McNickle, D'Arcy, 1904-1977
North American Indian author, government employee, and professor.
Born in 1904 to a French Cree mother and an Irish father, and adopted into the Flathead Tribe, McNickle was educated at Montana and Oregon government and mission schools, and attended several universities including Montana, Yale, and Grenoble. After working at the BIA under John Collier (1936-1952), McNickle directed AID from from the Univ. of Colo., Boulder (1952-1966), eventually focusing on the Navajo at Crownpoint, N.M. He then established the anthropology dept. at the Univ. of Saskatechewan and retired in 1971 to Albuquerque. In 1972 McNickle helped establish the Newberry Library's Center for the History of the American Indian, which was named after him in 1984. McNickle was the author of three novels, four non-fiction works, and numerous articles.
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