- Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
David R. M. Beck is an award winning scholar of Indigenous political and economic history in relation to 20th century U.S. federal Indian policy and Indigenous mobility.
Experience
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2022–presentProfessor, Department of History, University of Illinois
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2006–2022Professor, Native American Studies, University of Montana
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2000–2006Associate professor, Native American Studies, University of Montana
Publications
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2024Bribed With Our Own Money: Federal Abuse of Tribal Funds in the Termination Era, University of Nebraska Press and American Philosophical Society
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2019UnFair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, University of Nebraska Press
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2015City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934 , With Rosalyn LaPier, University of Nebraska Press
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2009Seeking Recognition: The Termination and Restoration of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, 1855-1984, University of Nebraska Press
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2005The Struggle for Self Determination: History of the Menominee Indians Since 1854, University of Nebraska Press
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2002Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856, University of Nebraska Press
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- Location: Urbana, IL, U.S.
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