Degrees
Ph.D., Sociology, Florida State University (1968); Postdoctoral (Social Relations), Harvard University (1968-69); Postdoctoral (Demography), University of Southern California (1980)
Awards
College of Social Sciences Sesquicentennial Lecture, The Florida State University, 2001
Distinguished Professorship, UCLA, 2004-
The Hail Lecture (with Candace Greene), Brown University, 2007
Selected Publications
1986 We Shall Live Again: The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Revitalization (Cambridge University Press).
1987 American Indian Holocaust and Survival (University of Oklahoma Press).
1990 The Cherokees: A Population History (University of Nebraska Press).
1998 Editor. Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects (University of Wisconsin Press).
2007 Co-editor with Candace S. Greene. The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian (University of Nebraska Press and the Smithsonian Institution).
Research
American Indian historical demography, American Indian revitalization movements, American Indian winter counts, contemporary American Indian issues