>I'm looking for a graduate program in American Indian Studies
>or closely related fields, of the anthropology variety. Is
>there a compiled list of this sort of program? Any suggestions,
>enchanted or horror stories?
For Arlen and anyone else interested:
Here at SUNY-Buffalo, we have a Native American Studies program in
our American Studies Program, as well as an Anthropology program which could
provide the same service. The NAS has among its faculty John Mohawk of the
Seneca Nation and Oren Lyons, an Onondaga honcho (I don't recall off hand his
actual position). I can't really speak for that program, other than to say
that these two individuals are very friendly and dedicated.
I myself am a student in the Anthro department, starting my diserta-
tion on the rise and early development of the Hodenosaunee, or League of the
Iroquois. We don't have any professors who really do ethnographic work among
US or Canadian native peoples, but a willing student can bend the system to
their needs, since the department's strength is its willingness to involve
faculty in other departments. In Mesoamerica, Barbara Tedlock does fieldwork
among the Maya of Belize and Guatemala, and does a good job of getting students
into the field.
Feel free to contact me (though I'll be away from my computer from
about the 12th to the New Year).
Dept. of American Studies Dept. of Anthropology
1010 Clemens Hall 380 MFAC, Ellicott Complex
SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-4630 Buffalo, NY 14261-0005
Pat Crowe