Marie Kainoa Fialkowski (2004)
Marie Kainoa Fialkowski (Native Hawaiian) was awarded the writing prize for her NAS 85 Independent Study project and resulting paper: "Healing Journey from 'Sugar:' Native Empowerment Through Health."
[more]Marie Kainoa Fialkowski (Native Hawaiian) was awarded the writing prize for her NAS 85 Independent Study project and resulting paper: "Healing Journey from 'Sugar:' Native Empowerment Through Health."
[more]Andrea Marlene B. Abeita (Navajo). Andrea graduated Dartmouth with a major in Native American Studies. She was awarded the writing prize for her spring term 2004 Independent Research project and resulting paper: "Stories, Oral and Written: A Native Perspective."
[more]Professor O'Brien joined us from the University of Southern Mississippi, where he taught many courses in American History, but his focus of research has been on Southeastern Indians. His first book entitled "Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830" (University of Nebraska Press) was published in 2002. He has also published essays is many scholarly journals. He taught two courses during the fall of 2004: "The Invasion of America: American Indian History, Pre-contact to 1830", and "The Ethnohistory of Southeastern Indians."
[more]Angelica Lawson (2003-2004) - (Northern Arapaho), completed her Ph.D at the University of Arizona, Tucson. The title of her dissertation is: "Resistance and Resilience in the Work of Four Native American Authors." Prof. Lawson was also a visiting instructor at Dartmouth, and taught a course in NAS for the Fall, 2003 term: "American Indians on Film and Television." She is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, specializing in American Indian Film and Literature.
[more]Aja Kateri DeCoteau (Yakama / Chippewa). Aja was awarded the prize for her senior thesis: "Nch'I-N-usux W'anapa (Salmon in the Big River): Salmon and their Keepers Along the Columbia River."
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