David R. M. Beck is an award winning scholar of Indigenous political and economic history in relation to 20th century U.S. federal Indian policy and Indigenous mobility.
Experience
2022–present
Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois
2006–2022
Professor, Native American Studies, University of Montana
2000–2006
Associate professor, Native American Studies, University of Montana
Publications
2019
UnFair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, University of Nebraska Press
2015
City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934 , With Rosalyn LaPier, University of Nebraska Press
2009
Seeking Recognition: The Termination and Restoration of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, 1855-1984, University of Nebraska Press
2005
The Struggle for Self Determination: History of the Menominee Indians Since 1854, University of Nebraska Press
2002
Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856, University of Nebraska Press