Articles:
I am currently preparing an article for a symposium on Religion and Violence on Saint Peter the Aleut, a Native from Kodiak Island martyred in California. I have also been invited to submit a book chapter for a project on childhood in the world religions. My specific contribution will be on childhood in Native American culutres.
Conferences:
I was named a member of the advanced workshop assembled by the International Society of Jesus entitled “Violence and War: Cultural and Economic Interests" to be held in Rome from September 4 to 18, 2005. The Workshop aims primarily at providing a critical space where experienced Jesuits and lay collaborators can engage in a participative and creative encounter to formulate some policy guidelines that may help the Society of Jesus and the Social Apostolate to respond from an ethical and Ignatian perspective to the issue of conflict and war.
Encyclopedia Pieces:
I have recently completed five articles for the Encyclopedia of Anthropology edited by Dr. H James Birx, Ph. D., D. Sci. One article is on Fr. Francois Lafitau, S.J., another on Fr. Buechel, S.J, a third on Action Anthropology, one on Ella Cara Deloria, and the last on the Ghost Dance.
New Museum Exhibit:
Currently I'm assembling photographs of Fr. Eugene Buechel, S.J. for an on-line exhibit entitled: Fr. Eugene Buechel, S.J. - A Visual Biography on his life and work. This exhibit is being constructed by myself, Dr. Karl Markus Kries at the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund, Mark Theil at the Marquette Archives. Mike Marshall also assisted in this work when he was the director of the Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum.
Bibliographies:
I currently maintain a comprehensive Lakota / Dakota bibliongraphy on the web as a service to Lakota, Dakota and other scholars. Scholars need to maintain their reciprocal relations with their host communities so this is one way I make a return: to make this information freely available by way of the web. I invite you to view the Lakota / Dakota research bibliography. I am also the electronic editor of the Aids and Anthorpology Research Group. Building on the original bibliography created in 1994 by Ralph Bolton and Gail Orozco, this up to date bibliography forwards the research on the relationship between AIDS and culture. I invite you also to view the AARG research bibliography.
Museum Work:
My main research interest of late is Lakota material culture.I am continuing my work at the Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum where we created, with the able collaboration of the former museum director, Mike Marshall, and Dr. Filipp Sapienza of the University of Colorado, Denver, an on-line database of Fr. Eugene Buechel, S.J.'s material culture collection and associated documentation. We have completed our first an on-line exhibit entitled Lakota Woskate - Lakota Games and a second exhibit, Lakota Waniyetu Yawa - Lakota Winter Counts. I am currently finishing editing a virtual exhibit researched and documented by Kay Koppendrayer: Lakota Bows and Arrows.
Editorial Work:
I serve as
an
advising editor for
Early Encounters in North America, an electronic library of primary
source encounter literature from 1534 to 1850 produced by
Alexander Street Press. I am
also a member of the
editorial review board of ARD, the
Anthropology Review Database.
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