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Anthropology Faculty - Part 2
Dr. Bill Meadows Invited to Speak at
Senate Hearing
Dr. Meadows' background is in cultural anthropology, archaeology, history, Native American Studies, and some linguistics with specialization in North American Indians and Japan. Among the courses Dr. Meadow's teaches are World Cultures, North American Prehistory, North American Indians, and he has added two new courses to our offerings; a course on contemporary American Indians entitled North American Indians Today and the an ethnographic field school, for which he took Missouri State anthropology students Joshua Harmsworth and Marcus Ross to Oklahoma for six weeks of ethnographic fieldwork this summer with the Kiowa. Meadows is a member of the Native American Heritage Month Committee at Missouri State and is Chairman of the 2004 Missouri State Powwow which was held November 21st and 22nd, 2004, on the campus of Missouri State in McDonald Arena. Among the many publications Dr. Meadows has produced are two recent books: Kiowa, Apache and Comanche Military Societies; and The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II. He is currently working on a third book entitled Kiowa Military Societies: Ethnohistory and Ritual. (Links from the above books are for informational purposes only.)
Because Meadows wrote the most recent and comprehensive book on Native American Code Talkers, and has been able to identify the largest number of tribes, their units and individual members that served in this capacity to date, he was asked to testify regarding his research. That research involved a history of how code talking began in World War I, and was then used again by a larger number of tribes in World War II. The hearing was sponsored by then Senator Tom Daschle and chaired by Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell. It was designed to gather evidence and support for Senate and House legislation aimed at obtaining Congressional recognition for all Native American Code Talkers. Meadows was joined by members of the Choctaw, Comanche, Lakota, and Meskwaki Tribes as well as a military historian and officer of the Office of Indian affairs. The Senate hearings were aired on C-Span and written about in several press releases (example). While in the nation's capitol, Meadows attended the opening of the new National Museum of the American Indian, the first such national museum for American Indians. If you would like to visit with Dr. Meadows about the courses he teaches and/or about his research, please feel free to contact him (Missouri State, Strong Hall Room 475, (417) 836-5684, email). The Comanche Code Talkers Memorial is in Lawton, Oklahoma. ________________________________________________________________ Next Page
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