Social Sciences

Current Position

Professor of History (Associate Professor, 1995-2001; Assistant Professor, 1989-95)
 

Degrees Earned

Ph.D. (History & Political Science) - Northern Arizona University (1983)
Dissertation: "Winter Count: The Teton Chronicles to 1799"

M.A. (Anthropology) - Northern Arizona University (1987)
Thesis:  "Lakota and Cheyenne Warrior Art: The Persistence of Abstract Representationalism"

B.S. (Political Science) - Arizona State University (1971)
 

Teaching Experience at ESU (Fall 1989 through Fall 2003)

Undergraduate Survey Courses:
U.S. since 1877
U.S. since 1877: Special Honors Section

Other Undergraduate Courses:
North American Indians
Historians as Detectives
Wagon Tracks & Tipi Poles: U.S. West since 1877
Kansas
History & Film

Undergraduate/Graduate Courses:
Sacred Ground: History & Place
Themes in American Indian History
Great Issues in American History: Colonial to Civil War
Great Issues in American History: Civil War and after
Indians of the Americas
They Went Thataway: Hollywood and the West
Showdown: Last Stands in the American West
Rainbow Nation: Multicultural Topics in U.S. History
Colonial America
Origins of Colonial America
Bandits, Buccaneers & Popular Cuilture
Borderlands:  The Greater Southwest
Immigrant Voices

Graduate Courses:
Frontiers: Investigations
Columbus, Cortez & Coronado
Indians of the Great Plains
Hollywood & History
Mother Earth, Father Sky: Plains Indians for Teachers
Kansas Days: Kansas History for Teachers
Teaching Plains Indian History
Circles of Power: Topics in American Indian History
Kivas & Kachinas: Topics in Southwest Indian History
Visions of the Frontier
After Columbus
Information Transfer (SLIM)
Great Plains Experience
Brave Hearts: The Plains Indian Experience
Real to Reel
Indians of the Southwest
Plagues, Plants & People: Environmental History Topics
Frontiers of the American West
Discovery, Invasion & Conquest
First Americas: Topics in Native American History
Whodunit: The Historian as Detective
Smoke Signals: Hollywood and the Indian
La Raza: Hispanic Experience (Borderlands)
Outlaws: Myth & Memory in the American West
Indians: Myth & Memory in the American West
Colonial America: Images & Realities
History, Myth & Memory
Readings: Colonial America
Guns, Germs & Steel
Research Seminar: Eisenhower Library/Archives
Teaching College History
 

Publications - Awards

"The Fine Young Chief: Native America's Coyote on the Colorado Plateau," Plateau, 61 (1) (Museum of Northern Arizona, 1990) - Second-place in the Western Writers of America Spur Award Competition (1991)

"Circles of Power: American Indian Shields of the Southwest and Great Plains," Plateau, 55 (4) (Museum of Northern Arizona, 1984) - Award of Distinction, American Association of Museums

Fandango listed among the top five volumes in "The Best of Western Ratings 1984," The Roundup (Western Writers of America), 33 (1) (1985): 34

Tim McCoy Remembers the West (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977) - Wrangler Award for Excellence in Biography and Autobiography, National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center (1978)
 

Publications - Books

With Beauty All Around Me: Art of the Native Southwest (Scottsdale, AZ: Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 1998)

Kiowa Memories: Images from Indian Territory, 1880 (Santa Fe, NM: Morning Star Gallery, 1987)

Painted Words: R. Lee White and Plains Indian Pictography (Phoenix, AZ: The Heard Museum, 1986)

Fandango (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984)

Thieves' Road (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980)

Tim McCoy Remembers the West (coauthored with Tim McCoy) (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977) - Reprinted with this coauthor's new preface by University of Nebraska Press, 1988
 

Publications - Monographs

"People of the Plateau," Plateau, (Museum of Northern Arizona) 64 (4) (1993)

"Archaeoastronomy: Skywatching in the Native American Southwest," Plateau , (Museum of Northern Arizona) 63 (2) (1992)

"The Fine Young Chief: Native America's Coyote on the Colorado Plateau," Plateau, (Museum of Northern Arizona) 61 (1) (1990)

"Datsolalee: Three Masterpieces by a Washo Basketmaker" (Scottsdale, AZ and Santa Fe, NM: Gallery 10, 1989)

"Summoning the Gods: Sandpainting in the Native American Southwest," Plateau , (Museum of Northern Arizona) 59 (1) (1988)

"Circles of Power: American Indian Shields of the Southwest and Great Plains," Plateau, (Museum of Northern Arizona) 55 (4) (1984)
 

Publications - Editor or Co-Editor

Editor and annotator of reprint of James Mooney, "Indian Shield Heraldry," Heritage of the Great Plains, 30 (1) (1997): 15-19

Coeditor (with Loren Pennington), "A Biographical Study of Barlow Trecothick, 1720 - 1775" by Bryce E. Withrow, The Emporia State Research Studies , (Emporia State University) 38 (3) (1992)
 

Publications - Selected Articles

"'A Shield to Help You through Life':  Kiowa Shield Designs and Origin Stories Collected by James Mooney, 1891-1906," American Indian Art , 28 (3) (Summer 2003): 70-81

"Legal Briefs: NAGPRA Notices of Intent to Repatriate," American Indian Art, 28 (3) (Summer 2003): 28-29.

"Tim McCoy:  The Real/Reel Life of a Wind River Cowboy," a 22-page essay with 85 photographs at the website of the Lucius Burch Center for Western Tradition in Dubois, WY (2003): www.windriverhistory.org/

"Seven Cities of Cibola," Arizona Highways, 79 (6) (June 2003):  16-19

"Song of the Sky Loom:  The Durango Collection of Southwestern Textiles," Cowboys & Indians:  The Premier Magazine of the West, 11 (4) (June 2003):  122-125.

"High Eagle:  Tim McCoy Remembered," Persimmon Hill, 31 (2) (Spring 2003): 35-38

"Voyage of Discoveries," (Review essay on Brian Hill's I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Compamy, a novel of the Lewis and Clark expedition), The World & I, 18 (5) (May 2003):  217-222.

"Legal Briefs:  Supreme Court Will Not Hear Kornwolf Case; Allard Remains in Effect; and Insight into the Federal Government's Perspective," American Indian Art, 28 (2) (Spring 2003):  42-43

"Sacred Clowns: Their Fascinating Role in Pueblo Life," Cowboys & Indians: The Premier Magazine of the West, 10 (7) (December 2002): 82-86, 88

"Legal Briefs: United States v. Kornwolf Updated and NAGPRA Notices," American Indian Art, 28 (1) (Winter 2002): 90-91

"Basketmaker's Art," Cowboys & Indians:  The Premier Magazine of the West, 10 (5)  (September 2002): 97-99

"Kornwolf Case Update.NAGPRA Repatriation Notices," American Indian Art , 27 (4)  (Autumn 2002): 102-103, 107

"'A People Without History is Like Wind on the Buffalo Grass': Lakota Winter Counts," South Dakota History, 32 (1) (Spring 2002): 65-86

"The Squash Blossom Necklace," Cowboys & Indians: The Premier Magazine of the West, 10 (3) (June 2002): 78-80, 82

"Feather Law Goings-On: United States v. Kornwolf  Revisited.and the Baer Case Begins," American Indian Art Magazine, 27 (3) (Summer 2002): 80, 82-83, 86

"She of Myth and Memory: The Remarkable Legend of Sacagawea," The World & I, 17 (3) (March 2002): 160-169.  The editors of The World & I Teacher's Guide supplement (March 2002), which is distributed to nearly 7,000 schools and/or teachers, selected this article as the centerpiece for one of its learning lessons for students

"Kokopelli: Southwestern Icon," Cowboys & Indians: The Premier Magazine of the West, 10 (2) (May 2002): 76-79

"Legal Briefs: NAGPRA Redux.Feathers on the Horizon," American Indian Art, 27 (2) (Spring 2002): 82, 84-85

"'I am Medicine: The Sacred Bird Shield of the Kiowas," The World & I, 16 (10) (October 2001): 160-168.

"Of Forests and Trees: John C. Ewers's 'Early White Influence upon Plains Indian Painting Re-examined," American Indian Art, 27 (1) (Winter 2001): 62-71

"Legal Briefs: Catching up on NAGPRA," American Indian Art, 27 (1) (Winter 2001): 108-109, 112-113

"Navajo Weaving: Magic from the Sky Loom, Woven from Mythic Memory and History," Cowboys & Indians: The Premier Magazine of the West, 9 (3) (November 2001): 73-80

"Honoring the Clay Lady: Southwestern Pottery - Then and Now," Cowboys & Indians: The Premier Magazine of the West, 9 (2) (September 2001): 105-108

"Every Picture Tells a Story: Plains Indian Warrior Art.The State of the Art," Reviews in Anthropology, 29, Victor de Munck ed. (Newark, NJ: Gordon and Breach, 2000): 171-184

"Legal Briefs: Repatriation at the Smithsonian - Excluded from NAGPRA but not Forgotten," American Indian Art, 26 (1) (2000): 96, 98-99

"Sand Painting: A Sacred Healing Art of the Navajos," Arizona Highways , 76 (10) (2000): 36-39

"Legal Briefs: Tracking NAGPRA and Geronimo's Curse Update," American Indian Art, 25 (3) (2000): 100-101, 104-105

"Legal Briefs: The Curse of Geronimo, or 'Feathers Revisited'," American Indian Art, 25 (2) (2000): 78-79

"Popé," Dictionary of American National Biography, John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999): 670-671

"Short Bull," Dictionary of American National Biography, Garraty and Carnes eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999): 882-883

"Legal Briefs: Repatriation Updates," American Indian Art, 25 (1) (1999): 102-103, 111

"Legal Briefs: NAGPRA Repatriations," American Indian Art, 24 (4) (1999): 86-88

"Legal Briefs: Repatriation Ruminations and Updates," American Indian Art, 24 (3) (1999): 81, 84-85, 87

"Ephemera: Kansas Round-Up Stereoview," Heritage of the Great Plains , 31 (2) (1999): 47-48

"Legal Briefs: NAGPRA Aloha," American Indian Art, 24 (2) (1999): 64, 67

"Every Picture Tells a Story.But Which Story: Seeking Meaning in a Kiowa Warrior Drawing," Heritage of the Great Plains, 32 (1) (1999): 4-7

"Ephemera: 1878 Dime Novel," Heritage of the Great Plains, 32 (1) (1999): 55-56

"Legal Briefs: NAGPRA Repatriation Notices.And a Book of Note," American Indian Art, 24 (1) (1998): 88-89

"Ephemera," Heritage of the Great Plains, 31 (1) (1998): 55-56

"Legal Briefs: Kennewick Man Revisited," American Indian Art, 23 (4)  (1998): 34-35

"At the Crossroads: Art Without Reservations," Collectors' Guide: Santa Fe and Taos (Albuquerque, NM: Wingspread, 1998): 234-238

"Legal Briefs: NAGPRA Case Before U.S. Supreme Court," American Indian Art, 23 (3) (1998): 25, 29

"Legal Briefs: Bones of Contention - Kennewick Man," American Indian Art , 23 (2) (1998): 115, 117

"The Kolb Brothers: Pioneering Photographers of the Grand Canyon," Arizona Highways, 73 (5) (1997): 10-15 (Excerpts from this article, which is also listed as a resource, appear on the webiste of "Kolb Brothers: Grand Canyon Pioneers," a documentary produced by Arizona State University's KAET [Public Broadcasting Station] at http://www.kaet.asu.edu/kolb/index.html)

"Legal Briefs: NAGPRA News," American Indian Art, 23 (1) (1997): 88, 93

"J. Ross Browne," in They Left Their Mark: Heroes and Rogues in Arizona History, Robert Farrell ed. (Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highways, 1997) 36-43

"Pete Kitchen," in They Left Their Mark: Heroes and Rogues in Arizona History, Robert Farrell ed. (Phoenix: Arizona Highways, 1997): 82-93

"Legal Briefs: NAGPRA Goes Into High Gear," American Indian Art, 22 (4) (1997): 99, 102, 107, 116

"Ephemera," Heritage of the Great Plains, 30 (2) (1997): 55-56

"One Stream, Many Currents: Art Without Reservations," essay published and distributed by the State of New Mexico's Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe, NM (1997)

"Legal Briefs: NAGPRA News," American Indian Art, 22 (3) (1997): 89, 92-93, 98

"Legal Briefs: Federal Indian Arts and Crafts Regulations Take Effect," American Indian Art, 22 (2) (1997): 88, 91

"Legal Briefs: A Variety of Developments," American Indian Art, 22 (1) (1996): 87-88

"Searching for Clues in Kiowa Ledger Drawings: Combining James Mooney's Fieldwork and the Barber Collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum," American Indian Art, 21 (3) (1996): 494-497

"Legal Briefs: NAGPRA Signposts," American Indian Art, 21 (4) (1996): 77-79

"Legal Briefs: Introduction to Copyright," American Indian Art, 21 (3) (1996): 96

"Legal Briefs: NAGPRA Repatriation Claims," American Indian Art, 21 (2) (1996): 83-85

"Spotlight: Native American Cultural Ferment," Britannica Book of the Year (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1996): 494-497

"Legal Briefs: Preservation and Restoration," American Indian Art, 20 (4) (1995): 96

"Miniature Shields: James Mooney's Fieldwork among the Kiowa and Kiowa-Apache," American Indian Art, 20 (3) (1995): 65-71

"A Century of Visual Exploration," Art in Arizona, Sam Negri ed. (Tucson, AZ: Stanbery, 1995): 26-32

"Legal Briefs: Dealers and Dealing," American Indian Art, 20 (3) (1995): 96-97

"Indian Art: Old Traditions, New Designs," Art in Arizona, Sam Negri ed. (Tucson, AZ: Stanbery, 1995): 33-40

"Legal Briefs: Guarantees," American Indian Art, 20 (2) (1995): 33

"Legal Briefs: Recent NAGPRA/ARPA Developments," American Indian Art , 20 (1) (1994): 35

"Legal Briefs: Loaning to Museums," American Indian Art, 19 (4) (1994): 88, 101

"Swift Dog: Hunkpapa Warrior, Artist, and Historian," American Indian Art, 19 (3) (1994): 618-631

"Revisionist Biography: Sitting Bull," The World & I, 9 (6) (1994): 314-319

"Legal Briefs: Three Years On," American Indian Art, 19 (3) (1994): 98-99

"Sarafina Tafoya and Margaret Tafoya," in  Art of Clay: Timeless Pottery of the Southwest, Lee M. Cohen ed. (Santa Fe, NM: Cearlight, 1994): 40-45

"Helen Cordero," in Art of Clay: Timeless Pottery of the Southwest , Lee M. Cohen ed. (Santa Fe, NM: Clearlight, 1994): 46-51

"Popovi Da," in Art of Clay: Timeless Pottery of the Southwest, Lee M. Cohen ed. (Santa Fe, NM: Clearlight, 1994): 52-57

"Tony Da," in Art of Clay: Timeless Pottery of the Southwest, Lee M. Cohen ed. (Santa Fe, NM: Clearlight, 1994): 58-61

"Joseph Lonewolf," in Art of Clay: Timeless Pottery of the Southwest , Lee M. Cohen ed. (Santa Fe, NM: Clearlight, 1994): 68-71

"Al Qöyawayma," in Art of Clay: Timeless Pottery of the Southwest , Lee M. Cohen ed. (Santa Fe, NM: Clearlight, 1994): 78-85

"Legal Briefs: Tax Deductions for Donated Art," American Indian Art , 19 (2) (1994): 81, 83, 85

"Hopi-Zuni Porcupine Quill Dance Anklets," American Indian Art, 19 (2) (1994): 31-36, 94

"Legal Briefs: Artifakes," American Indian Art, 19 (1) (1993): 82-83

"Legal Briefs: Jewelry," American Indian Art, 18 (4) (1993): 30

"Legal Briefs: Expertizing," American Indian Art,18 (3) (1993): 30

"Windows on the Native American World," Chevron USA Odyssey, 25 (1) (1993): 16-19

"Legal Briefs: Provenance," American Indian Art, 18 (2) (1993): 17, 77

"Legal Briefs: Auctions - The Buyer," American Indian Art, 18 (1) (1992): 21

"Gazing at the Sky Loom: Earth and Sky - Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore," The World & I , 7 (10) (1992): 358-365

"Legal Briefs: Repatriation," American Indian Art, 17 (4) (1992): 23

"Short Bull: Lakota Visionary, Historian and Artist," American Indian Art, 17 (3) (1992): 54-65

"Legal Briefs: Rightful Possession - A Federal Case?" American Indian Art, 17 (3) (1992): 17

"Mother Corn: Native America's Legendary Staff of Life," The World & I, 6 (11) (1991): 618-631; reprinted in Annual Editions - World History: Prehistory to 1500 (Guilford, CT: Dushkin, 1992): 33-39

"Legal Briefs: Federally Certified Indian Art," American Indian Art, 17 (2) (1992): 92

"Cochise Meets Clio," The World & I, 6 (9) (1991): 418-423

"Donald J. Berthrong," Heritage of the Great Plains, 23 (1) (1991): 36-49

"Legal Briefs: Prehistoric Art - Private Property & Public Policy," American Indian Art, 17 (1) (1991): 79

"Yesterday's Children," Arizona Highways, 67 (1) (1991): 16-21

"Legal Briefs: Prehistoric Art - The Federal Side," American Indian Art , 16 (4) (1991): 77

"Mystical Circles of Power: Plains Indian Shields," The World & I , 6 (2) (1991): 620-631

"Al-Tah-Je Jay Khut - Attack Ready: Navajo Code Talkers in World War II" in America: The People and the Dream, Vol. 2, The Later Years, Robert A. Divine, et. al. (Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1991): 565-568; adapted from American West (1981) article listed below

"Legal Briefs: Feathers," American Indian Art, 16 (3) (1991): 20

"Birds, Planes & Trains: Navajo Pictorial Weaving," Antiques & Fine Art, 7 (2) (1990): 92-99

"Native American Sources in Paul Pletka's Paintings," in Sources and Inspirations: Paintings by Paul Pletka (Santa Fe, NM: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, 1990); 17-25

"The Blue-Green Water People," The World & I, 5 (3) (1990): 616-629

"Hopi Artist Fred Kabotie, 1900-1986," American Indian Art, 15 (4) (1990): 40-49

"Spider Woman's Legacy: The Art of Navajo Weaving," The World & I , 5 (9) (1990): 666-676

"Three Artists of the New West," Arizona Highways, 65 (7) (1989): 12-17

"The Delight Makers," The World & I (1989): 664-675

"Pueblo Potters of Genius: Nampeyo and the Team of Maria and Julian Martinez," Antiques & Fine Art, 6 (6) (1989): 101-107

"Images of the Buffalo Culture: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings," The World & I, 4 (4) (1989): 624-633

"Datsolalee: A Washoe Basketmaker's Leap from Anonymity," Antiques & Fine Art, 6 (4) (1989): 88-95

"Painted Magic: Rock Art of the Arizona Strip," Arizona Highways, 65 (4) (1989): 4-11

"Preface to the Bison Book Edition by Ronald McCoy," in Tim McCoy Remembers the West, Tim McCoy and Ronald McCoy (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1988): ix-xvii

"Running the Wind," Native Peoples (Winter 1988-89): 28-33

"Burial of the Magician," Arizona Highways, 64 (8) (1988): 9-13

"Bring in the Clowns," Native Peoples (Summer 1988): 14-17

"Begun in Beauty, Finished in Beauty: Sandpainting of the Navajo Indians," The World & I, 3 (10) (1988): 510-521

"The Joint Use Area Controversy," The World & I, 2 (6) (1987): 487

"They Dance for Rain," The World & I, 2 (6) (1987): 480-497

"Naalyé hé Báhooghan: Where the Past is the Present," Arizona Highways, 63 (6) (1987): 10-15

"Don Lorenzo Hubbell: King of the Traders," Arizona Highways, 63 (6) (1987): 12

"Hopi Art: Constancy and Change on Arizona's Mesas," The World & I , 7 (1986): 292-296

 "Nampeyo: Giving the Indian Artist a Name," in Indian Lives: Essays on Nineteenth- and Twentieth Century Native American Leaders, L.G. Moses and Raymond Wilson eds. (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1985): 43-59

"Gan: Mountain Spirit Masks of the Apaches," American Indian Art, 10 (3) (1985): 52-59

"Apache Rawhide Playing Cards," American Indian Art, 9 (3) (1984): 52-59

"The Rose Walsh Babbitt Ethnology Collection," with John Leiby (Flagstaff, AZ: Department of History, Northern Arizona University, 1982)

"Navajo Code Talkers of World War II," American West, 18 (6) (1981): 67-75
 

Publications - Forthcoming or In Progress

"Crazy Horse" and "Satank" entries for The Encyclopedia of Native American Treaties, Donald Fixico editor (ABC-CLIO, scheduled for 2004 publication)

"Ethnicity" 60,000-word chapter for Great Plains volume in Greenwood Press's new series on regional histories (scheduled 2004 publication)
Article on Richard M. Nixon's presidential campaign, 1967-1968, for The Sixties Remembered (Prentice-Hall, scheduled 2004 publication)

 "Legal Briefs," ongoing quarterly essays on legal issues affecting the collection and display of Native American materials for American Indian Art, dealing increasingly with the culturally sensitive issues associated with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990

Inivted to become a staff writer for Cowboys & Indians: The Premier Magazine of the West and contribute articles
 

Research for Publication -In Progress

Primary research nearly completed for "Waqubeta's Elephant Medicine: The Strange Case of an Arapaho Holy Man"-intended for Chronicles of Oklahoma or Ethnohistory

Preparing an article on Kiowa shield designs  (research sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, American Philosophical Society's Phillips Fund for Research in American Indian Linguistics and Ethnohistory, and ESU's Faculty Research and Creativity Committee)-intended for American Indian Art

Conducting research into the imagery represented by a photograph of Sgt. Frederick Wyllyams of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, killed and mutilated by Cheyenne warriors near Fort Wallace, Kansas in 1867.  Copies of the image-which depicts Wyllyams's brutalized corpse-were published and inflamed public opinion against the Indians of the Great Plains.  But who was Wyllyams?  What do we know about the man behind the image?  Very little, though research is shedding some light on him: he was British, a merchant seaman who left a wife and daughter behind in his native land and enlisted in the U.S. Army-intended for Kansas History

Research in progress for an article on the 19th century painted buffalo hide tipis of the Plains Apaches, also known as the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma (research sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, American Philosophical Society's Phillips Fund for Research in American Indian Linguistics and Ethnohistory, and ESU's Faculty Research and Creativity Committee)-intended for American Indian Art
 

Book/Film Reviews

Written for Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Plains Anthropologist, New Mexico Historical Review, Ethnohistory, American Indian Quarterly, American Indian Art, Nebraska History, Nevada Historical Quarterly, The Red River Valley Historical Review, Kansas History, South Dakota History, The World & I, The Western Historical Quarterly, The Journal of Arizona History, Journal of the Southwest
 

Research and Creative Activities

Invited to serve on the faculty of the 23rd annual Larom Summer Institute in Western American Studies at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming (Summer 2003), teaching a course titled "Every Picture Tells a Story: Images of Myth and Memory in the American West."

Commissioned by Lucius Burch Center/Wind River Historical Center to engage in research about the history of members of the Arapaho and Shoshone tribes in early Hollywood Western films and create a website focusing on the topic, 2002

"Spider Woman's Legacy: The Changing Traditions of Navajo Weaving," Kauffman Museum, Bethel College, North Newton, KS - invited lecture given in connection with the "Walk in Beauty: Navajo Blankets and Rugs from Kansas Collections" exhibition sponsored by the Kauffman Museum nad the Kansas Humanities Council, 2001

"Nontraditional Sources: Images as Text," The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Emporia State University, 2001

"Time and Change: The Kansas Image," National Teachers Hall of Fame Alumni luncheon, Emporia State University, 2001

"'V' is for Victory: World War II on the Homefront," The Eisenhower Foundation, Abilene, KS, 2001

"A New World Awaits: World War II's Influence on America," The Eisenhower Foundation, Abilene, KS, 2001

"Corn Maidens & Sun Dance Women: Sexual Roles, Sexual Status in Great Plains and Southwest Native America," Women's History Month address, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, 2001

Commentator  for "New Perspectives in Plains Indian History" session, Mid-America Conference on History, Lawrence, KS, 2000

Ledger Director, The Plains Indian Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project, 1996 - present

Invited lectures at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library's Elderhostel programs on various aspects of World War II, the Cold War, and Eisenhower's military and political careers, 1990 - present

"Skywatching along the Santa Fe Trail," invited lecture, Santa Fe Trail Association Symposium, Larned, KS, 2000

Moderator, "2nd Flint Hills Regional Colloquium," ESU, Emporia, KS, 2000

Moderator, "1st Flint Hills Regional Colloquium," ESU, Emporia, KS, 1999

Chair and moderator of "Deconstructing Sundance: Robert Redford's West," Western History Association, Portland, OR, 1999

"Beyond the Pale on the Santa Fe Trail: American Indian Artist Frontiers," invited lecture, Santa Fe Trail Association Symposium, Council Grove, KS, 1999

"Indians of the Flinthills," National Park Service Training Program, Z-Bar Ranch, Strong City, KS, 1999

"Beyond Words: Plains Indian Pictography," keynote address, Kansas Anthropological Association, Strong City, KS, 1999

"Gender Bending: American Indian Women Warriors," Southwest and Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, 1999

"The Battiste Good Winter Count," invited presentation (and panel discussion) at conference focusing on issues of cultural patrimony and repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, convened by the Sicangu Oyate (Rosebud Sioux Tribe), Southern Cheyenne Tribe, Denver Art Museum, and Colorado Historical Society, sponsored by the National Park Service, Denver, CO, 1998

"Red Road, White Road: The Santa Fe Trail," invited lecture, Kansas State Historical Society, Kaw Indian Mission, Council Grove, KS, 1998

"Introduction to Plains Indian Iconography," invited presentation to ESU's Division of Art Faculty-Student Seminar, 1998

"Mother Earth, Father Sky: Introduction to Native American Archaeo-astronomy," invited lecture, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 1997

Guest moderator of symposium on American Indian Art at the State of New Mexico's Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe, NM, 1997

Delivered two invited lectures-one on 19th century Plains Indian pictographic art, another about issues of cultural patrimony and repatriation-Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1997

"'So I Have Done This': Plains Indian Ledger Art as Nontraditional Text," Western History Association, Lincoln, NE, 1996

"Neither Metaphor nor Allegory: Context, Content, and Meaning in Plains Indian Biographical Art," American Society for Ethnohistory, Portland, OR, 1996

"Painted Words: Plains Indian Ledger Art as Historical Literature," Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Paul, MN, 1994

"Sacred Geography: Claims of Myth, Memory and Cultural Patrimony," American Society for Ethnohistory, Tempe, AZ, 1994

"Lakota Winter Counts: The Perils and Possibilities of Nontraditional Sources," Northern Great Plains History Conference, Pierre, SD, 1993

Commentator, "The West of the Arena: Wild West Shows, Pow Wows, and Rodeos," Western History Association, Tulsa, OK, 1993

"Plains Indian Warrior Art: Prospects and Problems in Research," keynote address, Plains Anthropological Conference, Lawrence, KS, 1991

"Plains Indian Warior Art," Visiting Scholars Lecture Series, Kansas State Historical Society, 1991

"Those Who Speak of Other Worlds: Captives, Traders and the Navajo," Western History Association, Austin, TX, 1991

"Coronado and Quivira: Model for Exploration, Invasion and Conquest," keynote address, "The Coronado Legacy Symposium," Washburn University, Topeka, KS, 1991

Numerous Kansas Humanities Council talks on "Wrath of God: John Brown and Bleeding Kansas," "Golden Men and Amazon Queens: the Spanish Search for the Fabulous in Early America," "Shamans, Sandpaintings and Songs: Healing Arts of Native America," "Perspective: Trail of the Spanish Bit," "Perspective: The Last Cattle Drive," "Perspective: Sod and Stubble," and "Radicals, Reformers and Ruby Slippers: The Changing Image of Kansas," 1990-1996

"Plains Indian Warrior Art: Ledger Drawings as Primary Sources," Oklahoma Historical Society, Lawton, OK, 1990

"In the Eye of the Beholder: The Researcher and Plains Indian Warrior Art," Plains Anthropological Conference, Oklahoma City, OK, 1990

"Navajo Tribal Chairman Henry Chee Dodge: Attaining Balance in Two Worlds," Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE, 1990

"Warrior Art of the Great Plains," invited presentation, The Douglas Society, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, 1988

Several talks (1987) on Wind River Reservation (WY) as consultant for National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored "Valley of the Three Worlds" project in Lander-Riverton area, dealing with employment of Indians in Tim McCoy films during the 1920s and 1930s

"The Warrior Artists of the Great Plains," invited presentation, The Collector's Club, The Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1986
 

Professional Service

Peer reviewer of scholarly manuscripts for for the University of Oklahoma Press, University of Nebraska Press, Smithsonian Institution Press, University of Utah Press, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, American Indian Quarterly, Ethnohistory, Kansas History, American Indian Art, Great Plains Quarterly

Resource person for "Freedom's Beacon," a federal grant supporting incorporation of multicultural/web-based themes and materials into the high school history curriculum, 2001-2002

Board of Directors, The Lucius Burch Center for Western Tradition, DeBois, Wyoming (a partner in educational programming with the Wind River Historical Center), 2001 - present

Consultant on early Western film (both silents and talkies), National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum (formerly the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center), Oklahoma City (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities), 2001-2002

Member (gubernatorial appointment), State of Kansas Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission, 2000 - 2006

Education Subcommittee, Kansas Lewis and Clark Coalition, 2000 - 2006

Member, Kansas Educational Taskforce, National Endowment for the Humanities Regional Humanities Center Project, Center for Great Plains Studies, Lincoln, NE, 2000 - 2001

Book Review Editor, American Indian Quarterly, 1999 - 2001

Advisor to "Producing Instructional Change Through Technology (PICTT) project involving a consortium of Emporia State University, Kansas State University, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, and several high schools to produce student-created history-based websites, 1999 - 2001

Consultant, on-camera commentator for KTWU (Washburn University's PBS-t.v. station) on American Indian and Western imagery topics, 1997, 1999

Member (gubernatorial appointment), State of Kansas Unmarked Burial Sites Preservation Board (deals with sensitive issues involving Native American tribal concerns)

Peer reviewer of grant application for the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1999

Peer reviewer of grant application for the Smithsonian Institution - Office of Fellowships and Grants, 1999

Peer reviewer of grant application for the Smithsonian Institution - Office of Fellowship and Grants, 1998

Created statewide tests for the Bureau of Educational Measurements for the following areas and grades: American History 9 - 12, American History 7 - 8 - 9, Kansas History, Social Studies, 7 - 8, 1999

Consultant to the Sicangu Oyate (Rosebud Sioux Tribe) on repatriation issues related to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 1998

Editorial Advisory Board, American Indian Art, 1994 - present

Board of Directors, Paul Dyck Foundation - Research Institution of American Indian Culture, 1979 - present

Invited to serve as outside member of doctoral dissertation committee, Anthropology Department, Indiana University, 1998 - present

Constructed tests in U.S. and Kansas history for State of Kansas Scholarship Contest for Assessment and Educational Measurements Center, 1994

Advisory Board, Annual Editions: American History, Volume 1 (Dushkin/ McGraw Hill), 1993 - present

Advisory Board, Annual Editions: American History, Volume 2 (Dushkin/ McGraw Hill), 1993 - present

Board of Directors, Kansas History Teachers Association, 1993 - 1996

Heritage Program Review Committee, Kansas Humanities Council, 1993

Editorial Advisory Board, University Press of Kansas, 1992 - 1994

Guest Curator, "Painted Words: Plains Indian Pictographic Art," Kansas Museum of History, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, KS, 1991 - 1992

Rewrote State of Kansas Scholarship examinations in U.S. and Kansas history, Assessment and Educational Measurements Center, 1990

Alternate Member, Editorial Advisory Board, University Press of Kansas, 1990 - 1992
 

University Service

Member, Nominating Committee for Faculty President Candidates, 2003

The Teachers College Student Research Awards Committee, 2003

LA&S Dean's Advisory Council, 2002-2003

The Teachers College Faculty Recognition Awards Committee, 2002

Member, University Grievance Committee Panel, 2002-2003

History Graduate Committee, 20o02-2003

Chair, Ad Hoc Committee created by Faculty Affairs Committee of Faculty Senate to examine university policies regarding the role of ombudspersons in institutional grievance procedures, 2002

Member, Social Sciences Scholarship & Honors Committee, 2002-2003

Member, Social Sciences Ad Hoc Career Fair Committee, 2002

Campus contact professor for the George J. Mitchell Scholarships for advanced study in Ireland or Northern Ireland (2001 - present)

Ombudsperson, 2001-2002

Awards Committee, ESU Alumni Association, 2001-present

Social Sciences Search Committee (Teacher Education), 2000 - 2001

Social Sciences Search Committee (History), 2000

President, Phi Kappa Phi honorary, 2000 - 2001

Faculty Advisor, Pi Gamma Mu honorary, 2000 - 2001

Honors Council, 2000 - 2001

Vice President, ESU Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, 1999 - 2002

Faculty Research and Creativity Committee, 1998 - 2001, 1995 - 1996, 1991 - 1993 (chair 1992 -1993)

Ethnic and Gender Studies Steering Committee, 1995 - 2001

Multicultural Task Force, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, 1995

Secretary, Social Sciences Division's Faculty Recognition Committee, 1998 - 1999

Presidential Search Committee, 1997

Faculty President, 1996 - 1997

Ad hoc committee reporting to Kansas Board of Regents on recommendations involving program review

ESU President's Advisory Council, 1996 - 1997

Chair, Curriculum Review Panel, 1995 - 1996

Secretary, Faculty Senate, 1994 - 1995

Social Sciences search committee, 1995

Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 1994 - 1998

Moderator, Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty Assembly, 1993 - 1994

Secretary, Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty Assembly, 1992 - 1993

Member, Liberal Arts & Sciences Dean's Advisory Council, 1992 - 1995

General Education Council, 1991 - 1992

Graduate Council, 1990 - 1992

Graduate Advisor, 1990 - 1992

Artists Fellowships in Literature Advisory Panel, Kansas Arts Commission, 1990

Cosponsor, Phi Alpha Theta honorary, 1990 - 1992

University Research Publication Board, 1990 - 1992
 

Grants & Awards

Roe R. Cross Distinguished Professor - 2003-2004 - "The Roe R. Cross Distinguished Professor Award is given to the ESU professor who best demonstrates teaching excellence, professional activities, fostering of intellectual atmosphere, service to the university outside the classroom, and status as a student mentor" (Source: ESU's webiste)

"Educator of the Year - Higher Education" award from the Emporia Gazette , Readers Advisory Board - 2001

ESU Faculty Research and Creativity summer stipend ($1500) for research on "Of Forests and Trees: John C. Ewers and 'Early White Influence Upon Plains Indian Painting" project, 1998

ESU Curriculum Development Fellowship ($1500), 1996

ESU Faculty Research and Creativity Committee summer stipend ($1500) for research on "This Sacred Place" project, 1995

Fellowship to a pair of Indian history seminars sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanit8ies and the D'Arcy McNickle Center of the Newberry Library, Chicago, 1994

Annual Award for Excellence in Service, Emporia State University, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, 1992

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research grant ($3180) to support investigation of James Mooney's fieldnotes on the Kiowas (1890-1906), 1990

American Philosophical Society's Phillips Fund for Research in American Indian Linguistics and Ethnohistory grant ($1295) supporting research dealing with Kiowa material obtained by James Mooney, 1990

ESU Faculty Research and Creativity grant ($5400, including a graduate research assistant) providing initial funding related to James Mooney's work among the Kiowas, 1990
 

Work Experience

Emporia State University, 1989 - present
Professor, 2001 - present
Associate Professor, 1995 - 2001
Assistant Professor, 1989 - 1995
Editor, Heritage of the Great Plains, 1994 - 2001
Co-Editor, Tales Out of School, 1992 - 2001
Director, Center for Great Plains Studies, 1992 - 2001

Arizona State University - Department of Archives and Manuscripts, University Libraries, 1987 - 1990
Oral History Consultant, 1989 - 1990
Oral Historian - Field Collector, 1987 - 1989

Adjunct Instructor for various institutions in Phoenix, AZ area (1986 - 1989), including:
Northern Arizona University's Phoenix Extension
Arizona State University's Sun City Branch
Rio Salado Community College

Adjunct Instructor for the College of Ganado's Hopi Extension at Tuba City (1984) and Kyakotsmovi (1983)

Freelance writer, 1983 - 1989

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