KATHERINE M. B. OSBURN
CURRICULUM VITAE
School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
Office: Coor Hall 4574 Phone: 480-965-3766
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. History, 1993. University of Denver, Denver, Colorado.
Dissertation: “And as the ‘Squaws’ are a Secondary Consideration”: Southern Ute Women under Directed Culture Change, 1887-1934.
J. Donald Hughes and Richard J. Clemmer, co-chairs.
M.A.History, 1983. University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
B.A. History, 1979. University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Associate Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, 2011-present.
Tennessee Technological University,Cookeville, TN.
Professor, Department of History, 1996-2011.
Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
Visiting Assistant Professor, 1993-1994.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi: Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830-1977. Indians of the Southeast. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014)
This book was featured in the critically important Supreme Court case, Dollar General v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. See my blog about it for the press:
Southern Ute Women:Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1885-1934. Second Edition, with a new historiographical introduction. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008).
Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation,1885-1934(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998).First Edition reviewed in: Western Historical Quarterly; Agricultural History;American Anthropologist; American Historical Review(review essay);Ethnohistory(review essay); The Journal of American History; Pacific Historical Review; Contemporary Sociology.Second edition reviewed in Southwestern Journal of Cultures.
Refereed Articles
“Brother, is this Truth?”: History, Fiction,and Colonialism in Faulkner’s Mississippi,” forthcoming in the Faulkner Journal,University of Mississippi Press.
“Tribal Remnants or State Citizens: Mississippi Choctaws in the post-removal South.” American Nineteenth Century History vol. 17, no. 2 (June, 2016):199-214.
“Any Sane Person’: Race, Rights, and Tribal Sovereignty in the Construction of the Dawes Rolls for the Choctaw Nation.”The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era vol. 9, no. 4(October, 2010): 451-471.
“The ‘Identified Full Bloods’ in Mississippi: Race and Choctaw Identity, 1898-1918.” Ethnohistory vol. 56, no. 3 (Summer 2009): 423-447.
“Mississippi Choctaws and Racial Politics.” Southern Cultures(Winter 2008):32-54.
“How Did White Women Reformers with the Southern Utes Respond to Gendered Assimilationist Indian Policies?”Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Summer 2004)
“’To Build up the Morals of the Tribe’: Southern Ute Women’s Sexual Behavior and the Office of Indian Affairs, 1887-1934.” The Journal of Women’s History,vol. 9, no. 3 (Autumn 1998): 11-27.
"The Navajo at the Bosque Redondo: Cooperation, Resistance, and Initiative, 1864-1868." New Mexico Historical Review, vol. 60, no. 4 (October 1985): 399-413.
Book Chapters
“’In a Name of Justice and Fairness’: The Mississippi Choctaw Indian Federation v. the BIA, 1934,” Chapter Six of Beyond Red Power: Indian Activism in the Twentieth Century. Dan Cobb and Loretta Fowler, eds. (Santa Fe: The School for Advanced Research Press, 2007): 109-123.
“Nellie Wiegel: ‘How About That!?’” in Ordinary Women: Extraordinary Lives. Kriste Lindenmeyer, ed. (Wilmington, DE:Scholarly Resources, 2000): 161-178.
“‘I Am Going to Write to You’: Nurturing Fathers and the Office of Indian Affairs on the Southern Ute Reservation, 1895-1932,” in A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender. Laura McCall and Donald Yacovone, eds. (New York: New York University Press, 1998): 245-270.
"’Dear Friend and Ex-Husband’: Marriage, Divorce and Women's Property Rights on the Southern Ute Reservation, 1887-1930," in Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women, Nancy Shoemaker, ed. (New York: Routledge Press, 1994): 157-175.
REPRINTS
1. “‘I Am Going to Write to You’: Nurturing Fathers and the Office of Indian Affairs on the Southern Ute Reservation, 1895-1932,” in A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender. Laura McCall and Donald Yacovone, eds. (New York: New York University Press, 1998): 245-270.
Reprinted as: “Fatherhood and Assimilation among the Southern Utes,” in Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children. Anya Jabour, ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004): 240-248.
2. "Abenaki and Miami Recognition and Sovereignty." Fourth World Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 3 (July 1993): 10-13, 20.
Reprinted in, News From Indian Country, Late August & Mid-September, 1993.
3. "The Navajo at the Bosque Redondo: Cooperation, Resistance, and Initiative, 1864-1868." New Mexico Historical Review, vol. 60, no. 4, 1985: 399-413. (Winner of the national history honor society Phi Alpha Theta graduate student paper competition, 1983-1984.)
Anthologized in:
1. American Nations: Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to the Present, Frederick E. Hoxie, Peter Mancall, James H. Merrell, eds. (New York and London: Routledge, 2001): 3-13.
2.The American Indian Past and Present, Fifth edition, ed., Roger L. Nichols. (New York: McGraw Hill College: 1998): 157-164.
3. The American Indian Past and Present, Fourth edition, ed., Roger L. Nichols. (New York: McGraw Hill College: 1992): 184-190.
Invited Articles and Encyclopedia Articles
“The General Allotment Act (Dawes Severalty Act, 1877) in International Context.” In, America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the Dictionary of American History. Edward J. Blum, ed. 2vols.(Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2016): 401-402.
“Elias Boudinot,”(with Sharon Macphereson) in The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (Nashville: The Tennessee Historical Commission, 1998):
”Major Ridge,” (with Jennifer Kimbro) in The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (Nashville: The Tennessee Historical Commission, 1998):
"Native Peoples of the Great Basin," in Encyclopedia of the American WestCharles Phillips, Alan Axelrod, eds. vol. 3 (New York: Macmillan Reference, USA, 1996).
"Abenaki and Miami Recognition and Sovereignty." Fourth World Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 3 (July 1993): 10-13, 20.
"National Archives, Rocky Mountain Region." Organization of American Historians Newsletter, August, 1993.
Assistant Editor, Indigenous Peoples' Politics: An Introduction, Vol. 1(Denver, CO: Fourth World Center, 1993).
Contributing Editor, Study Guide for "The World: A Television History". Robert E. Roeder, ed. (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1986). Essays in this volume include: "Hunting and Gathering Societies," "The Kingdom of Ghana," "The Kingdom of Benin," and "The Aztec and Inca Empires."
Book Reviews
Daniel H. Usner Jr.. Weaving Alliances with Other Women: Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lecture Series. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015. H-SAWH (February, 2016):
Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South.By Barbara Krauthamer (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2013); Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890.By Linda Williams Reese Foreword by John R. Wunder. (Plains Histories.) (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press. 2013),The American Historical Reviewvol. 119,no. 4 (2014):1261-1263.
Review Essay: New Directions in GAPE Indian Policy. Cathleen Cahill. Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013); C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa. Crooked Paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012); Rose Stremlau. Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011); Nicole Tonkovich. The Allotment Plot: Alice C. Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, and Nez Perce Survivance. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012), for H-SHGAPE, (July 2014):
Matrons and Maids: Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914–1934. By Victoria K.Haskins. (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2012)Women and Social Movements, in the US, 1600-2000, vol. 17, no 2, (November 2013):
Divinely Guided: The California Work of the Women's National Indian Association.By Valerie Sherer Mathes (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2012), Journal of American History, vol. 100,no. 1 (June2013): 219.
Lessons from an Indian Day School: Negotiating Colonization in Northern New Mexico, 1902-1907. By Adrea Lawrence. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2011) H-SHGAPE (July 2012):
Wives and Husbands: Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History. New Directions in Native American Studies. By Loretta Fowler. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010) Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 4 (Winter2011): 530.
Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South:Race, Identity, & The Making of a Nation, ByMalinda Maynor Lowery, (Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 2010) The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 108, no. 4 (Autumn 2010): 431.
Choctaw Nation: A Story of American Indian Resurgence. By Valerie Lambert. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007) Ethnohistory, vol. 55, no. 4 (Fall 2008): 688 - 689.
Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919. By Jane E. Simonsen. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006), H-AmIndian (March 2007):
Ordeal of Change: The Southern Utes and Their Neighbors. By Frances Leon Quintana. Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3 (Autumn 2006): 377-378.
The Cherokee Nation: A History. By Robert J. Conley. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005). New Mexico Historical Review, vol 81, no. 3 (Fall 2006):449-451.
Review Essay: Native American Women Across Time. Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, by Camilla Townsend. (New York, 2004);A Necessary Balance:Gender and Power among Indians of the Columbia Plateau,by Lillian A. Ackerman.(Norman and London, 2003); Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907,by Carolyn Ross Johnston, (Tuscaloosa, 2003); Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World, by Michelene Pesantubbee, (Albuquerque, 2005).The Journal of Ethnic History (Winter-Spring 2005): 289-293.
Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907. By Carolyn Ross Johnston (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2003). Journal of Southern Historyvol. 71, no. 2 (May 2005): 440-441.
One Vast Winter Count: the Native American West before Lewis and Clark. By Colin Calloway. (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)Tennessee Historical Quarterly, vol. 64, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 314-315.
The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.By Virginia McConnell Simmons. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado: 2001) New Mexico Historical Review, vol.77, no. 4,(Fall 2002): 468-69.
The Utes Must Go: American Expansion and the Removal of a People. By Peter Decker(Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing: 2004)Western Historical Quarterlyvol. 36, no. 2 (Spring2005): 233-234.
Lady Bird Johnson: Our Environmental First Lady. By Lewis L. Gould. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas: 1999) Reviewed for H-Women, (September 2000):
Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique.By Daniel Horowitz. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000) Reviewed for H-Women, (January, 2000):
Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879-1934. By Margaret D. Jacobs. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999) New Mexico Historical Review,vol. 75, no. 2 (Spring 2000): 278.
Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. By Theda Perdue. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,1998).Journal of the Early Republic,vol. 19, no. 1, (Spring 1999): 145-147.
No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest. By Kathleen M. Blee, ed. (New York: New York University Press, 1997)Reviewed forH-Women (January 1999):
The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians, Volumes I and II, Unabridged. By Francis Paul Prucha, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,1995) Tennessee Historical Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 1 (Winter 1995): 342.
Freeze Frame: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies.By Ann Fienup-Riordan. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995) The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 88, No. 3 (Summer 1997): 153-154.
Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary.By Gretchen M, Batille,ed. (New York: Garland Publishing)American Indian Quarterly vol. 18, no. 4(Autumn 1994): 555
Henry M. Porter: Mountain Empire Builder. By Mark Foster. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado: 1991) Journal of the West, vol. 32, no. 2(April 1993): 103.
Sand Creek and the Rhetoric of Extermination. By David Svaldi. (University Press of America, 1999) Essays and Monographs in Colorado History, vol. 32, no. 2 (1990): 103.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS, 2015
American Indian Activism in Arizona
My third monograph will be a cultural-political history of American Indian activism in Arizona beginning with the racial politics of statehood and ending with state-tribal revenue sharing under the New Federalism. I continue my interest in the intersections between indigenous identity and political activism in the context of power relationships under colonialism. My focus on the alliances between Indians and their elected officials at the state level is unique in a field dominated by studies of Indian activism at the federal level.
Institute for Humanities ResearchCluster: Comparative Genocides
“Never again” and “never before” are equally powerful and problematic statements born out of the horrors of the Holocaust. Yet genocide was committed many times before and after the Nazi murder of the European Jewry. In view of different forms of genocide and the problem of finding meaningful ways to understand and commemorate them, our trans-disciplinary group seeks a framework to understand three instances of mass murder: the Holocaust, the massacre and displacement of Native Americans in the United States, and the slaughter of Tutsi in Rwanda.
CONFERENCES AND PANELS
Commentator/Chair
Chair and Commentator, “Self-Determination and Native Political Mobilization in the Twentieth Century.”Western History Association, Tucson, AZ, Oct. 9-12, 2013.
Commentator, “Emblems of ‘Indianness’ from Headdresses to Crowns.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, June 13-15, 2013.
Commentator, “American Indian Strategies: Challenging, Crossing, and Redefining Political Boundaries and Space in The American West.”Western History Association, Denver, CO, October 4-7, 2012.
Commentator, “Not Quite as Planned: The West as a Dynamic Juncture of Policies, Perceptions and Peoples.” Western History Association, Oakland, CA, October 13-16, 2011.
Commentator, “Arts of Resistance: Connecting Subversive Women across Native America.” American Society for Ethnohistory, New Orleans, LA, September 30-October 3, 2009.
Chair and commentator, “Indians, Metis, and Pioneer Society in the Nineteenth Century.” Organization of American Historians Memphis, TN, April 3-6, 2003.
Panel Coordinator and Participant
The Spaces In Between: Negotiating Indigenous Sovereignties; paper: “Sovereignty, Services, and Citizenship: Negotiating Public Law 280 in Arizona, 1953-1969.” The American Society for Ethnohistory, Nashville, TN, November 9-13, 2016
Indian Citizenship/Citizen Indians: Race, Identity, and Tribal Sovereignty Among the Post-Removal Choctaws and Cherokees, paper: “Tribal ‘Remnants’ or State Citizens: Mississippi Choctaws in the Post-removal South.” The Southern Historical Association, Baltimore, MD, October 27-30, 2011.
The Black-Red Thread in the 20th Century, paper:“’Segregation is for Negroes’: Civil Rights Strategies of the Mississippi Choctaw Tribal Council, 1955-1965.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Tucson, AZ, May 19-23, 2010.
Identity and Sovereignty Among Post-Removal Cherokees and Choctaws, paper: “The ‘Identified Full Bloods’ in Mississippi: Race and Choctaw Identity, 1898-1918.”Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Athens, GA, April 10-12, 2008.
“Race and Identity Among the Choctaw Indians, paper: “Any Sane Person”: Race, Rights, and Region in the Construction of the Dawes Rolls for the Choctaw Nation.” Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, New Orleans, LA, October 9-12, 2008.
Exhortations, Lawsuits, and Strikes: American Indian Political Activism across Two Centuries, paper: “’In a Name of Justice and Fairness:’ The Mississippi Choctaw Indian Federation v. the BIA, 1934.” the American Society for Ethnohistory, Chicago, IL, October 27-30, 2004.
Indian Identity and Activism among Southeastern Tribes, 1700-1934, paper: “’Does the Federal Government Ever Keep its Word?’: The Indian Reorganization Act and the Mississippi Choctaw Indians.” The Ohio Valley Conference of Historians, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, October 21-23, 2004.
New Directions in Gender History: Manhood in the West, paper: "‘I Am Going to Write to You’: Nurturing Fathers and the Office of Indian Affairs on the Southern Ute Reservation, 1895-1932.” Western History Association, St. Paul, MN, Fall, 1997.
Panel Coordinator and participant: Sexual Danger, paper: "'To Build Up the Morals of the Tribe': Southern Ute Women's Sexual Behavior and the Office of Indian Affairs, 1887-1934." American Society for Ethnohistory, Portland, OR,November 7-10, 1996.
Papers presented
“Brother, is this Truth?”: History, Fiction, and Colonialism in Faulkner’s Mississippi.” Keynote Address, The Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference
“Faulkner and the Native South,” University of Mississippi, July 17–21, 2016
“The New ‘New South’: Race, Class, and Indigeneity in Progressive Era Mississippi.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 18-22, 2016.
“The Obituary of Nations: Indian Removal and the Political Uses of Memory in the Post-Removal South.” Comparative Genocide Symposium, Arizona State University, October 23-25, 2015
“Intimate Colonialism: Race, Gender and Power in the American West,” Symposium: Colonial Conquest in the Nazi East and American West: the Value and Limits of Comparative Approaches, Northern Arizona University, October 11-13, 2015.
“In the Spirit of Pushmataha: The Mississippi Choctaw’s Racist White Supporters and the Campaign for Justice, 1905-1916.”The American Society for Ethnohistory, Williamsburg, VA, November 1-5, 2006.
“The Political Economy of Gender on the Mississippi Choctaw Reservation in the 1950s.” Organization of American Historians, Boston, MA, March 25-28,2004.
“If I Get Arrested, Do I Get An A?: Environmental Activism in Environmental History Courses,” The Tennessee Conference of Historians,Nashville, TN, September 27-28, 2000.
"Dear Friend and Ex-husband: Marriage, Divorce, and Women's Property Rights on the Southern Ute Reservation, 1887-1930." American Society for Ethnohistory, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Fall, 1991.
"Navajo Religion and Adaptive Strategy at the Bosque Redondo, 1864-1868." Rocky Mountain American Studies Association Conference, Colorado Springs, CO, Spring, 1990.
"’Come Tell Your Story’: Indians in the WPA Pioneer Accounts in Colorado." Twenty Third Annual Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Park City, Utah, Fall 1988.
Invited Lectures and Commentaries
“The Mississippi Choctaw’s Challenge to Southern History.” First Annual Pauline Womack Memorial Lecture, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, October 27, 2016.
Invited reviewer and commentator, Manuscript Workshop for Fellows, The Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. Manuscript: Julie Reed (Cherokee), Ten Times Better: Cherokee Social Services.February 1, 2014.
Guest lecture, “The Nations Within: Why America’s Indigenous Peoples Are Not a ‘Minority.’” For,Advancing Responsible Citizenship in Southern Caucasus and the American Southwest; Youth Leadership Development Program with participants from Azerbaijan, September 13, 2013.
Guest lecture, “Why You Should Not Teach U.S. History without Indians.” Arizona Council for History Education, Mesa, AZ, August 18, September 7,2013