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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences American Indian Studies Program

Rosalyn Rae LaPier

Professor

Biography

Rosalyn is an award winning Indigenous writer, environmental historian, and ethnobotanist. She/they work within Indigenous communities to revitalize traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and to strengthen public policy for Indigenous languages. She/they are the author of Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet. Rosalyn is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis.

Research Interests

Indigenous Landscape Management, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Indigenous Religion, Ethnobotany, Environmental Justice & Indigenous Activism, and Sacred Landscapes.

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, History

Highlighted Publications

LaPier, R. R. (2017). Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet. (New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies). University of Nebraska Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1s475jg

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

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Recent Publications

LaPier, R. (2023). Land as Text: Reading the Land: Reading the Land. Environmental History, 28(1), 40-46. https://doi.org/10.1086/722618

Neely, J., Sutton, B., Kistabish, R., LaPier, R., & Carpenter, K. (2023). Indigenous Language Leaders: Perspectives on the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. Colorado Environmental Law Journal, 34(Spring), 29-52. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/colenvlp34&i=229

Thomas, A., Hoagland, S. J., Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills, R., LaPier, R., Grant, A., Wu, K., & Belcourt, A. (2022). Lived Experiences of Native American STEM Faculty in Academia: Our Stories, Insights, and Advice. Journal of American Indian Education, 61(3), 62-88. https://doi.org/10.1353/jaie.2022.a912063

Lapier, R. (2021). Ella Mad Plume Yellow Wolf: Photographs by a Native American Woman in the Early 1940s. Montana, 71(4), 25-41. https://doi.org/10.1353/mnt.2021.a914466

LaPier, R. (2018). Review: L.S. Warren's God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America. Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 68(4), 78-80. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45200820

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