Conference Program

FRIDAY APRIL 17

Ponce de León Hall, Flagler College
74 King Street

Registration
Opens at 8:30am Ponce de León Hall Rotunda

Session I, Yamasee Origins
9-10:30am Flagler Room

Chair and Discussant: John E. Worth, University of West Florida

Amy Turner Bushnell, Brown University
“Living at Liberty”: The Ungovernable Yamasees of Spanish Florida”

Keith Ashley, University of North Florida
“The Archaeology of Yamasees in Northeast Florida”

Eric C. Poplin, Brockington & Associates and Jon Bernard Marcoux, Salve Regina University
“Altamaha Ceramics in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Comparing Yamasee Indian Occupations in Coastal Georgia and Coastal South Carolina”

Coffee Break
10:30-11am President's Dining Room

Session II, Yamasees in South Carolina
11am-12:30pm Flagler Room

Chair and Discussant: Charles Cobb, University of Florida

Chester B. DePratter, S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina
“Yamasee Settlements in South Carolina: From Port Royal Sound to the Ashepoo and Combahee Rivers”

William L. Ramsey, Lander University
“Ethnicity and the Yamasee Polity in Peace and War”

Alex Sweeney, Brockington and Associates
“The Yamasee Capitals of South Carolina: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Research at Pocotaligo and Altamaha Town”

Lunch 12:30-2:15pm
Open

Session III, Yamasees Networks
2:15-4:15pm Flagler Room
Chair and Discussant: Alan Gallay, Texas Christian University

Jane G. Landers, Vanderbilt University
“Yamasee Relations with Africans in Carolina and Florida”

Steve C. Hahn, St. Olaf College
“The Long Yamasee War: Reflections on Yamasee Conflict in the Eighteenth Century”

Denise I. Bossy, University of North Florida
“Invisible Indians: Yamasee Indians and Strategic Diaspora”

SATURDAY APRIL 18

Ponce de León HallPonce de León HallPonce de León Hall, Flagler College
74 King Street

Registration
Opens at 9:30am Ponce de León Hall Rotunda

Coffee and Conversation
9:30-10:15am President's Dining Room

Session IV, Yamasees in St. Augustine
10:15am-12:15pm Flagler Room

Chair and Discussant: Gifford Waters, Florida Museum of Natural History

Susan Parker, St. Augustine Historical Society
“Chief Francisco Jospo: Reconstructing a Yamasee Family through Spanish Records”

Amanda Hall, University of North Florida
“Pocotalaca: Recreating an 18th Century Yamasee Refugee Mission Village in St. Augustine, Florida, 1717-1752”

Andrea Paige White, University of New Orleans
“Archaeological Manifestations of Community Stress and Resiliency at la Punta, a Post-War site in St. Augustine”

Carl D. Halbirt, City of St. Augustine
“Back Under the Spanish Fold: 18th Century Yamasee Mission Sites in St. Augustine, Florida”

Concluding Remarks
12:15-12:30pm Flagler Room