David R. M. Beck

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David R. M. Beck is an award-winning[1] writer, historian, and a professor in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of Montana. Beck previously served as dean of NAES (Native American Educational Services) College in Chicago. David R. M. Beck writes about the termination of tribes, the self determination era, fights for federal recognition, labor, and activism. One of David R.M. Beck's notable contributions is to the field of Native labor history[2] with his book Unfair Labor?, and various articles[3], as well as a series of lectures on the topic including one at Harvard University. Beck received degrees from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Works

Beck, David R.M. (2002) Siege and Survival: The History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856. University of Nebraska Press. [4]

Beck, David R.M. (2007) The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854. University of Nebraska Press. [5]

Beck, David R.M. (2009) Seeking Recognition: The Termination and Restoration of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, 1855-1984. University of Nebraska Press. [6]

LaPier, Rosalyn; Beck, David R.M. (2015) City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago 1893-1934. University of Nebraska Press. [7]

Beck, David R.M. (2019) Unfair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. University of Nebraska Press. [8]

Honors

Robert G. Athearn Award for best history of the twentieth-century American West, Western History Association, for City Indian, 2016[1]

Humanities Montana Fellowship, Spring 2015

Honored by Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians Education Department, July 2012

Wisconsin Historical Society Book Award of Merit, for The Struggle for Self-Determination, June 2006

Donald J. Sterling, Jr., Research Fellowship, Oregon Historical Society, Summer 2006

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Western History Association - Robert G. Athearn Award". westernhistoryassociation.wildapricot.org. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  2. "David R. B. Beck, "Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893…". New Books Network. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  3. Beck, David R. M. (2016). "Fair Representation? American Indians and the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition". World History Connected. 13 (3).
  4. Beck, David (2002). Siege and Survival: The History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-1330-2.
  5. Beck, David R.M. (2007). The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-2241-0.
  6. Beck, David R.M. (2009). Seeking Recognition: The Termination and Restoration of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, 1855-1984. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-2517-6.
  7. LaPier, Rosalyn; Beck, David (2015). City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-4839-7.
  8. Beck, David R.M. (2019). Unfair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-4962-0683-1.

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