Authors, historians, veteran mushers, researchers, storytellers, writers and others interested in supporting the 2010 Mushing History Conference, and anyone interested in giving a presentation at the 2010 Conference, please contact:
Conference Director:
Helen Hegener
• Mail: P.O. Box 759, Palmer, Alaska 99645
• Phone: 907-354-3510
• Email: helen@northernlightmedia.com
• Northern Light Media
Although I’m very interested in the conference and in participating, I’ve already committed to presenting at the North American Voyageur Council’s annual gathering the weekend of November 6 through 8.
Sorry.
Swanny
[...] Presenters [...]
I regret to announce tha I will be unable to offer my presentation of “A Dog Called Shakespeare” to this year’s Mushing History Conference scheduled for November.
Due to circumstance beyond my control, I will be unable to travel to Alaska this November.
I am hopeful to bring my program to next year’s Conference in 2010.
Von Martin
Would consider giving a presentation at some point on the uses of dogs in North America in pre-Columbian times and pre-European contact. I don’t know if this fits in? Perhaps since native dogs were dragging stuff around one way or another from the beginning of time. At some point these same dogs became sled dogs, at least in the northern climes.
Stephanie
I think that would definitely fit within the parameters of a future conference, Stephanie. I’ve been studying ancient dog types and found this passage in an interesting 2002 NYT article, titled “From Wolf to Dog, Yes, But When?”:
“These pre-Columbian dog lineages have disappeared. Even New World breeds of dog like the Eskimo dog, the Mexican hairless and the Chesapeake Bay retriever, derive from dogs brought from Europe. It is not clear why the pre-Columbian dogs were lost, but possibly American Indians preferred the European dogs for some reason and prevented their own dogs from breeding with them.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/us/from-wolf-to-dog-yes-but-when.html
Helen