Indigenous Heritage Month: Highlights from our collections

In November, Iowa State University celebrates Indigenous Heritage Month (also known as Native American Heritage Month). Below, please find some resources on indigenous Americans made available through our collections.

Online Exhibits:

• A More Beautiful Iowa: Iowa’s State Parks System

  This online exhibits highlights some of the indigenous leaders that have state parks named after them.

American Indian Studies Program Faculty Research

Read journal articles, book chapters, and reviews authored by faculty in Iowa State’s American Indian Studies Program.

• Grant Arndt
• Sebastian Braun
• Brianna Burke
• Christina Gish Hill
• Lynn Paxson

Theses and Dissertations

Read theses and dissertations relating to regional indigenous people, sites, and artifacts.

• Brenda Papakee Ackerman. 2008. The tradition of Meskwaki ribbonwork: cultural meanings, continuity, and change. MS thesis in Textiles and Clothing.
• Lance Michael Foster. 1994. Sacred bundles of the Ioway Indians. MA thesis in Anthropology.
• Kathryn Elizabeth Gourley. 1990. Locations of Sauk, Mesquakie, and associated Euro-American sites 1832 to 1845: an ethnohistoric approach. MA thesis in Anthropology.
• Steven LeRoy DeVore. The Cribb’s Crib site (13WA105): the archaeology and ecology of an Oneota village in the central Des Moines River Valley. MA thesis in Anthropology.
• Richard Frank Brown. 1964. A social history of the Mesquakie Indians, 1800–1963. MS thesis in History.

Undergraduate Research

• Rachel Ramirez and Angel Raymundo. 2016. The Educational Experience of Native Americans at Iowa State: Past, Present, and Looking Into the Future. ISCORE presentation.
• Elizabeth Kraidich. 2015. The Jingle Dress. Honors Project.