Theresa Schenck
Assistant Professor
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Office: 229 Hiram Smith Hall Phone: 608.262.4902 Email:schenck@wisc.edu |
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Background
I am an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana. In 1997 I was the Native American Fulbright Scholar to Canada , studying relations among the Ojibwe of Lake Superior, the Ojibwe of Manitoba, and the Metis. I spent two years at the University of Winnipeg , then three years at Washington State University before coming to Madison in 2002.
I am currently the only American on the Aboriginal Research Council at the University of Winnipeg . I am also one of two Americans participating in a grant from the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada to study identity issues for native peoples separated by the international border between Canada and the United States .
History of the Ojibway People: The Annotated Edition will be published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press in 2009. I am currently working on the Ojibwe Journals of Edmund Ely, 1833-1846 a Presbyterian missionary’s view of Ojibwe culture and language in northern Minnesota in the 19th century.