The Dartmouth sat down to chat with History and Native American studies professor Colin Calloway, who has written extensively on topics such as the history of Native Americans at Dartmouth and the Native American West prior to the expeditions of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

In a story about the creation of Native American English, or “the rez accent,” the magazine turns for comment to Kalina Newmark ’11 and Nacole Walker ’11, who authored a study about ethnic identity and language....

Augusta Terkildsen ’19 drew portraits of members of her tribe, the Oglala Sioux, who have joined the opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline. Terkildsen plans to spend part of her winter break at the protest site near the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota....

Next month, Associate Professor and Chair of Native American Studies Melanie Taylor and her husband, Alan Taylor, a lecturer in writing, will pack up their house in New London, N.H., and move with their 2-year old son, Abel, into a large Victorian house on North Park Street—part of the College’s new house communities system.

Vivian Korthuis ’86 has been named the first woman CEO of the Association of Village Council Presidents, made up of 56 tribes in 48 villages throughout Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, reports Alaska Dispatch News.

N. Bruce Duthu ’80, the Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, will be the next Frank. J. Guarini Associate Dean for International Studies and Interdisciplinary Programs. He succeeds Lynn Higgins, the Edward Tuck Professor of French and a professor of comparative literature, of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and of film and media studies. She has held the office since 2011.

JoRee LaFrance ’17, from Crow Agency, Montana, and Helen Thomas ’18, from Grand Forks, N.D., have been awarded 2016 scholarships from the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation.

Growing up on a ranch on the Crow reservation in Montana, surrounded by family—her mother, father, twin sister, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents—JoRee LaFrance ’17 knows the power of storytelling.

Melanie Chaplier, PhD, is a Belgian Anthropologist who joined NAS as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow for the academic year 2015-2016