Jean Maria O'Brien (born February 2, 1958) is an American historian of
White Earth Band of Ojibwe
The White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, also called the White Earth Nation ( oj, Gaa-waabaabiganikaag Anishinaabeg, "People from where there is an abundance of white clay"), is a federally recognized Native American band located ...
ancestry who specializes in northeastern Woodlands
American Indian history.
Life
She received her Ph.D. from the
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...
, where she studied with the anthropologist
Raymond D. Fogelson.
She teaches History and American Indian Studies at the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...
. She has been a McKnight Distinguished University Professor since 2015.
Private life
O'Brien is married to the economist
Timothy J. Kehoe.
Bibliography
* Kan, Sergei A., and Pauline Turner Strong, eds. (2006) ''New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations.'' Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
* O'Brien, Jean M. (1997) ''Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790.''
* O'Brien, Jean M. (2010) ''Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England.'' University of Minnesota Press.
References
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1958 births
Living people
University of Minnesota faculty
White Earth Nation people
Native American writers
Historians from Minnesota
Native American women writers
University of Chicago alumni