Expertise

I focus in particular on using Native language texts, both historical and contemporary. Kinship and social organization; ritual and belief systems; oral traditions; material culture; Plains Indians; North America.

Past Affiliations

Co-Director, American Indian Studies Research Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Adjunct Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Adjunct Faculty, Department of American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Chancellors Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Director, Department of American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Department of American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Adjunct Professor, Ethnomusicology Institute

Affiliate Faculty, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Director Emeritus, American Indian Studies Research Institute, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Literature, Native American Studies, North American Studies, Music
Degrees
PhD, University of Chicago, Anthropology , 1971
MA, University of Chicago, Anthropology , 1970
BA, University of Chicago, Anthropology , 1968
Keywords
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