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David Robert Martin Beck

Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, History

Highlighted Publications

Beck, D. R. M. (2019). Unfair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. University of Nebraska Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvggx4fm

LaPier, R. R., & Beck, D. R. M. (2015). City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934. University of Nebraska Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1d98ch6

Beck, D. R. M. (2009). Seeking Recognition: The Termination and Restoration of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, 1855-1984. University of Nebraska Press.

Beck, D. R. M. (2005). The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians since 1854. University of Nebraska Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/monograph/book/11747

Beck, D. R. M. (2002). Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856. University of Nebraska Press.

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Recent Publications

Beck, D. R. M. (2024). Bribed with Our Own Money: Federal Abuse of American Indian Funds in the Termination Era. (New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies). University of Nebraska Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.13840499

Beck, D. R. M. (2023). “Sometimes My People Get Mad When the Blackfeet Kill Us”: A Documentary History of the Salish and Pend d’Oreille Indians, 1845–1874. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 46(1), 150-152. https://doi.org/10.17953/AICRJ.46.1.REVIEWS.BECK

Beck, D. R. M. (Accepted/In press). Review: R. Bigart and J. McDonald's (eds.) "Sometimes My People Get Mad when the Blackfeet Kill Us": A Documentary History of the Salish and Pend d’Oreille Indians 1845-1874. American Indian Culture and Research Journal.

Beck, D. R. M. (2022). Review: R. Hall's Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877. Journal of American History, 108(4), 825-826. https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaac036

Beck, D. R. M. (2021). Review: D. Hunt, G. Cajete, B. Broome, P. Gagnier, and J. Chaudhuri's Re-Creating the Circle: The Renewal of American Indian Self-Determination. Great Plains Quarterly, 41(3-4), 315-315. https://doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2021.0028

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