Past Faculty and Publications
SIUE has a rich history of scholarship in Native American studies.
Ernest Schusky, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Ernest Schusky, PhD, lived and worked among the Brule Sioux early in his career, where he was adopted by a Sioux family. Schusky's later research included ethnohistory of the Sioux, and he turned to fiction writing in his retirement, publishing novels about ancient Cahokia as well as Native Americans of the Southwest.
Fred Voget, PhD
Anthropologist Fred Voget, PhD, studied among the Crow, Osage, Wind River Shoshone, Cheyenne, Blackfeet, Flathead, Mohawks and Iroquois, but he was best known as an ethnologist of the Crow. Voget and his wife Mary Kay met while teaching on the Crow reservation, and Fred was adopted by the Crow Tribe.
Charlotte Frisbie, PhD
Charlotte Frisbie, PhD, emerita professor of anthropology, is the author of multiple books and an internationally acclaimed scholar of Diné (Navajo) studies.
Rowena McClinton, PhD
Rowena McClinton, PhD, emerita professor of history, translated and edited a two-volume ethnohistoric work, “The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees” (University of Nebraska Press, 2007). McClinton also edited and annotated the John Howard Payne Papers (University of Nebraska Press, 2022). These papers document tribal histories and injustices to tribes, particularly the Cherokee, in the 1820s and 1830s.
