Frederick E. Hoxie is Swanlund Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign. He is the author of A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920 (1984) and Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America, 1805-1935 (1995) and has edited a number of collections including The Encyclopedia of North American Indians (1996) and Talking Back to Civilization (2001). He is a co-author of the forthcoming The People: A History of Native America. A former director of the McNickle Center, Hoxie has also served as an expert witness and historical consultant for a number of tribes and educational organizations.
The Institute: Is there an American Indian political tradition? Institute participants will explore that question by investigating Native American efforts to use the legal and political institutions of the United States to defend tribal interests and promote community sovereignty. Institute members will read speeches and essays by American Indian political activists along with commentaries by historians, politicians and lawyers. The group will focus successively on the removal era, the tumultuous years of late nineteenth century reform, the "progressive era," and the 1930s-attempting in each instance to identify distinctive Native American voices and to evaluate their critique of the majority U.S. culture and its policies. Guest speakers engaged in these issues will supplement group discussions, field trips and lectures.
The institute is designed for teachers from American Indian tribal colleges and Native American studies programs in colleges and universities. Participants will meet as a group for a half-day, four days a week. They will devote the balance of their time to research in their chosen areas of emphasis, which can be primary research, curriculum development, or bibliography. During the last week and a half of the institute, participants will share their individual projects with the group.
The 15 participants will receive $2,000 each for housing and per diem, up to $1,000 each for travel to and from Newberry Library, and a book and photocopying allowance. Institute sponsors are the Newberry Library, Lannan Foundation, and other donors.
List of participants at the 2003 Summer Institute.
2003 Lannan Summer Institute Syllabus