David Rich Lewis

CP-LUHNA Author: Native Americans and the Environment: A survey of twentieth century issues with particular reference to peoples of the Colorado Plateau and Southwest

Department of History
Utah State University
0710 Old Main Hill
Logan, Utah 84322-0710
Telephone: (435) 797-1290 FAX: (435) 797-3899

E-mail: dlewis@hass.usu.edu

Current Academic Positions:

Associate Professor, Utah State University History Department www.usu.edu/~history

Co-Editor, Western Historical Quarterly www.usu.edu/~history/whq/index.html

 

Education:

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1988

M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983

M.A., University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1980

B.S., Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 1979

 

Research Interests:

My research interests center around the changing relationships between peoples, cultures, subsistence strategies, and environments. In particular I have focused on American Indian experiences with federal Indian policies that directed subsistence change, and how those changes affected their cultures and environments over the last two hundred years. My emphasis has been on untangling the cultural strategies native peoples used (and still use) to deal with these changes, and the expressed forms that adaptation, resistance, and persistence take over time and space. Indians, environment, and the American West are my larger areas of research and teaching interest, while my specific field work research has been with the Northern Ute, Tohono O’odham, and Hupa tribes. Current projects include a study of contemporary Indian gaming, a textbook history of the American West (Houghton Mifflin), and a biography of Bernard DeVoto and his environmental activism in the West.

 

Recent Grants and Awards:

Researcher of the Year, College of Arts and Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Utah State University, 1997.

Honors Professor, Utah State University Honors Program, 1996-1997

 

Selected Publications:

Lewis, D. R. in press. American Indians: U.S. Government Policies. In: Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Charles Scribner & Sons, New York.

Lewis, D. R. 1998. Native Americans: The Original Westerners. Pp. 12-37 In: Hurt, R. D., editor The Rural West Since World War II. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence.

Lewis, D. R. 1997. Farming and the Northern Ute Experience. In: II, C. A. M., Butler, A. M. and Lewis, D. R., editors. Problems in the History of the American West. Houghton Mifflin, New York.

Lewis, D. R. 1993. Still Native: The Significance of Native Americans in the History of the Twentieth-Century American West,. Western Historical Quarterly 24: 203-227.

Lewis, D. R. 1991. Reservation Leadership and the Progressive-Traditional Dichotomy: William Wash and the Northern Utes, 1865-1928. Ethnohistory 38: 124-148.

Milner, C. A., II, Butler, A. M. and Lewis, D. R., editors. 1997. Major Problems in the History of the American West. Houghton Mifflin, New York.