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is the Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor of American Indian History,
Director of Indigenous Nations Studies Program at the University of
Kansas. He has many publications including The Invasion of Indian
Country in the Twentieth Century: American Capitalism and Tribal Natural
Resources (1998) and Urban Indians (1991). He serves on the editorial
boards of Ethnohistory, American Indian Culture, Kansas History, and
AmIndian (an e-journal). He serves on the advisory councils for the
Western History Association, American Society for Ethnohistory, Advisory
Council for the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of American
Indians at the Newberry Library, and Native American Advisory Council
for the Eiteljorg Museum of the American Indian and Western Art. |
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American Indian Identity -
Being Indian and Standing Proud
Wednesday - Sunday
February 18-22, 2004
East Central University, Ada, OK
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This class surveyed the changing identity of American Indians
through history due to contact with mainstream America from
1492 to the present. Through readings and presented information,
the class discussed stereotypes, public Indian images, native
self-images, and the transition of tribal identities to Indian
identities of several types in a modern Indian reality.
This class has been approved for “Western civilization
& culture” gen ed credit by the OU Gen Ed committee.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
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The White Man's Indian: Images Of The American Indian From Columbus
To The Present by Robert Berkhofer Jr., (1971)
* Reimagining Indians: Native Americans Through Anglo
Eyes, 1880-1940 by Sherry Smith, (2000)
* The Urban Indian Experience In America
by Donald L. Fixico, (2000).
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