Jeffrey D. Means
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 2007
jmeans4@uwyo.edu • 766-3198 • History
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Jeff Means (Enrolled Member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe) is an Assistant Professor of History at
the University of Wyoming in the field of Native American History. He arrived in the fall of 2007 after
receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. His primary area of interest is Great Plains
Indian culture and Colonial Cultural Encounters. Oglala Lakota cultural history in the 18th
and 19th century is his primary area of focus. Jeff has won numerous academic awards and
grants, including the first Power-Tanner Graduate Student Fellowship in
American Indian Studies and the first NCAIS Faculty Fellowship at the Newberry
Library, the Burlingame-Toole Award from the Montana Historical Society for the
best Graduate student article for 2003, and the American Philosophical Society
research grant. He has also received
research grants and awards from the University of Oklahoma, the University of
Wyoming, and East Central University. He
has published articles and presented his work at conferences such as the
PCB-AHA, the Western Historical Conference, and the American Society for
Ethnohistory. Jeff is currently working
on his first book, which examines Oglala Lakota cultural transformations and
cattle during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Dr. Means' Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)
Publications:
Articles
- Jeffrey D. Means, "Indians shall do things in
common": Oglala Lakota Identity and Economics During the Early Reservation
Era, 1868-1889. Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Fall 2011, Volume 60,
No. 3
- Jeffrey D. Means, 2002, "Deconstructing Dependency: Osage
Subsistence and United States Indian Policy, 1800-1830." Heritage of the Great Plains Journal, Volume
XXXV, No. 1, 23-38
Books
- Jeffrey D. Means, From Buffalo to Beeves: Cattle and the Transformation of Oglala Lakota Culture, 1750-1920 (Forthcoming from University of Oklahoma Press)
Service:
American Indian Studies Program (Adjunct Faculty and
Advisory Council Board Member)
Affiliations,
Associations, Memberships:
Organization of American Historians
American
Society for Ethnohistory
Western History Association
Native American & Indigenous
Studies Association
Phi Alpha Theta, History Honors
Society
