Native American Studies

Description:

One of the focal points of my work is to identify and analyze American Indian agency in the course of tribal history. I am a historian with research interests in federal Indian policy, twentieth century American Indian history, tribal sovereignty, and urban Indian history. I have studied these fields in relation to the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, the southwest Oregon coast, and the Chicago American Indian community. In my teaching I attempt to provide students with the analytical tools and knowledge base to promote tribal community development.

Courses:

NAS 100 Introduction to Native American Studies
NAS 301/RELS301 American Indian Religion and Philosophy
NAS 324/ANTH 324/HIST 354 Indians of Montana Since the Reservation Era
NAS 400/PSC 475 Tribal Sovereignty
NAS 494 Capstone Reading Course
NAS 594 Graduate Seminars in history and community development

Education:

Ph.D., History, University of Illinois at Chicago
M.A., History, University of Illinois at Chicago
B.A., American Studies, Northwestern University

Selected Publications:

Seeking Recognition: The Termination and Restoration of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, 1855-1984. Book manuscript in production at  University of Nebraska Press, due November 2009.

The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Winner, Wisconsin Historical Society Book Award

Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856 Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. Winner, Wisconsin Historical Society Book Award of Merit.

The Chicago American Indian Community, 1893-1988, Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Sources in Chicago. Chicago: NAES College Press, 1988.

Publications:

"'Standing out here in the surf:' The Termination and Restoration of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw of Western Oregon in Historical Perspective," Oregon Historical Quarterly , 110:3 (2009): 6-37.

“Developing a Voice: The Evolution of Self-Determination in an Urban Indian Community,” Wicazo Sa Review, 17:2 (2002): 117-141.

"The Myth of the Vanishing Race,” Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian website, Northwestern University Library & Library of Congress.

“Protecting the Menominee Forest: The Urban Setting as a Platform to Advocate for Justice,” in Susan Lobo and Kurt Peters, ed., American Indian Urban Experiences. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2001. Pp. 155-162.

“From Colonization to Self-Determination: American Indian Higher Education Before 1974,” Journal of Indigenous Education, 27:2 (1999): 12-23. Originally pp. 16-24 in Joanna Brown, ed., Critical Issues in Indian Higher Education. Chicago: American Indian Press, 1995. ERIC number ED 388 478.

“The Chicago American Indian Community, An ‘Invisible’ Minority,” in Maxine S. Seller and Lois Weis, eds., Beyond Black and White: New Voices, New Faces in United States Schools. Albany: State University of New York Press: 1997. Pp. 45-60. Reprinted in Terry Straus and Grant P. Arndt, Native Chicago. Chicago: McNaughton & Gunn, 1998: 167-181; reprinted in Terry Straus, ed., Native Chicago, 2nd Edition, Chicago: Albatross Press, 2002: 293-307.

“Return to Namä'o Uskíwämît, The Importance of Sturgeon in Menominee Indian History,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 79:1 (Autumn, 1995): 32-48. Reprinted in Menominee Tribal News, April 12, 1996, pp. 16-19.

Affiliations:

Consultant, Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Historic Preservation Department, Keshena, Wisconsin

Advisor, Saokio Heritage, East Glacier, Montana Project Director, Natives of Montan Archives Project (NOMAP), Smithsonian Institution and University of Montana Mansfield Library Advisor, Americans for Indian Opportunity Ambassador Program, Albuquerque, New Mexico

International Experience:

Americans for Indian Opportunity Ambassador Program faculty, travel to visit indigenous communities and  people in Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela (1990s)

NEH Summer Institute to study ancient Maya, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (1997)

University of Montana FIPSE Tri-national (Canada-U.S.-Mexico) Mobility Grant representative