American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference

The American Society for Ethnohistory's 2026 Annual Meeting is at Arvest Convention Center from October 7-10.

Held in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the downtown Arvest Convention Center the 2026 conference situates these conversations in a region long shaped by Indigenous movement and modernity. Oklahoma’s lands — home to dozens of Native nations — have been crossroads of migration, removal, labor, and cultural exchange. The conference location invites reflection on figures such as Will Rogers, whose itinerant career exemplified Indigenous engagement with mass media and modern mobility, as well as on infrastructures such as Route 66, which layered twentieth-century transportation systems atop much older Indigenous pathways. These local histories offer a powerful backdrop for broader ethnohistorical conversations about movement, sovereignty, and Indigenous modernities.