Current Member
Christian McMillen
Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Member; additional funding provided by the George F. Kennan Membership Fund
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of study
American Indian History
Home institution
University of Virginia
Thirty million acres of individually held Native land were lost in the twentieth century. Christian McMillen's "Land Melting Like Snow" (Yale) explains how: the federal government forcibly privatized trust land, opening it to sale, taxation, and foreclosure thereby dispossessing tens of thousands of people.
Visits
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Degrees
Yale University
Ph.D.
2005
Appointments
University of Virginia
2004
Professor of History