Hoxie, Frederick E., 1947-....

Frederick Hoxie serves as the Swanlund Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and is affiliated also with the College of Law and the American Indian Studies program. His publications include A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians, 1880-1920 (1984), The Crows (1989), and Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America, 1805-1935 (1995). He also edited The Encyclopedia of North American Indians (1996), Talking Back to Civilization: Indian Voices From the Progressive Era (2001), and The People: A History of Native America (2007). In 2007, the University of Illinois Press published Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country: The Native American Perspective, edited by Hoxie and a former student Jay T. Nelson. The book grew out of an exhibit of the same name, curated by Hoxie. Professor Hoxie served as a consultant and expert witness to the U.S. Dept. of Justice, the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, the National Park Service, the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Sioux Tribes, and Little Big Horn College. He is general editor of The American Indians, a 23-volume series of books published by Time-Life and series editor (with Neal Salisbury) for Cambridge Studies in American Indian History, published by Cambridge University Press. Hoxie is a trustee of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, and has served on the boards of Amherst College, the Illinois Humanities Council, and the Organization of American Historians. He is the former president of the American Society of Ethnohistory.

From the description of Frederick E. Hoxie papers, 1805-1995 (bulk 1880-1935). (Little Big Horn College Library). WorldCat record id: 709747715