Department of History and Program in American Culture

Philip J. Deloria

Department of History and Program in American Culture

Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Education

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

3700 Haven Hall 2216 LSA Building

505 S. State Street 500 S. State Street

University Of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1003 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1382

Positions Held

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor, 2009-present

Professor, University of Michigan, 2004-present.

Associate Professor, University of Michigan, 2001-2004

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado, 1994-2000.

Education

Yale University, Ph.D. 1994, American Studies

University of Colorado, M.A. 1988, Journalism and Mass Communications

University of Colorado, B.M.E. 1982, Music Education

Refereed Publications

Indians in Unexpected Places (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2004).

Playing Indian (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).

Blackwell Companion to Native American History, with Neal Salisbury, eds. (Boston: Blackwell Publishers, 2002).

C.G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions: Dreams, Visions, Nature, and the Primitive by Vine V. Deloria Jr., co-edited by Philip J. Deloria and Jerome Bernstein (New Orleans: Spring Journal Press, May 2009).

Works in Progress

Crossing the (Indian) Color Line: A Family Memoir

1833: The Year the Stars Fell

Reading Mount Rushmore

Benzie to Boulder: Environmental Colonialism in the American West and Midwest

Articles and Book Chapters

“Three Lives, Two Rivers: One Marriage and the Narratives of American Colonial History,” Rikkyo American Studies 32 (March 2010): 103-128.

“Toward an American Indian Abstract: Mary Sully’s Vision of mid-Twentieth Century American Culture,” The Japanese Journal of American Studies (Spring 2010)

“Broadway and Main: Crossroads, Ghost Roads, and Pathways to American Studies Futures: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, October 16, 2008,” American Quarterly 61:1 (March 2009): 1-26

“From Nation to Neighborhood: Land, Policy, Culture, Colonialism, and Empire in U.S.-Indian Relations,” in The Cultural Turn in U.S. History: Past, Present and Future ed. James Cook, Lawrence Glickman, and Michael O’Malley (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008): 343-382.

“Dam Up the Lake! Tear Down the Butte! Build A Paradise!: The Environmental Dimensions of Social and Political Power in Boulder and Benzie,” Southern California Historical Quarterly 89 (Spring 2007): 65-88.

“Places like Houses, Banks, and Continents: An Appreciative Reply to the Presidential Address,” American Quarterly 58 (March 2006): 23-29.

“What is the Middle Ground, Anyway?” William and Mary Quarterly 3d series, V. 63 (Jan 2006): 15-22.

“Polarized Tribes: Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana,” in Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West: Sacred Landscapes in Transition ed. Jan Shipps and Mark Silk (AltaMira, 2004).

“American Indians and American (Indian) Studies,” American Quarterly V. 55 (Dec 2003): 669-680.

“Counterculture Indians and the New Age,” Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and ‘70s ed. Peter Braunstein and Michael William Doyle (New York: Routledge, 2002).

“Thinking Self and Subject in a Family Way,” Journal of American History 89:1 (June 2002): 25-29.

“Richard White and the Politics of Knowledge,” Western Historical Quarterly 32: 2 (Summer 2002): 150-154.

“Tell Me About Your Parents”: Rereading John Collier’s From Every Zenith,” North Dakota Quarterly 67 (Summer/Fall 2001): 106-121.

“Vine Deloria Sr.,” The New Warriors: American Indian Leadership in the Twentieth Century ed. R. David Edmunds (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001).

“I Am of the Body: Thoughts on My Grandfather, Sports, and Culture,” South Atlantic Quarterly 95:2 (Summer 1996): 321-338.

“Revolution, Region, and Culture in Multicultural History,” William and Mary Quarterly 3d Series, 53:2 (April 1996): 363-366.

“The Twentieth Century and Beyond,” The Native Americans: An Illustrated History (Atlanta: Turner, 1993): 384-463.

“White Sachems and Indian Masons: American Indian Otherness and Nineteenth-Century Fraternalism,” Democratic Vistas 1 (Fall 1993): 27-43.

Forewords and Introductions

Simon Pokagon, Queen of the Woods: with Critical Essays by Kiara Vigil, John Low, and Margaret Noori, eds. Kiara Vigil, John Low, and Margaret Noori (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2011)

“Introduction: Face to Face with the Past,” Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, ed. Cecile Ganteaume (New York: HarperCollins, 2010): 13-19.

Native Acts: Indian Performance in Early North America eds. Joshua David Bellin and Laura L. Mielke (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2010)

Lee Irwin, Coming Down From Above: Prophecy, Resistance and Renewal in Native American Religions (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008)

Bruce Johansen, The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America 2 vols. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007): vii-ix.

Vine Deloria Jr., The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Press, 2006): xiii-xvi.

Daniel R. Wildcat and Steve Pavlik, eds. Destroying Dogma: Vine Deloria Jr. and His Influence on American Society (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Press, 2006): v-vii.

Miscellaneous Writing

“ On Leaking Languages and Categorical Imperatives,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal (Special Issue: Indian Languages in Unexpected Places) 35:2 (June 2011): 173-182.

“Working from Home in American Indian History: A Commentary,” American Indian Quarterly 33:4 (Fall 2009): 545-552.

“People and Place,” American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook ed. Frances Kennedy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008): 141-142.

“Perceptions of Native Americans” Encarta Reference Library 2003 (Microsoft, 2003)

“American Indian People on the Great Plains” (with Christopher Riggs), Encyclopedia of the Great Plains ed. David Wishart (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).

“Mascots and Other Public Appropriations of Indians and Indian Culture by Whites” and “Ella Deloria,” Encyclopedia of the American Indian ed. Frederick Hoxie (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1996): 159-161, 359-361.

Reviews

Review of Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief by Frank Goodyear III, American Historical Review 109 (October 2004): 1238.

Review of The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns by Luke Eric Lassiter, Clyde Ellis, and Ralph Kotay, Pacific Historical Review (Winter, 2003)

Review of Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans by Anthony F. C. Wallace, William and Mary Quarterly 57:4 (Summer 2000): 886.

Review of American Indians in World War I: At Home and at War by Thomas A. Britten, Montana: The Magazine of Western History Summer 2000: 78-79.

Review of Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated by Mick Gidley, Pacific Historical Review 69 (Feb 2000): 112-113.

Review of Crow Indian Photographer: The Work of Richard Throssel by Peggy Albright, Pacific Historical Review, 67 (1998): 438-440.

Review of Navajo and Photography: A Critical History of the Representation of an American People by James C. Faris, Western Historical Quarterly 29 (Spring 1998): 90-91.

Review of Wild West Shows and Images of American Indians, 1883-1933 by L.G. Moses, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 101 (July, 1997): 117-118.

Review of Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst by Christopher Castiglia, Journal of American History 83 (December 1996): 997.

“The Way West: A Review,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 46 (Summer 1996): 73-75.

Review Essay: “Western Films after Unforgiven”, American Historical Review 100 (October 1995): 1194-1198.

Review of Retained by the People: A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights by John Wunder, Western Historical Quarterly 26 (Spring 1995): 109-110.

Review of Black Hills/White Justice by Edward Lazarus, Great Plains Research 3 (February 1993): 127-128.

Video Documentary

Eyanopapi: Heart of the Sioux, Producer, Director, Editor. 28:30 minute, 1989. Regional PBS programming.

Textbooks

This Land: A History of the United States, with David Burner, Jack Rakove and Patricia Nelson Limerick (St. James, New York: Brandywine Press, 2003).

Selected Invited Lectures

“Toward an Indian Abstract: Mary Sully and the American Studies Tradition,” Keynote Address, Japanese Association for American Studies, Tokyo, June 6, 2009

“Toward an Indian Abstract: The Outsider Art of Mary Sully,” National Gallery of Art and National Museum of the American Indian, December 5, 2008.

“Back Down to the Crossroads: American Studies and the New Interdisciplines,” Indiana University, February 12, 2008.

“Native American Literature and the Politics of Identity and Style,” Keynote Address, International Symposium on Diaspora and Ethnic Studies, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, June 17, 2007.

“Diaspora, Removal, and American Indian Studies,” Santa Clara University, May 30, 2007.

“Dam Up the Lake! Tear Down the Butte! Build A Paradise!: The Environmental Dimensions of Social and Political Power in Boulder and Benzie,” W. P. Whitsett Endowed Lecture, California State University, Northridge, May 11, 2006.

“Cultural Intersections in Native North America: Negotiating Institutional and Intellectual Issues,” Keynote Address, Yale Indigenous Studies Conference, April 7, 2006.

“Nation to Neighborhood: Land, Policy, Culture, Colonialism and Empire in U.S. Indian Relations.” The Future of Cultural History: A Conference in Honor of Lawrence Levine, George Mason University, Sept 19, 2005.

“Indians in Unexpected Places,” Keynote Address, “On Our Own Ground Conference,” Harvard University, September 19, 2004

“Indians in Unexpected Places,” MESEA Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 21, 2004.

“Four Modes of American Colonialism: Grounds for Comparison,” Sawyer-Mellon Seminar on Comparative Settler Societies, Stanford University, January 21, 2004

“Indian Sound: History, American Studies and Music,” CrissCross Conference honoring Richard Crawford, University of Michigan, April 19, 2003

“The Hills are Alive… with the Sound of Indians: Musical Nationalism, Ethnography, and Native Performance,” University of North Carolina, November 21, 2002

“’Left Alone with (Native) America’: George Catlin, Vanishing Indians, and Post-colonial American Empire,” Smithsonian Institution, October 5, 2002

“They Knew Me by My Vibe” (not by my tribe): Native Poetics, Essentialisms and Translations, Cornell University, April 6, 2002

“Native American Subjectivities in Historical Context,” Lannan Seminar, D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago, August 7, 2001

“Mari Sandoz, Ella Deloria, and the Cultural In-Between,” Keynote Address, Mari Sandoz Society, Chadron, Nebraska, March 22, 2001.

“Admirals, Treaty Chiefs, Ministers, and New Women,” Salado Center for the Humanities, Salado, Texas, October 1, 2000.

“Native American Studies in the Twenty First Century: Interdisciplinary Frameworks,” Ball State University, September 19, 2000

“Family Stories: History and Genealogy,” Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho, June 22, 2000.

“Indians in Unexpected Places,” Portland Historical Society Endowed Lecture, Portland, Oregon, February 24, 2000.

“Stealing/Steeling the Spirit,” Keynote Address, Third Native American Symposium, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, November 11, 1999.

“History and Family: Three Tales of Crossed Culture,” Keynote Address, Modern Literature Conference, Michigan State University, October 21, 1999.

“The Bozeman Trail in American Popular Culture,” Bozeman Trail Heritage Conference, July 29, 1999.

“Playing Indian,” Colorado Historical Society Author’s Lecture Series, May 25, 1999.

“Powerful Images: Comment and Critique,” Keynote Address, Powerful Images Symposium, Gene Autry Museum, April 10, 1999.

“New Directions in American Indian History,” American Council of Learned Societies Annual Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, November 16, 1998

“The New Look: Indian Dress as Haute Couture,” Denver Art Museum Symposium on the Frederick Douglas’s Indian Fashion Show, Denver, Colorado, June 7, 1998.

“Sioux Christianity, Traditional Religion, and Politics on the Northern Plains, 1933-1972,” Japanese Association for American Studies Conference, Nagoya, Japan, June 8, 1997.

“‘Pick It Up. Put It In. Die Like a Man.’: Thinking about Films and Frontiers,” Frontier in American Culture Conference, University of Washington, January 11, 1997.

“Playing Indian: American Indians and American Popular Culture,” Keynote Address, Eagle and Maple Leaf Conference on North America, Helsinki, Finland, May 22, 1996.

“Common Sense and Theory in Western American History: A Dialogue Between Patricia Nelson Limerick and Philip Deloria,” Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, October 18, 1992.

“Art and Artifact: Collecting by Artists of the American West,” Observations on the New Western History Symposium, Denver, Colorado, April 25, 1992.

Conference Presentations and Comments

“Comment: Twentieth Century American Indian Religious Encounters,” Organization of American Historians, Seattle, Washington, March 27, 2009

“Comment: Both Inside and Outside: American (Indian) Studies and Critical Transnationalism,” American Studies Association, Oakland, California, October 14, 2006.

“Workshop: Teaching the National Museum of the American Indian,” American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 5, 2005.

“Comment: Indianness and the Everyday Workings of Racial Dominance,” American Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 11, 2004.

“Comment: Brute Appeal: Primitivism and Modernity,” Organization of American Historians, Boston, Massachusetts, March 27, 2004.

“There is Life After Tenure: Strategies for the Newly Appointed,” American Studies Association, Hartford, Connecticut, October 18, 2003.

“American Indians, American Studies, and the ASA: Can the ASA be an Intellectual Home?” American Studies Association, Houston, Texas, November 11, 2002.

“Comment: Environmental History from an American Studies Perspective,” American Society for Environmental History, Denver, Colorado, March 22, 2002.

“Comment: Revisiting the Frontier: Freedom, Diaspora, and the Discourses of Minority History,” American Historical Association, San Francisco, California, January 4, 2002.

“The Problem of Indian Violence: Two Sticks, Plenty Horses, and Charlie Smith,” Western Historical Association, San Diego, California, October 5, 2001.

“Metaphor and Epistemology in the Work of Richard White,” Organization of American Historians Conference, Los Angeles, California, April 27, 2001.

“Comment: Millennial Visions: Opportunities and Constraints in Environmental History,” American Society for Environmental History, Durham, North Carolina, March 29, 2001.

“Comment: The Participation of American Indians in Film and Popular Music, 1900-1960,” Western Historical Association, Portland, Oregon, October 7, 1999.

“The Future of Native American Studies in American Studies,” American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November, 1997.

“Comment: The Nature of Place: Environment and Identity in Indian Country,” Western Historical Association, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 18, 1997.

“I Am of the Body: Thoughts on My Grandfather, Culture, and Sports,” Organization of American Historians Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 26, 1996.

“Roundtable: The New Indian Art History,” Western History Association Conference, Denver, Colorado, October 14, 1995.

“Roundtable: Writing for a Targeted Audience,” Organization of American Historians Conference, Washington D.C., April 2, 1995.

“Comment: “Indians and the Social Significance of the American Revolution” by Edward Countryman, Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2, 1995.