American Indian Studies Program

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Program Affiliation

• American Indian Studies Program

Courses

• American Indian Folklore
• American Indian Women
• American Indians in Film
• Expressive Culture of the American Indian

Biographical Sketch

Theresa Schenck is committed to the study of American Indian history and cultures. A former teacher of French and Spanish, Theresa received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Rutgers University. In 1997 she was the Native American Fulbright Scholar to Canada, and taught First Nation History for two years at the University of Winnipeg. She remains involved with the native community in Winnipeg as the only American member of the Council of Aboriginal Scholars.

An enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation, Theresa is also of Ojibwe descent through her grandmother, in whose honor she has made Ojibwe culture and history the principal focus of her research. In 2002, with Laura Peers of Oxford University, she edited two of George Nelson's journals which were written among the Ojibwe of Wisconsin, and published as My First Years in the Fur Trade. Her biography of William W. Warren, the 19th century Ojibwe historian, appeared in spring, 2007. She has recently completed an edited version of Warren's History of the Ojibway, along with a new introduction. She is currently preparing a manuscript containing the more than 200 affidavits of the "Chippewa Mixed Bloods of Lake Superior" relating to the Treaty of 1837, along with commentaries on each.

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