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The D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History was founded in 1972. Its goals are to encourage the use of the Newberry collections in American Indian and Indigenous studies (see the American Indian History Collection); improve the quality of what is written about American Indians and Indigenous peoples; educate teachers about American Indian and Indigenous cultures, histories, and literatures; assist American Indian tribal and Indigenous historians in their research; and provide a meeting ground where scholars, teachers, tribal historians, and others interested in American Indian and Indigenous 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 and Indigenous studies. 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. These initiatives broaden the McNickle Center's mission and compliment our other activities. The Center sponsors conferences, seminars, and workshops for scholars and teachers; administers several fellowship programs; and publishes Meeting Ground, a national newsletter. It is also home to the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies (NCAIS). |
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Seminars and ProgramsDecember 19, 10:30am - 12:30pm Panelists: Scott Stevens, The Newberry Library (chair); Gary C. Anderson, University of Oklahoma; Jennifer Denetdale, Northern Arizona University, John W. Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison Visit two exhibitions on display at the Newberry: With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition, a Library of Congress exhibition, and Honest Abe of the West, an exhibition of the Newberry Library's collections. American Indian Studies Seminar Series
D'Arcy McNickle Center launched the Seminar Series in American Indian Studies in the fall 2008. The seminars feature scholarly discussion of papers based on work-in-progress. Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are urged to attend and to circulate news of this forum to colleagues. The seminar meets at the Newberry Library on Thursdays, 4-5:30. We will pre-circulate papers to those planning to attend. E-mail mcnickle@newberry.org, or call (312) 255-3564 to receive a copy of the paper. Papers are available for request two weeks prior to the seminar date. NEH Summer Institute for College & University Teachers June 14-July 9, 2010 This 4-week institute will examine the complex and shifting alliances between various Indian nations of North America and European colonists competing for land and political ascendancy in regions east of the Mississippi between the years 1675 and 1815. The institute will feature four guest lecturers in American Indian studies, American history, art history, and literature, as well as Newberry staff experts in cartography and American Indian materials in the Ayer Collection. 25 participants will be drawn from across academic disciplines and institutions and encouraged to share their expertise and approaches to pedagogy. Faculty in order of their visits are: |