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name: Brenda J. Child
about: Brenda J. Child is Northrop Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studiesat the University of Minnesota, and former Chair of the Department of American IndianStudies. She is the author of several books in American Indian history includingBoarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 (1998), which won the North American Indian Prose Award; Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (2012); Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education (with Brian Klopotek, 2014). Her 2014 book My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation won the American Indian Book Award and the Best Book in Midwestern History Award. She is a member Brenda J. Child is Northrop Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studiesat the University of Minnesota, and former Chair of the Department of American IndianStudies. She is the author of several books in American Indian history includingBoarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 (1998), which won the North American Indian Prose Award; Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (2012); Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education (with Brian Klopotek, 2014). Her 2014 book My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation won the American Indian Book Award and the Best Book in Midwestern History Award. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian-Smithsonian and past-president of the Native American &amp; Indigenous StudiesAssociation. Child was born on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesotawhere she is a member of a committee writing a new constitution for the 12,000-member nation. ...more