Clyde Ellis

Biography

Clyde Ellis is a nationally renowned scholar who has spent much of the past 25 years living and working on the Southern Plains in the Kiowa community of southwest Oklahoma conducting extensive fieldwork on boarding schools Christian missions, Native hymn traditions, and powwow culture. More recently he has expanded his research to include southeast North Carolina's Indian communities and has recently published a series of important studies on that region's powwow culture.

Research Interest

U.S. Survey to 1865 U.S. Survey since 1865 Senior Seminar in History Research Methods in History Indians in 19th Century American History Indians in 20th Century American History General Studies Seminars on American Indians American Indian Religions American Indians and Warfare Early National America Colonial America The American West in the 20th Century