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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]
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Henrietta Verle Mann (Southern Cheyenne, b. 1934) is a Native American academic and activist. She was one of the designers of the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Montana and Haskell Indian Nations University's Native American studies programs.
Jennifer Nez Denetdale is a professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico, where she teaches courses in Native American Studies with an emphasis on race, class, and gender. [2] She is the director of the University of New Mexico's Institute for American Research. [ 3 ]
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).
In a retrospective, Father Powell wrote, “We [the Advisors] wanted tribal oral history to be respected as the truest major source of truth regarding Native American history, rather than the White documents depended upon by writers of American Indian history in the past.” [4] The programs and projects of the McNickle Center continue to ...
Starna has written on approaches in archeology and produced technical reports on Native American history and culture for Indian tribes and museums. [5] In 1986 he received a Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government Senior Fellowship to study land claims in New York, [ 6 ] which involved the loss of Iroquois lands during the eighteenth and ...
Risling Baldy received her Ph.D. in Native American studies with an emphasis in feminist theory and research from the University of California, Davis.She also received her M.F.A in creative writing and literary research from San Diego State University, as well as her B.A. in psychology from Stanford University. [2]