Jack Forbes

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Jack D. Forbes (b. 1934, Bahia de los Alamitos in Suanga [Long Beach], California) (Powhatan-Renape & Delaware-Lenape) started writing in high school, writing articles for a school paper and later became sports editor. He studied at Glendale College earning his Bachelors in 1953, then at the University of Southern California receiving his Masters in 1955 and PhD. in 1959. He is a professor emeritus and former chair of Native American Studies at the University of California at Davis, where he has served since 1969. In 1960-61 he developed proposals for Native American Studies programs and for an indigenous university. In l971 the D-Q University came into being as a result of that proposal.

Forbes has served as a Visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Warwick, England, as the Tinbergen Chair at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Linacre College of Oxford University, and as a Visiting Professor in Literature at the University of Essex, England.


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[edit] Awards

Forbes was named Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year (Prose - Non-Fiction) award, 1999. He was the recipient of the Before Columbus Foundation`s American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement for 1997.


[edit] Books

  • Apache, Navaho, and Spaniard, University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. Revised edition, 1994.
  • The Indian In America's Past, Prentice-Hall, 1964.
  • Warriors of the Colorado: The Yumas of the Quechan Nation and their Neighbors, University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.
  • Nevada Indians Speak, University of Nevada Press, 1967.
  • Native Americans of California and Nevada, Naturegraph, 1969. Revised edition, 1982.
  • Wapanakamikok Language Relationships , Native American Studies, University of Califiornia, Davis, 1972.
  • Aztecas Del Norte: the Chicanos of Aztlan, Fawcett, 1973.
  • Racism, Scholarship and Cultrual Pluralism in Higher Education, Native American Studies, University of Califiornia, Davis, 1977.
  • Tribes and Masses: Essays in Red, Black and White, D-Q University Press, 1978. Reprinted 1979.
  • A World Ruled by Cannibals: the Wetiko Disease of Aggression, Violence and Imperialism, D-Q University Press pre-print, 1979.
  • Native American Languages: Perservation and Self-Development, Native American Studies, University of Califiornia, Davis, 1979.
  • The Papago-Apache Treaty of 1853, Native American Studies, University of California, Davis, 1979.
  • American Words: An Introduction to those Native Words Used in English in the United States and Canada, Native American Studies, University of Califiornia, Davis, 1979.
  • Native Americans and Nixon: Presidential Politics and Minority Self Determination 1969-1972., UCLA American Indian Studies, 1982.
  • Die Wetiko-Seuche, Hammer Verlag, 1981. Reprinted 1983.
  • Native American Higher Education: the Struggle for the Creation of D-Q University, 1960-1971, Native American Studies, University of Califiornia, Davis,1985.
  • El-Lay Riots, Kahonkok Press, 1992. (poetry chapbook)
  • Naming Our Land Reclaiming Our Land , Kahonkok Press, 1992. (poetry chapbook)
  • Columbus and Other Cannibals, Autonomedía, 1992.
  • Columbus & andere Kannibalen, Peter Hammer Verlag, 1992.
  • Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of the Red-Black Peoples, University of Illinois Press, 1993.
  • Only Approved Indians, University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
  • Red Blood, Theytus Books, 1997.
  • What Is Time?, Kahonkok Press, 1997. (poetry chapbook)
  • Proposition 209: Radical Equalizer or Racist Trick?, Kahonkok Press, 1997.
  • Colombo E Outros Canibais, Edições Antígona, 1998.
  • The American Discovery of Europe, University of Illinois Press, 2007.

[edit] References

I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, Swann, Brian & Krupat, Arnold, Bison Books, 1998.

[edit] See Also

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