Associate Professor of History, History jhp21@psu.edu Office Phone: 724-430-4251 Office Location: Williams Building, 110 Mailing Address: 2201 University Drive, Lemont Furnace, PA 15456 Bottom FieldsBio Born and raised in South Louisiana, I have also lived in Germany, Missouri, and Arizona. I served in the Army and later the Missouri National Guard. Research Interests 20th and 21st century American Indian history, Indian gaming, tribal politics, tribal-state relations, American Indians in the modern South, and American Indian identity in the South Publications The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast - July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 16, 2018Teaching the Unique and Concrete - May 15, 2018Coushatta Homesteading and the Development of the Community at Bayou Blue, Journal of Southern History - January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2018We Will Always Be Here: Native Peoples on Living and Thriving in the South by Denise E. Bates, Ethnohistory - October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2017The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity, Journal of Southern History - May, 2017Asserting Tribal Sovereignty Through Compact Negotiations: A Case Study of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, American Indian Quarterly - January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2017American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment, Journal of Southern History - August, 2016The Darkest Period: The Kanza and Their Homeland, 1846-1873, The Western Historical Quarterly - July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2015Pine-needle Basketry and Identity Politics: The Role of Pine-Needle Baskets in the Federal Re-Recognition of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, Ethnohistory - January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2015Recognition Odysseys, Louisiana History - April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2014'The Nine from the Pines': High Stakes Bingo and Federal Intervention in Coushatta Tribal Affairs in the 1980s, Native South - August, 2013Indians and Energy, Journal of the West - January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2013Legalized Gambling, Know LA - November 16, 2011Feast or Famine, Journal of the West - October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2011Native Americans in 20th and 21st Century Louisiana, Know LA - December 22, 2010Journey to the West, Louisiana History - August, 2010Louisa Williams, Her Daughters, and Granddaughters: Recognizing the Contributions of Three Generations of Coushatta Women in Louisiana - 2009William Dunbar: Scientific Pioneer of the Old Southwest, Louisiana History - July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2009Indian Claims Commission - 2008Indian Claims Commission Act - 2008Gambling - 2007National Indian Gaming Commission - 2007Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgement, Journal of the West - April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2006On the Bloody Road to Jesus: Christianity and the Chiricahua Apaches, Western Historical Quarterly - October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2005A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities, American Indian Quarterly - January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2003 Education Ph D, American Indian history, Arizona State UniversityMA, history, Central Missouri State Universitysocial studies/secondary education, Central Missouri State UniversityBA, history, McNeese State Universityhistory, Northeast Louisiana State University
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