Melissa Rinehart

Visiting Nurse, Fort Wayne, IN · Director of Diversity & Inclusion

In September 1893 Professor Frederic Ward Putnam, director of the Department of Ethnology and Archaeology at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, asked his young Native American assistant, Antonio Apache, to organize an Indian pageant. Apache promptly recruited twenty-four men, and while he was pleased with his newly formed troupe, he thoug...

Enduring Nations is a collection that encompasses the work of twelve different scholars to highlight the ways in which the Native peoples of the states that once com- prised the Old Northwest Territory played critical roles in the history of the region, adapted to their changing world through successive waves of European and American colonialism, a...

In the first half of the nineteenth century, dozens of Indian tribes and tens of thousands of tribal members were forced to move and resettle hundreds of miles away from their traditional homes in the eastern and mid-western US. This process – which has come to be known as tribal or Indian removal – was initiated as white settlers encroached upon t...

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-289). Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Anthropology, 2006.