Native American Studies

Current Position:

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Native American Studies Department and African American Studies Program

Field Of Study:

History of early American intercultural relations

Description:

George Price listens, learns, contemplates, studies, and teaches. He lives with his wife, Barbara, and two of their seven grandchildren on the Flathead Indian Reservation, north of Missoula, Montana. He is an American of several diverse ethnic and cultural ancestries who has explored human identity issues for all of his life, both personally and professionally. Some questions that he patiently seeks to find answers for (in due time, without anxiety): What are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going?

Research Interests:

• Colonial and antebellum African American and Native American history, human rights
• The service records and narratives of soldiers and sailors of color in the American Revolution
• The intellectual, cultural, and spiritual origins of American egalitarianism

Hobbies:

Gardening, landscaping, hiking, canoeing, listening, reading, writing

Education:

• Ph. D., Interdisciplinary Studies, concentration in colonial and antebellum African American and Native American history, University of Montana, 2006
• M.A. History, University of Montana, 1996
• B.A. University of Oregon, 1981

Teaching Experience:

• 1998 to present; Adjunct Instructor and Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Montana, Native American Studies and (beginning in Fall of 1999) African American Studies

• Courses taught at UM: NAS 100, Introduction to Native American Studies; and NAS 202, Oral and Written Traditions; AAS 220, Search for Identity; AAS 288, Abolitionism: the First Civil Rights Movement; AAS 295, African Americans and Native Americans; AAS 372, African American Identity; AAS/HIST 378 and 379, African American History
• 1995 to 1999; Adjunct Instructor, Salish Kootenai College, Native American Studies, American History, Sociology, Indigenous Economics
• 1985-1995; Art and History Teacher, Two Eagle River School, Pablo, Montana

Selected Publications:

To Heal the Scourge of Prejudice: the Life and Writings of Hosea Easton , George R. Price and James Brewer Stewart, eds., University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

Book-in-progress : a biographical history of the Eastons, an American tri-racial family with a strong social activist tradition extending over three centuries

"The Roberts Case, the Easton Family, and the Dynamics of the Abolitionist Movement in Massachusetts, 1776-1870,” co-authored with JamesBrewer Stewart for theMassachusetts Historical Review, Fall, 2002

“Afro/Native Historiography: Finding Relevance Outside the Eurocentric Tradition,” Trinity Reporter, Special Edition, Dec., 2005,  Providence, Rhode Island, Trinity Repertory Company

“Hosea Easton: Forgotten Abolitionist ‘Giant’,” chapter in Michael A.Morrison, ed., The Human Tradition in Antebellum America, Wilmington, Delaware, Scholarly Resources, 2000 (This article was reprinted in 2002 for another edition in this same series, The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction at the request of the editor, Charles W.Calhoun.)

Publications:

Book Review: Theda Perdue, “Mixed Blood” Indians: Racial Reconstruction inThe Early South, for the Journal of the Early Republic, Summer, 2003

"Indigenous Economics Instructor's Workshop: "Tools for Shaping the Economic Future," in Business Alert, Vol. 11, No. 4, July/August, 1996.

Affiliations:

• 1997 to present; member, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
• 2001-2004; Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities
• 1999; Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• 2001 to 2005; member, Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc.
• 1993-1995; board member, Flathead Reservation Human Rights Coalition