A two-week summer institute for twenty-five college and university teachers to explore the topic of American westward expansion in the Early Republic through the lens of the U.S. Constitution.

Expansion and the Constitution in the Early Republic is a proposed two-week Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, to be held at the University of Oklahoma in June 2014. We anticipate applications from teachers at four-year and community colleges as well as graduate students. The proposed Institute will bring current and future college faculty into conversation with some of the leading academic researchers of the early republic on the history of the American West, race, and Indian removal. The participants will explore the social, cultural, and political dimensions of American westward expansion through the lens of the U.S. Constitution and the struggles over its interpretation between the American Revolution and the conclusion of the Mexican-American War in 1848.

A cross-cultural and historical analysis of the Southwest Indian myth of emergence.

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A five-week seminar for fifteen college and university faculty to explore American Indian ethnohistory, a study of the relationship between Indians and Europeans.

This seminar will explore American Indian Ethnohistory, a study of the relationship between Indians and Europeans, using as a foundation in understanding of the evolving nature of tribalism. Initial discussion will focus on cultural anthropology and its early role in developing the discipline, and then turn quickly to the growing contributions made by historians in the field. Some of the earliest ethnohistory looked broadly at the impact of European invasion on Indian tribes, showing in particular the demographic collapse that came with that invasion. This led to what is often called "victim" history. But by the 1980s, many ethnohistorians were probing deeply into the way Indians adapted to the European advance, especially how they changed their political, social, economic, and religious institutions to meet the needs of a changing world. It is this new history, of Indians as actors, which we will explore in the seminar in considerable detail.

To plan a series of exhibits on the Plains Apache Indians.

To support the installation and maintenance costs for one year of two travelingexhibitions on the Plains Apache and Wichita Indian tribes of Oklahoma which were planned and implemented with NEH grants.

To support the microfilming of 104 linear feet of records from the Cherokee Indian Nation and the personal papers of four Cherokee Indian families, dating from 1830 to 1907.

A planning project to develop, in consultation with Native American communities, protocols for best practices for preserving and digitizing audio and audiovisual recordings of Native American music held in various community archives and at the Sam Noble Museum at the University of Oklahoma.

This project will consult with Native communities to ascertain the desirability and logistics of a large-scale digitization and preservation program for Native American music recordings in Oklahoma. The immediate goal of the project is to develop a series of protocols for best practices in ethically facilitating the preservation and digitization of music recordings primarily held by Native communities and their members. We also propose to expand and enhance policies regarding audio and audiovisual recordings in the museum's Native American Languages Collection. The duration of the project is two years. The first year we will focus on community outreach and engagement as well as our campus-based and external advisors. The second year we will expand and follow up on our community meetings, develop protocols, and solicit feedback from our advisors as well as from community leaders and members. The final product will be a set of recommendations for program implementation.

An Implementation project to create access through a collections database to Native language holdings at the Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma. Activities include metadata enhancement, digitization, software development, and development of a web portal for access.   

The Native American Languages collection at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History at the University of Oklahoma seeks to fund a three-year project to provide online access to our collections for the first time. This project builds on the work of a previous NEH Foundations grant (PW- 269366-20) that funded workshops with community and academic partners to create the framework for a user-oriented website that will best serve the needs of our visitors and contributors. These activities will ultimately allow community members, researchers, and the public to make use of the collections Native American language materials in ways not previously possible. There are four components to achieving our goal of making the collections available online: 1) website development, 2) continuing archival software development, 3) digitization, and 4) collections metadata enhancement.

To examine the farming experience of the Plains Indians including the ways in which Indian people have perceived and reacted to the policies developed for them. Research will utilize the Duke Indian Oral hisotry C ollection.

Co-creation of a new Native American imprint at the University of Oklahoma Press and extension of scholarship through a variety of public-facing humanities projects.

The University of Oklahoma Press is one of the pre-eminent publishers of the story of the American West and Native North America, but the COVID-19 pandemic has put this core humanities mission in jeopardy with reduced productivity from all stages of book production threatening the viability of critical press staffing lines. And yet, the OU Press and its engaged partners at the University of Oklahoma (the New Stories of the West, for the West Team) also see the opportunities presented by the pandemic to both support the press and to expand the authorship and dissemination of the story of the West. Through the establishment of an Imprint housed by the Native-directed OU Native Nations Center, and by supporting some of OUs most impactful public-facing humanities entities, our team boldly envisions a more inclusive future for the humanities ecosystem at the University of Oklahoma: telling stories of the West in ways that all the people of the West can access and appreciate.