The D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History was founded in 1972. Its goals are to encourage the use of the Newberry collections on American Indian history (see the American Indian History Collection); improve the quality of what is written about American Indians; educate teachers about American Indian culture, history, and literature; assist American Indian tribal historians in their research; and provide a meeting ground where scholars, teachers, tribal historians, and others interested in American Indian studies can discuss their work with each other.
The McNickle Center's staff, affiliated research projects, and fellows have played a major role in shaping modern scholarship on American Indian history. In its first two decades the Center hosted nearly one hundred pre- and post-doctoral scholars on long-term fellowships, generally of six to eleven months duration. During the same period nearly two hundred short-term fellows spent between two weeks and two months conducting research at the Newberry. These long and short-term fellows have produced nearly forty books and dozens of scholarly articles.
Most recently, the McNickle Center entered into a partnership with the thirteen Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) universities, dedicated toward constructing a nationally-recognized, innovative, graduate program in American Indian Studies. Each year, the CIC and McNickle Center collaborate on graduate student programming (conferences, seminars, and workshops), a national conference, and offer graduate student fellowships as well as a CIC faculty fellowship.
These initiatives broaden the McNickle Center's mission and compliment our other activities. At present, the Center offers a bi-monthy noon speaker series; sponsors conferences, seminars, and workshops for scholars and teachers; administers several fellowship programs; and publishes Meeting Ground, a national newsletter.
Ninth Annual CIC AISC Graduate Student Conference and Paper Competition
The three winners of this year's competition are:
1/Kathleen Ratteree, University of Wisconsin -Madison, FIRST PLACE, For Wahupta Ska Pejuta: Hemp and Treaty Abrogation
2/Kathryn Magee, Ohio State University, SECOND PLACE, For ‘They are the Life of the Nation”: Women and War in Traditional Nadouek Society
3/Chelsea Chapman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, THIRD PLACE, For: Just do It? Multiculturalism, Citizenship and Nike’s Air Native
CIC AISC Student Fellowships 2008-2009
This year's recipients are:
1/Erik Redix, from the University of Minnesota
2/Anne Peterson, from the University of Iowa
Tribal Newspaper Inventory of the McNickle Center
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McNickle Center Resources
Native American Resources on the Web
Colloquia and Public Programs
Meeting Ground Newsletter
CIC Statistics, Evaluations, and Reports
Committee on Institutional Cooperation American Indian Studies Consortium
Frances C. Allen Fellowship for Women of American Indian Heritage
Susan Kelly Power and Hellen Hornbeck Tanner Fellowship
Send us e-mail with your preferred postal mailing address, or mail the information to: D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610-3380. Phone: 312-255-3564.
Brian Hosmer, Director Phone: 312-255-3563 Email: hosmerb@newberry.org
Gail Terry, Assistant Director Phone: 312-255-3575 Email: terryg@newberry.org Available Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Céline Swicegood, Program Assistant Phone: 312-255-3564 Email: swicegoodc@newberry.org Available Monday, Wednesday, Thursday