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The D’Arcy McNickle Center provides public programming highlighting the work of contemporary scholars, authors, and artists who engage American Indian and Indigenous histories, cultures, and perspectives through a variety of mediums. As a member of the Chicago American Indian Collaborative, the Center assists with serving the American Indian ...
Richard Oakes (May 22, 1942 – September 20, 1972) [1] was a Mohawk Native American activist. He spurred Native American studies in university curricula and is credited for helping to change US federal government termination policies of Native American peoples and culture. Oakes led a nineteen-month occupation of Alcatraz Island with LaNada ...
Native American studies (also known as American Indian, Indigenous American, Aboriginal, Native, or First Nations studies) is an interdisciplinary academic field that examines the history, culture, politics, issues, spirituality, sociology and contemporary experience of Native peoples in North America, [1] or, taking a hemispheric approach, the Americas. [2]
Herbert S. Lewis (born May 8, 1934) is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught from 1963 to 1998.He has conducted extensive field research in Ethiopia and Israel and worked with Oneida Indian Nation of Wisconsin.
Clara Sue Kidwell (born July 8, 1941) is a Native American academic scholar, historian, feminist and Native American author. She is enrolled in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and of White Earth Ojibwe descent. [1] She is considered to be a "major figure in the development of American Indian Studies programs." [2]
In addition, Native American activism has led major universities across the country to establish Native American studies programs and departments, increasing awareness of the strengths of Indian cultures, providing opportunities for academics, and deepening research on history and cultures in the United States. Native Americans have entered ...
Lisa Brooks is a historian, writer, and professor of English and American studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts where she specializes in the history of Native American and European interactions from the American colonial period to the present. Brooks is a member of the state-recognized Missisquoi Abenaki Tribe, an Abenaki heritage group ...
Luis Stowell [1] Kemnitzer (November 13, 1928 in Pasadena, California [2] – February 17, 2006) was an American anthropologist known for his social and political activism. From 1967 to 1994, [3] Kemnitzer was a professor at San Francisco State University, where in 1969 he taught that institution's first course in American Indian Studies.