Events

R. David Edmunds to deliver the Betts Lecture for 2008.

The lecture will take place on Friday, November 7 at 4:00 PM. (room to be announced) This lecture will be part of a weekend of festivities honoring the native community at Yale. More information on this Henry Roe Cloud (see below) celebratory weekend will be posted as it becomes available.

Edmunds is Watson Professor of American History at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the immediate past president of the Western History Association and has also served as the president of the American Society for Ethnohistory (2002-2003). He has written or edited ten books, and over one hundred articles or essays in journals or other scholarly publications. His first book, The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire received the 1978 Francis Parkman Prize. His book The Shawnee Prophet was nominated for a Pulitzer. The Fox Wars: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France (co-authored by Joseph L. Peyser) received the Heggoy Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society. His edited volumes include The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900.

Henry Roe Cloud (Yale 1910), prominent American Indian educator, improved social and educational opportunities for American Indians throughout the United States in the early half of the 20th century. A lifelong advocate for the economic and educational empowerment of Native peoples, his outstanding record of civil service and his leadership as director of Haskell University, among many other achievements, reshaped federal Indian policy and directly impacted the lives of generations of Native Americans.