Jeff Means

Dr. Jeff Means, an Enrolled Member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, is an Associate Professor of History and Department Chair at the University of Wyoming. 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 examined through the lens of Settler Colonialism.

 

Dr. Means 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.

 

Dr. Means' website on Academia.edu

 

Publications

Jeffrey D. Means, “Oglala Paths, Oglala Choices: Identity and Economics on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 1877-1920,” Annals of Wyoming, Wyoming State Historical Society, Forthcoming

 

Jeffrey D. Means, “The Sioux Bill of 1889: A Turning Point in Oglala Lakota Culture,” in “50 Events That Shaped American Indian History,” anthology, edited by Donna Martinez and Jennifer Williams Bordeaux, ABC-CLIO Greenwood Press, 2016

 

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

 

Service

Native American and Indigenous Studies Program (Adjunct Faculty and Advisory Council Board Member)-2007-Present

 

Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (DACODAI), Appointed by Lloyd J. Austin III, United States Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense, Committee Member, 2022-Present

 

Affiliations, Associations, Memberships

Organization of American Historians

Native American & Indigenous Studies Association

Phi Alpha Theta, History Honors Society