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Jack Douglas Forbes (January 7, 1934 – February 23, 2011) was an American historian, writer, scholar, and political activist, who specialized in Native American issues. He is best known for his role in establishing one of the first Native American studies programs (at University of California Davis).
From 1950 to 1970, he taught agriculture at Modesto Junior College. [1] His increasing involvement in activist causes prompted him to move to UC Davis in 1970, where he helped to develop its Native American studies program. He remained there until his retirement in 1993, when the program became a full-fledged department and is currently one of ...
The University of California had also applied to use the site: for its new Native American Studies program, established in 1969, and a primate research lab. Organizers protested and UC Davis withdrew its application. The federal government conditionally granted the land to D–Q University in 1971. [7]
The Gorman Museum of Native American Art was founded in 1973 by the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis. The name of the museum is in honor of Carl Nelson Gorman, the Navajo code talker, artist, and a former faculty member at UC Davis. [1] [2]
Her book Creative Alliances: The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women’s Poetry [4] was winner of the Beatrice Medicine Award for Outstanding Scholarship in American Indian Studies. [5] McGlennen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [6] She holds a PhD in Native American studies from UC Davis and an MFA in creative writing from Mills ...
Zoila Silvia del Rosario Mendoza Beoutis (born 1960) is a Peruvian-born anthropologist and documentary filmmaker based in the United States. She has written books on dance and folklore in the Peruvian city of Cusco and is a professor at the University of California, Davis Department of Native American Studies.
In 1969, the Native American Studies Department at UC Davis was formed under the name Tehcumseh Center, Gorman was one of the first faculty working alongside Jack D. Forbes, and David Risling, Jr. [10] Sarah V. Hutchison [Wikidata] joined the faculty in 1970, [10] and George Longfish joined in 1973.
Henry McHenry, professor of anthropology; UC Davis Prize; elected fellow, California Academy of Sciences; Zoila S. Mendoza, professor and chair of Native American studies [8] Jacob K. Olupona, professor of African and African American studies, later at Harvard University; Rhacel Parrenas, professor of sociology, later at Brown University