Dr. Martha Harroun Foster

Associate Professor

CONTACT:
E-mail: mfoster@mtsu.edu
Phone: (615) 898-2642
Office Location: Peck Hall Room 261
MTSU Box 23
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

TEACHING FIELDS:
U.S. History, American Indian History, History of the U.S. West

COURSES:
U.S. History, American Indian History, History of the U.S. West

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Ethnic Identity/American Indian Identity, Metis History, Native American Women

OUTSIDE INTERESTS/PUBLIC SERVICE:
Disabled student services; Native American issues; American Association of University Women, 2002-2006 co-president (with Yuan-Ling Chao)

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER CREATIVE WORKS:
We Know Who We Are: Metis Identity in a Montana Community (University of Oklahoma Press, 2006)

Chapter, "The Spring Creek (Lewistown) Metis: Metis Identity in Montana's Oldest Continuously Occupied Metis Settlement" in Lawrence J. Barkwell, Leah Dorion, and Darren R. Prefontaine, eds., Metis Legacy: A Metis Historiography and Annotated Bibliography (Winnipeg, Manitoba: Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research and Pemmican Publications, 2000).

"Lost Women of the Matriarchy: Iroquois Women in the Historical Literature." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 19:3 (1995): 121-140.

"Of Baggage and Bondage: Gender and Status among Crow and Hidatsa Women." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 17:2 (1993): 121-152.

Review of American Indian Grandmothers Traditions and Transitions by Majorie M. Schweitzer. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2001.

Review of Battle for the Soul: Metis Children Encounter Evangelical Protestants at Mackinaw Mission, 1823-1837 by Keith R. Widder. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2001.

Review of Nez Perce Women in Transition by Caroline James. Pacific Historical Review 66:1 (1997).

Review of Children of the Fur Trade: Forgotten Metis of the Pacific Northwest by John C. Jackson. Pacific Historical Review 66:4 (1997).

Review of Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century by Gerhard J. Ens. Western Historical Quarterly 28:4 (1997).

Review of Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America, 1805-1935 by Frederick E. Hoxie. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 19:3 (1995): 121-140.

Review of The Crow and the Eagle: A Tribal History from Lewis and Clark to Custer by Keith Algier. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 18:2 (1994): 222-225.

"Origins of a Montana Metis Community: The Spring Creek (Lewistown) Metis," Great Plains Quarterly, 26:3 (2006): 185-202.

Short biographies for Métis Legacy: Métis History Through Biography, Lawrence J. Barkwell, Leah Dorion, and Darren R. Préfontaine, eds. (Winnipeg, Manitoba: Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research and Pemmican Publications, 2005).

WORK IN PROGRESS:
Metis of the Northern Plains A book-length monograph examining history of people of mixed-Indian descent in the northern Great Plains.

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., United States History, UCLA, Los Angeles, Ca.
M.A., 1991, United States History, Montana State University, Bozeman, Mt.