Department of Anthropology, Iowa State University

Research Interests
Indigenous Peoples of the Western Great Lakes/Midwest
North American Indian Cultural Performance
Indigenous Activism and Institution Building

Current Projects
- Gifts and Profits: Ho-Chunk Powwows and the Value of Indigenous Cultural Performance in a Changing World. (Book)

-Cosmopolitan Indians and the Creation of Chicago’s American Indian Center (Book)

-Exposing the Hidden Legacies of Ho-Chunk Dispossession: “Indian News” and the Struggle over Hunting Laws in 1930s Wisconsin (Conference Presentation)

Selected Publications

Accepted. “Autobiography en Abyme: Indigenous Reflections on Representational Agency in the Case of Crashing Thunder.” To appear in Ethnohistory

2010    The making and muting of an indigenous media activist: Imagination and ideology in Charles Round Low Cloud’s “Indian News.” American Ethnologist, Vol. 37, No. 3. Pp. 499-510.

2009     “Indigenous Agendas and Activist Genders: Chicago’s American Indian Center, Social Welfare, and Native American Women’s Urban Leadership.” In Keeping the Campfires Going: Native Women’s Activism in Urban Communities. Edited by Susan Applegate Krouse and Heather Howard. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press.

2009     “Imagining Activist Agendas: Urban Institution-Building, Tribal Sovereignty, and the Articulatory Moment.” In Visions and Voices: American Indian Activism in the Sixties. Edited by Terry Straus and Kurt Peters. 2009. Albatross Press.

2008    “Ho-Chunk Powwows: Innovation and Tradition in a Changing World.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History. Spring, 2008

2005     ” Ho-Chunk ‘Indian Powwows’ of the Early Twentieth Century.” In Powwow. Edited by Clyde Ellis, Luke Eric Lassiter, and Gary H. Dunham. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

2002      “Relocation’s Imagined Landscape and the Rise of Chicago’s Native American Community.” In Native Chicago. Edited by Terry Straus. Second Edition. Chicago: Albatross Press.

2001     “Amy Leicher Skenandore.” Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary. Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast, eds. Indiana University Press.

1998     “Mapping the Move from Reservation to City: Relocation’s Imagine Landscapes and the Rise of Chicago’s Native American Community.” In Native Chicago. Edited by Terry Straus and Grant P. Arndt. Chicago: McNaughton and Gunn, Inc.

1998    “ ‘Contrary to Our Way of Thinking’: The Struggle for an American Indian Center in Chicago.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Vol. 22, No. 4

1998     Native Chicago  (co-editor, with Terry Straus). Albatross Press: Chicago.