Colin G. Calloway

Colin G. Calloway received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Leeds in England. He has taught at the College of Ripon and York St. John in England, at Springfield High School in Vermont, and at the University of Wyoming. He has also served as editor/assistant director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago. At Dartmouth College, he is the John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies. He served four consecutive three-year terms as chair of the Native American Studies Program. His books include: The Indian History of an American Institution: Native Americans and Dartmouth (2010); “White People, Indians, and Highlanders”: Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and North America (2008); The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (2006), which won the Distinguished Book Award of the Society of Colonial Wars of the State of New York; One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (2003), which won six “best book” awards; First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (1999; 2004;,2008; 2012); New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (1997); The American Revolution in Indian Country (1995), nominated for a Pulitzer prize; The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800 (1990) and Crown and Calumet: British-Indian Relations, 1783-1815 (1987). He has also edited several collections of essays and documents, including Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience (2004) Germans and Indians (2002); After King Philip’s War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England (1997); Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost (1996); The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America (1994), and New Directions in American Indian History (1987). He has been given awards by the Missisquoi Nation of Abenakis and the Native American Students at Dartmouth. He was President of the American Society for Ethnohistory in 2007-08 and selected for the American Indian History Achievement Award in 2011.

 


2 entries by Colin G. Calloway

Book Review

A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek

A deft weaving together of the massacre at Sand Creek and the struggle to reconcile and memorialize the tragedy.

Book Review

Catherine C. Robbins

All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos)

A journalist with deep roots in the Southwest offers snapshots of contemporary Indian life.