D’Arcy McNickle
At a glance:
- Series: American Ethnic Writers
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Social Science
- Subcategories: Novelists, Short Story Writers, Native Americans, American Indians, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present, American Indian History
Article abstract: After writing one of the first novels by an American Indian, D’Arcy McNickle worked as an administrator and political organizer and wrote important works of anthropology and history.
Born to a Scotch-Irish father and a French Canadian mother of Cree heritage, D’Arcy McNickle knew from an early age the problems of mixed identity that many Native Americans experience. As he grew up on a northwestern Montana ranch, McNickle, along with his family, was adopted into the Salish-Kootanai Indian tribe. McNickle attended Oxford University and the...
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