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2006 Midwest Regional Conference I <br />Lincoln, Nebraska • July 2006 <br />7 1:00 P.M. Thursday, July 6 <br />Poster Session:The Winter Quarters Project <br />Registration Area <br />Tiffany Taylor, Brigham Young <br />University <br />Visit this display near the registra- <br />tion area and learn more about an <br />important, yet often forgotten, era <br />in Iowa and Nebraska history. Be- <br />tween 1846 and 1853 approximately <br />fifteen thousand members of The <br />Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day <br />Saints traveled through Iowa and <br />Nebraska on their way to the Salt <br />Lake Valley after being driven from <br />their homes in Nauvoo, Illinois. <br />This poster session of the Winter <br />Quarters Project will include a web - <br />site display as well as additional in- <br />formation about the Latter -day Saint <br />settlements and the great westward <br />migration from Illinois to Utah. <br />73:30 p.m. Thursday, July 6 <br />Indigenous Peoples, Capitalism, and Cultural Adaptation in the <br />Nineteenth - Century Heartland <br />Lancaster 1 -III <br />Presiding: Andrew Graybill, University of Nebraska <br />Mining the Forest: Ojibwe Wage Work in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 1870 -1920 <br />Bradley Gills, Arizona State University <br />Capitalism and the Early Nineteenth - Century Comanche <br />Pekka Hamalainen, University of California, Santa Barbara <br />Comment: Jacki Rand, University of Iowa <br />Promise of Parity in the "Promised Land ": African American <br />Agriculture in Kansas After the Exodus <br />Arbor <br />Presiding: Virgil W. Dean, Kansas State Historical Society <br />Agricultural Associations and Junius Groves, Exceptional Kansas <br />Farmer and Businessman <br />Tisa M. Anders, Colorado Women's Agenda <br />Tending the "Promised Land ": African American Farming in Kansas, 1860 -1930 <br />Anne Hawkins, Washburn University <br />Groves Center: A Kansas Potato King's African American Suburb <br />Angela Doyle Radicia, Independent Scholar <br />Room Locations <br />Sessions will be held in the <br />Burnham Yates Conference <br />Center, which is attached to the <br />Cornhusker Hotel. OAH will be <br />using the following rooms in the <br />conference center: Arbor, Haw- <br />thorne, Ivanhoe, Lancaster and <br />Olive Branch (on the lower level), <br />and the Grand Ballroom and <br />Atrium (street level). For a map of <br />the conference center, please see <br />pages 28 -29. <br />Comment: Kenneth Hamilton, Southern Methodist University <br />"The Tragedy at Winter Quarters" <br />Avard Fairbanks, 1936. Photograph by <br />Tiffany Taylor. <br />