Amy Lonetree (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)

Amy Lonetree is an enrolled citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her scholarly research focuses on Native American history, public history, visual studies, and museum studies, and she has received fellowships in support of this work from the School for Advanced Research, the Newberry Library, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center, the Institute of American Cultures at UCLA, and the University of California, Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

Her publications include Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (2012); a coedited book with Amanda J. Cobb, The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations (2008); and a coauthored volume, People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879–1942 (2011). Her articles have appeared in The Public Historian, the American Indian Quarterly, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and the Journal of American History. She is currently working on a book focusing on the history of the Ho-Chunk Nation that explores family history, tourism, settler colonialism, and Ho-Chunk survivance through an examination of two exceptional collections of studio portraits and tourist images taken between 1879 and 1960. She is also pursuing research on the history of Indigenous child removal in the United States.

Selected Publications

• Lonetree, Amy. “Decolonizing Museums, Memorials, and Monuments.” The Public Historian 43, no. 4 (2021): 21–27.
• Lonetree, Amy. “A Heritage of Resilience: Ho-Chunk Family Photographs in the Visual Archive.” The Public Historian 41, no. 1 (2019): 34–50.
• Lonetree, Amy. Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
• Jones, Tom, Michael Schmudlach, Matthew Daniel Mason, Amy Lonetree, and George A. Greendeer. People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879–1942. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2011.
• Lonetree, Amy, and Amanda J. Cobb, eds. The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.