I am seeking colleagues in Native American history/culture to join me in a panel for the Western History Association Annual Conference to be held October, 2004, in Las Vegas. I am interested in putting together a panel in which the papers are organized around the broad theme of Native Americans and relations with peoples or governmental institutions of the Hispanic Southwest. In particular, I am interested in papers that emphasize the agency of Native people in terms of inventive and creative assertions of self determination and the refusal of indigenous peoples to acquiesce in their own destruction. For example, in my paper, I will be exploring the efforts of Native leaders to solicit government to government relations with Mexico to create a viable alternative to the forced dislocation policies of the US government in the 1820s and 30s. Please send a one-page abstract and c.v. by email or fax before August 15.