John Truden
​​EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Oklahoma, History, 2023
M.A. University of Oklahoma, History, 2018
B.A. University of North Carolina at Wilmington, History, 2016
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2023-25 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Center for the Futures of Native Peoples, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA.
2023-24 Expert Consultant, Greetham Law P.L.L.C. (Principal Counsel, Chickasaw Nation) Oklahoma City, OK.
PUBLICATIONS
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Manuscripts
----- Indian Territory’s Legacy: Indigenous-Settler Partnerships and Persistence in Oklahoma, 1875-2020 (under contract with University of Nebraska Press)
Refereed Journal Articles
2022 “Settler Colonialism and Oklahoma History” The Chronicles of Oklahoma 99/2 (Summer 2022): 164-181.
2020 “‘You’re in apple land but you are a lemon:’ Connection, Collaboration and Division in Early ‘70s Indian Country” Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy 15/3 (July 2020).
2019 “Where Cowboys and Indians Meet: A Southern Cheyenne Web of Kinship and the Transnational Cattle Industry, 1877-1885” Western Historical Quarterly 50/4 (Winter 2019), 363-90.
2018 “Reexamining Dick Wilson: Oglala Politics, Nation Building, and Local Conflict, 1972-1976” South Dakota History 48/3 (Fall 2018), 173-99.
2018 “The Evans and Clark Families: Borderlands Legacies in Western Oklahoma, 1875-1950” The Chronicles of Oklahoma 96/2 (Summer 2018): 178-201.
Selected Publications Designed for Community Access
​2024 “Indigenous Peoples in West Texas, 1865-1880” in The Texas Yawp: A Massively Collaborative, Open History of the Lone , Star State (Stanford University Press, forthcoming).
2024 “Catherine Greiffenstein’s Burnett” The Chronicles of Oklahoma (forthcoming)
2024 “New Boarding and Residential School Collection Open to TCUs” Tribal College: The Journal of American Indian Higher Education 36/1 (Fall 2024): 19.
2023 “A US Army Officer’s Report on a Forgotten Experiment at Fort Sill” The Chronicles of Oklahoma 100/2 (Summer 2023): 210-219.
2023 “The American Indian Steamship Company: Fraud during the Reign of Terror” Osage News (Pawhuska, OK), February 2023.
2021 “The Absentee Shawnees and the True Story of Lake Thunderbird” Oklahoma Humanities (Fall-Winter 2021): 12- 16.
2017 “Mennonite Missionary S.S. Haury’s Account of the Running Buffalo Shooting, 1884” with Levi Wilkins, The Chronicles of Oklahoma 95/4 (Winter 2017-18), 472-79.
Selected Book Reviews
2024 Resisting Oklahoma's Reign of Terror: The Society of Oklahoma Indians and the Fight for Native Rights by
Joshua Clough, The Chronicles of Oklahoma (forthcoming)
2021 After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America’s Stolen Lands by Margaret D. Jacobs, The Chronicles of Oklahoma 99/3 (Fall 2021): 359-361.
2021 Voice of the Tribes: A History of the National Tribal Chairmen's Association by Thomas A. Britten, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 22/1 (Spring 2021).
2019 Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero by Devon Mihesuah, Western Historical Quarterly 50/2 (Summer 2019), 189-90.
Publications in Preparation
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Manuscripts
Reform, Revolution, Backlash: A New History of Native America, 1971-1981.
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Articles
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“The Welfare Fraud Workaround: Political Conservatism, Tribal Sovereignty, and South Dakota’s Campaign to Criminalize USDA Commodities on the Yankton Reservation, 1979-1983.”
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Dickinson College
Federal Indian Law and Policy Spring 2025
Settler Colonialism in Comparative Perspective Fall 2024
Native Americans and Film Summer 2024
Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies Spring 2024
Indigenous Communities and Federal Boarding Schools in the United States Fall 2023
Adjunct, Elizabeth City State University
Conflict, Reconstruction, and Imperialism Spring 2023
US History to 1877 Spring 2023
US History since 1877 Fall 2022
Introduction to Global Studies Fall 2022
Instructor, University of Oklahoma
US History to 1865 Summer 2021-22
COLLABORATION WITH INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
2023-2025 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Futures of Native Peoples, Dickinson College.
2023-2024 Expert Consultant, Chickasaw Nation (via Greetham Law P.L.L.C.)
2022-2023 Consultant, Seminole Nation Historic Preservation Office, Seminole, OK.
2020 Researcher, Seminole Treaty People, Seminole, OK.
2019 Research Intern, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Shawnee, OK.
2019 Researcher, Oglala Lakota College Archives and Tribal Repository, Oglala Lakota College, Kyle, SD.
2019 Researcher, Kanza Museum, Kaw Nation, Kaw City, OK.​
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SERVICE
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2025 Organizer, "Structures and Relationships: New Vantage Points in Oklahoma History" Western History Conference, Albuquerque, NM
2024 Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Chronicles of Oklahoma.​
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AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2024 Research and Development Grant, Research and Development Committee, Dickinson College.
2024 Publication Costs Grant, -----.
2024 Dana Research Assistant Grant, -----.
2024 Research and Development Grant, -----.
2024 Collaborative Student-Faculty Research Grant, -----.
2024 Travel to Present Award, -----.
2024 Research and Development Grant, -----.
2024 Research and Development Grant, -----.
2023 Civic Engagement Fund Grant, Center for Civic Learning and Action, Dickinson College.
2023 Research and Development Grant, Research and Development Committee, Dickinson College.
2022 Nancy L. Mergler Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Oklahoma.
2022 E.E. Dale/A.M. Gibson Scholarship in Western American History, University of Oklahoma.
2021 Thomas J. Gould Prize, Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
2020 National Society of Colonial Dames Award, University of Oklahoma.
2019 Jo Stewart Randel Grant, Center for the Study of the American West, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX.
2019 Mantooth-Estep Scholarship in Oklahoma History, University of Oklahoma.
2018 National Society of Colonial Dames Award, -----.
2017 Gordon Morris Bakken Scholarship in Western History, Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society.
2016 Thomas Mosely Award: Most Promise for the Future in US History, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
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2025 "Weaponizing Indigeneity: Charles Carter and White Voters in Southeastern Oklahoma, 1907-1927" Western History Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
2025 "Native America 101" Cleve J. Fredricksen Library, Camp Hill, PA.
2024 "Native Americans and Film" -----.
2024 “The Anti-Indian Movement: White Grievance, Political Conservatism, and Treaty Rights in the 1970s United States” Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA.
2024 “Bound in Blood and Timber: The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe and the State of Texas during Jim Crow, 1928-1965” Western History Conference, Kansas City, MO.
2024 “Thinking and Teaching Indigenous Ways of Knowing from a Non-Native Perspective in a Non-Native Context,” Indigenous Think Tank, Dickinson College.
2024 "Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Dickinson College, and Institutional Responsibility” Alumni Weekend Seminar, Dickinson College.
2024 “Reform, Revolution, Backlash: A New History of Native America, 1971-1981” Central Pennsylvania Native American and Indigenous Studies Symposium, Carlisle, PA.
2022 "The Native American Culture Group: Organizing at a Federal Prison in 1970s Oklahoma" Oklahoma History Symposium, Oklahoma City, OK.
2019 “Indigenous Controlled Schools in Oklahoma and Saskatchewan” Western History Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2023 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
2016 Western History Association
2016 Oklahoma Historical Society
2014 Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2024 Mellon Faculty Writing Group, Dickinson College.
2024 Quantitative Research Associate Program, Quantitative Research Center, -----.
2024 Indigenous Think Tank, Center for the Futures of Native Peoples, -----.
2024 Dialogues Across Differences Faculty Learning Community, -----.
2024 Student Pedagogical Partner Program, Center for Teaching, Learning and Scholarship, -----.
2020 Digital Summer Institute, Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL.
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REFERENCES
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Anne F. Hyde
Professor of History
University of Oklahoma
Amanda Cobb-Greetham (Chickasaw Nation)
John Shelton Reed Distinguished Professor of U.S. Southern Native Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Emily Pawley
Walter E. Beach ’56 Chair in Sustainability Studies
Associate Professor of History
Dickinson College