Bill Lang co-authored, with Roberta Conner of the Umatilla Tribe, a chapter in the new Umatilla Indian Reservation tribal history, As Days Go By: Our History, Our Land, and Our People, the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla (Pendleton & Portland: Tamastslikt Cultural Institute & Oregon Historical Society, 2006).
Tom Thornton published a chapter on Alaska Native Corporations ("Alaska Native Corporations and Subsistence: Paradoxical Forces in the Making of Sustainable Communities) in a book titled Sustainability and Communities of Place (Carl Maida, editor) for Berghahn Books, 2006. His book, Being and Place Among the Tlingit, is due out from the University of Washington Press in Fall 2007.
Katy Barber was appointed director of the Center for Columbia River History in Fall 2006. CCRH is a consortium that includes PSU, Washington State University Vancouver and the Washington State Historical Society. In March 2007, CCRH is hosting a two-day conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Celilo Falls, an important Native fishing site on the mid-Columbia River that was drowned by the reservoir of The Dalles Dam. For more information, see ccrh.org.
Ann Fulton published "The Restoration of a Chief called Multnomah" in the American Indian Quarterly. She also offered a presentation entitled, "The Feather Religion" with Wilson Wewa, Jr. at the 2007 Western History Association.
Tim Garrison published an essay entitled, "The Cherokee Cases," in Melvin Urofsky's book, The Public Response to Controversial Supreme Court Cases for Congressional Quarterly Press. He has an article on "The Southeast and Florida" coming out in the fall in Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty.
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Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk), formerly a faculty member in American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at PSU. Dr. Lonetree has a PhD in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, an MA in American History from Indiana University, an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a BA in History from the University of Minnesota. Her scholarly work focuses on the depiction of Native peoples in museums, and she has conducted research on this topic at the National Museum of the American Indian, the Mille Lacs Tribal Museum, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the British Museum in London. She is currently preparing publications on this research, some of which will appear in the American Indian Quarterly. A recipient of the prestigious University of California Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship, she will be on leave during the 2005-6 academic year, and will begin teaching at PSU in September, 2006. Welcome, Prof. Lonetree! |
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