Hey Western History Association, come join me in Fremont (Mezzanine North) to talk about incorporating the American West into the 250th anniversary of the US in the current political, social, and economic environment. How do we engage and partner with greater publics? #WHA2024

Western History Association if you are still in the area, come to Ballroom B (exhibit level) for the Presidential Plenary on “The Black West”. In the opening question, the panel is asked what the sub field of the Black West was like when they entered the field #WHA2024

Panelists discuss how the American South & West as both places & processes can’t be separated & should not be separated. Panelists push attendants to rethink of the West as not just a space of escape but as a landscape of bondage, labor, creation, & promise Western History Association #WHA2024

Eric Biome problematizes the idea of western wilderness and the false dichotomy of humans & their environment. He also highlights how environmental groups target abs erase Native cultural lifeways in the Rio Colorado Delta Western History Association #WHA2024 Benton B

Good morning Western History Association, come join me in Benton B for the "Murky Water" panel to talk about water rights in the US-Mexico Borderlands. Benny Andres Jr. talks about how complex cycles Salton Sea flooding & evaporation shaped community land claims & federal oversight. #WHA2024

Benny Andres Jr. shares how he front loads historical contexts in conversations with journalists who increasingly seek his comments on increased environmental crisis in the Imperial and Mexicali Valley. Western History Association #WHA2024

Heather Ponchetti Daly shares how Native communities in Southern California still await promised water access & storage guarantees made by the US federal government that are still “in process” even 100 years after they were made. Western History Association #WHA2024

Hey Western History Association come join me in Benton B to learn about Indigenous land and water rights in the North American west. Today I presented a look at the settler colonial origins in early 19th century Sonora & the targeting of Indigenous lifeways and water power #WHA2024

Zara Ballew (University of Wisconsin-Madison) continues our discussion by sharing the Pokagon Band of the Potawatomi’s entrenched legal and sovereignty battle over Chicago’s lakefront in the early 19th century Western History Association #WHA2024 Benton B

We are still going strong in Benton B as Rishna Johal shows how South Asians became implicated in Washington’s settler colonial project & intentionally used in the subjugation of Indigenous communities as South Asian undercut Indigenous labor power. Western History Association #WHA2024

Yutong Zhan brings us home as she centers Chinese and Indigenous relationships that built the rice industry in Hawaii against the backdrop of settler colonial ambitions throughout the 19th century Western History Association #WHA2024 Benton B