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October 31, 2008

Carpenter to present paper at American Society for Ethnohistory national meeting

Dr. Roger Carpenter, assistant professor of history at the University of Louisiana Monroe, will present a paper titled “The Native American Berdache as Warrior” at the annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory in Eugene, Ore., scheduled for Nov. 12-16.

Carpenter has had a prolific semester, recently publishing 19 entries in “The Encyclopedia of North American Colonial Conflicts to 1775,” ABC-CLIO, 2008.

His entries are:

• “Delaware (Lenni Lenape),”
• “Huron,”
• “Iroquois,”
• “Ojibwa,”
• “Iroquois Wars (also known as Beaver Wars, 1641-1701),”
• “Mohawk-Mahican War (1624-1628),”
• “Ojibwa-Dakota Conflict,”
• “Iroquois Treaties of 1700 and 1701 (with New York and New France),”
• “Trois Rivières, Treaty of (1645),”
• “Walking Purchase (1737),”
• “Brant, Joseph (Thayendanega),”
• “Half-King (also known as Tanaghrisson, ?-1754),”
• “Johnson, Sir William (1715-1774),”
• “Miantonomo (Miantonomi) (?-1643),”
• “Squanto (?-1622),”
• “Teedyuscung (c. 1700-1763),”
• “Uncas (1588-1683),”
• “Wamsutta (Alexander) (?-ca. 1662),”
• “Bow and Arrow"

Carpenter, also the ULM faculty advisor for Phi Alpha Theta, lists Colonial U.S., Native American topics as his specialty.

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