On Native Grounds: Studies of Native American Histories and the Land

FAIN: EH-50416-14

Community College Humanities Association (Baltimore, MD 21237-3899)
George L. Scheper (Project Director: March 2014 to June 2016)

A three-week college and university summer institute for twenty participants on Native American history.

The Community College Humanities Association requests funding for a NEH Summer Institute for 20 Summer Scholars at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, from June 15- July 2, 2015, on the topic “On Native Grounds: Ethnohistorical Studies on Native American Histories and the Land.” Ethnohistorical study of Native American histories and cultures is a growing academic field of scholarship and teaching, and has become indispensable to such other fields as American Studies, American and global history, comparative religion, and art history; a more Native-centric approach has also transformed studies in anthropology and archaeology, and political and legal history. Our eight Visiting Faculty Scholars will present their groundbreaking ethnohistorical research concerning Native American issues of land, sovereignty, culture, and identity. In publicizing, we will make a special outreach to tribal colleges, community colleges, and small liberal arts colleges.