Patricia Albers

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Activities
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, none - none
• M.A.: Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, none - none
• B.A.: Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, none - none

Specialties

• American Indian history
• anthropology
• ethnohistory
• gender
• Native American culture
• Native American tribes and nations
• ethnicity and intertribal relations

Publications

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Publications

Activities

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Activities

Professional

• Department Chair, University of Minnesota none - none

Outreach

• Dakota and Ojibwe language 1998 - present

Research

• Research on the representation of indigenous peoples on the picture postcard: Interprets the impact of tourism on the ways in which indigeneous people have been imaged and imagined. 1982 - present
• Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Study of Wind Cave National Park: Examines the history of tribal cultural affiliations to the area of the park. 1999 - 2003
• Ethnography study of American Indian powwows in the northern Plains: looks at the changing panorama of the contemporary powwow scene. 1966 - present

Courses

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Courses

• AmIn 3303 - American Indians and Photography
• AmIn 3409 - American Indian Women: Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Perspectives