Native American Studies (NAS) at Michigan has grown rapidly in the first few years of this century. Among the ten NAS faculty, some are members of the Gros Ventre, Ojibwe, Comanche, and other nations. Others are of Dakota, African-American, and Euro-American heritages.

Philip Deloria (Dakota Heritage), Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of history and American culture. Research interests include 19th and 20th century U.S. cultural history and Native American history.  pdeloria@umich.edu, 734.936.6872

Gregory Dowd, Professor of history and American culture; Director of the Program in American Culture. Interests: Eastern Native North American history; Early American history.  dowdg@umich.edu, 734.615.6473

Lincoln Faller, Professor of English language and literature. faller@umich.edu, 734.647.7477

Joseph P. Gone (Gros Ventre), Assistant Professor of psychology and American culture. Research interests include ethnopsychological investigation of self, identity, personhood, and social relations in American Indian cultural contexts vis-à-vis the mental health professions.  jgone@umich.edu, 734.647.3958

Howard Kimewon, Lecturer I in the Program in American Culture. Research Interests include Ojibwe language and culture. hkimewon@umich.edu, 734.615.8869

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Irving "Hap" McCue (Ojibwe). Lecturer II, Program in American Culture

Barbra Meek (Comanche), Assistant Professor of anthropology. Research interests include linguistic anthropology, endangered languages and language revitalization, Athabaskan.  bameek@umich.edu, 734.936.3192

Tiya Miles, Director of NAS, Associate Professor in the Program in American Culture, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, and Department of History. Research interests include African American and Native American interrelated histories; 19th-century U.S. women's history; feminist writing by women of color. Tiya's hompage,  tiya@umich.edu, 734.615.8869

Margaret Noori (Ojibwe Heritage), Lecturer I, Program in American Culture, teaches courses in Ojibwe language and Anishinaabe literature. Her research focuses on the recovery and maintenance of Anishinaabe language and literature, with an interest in language proficiency and assessment, and the study of indigenous literary aesthetics and rhetoric. For more information visit www.umich.edu/~ojibwe/. mnoori@umich.edu

Gustavo Verdesio, Associate Professor in the Program in American Culture and the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures. Research interests include colonial studies, Native American studies, pre-contact indigenous societies, material culture, popular culture, theory. verdesio@umich.edu

Michael Witgen (Ojibwe), Assistant Professor of American culture and history. Research interests include American Indian and early American history, the North American West, borderlands history, and pre-confederation Canada.  mwitgen@umich.edu, 734.647.5419

Hardly comprehensive, this list conveys a quick sense of faculty interests.  For more information, please go to the faculty member's individual website.

• Deloria PJ: Indians in Unexpected Places. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.

• Deloria PJ: Playing Indian. New Haven: Yale, 1998.

• Deloria PJ, Salisbury N, eds.: A Companion to American Indian History. Oxford, UK and Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2001.

• Dowd GE: The American Revolution to the Mid-nineteenth Century. In Raymond Fogelson, ed., and William Sturtevant, gen. ed. Handbook of the North American Indians: Southeast; Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2005.

• Dowd GE: War Under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2002.

• Dowd GE: A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity: 1745-1815. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1992.

• Gone JP: As if reviewing his life: Bull Lodge's narrative and the mediation of self-representation. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 30(1):67-86, 2006.

• Gone JP: Mental health services for Native Americans in the 21st century United States. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 35(1):10-18, 2004.

• Meek BA, Jules L: Kaska classificatory verbs: A preliminary analysis. In Siri Tuttle and Gary Holton, eds. Proceedings of the 2001 Athabaskan Languages Conference, Alaska Native Language Center Working Papers; Fairbanks: Alaska Native Language Center, (1):54-74, 2001.

• Meek BA: And the injun goes "How!"?: Representations of American Indian English in white public space. Language in Society 35(1):93-128, 2006.

• Meek BA, Messing J: Framing indigenous languages as secondary to matrix languages. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 38(2), 2007.

• Miles TA: Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

• Miles TA: Uncle Tom was an Indian: Tracing the red in black slavery. In James Brooks, ed.: Confounding the Color Line: Indian-Black Relations in North America;  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

• Miles TA with Naylor-Ojurongbe C: African Americans in southeastern societies. In Raymond Fogelson, ed.: Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 14 Southeast;   Washington DC: Smithsonian, 2004.

• Verdesio G, ed.: Latin American Subaltern Studies Revisited, thematic issue of the journal, Disposition, 52, 2005.

• Verdesio G, co-editor: Colonialism Past and Present: Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin American Texts Today. Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.

• Verdesio G, co-editor: Forgotten Conquests. Re-reading New World History from the Margins. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001.

• Witgen M: The rituals of possession: Native identity and the invention of empire in 17th century western north America. Ethnohistory, 54(4), 2007.

• Witgen M: An Infinity of Nations: How the Native World Shaped Modern North America. Forthcoming.