The Director of Native American Studies is Dr. Sharlotte Neely who can be reached at her office in 230 Landrum or by phone at 859-572-5258 or 5259 or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .   

There are two Native American student organizations at NKU: First Nations Student Organization and Kiksuya. Native American studies minors are encouraged to participate in both, as well as the Student Anthropology Society and other student groups.

Through Kiksuya every May NKU students go to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Also, every April anthropology faculty and alumni host an Anthropology Careers Day program to assist students in Native American studies and related areas of anthropology.

Requirements

The minor in Native American Studies consists of 21 semester hours and requires the completion of the following:

• Four core courses (12 semester hours)
  • ANT 100 Cultural Anthropology
  • ANT 230 North American Indians
  • ANT 231 Modern American Indians
  • ANT 350 North American Archaeology
• Three of the following (9 semester hours)
  • ANT/SOC 301 World Patterns of Race and Ethnicity
  • ANT 318 Prehistoric Ecology
  • ANT 331 Women in Prehistory
  • ANT 352 Archaeology of Mesoamerica
  • ANT 358 Art and Culture
  • ANT 360 Mesoamerican Indians
  • ENG 306 Multicultural American Literature
  • GEO 107 Diversity Mapped
  • HIS 416 Plains Indians
  • HIS 557 History of the Indians of the United States
  • ANT 307 Museum Methods (with permission, if Native American emphasis)
  • ANT 394 Topics in Anthropology (with permission, if Native American emphasis)
  • Other appropriate courses (with permission, if Native American emphasis)

One of a kind!

While there are about 150 Native American studies (or American Indian or First Nations or specific tribal studies) programs in the United States and Canada, NKU's Native American Studies program is the only such program in the entire Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Ohio Valley region.

There are three dozen NKU faculty, staff, alumni, and friends who have specialized areas of expertise in Native American Studies and are willing to serve as resources. They can be reached at the following email addresses and welcome your questions:

• Kristin Appleby, Part-time Anthropology Instructor  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it North American archaeology; Ohio Valley prehistory
• T. Eric Bates, Part-time Anthropology Instructor and Anthropology Alumnus This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Contemporary Native Americans and Christianity; Native Americans in Oklahoma; Blackfoot
• Prince Brown, Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Native American-African American ethnic relations
• Richard Coleman, Anthropology Alumnus This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Southwest Indian prehistory; contemporary Native Americans in the Southwest
• Thomas C. Donnelly, Former Part-time Anthropology and Law Instructor and Anthropology Alumnus  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it American Indian law; American Indian religious freedoms
• Donelle Dreese, Assistant Professor of English This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Contemporary American Indian literature
• Thomas Foster, Former Lecturer in Anthropology  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Muscogee Creek Indians; native ecology; North American archaeology
• Gary W. Graff, Former Director of Institutional Research This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Hopi kachinas; Hispanization of Mesoamerican and South American Indians
• Nicole Grant, Lecturer in Sociology & Faculty Sponsor of First Nations Student Organization This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Poverty, alcoholism, suicide, and other social problems on reservations; Pine Ridge Lakota Sioux
• Jonathan Holmes, Friend of NKU Anthropology This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Native American ethnology and ethnohistory; historical and contemporary Plains, Prairie and Missouri River tribes; especially Oglala and Sicangu Lakota, Omaha/Ponca and Osage history and contemporary culture including, beadwork and cultural craftwork, pow-wows, warrior societies, religious spiritual practices
• James F. Hopgood, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Mesoamerican Indian prehistory; Mesoamerican Indians; Indian religion; Indians and museums
• MaryCarol Hopkins, Associate Professor of Anthropology  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it traditional Native American art
• Britteny M. Howell, Part-time Anthropology Instructor This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Native South American prehistory
• Mark Jacobs, Anthropology Alumnus This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Native Americans and the environment
• Robert Kenney, Lecturer in Philosophy This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Native American spirituality
• Rose Drees Kluth, Anthropology Alumna This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Archaeology of the Midwest; Chippewa
• Jeannine Kreinbrink, Part-time Anthropology Instructor and Anthropology Alumna This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Ohio Valley archaeology
• Susan Meyn, Former Part-time Anthropology Instructor This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Indians and museums; Lakota Sioux
• Don Miller, Anthropology Alumnus This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it prehistoric, historic, and contemporary Indians of the Ohio Valley and Kentucky
• Timothy D. Murphy, Lecturer in Anthropology  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Mesoamerican Indian religion; Indians of Mesoamerica and South America; Aztec
• Neeake, Friend of NKU Anthropology This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Folklore; ethnohistory; American Indian religious issues; Shawnee
• Sharlotte Neely, Professor of Anthropology & Native American Studies Director  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Native American ethnology and ethnohistory; tribal politics; gender roles; ethnicity; Cherokees; Lumbee; Shawnee; Navajo
• Tamara O'Callaghan, Associate Professor of English and Director of Integrative Studies This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Native American and other interdisciplinary programs
• David S. Payne, Professor Emeritus of History This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Native American history; Indians of the Plains
• Danielle Roemer, Associate Professor of English This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Native American folklore
• Gregory Rust, Anthropology Alumnus This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it American Indian Movement; ethnophotography; Lakota Sioux
• Charlotte Schaengold, Part-time Anthropology Instructor This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Navajo language; Navajo
• Michael J. Simonton, Lecturer in Anthropology  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Plains tribes; Shawnee
• Melony Stambaugh, Part-time Anthropology Instructor This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Native American identity; powwows
• Michael Striker, Part-time Anthropology Instructor This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Ohio Valley prehistory; North American Indians; Coeur d'Alene
• Barbara J. Thiel, Associate Professor of Anthropology  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it North American Indian prehistory; Ohio Valley archaeology
• David Thomson, Associate Professor of Communications This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it American Indian spirituality; Navajo
• Martha Viehmann, Former Lecturer in English This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it contemporary Native American writers; intersections between Native and Euro-American cultures; uses of images of Indians in mainstream US culture; impact of mainstream expectations on modern Indians in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
• Judy C. Voelker, Assistant Professor of Anthropology  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Mesoamerican Indian prehistory; Maya
• Robert K. Wallace, Regents Professor of English This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it contemporary Native American literature of the northwest
• Todd Young, Anthropology Alumnus This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it prehistoric Native American survival skills

Are you on the NKU faculty or staff? Do you have a Native American Studies specialty, or do you know of someone who does? Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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