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Doug Kiel

Northwestern Weinberg, Oneida Nation historian Assistant professor of history. Co-served with Patty on the Field Museum 'Native Truths' exhibit advisory council (2022).

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Background · 2024 · northwestern-history

Doug Kiel Publishes 'Unsettling Territory' on Oneida Resurgence

Doug Kiel (Oneida Nation, Northwestern University) is the author of Unsettling Territory: The Resurgence of the Oneida Nation in the Face of Settler Backlash, published by Yale University Press. He co-curated the Field Museum's permanent Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories exhibit (2022) and the Newberry Library's Indigenous Chicago (2024-2025), and has served as expert witness in federal appeals over Oneida land rights. His work is the contemporary scholarly companion to Patty's chapter.