 4:30 pm                 Discussion

Saturday, May 23, 2009: Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auditorium

8:30 – 9:00 am                  Registration and Coffee

9:00 – 9:15 am                  Welcome

Jay Lamar, Director, Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities

9:15 – 9:45 am                 The Creek War: A Western Perspective

Ted Isham, Creek Council House Museum

9:45 – 10:15 am               The Creek War: A Modern Creek Perspective

Robert Thrower, Poarch Band of Creek Indians

10:15 – 10:30 am              Discussion

10:30 – 10:45 am              Break

10:45 – 11:15 am              Archaeology and the Creek War in Alabama: The Creeks and Their Allies

Craig Sheldon, Auburn University Montgomery

11:15 - 11:45 am               Digging Twice: Archaeology and Military Sites of the Era

Jim Parker, Ft. Toulouse - Ft. Jackson State Historic Site

11:45 – 12:00 pm              Discussion

12:00 – 1:00 pm                Lunch at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art

1:00 pm                             Travel on your own to Horseshoe Bend (maps provided)

2:00 pm                             Horseshoe Bend Military Park Tour (Will begin in Welcome Center.)

"And Then Commenced the Work of Destruction": Horseshoe Bend

Ove Jensen, Horseshoe Bend National Military Park Ranger