Raymond D. Fogelson is an American anthropologist known for his research on American Indians of the southeastern United States, especially the Cherokee

Cherokee

The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States . Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian language family...

. He is considered a founder of the subdiscipline of ethnohistory

Ethnohistory

Ethnohistory is the study of ethnographic cultures and indigenous customs by examining historical records. It is also the study of the history of various ethnic groups that may or may not exist today....

.

He was born August 23, 1933, in Red Bank, New Jersey

Red Bank, New Jersey

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 11,844 people, 5,201 households, and 2,501 families residing in the borough. The population density was 6,639.1 people per square mile . There were 5,450 housing units at an average density of 3,055.0 per square mile...

. In 1951 he was admitted to Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

 in the pre-med program, shifting first to psychology and then to anthropology. He received an M.A. in 1958 and a Ph.D. in 1962 from the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

, where he was influenced by two Americanist anthropologists with strong interests in psychology, Anthony F. C. Wallace

Anthony F. C. Wallace

Anthony Francis Clarke Wallace is a Canadian-American anthropologist who specializes in Native American cultures, especially the Iroquois. His research expresses an interest in the intersection of cultural anthropology and psychology...

 and A. Irving Hallowell.

He began fieldwork with the eastern Cherokee in 1956 under the direction of the anthropologist John Gulick; fieldwork with the Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

 Cherokee was conducted in 1958 and 1960. In 1960-61 Fogelson was a research fellow at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute.

In 1962 he began a teaching position at the University of Washington

University of Washington

University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

, during which time he did fieldwork among the Shuswap

Shuswap

Shuswap *Secwepemc - an indigenous people in British Columbia, Canada, also known in English as the Shuswap*Shuswap language - a language spoken by the Secwepemc...

 in British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, though fieldwork with Oklahoma Cherokee and Muskogee

Creek people

The Muscogee , also known as the Creek or Creeks, are a Native American people traditionally from the southeastern United States. Mvskoke is their name in traditional spelling. The modern Muscogee live primarily in Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida...

 (Creek) continued through the 1960s. In 1965 he moved to the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

, where he continues to teach in the Department of Anthropology.

He has also testified extensively before congressional committees on federal recognition of Indian tribes such as the Lumbee

Lumbee

The Lumbee belong to a state recognized Native American tribe in North Carolina. The Lumbee are concentrated in Robeson County and named for the primary waterway traversing the county...

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In 2006 a volume was published in his honor (New Perspectives on Native North America; see sources), consisting of contributions from many of his former students, including Jeffrey D. Anderson

Jeffrey D. Anderson

Jeffrey Anderson is an American anthropologist who specializes in Arapaho language and culture. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Raymond D. Fogelson....

, Mary Druke Becker, Margaret Bender

Margaret Bender

Margaret Bender is an American anthropologist who specializes in the language and culture of the Cherokee people. She received her Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Chicago, where she studied with the anthropologist Raymond D. Fogelson...

, Robert A. Brightman

Robert A. Brightman

Robert A. Brightman is an American anthropologist known for his work among the Cree Indians in Manitoba, Canada.He received his undergraduate education at Reed College, graduating in 1973. He earned his MA and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1983. There he studied under...

, Thomas Buckley

Thomas Buckley

Thomas Buckley is an American anthropologist and Buddhist monastic best known for his long-term ethnographic research with the Yurok Indians of northern California , his early work in the anthropology of reproduction , and for his major reevaluation of the work of Alfred L. Kroeber .He received his...

, Raymond A. Bucko

Raymond A. Bucko

Raymond A. Bucko, S. J., is an American Jesuit priest and anthropologist noted for his work among the Lakota Indians.Bucko received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1992 from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Raymond D...

, Raymond J. DeMallie

Raymond J. DeMallie

Raymond J. DeMallie is an American anthropologist whose work focuses on the cultural history of the peoples of the Northern Plains, particularly the Lakota. His work is informed by interrelated archival, museum-based, and ethnographic research in a manner characteristic of the ethnohistorical...

, David Dinwoodie

David Dinwoodie

David W. Dinwoodie is an American anthropologist specializing in the Chilcotin First Nation in British Columbia, Canada.He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, where he studied under Raymond D...

, Frederic W. Gleach

Frederic W. Gleach

Frederic W. Gleach is an American anthropologist who specializes in Native American peoples of Virginia.He grew up in Virginia and received his Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of Chicago, where he studied with Raymond D. Fogelson....

, Michael E. Harkin

Michael E. Harkin

Michael Eugene Harkin is an American anthropologist specializing in the ethnohistory of indigenous people of the western U.S. and Canada.From 1985 to 1987 he conducted fieldwork in the Heiltsuk community of Bella Bella, B.C...

, Joseph C. Jastrzembski, Sergei A. Kan

Sergei Kan

Sergei A. Kan is an American anthropologist known for his research with and writings on the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska, focusing on the potlatch and on the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in Tlingit communities....

, Robert E. Moore

Robert E. Moore

Robert Emmett Moore was an American politician who served as 7th lieutenant governor of Nebraska, from 1895-97.He also served as 11th mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska, from 1883-85....

, Larry Nesper

Larry Nesper

Larry Nesper is an American anthropologist specializing in the Ojibwe people of northern Wisconsin.He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Chicago, where he studied with Raymond D. Fogelson....

, Jean O'Brien

Jean O'Brien

Jean Maria O'Brien is an American historian of White Earth Band of Ojibwe ancestry who specializes in northeastern Woodlands American Indian history....

, Pauline Turner Strong

Pauline Turner Strong

Pauline Turner Strong is an American anthropologist specializing in literary, historical, ethnographic, media, and popular representations of Native Americans. Theoretically her work has considered colonial and postcolonial representation, identity and alterity, and hybridity...

, Greg Urban

Greg Urban

Greg Urban is an American anthropologist who specializes in indigenous peoples of South America and on general theoretical problems in linguistic and cultural anthropology. Much of his work has been oriented toward the development of a discourse-centered theory of culture. Urban is the Arthur...

, and Barrik Van Winkle

Barrik Van Winkle

Barrik Van Winkle is an American linguistic and legal anthropologist who has done research on the language and culture of the Washoe Nation and on gang violence in the U.S....

. The volume also contains articles by Regna Darnell

Regna Darnell

Regna Darnell is a Canadian anthropologist known for her linguistic anthropological fieldwork with the Plains Cree of northern Alberta and with southwestern Ontario First Nations peoples as well as for her scholarship on the history of anthropology....

, Jennifer S. H. Brown, and Peter Nabokov.

Selected works

• (1962) The Cherokee Ball Game: A Study in Southeastern Indian Ethnology. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania.
• (1979) The Cherokees: A Critical Bibliography. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• (1980) "Windigo Goes South: Stoneclad among the Cherokees." In: Manlike Monsters on Trial: Early Records and Modern

Evidence, ed. by Marjorie M. Halpin and Michael M. Ames, pp. 132–151. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

• (1982) "Person, Self, and Identity: Some Anthropological Retrospects, Circumspects, and Prospects." In: Psychological Theories of the Self, ed. by Benjamin Lee and Kathleen Smith, pp. 67–109. New York: Plenum Press.
• (1985) "Interpretations of the American Indian Psyche: Some Historical Notes." In: Social Contexts of American Ethnology, 1840–1984, ed. by June Helm, pp. 4–27. Washington: American Anthropological Association.
• (1989) "The Ethnohistory of Events and Nonevents." Ethnohistory, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 133–147.
• (ed.) (2004) Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14: Southeast. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.
• (ed.) (with Richard N. Adams) (1977) The Anthropology of Power: Studies from Asia, Oceania, and the New World. New York: Academic Press.

Sources

• Kan, Sergei A., and Pauline Turner Strong (2006) Introduction. In: New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations, pp. xi-xlii. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.