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  • Clyde Ellis (2001-2002)

    January 1, 2001

    Professor of History Elon College, Ellis has done research on the early American Indian education experiences, as well as the Kiowa Indians and their experience with Christianity. He is author of three books: "To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920" (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996); "The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity and Indian Hymns," (accompanied with a music CD of 26 Kiowa hymns), and "A Dancing People: Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains" (University Press of Kansas, 2003).

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  • Thomas Abler (2000-2001)

    September 1, 2000

    Professor Abler received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Toronto in 1969. His research interests involve historical aspects of socio-political organization of Native Peoples of North America, including warfare, factionalism, kinship, and mythology. He taught two courses at Dartmouth: "The Invasion of America" and "History of the Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy," during the Fall Term, 2000.

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  • Adrian Tanner (1999-2000)

    September 1, 1999

    Dr. Tanner is professor of Anthropology at Memorial University, Newfoundland. He authored a book in 1979, "Bringing Home Animals." During Winter Term, 2000, Dr. Tanner taught a course for us called "Peoples of the Northern Forest," which we cross-listed with the Anthropology department. He taught a second course on land issues in Canada and the United States.

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  • Darren J. Ranco (1999-2000)

    September 1, 1999

    Darren J. Ranco (1999-2000) - (Penobscot), completed his B.A. in Anthropology at Dartmouth College, 1993, his MS in Environmental Law at Vermont Law School in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 2000. He was on the faculty at Dartmouth in our Native Studies Program and the Environmental Studies Program, from 2002-2008.  He is now an Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Coordinator of Native American Research at the University of Maine.

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  • Catherine Virginia McCarthy (1999)

    September 1, 1999

    Catherine Virginia McCarthy (Eastern Cherokee). Cat received the writing prize for her Honors Thesis in Native American Studies:  "Keepers of the Fire: Cherokee Philosophy and South Carolina Relations in the 18th Century."

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