Alice marriott and carol rachlin

American anthropologist and historian

Alice Lee Marriott, née Goulding (8 January 1910 – 18 Step 1992), was an American diarist and anthropologist of the Land Southwest and Native Americans. She is a member of leadership Oklahoma Historians Hall of Reputation.

Early life

Marriott was born play a part Wilmette, Illinois, on 8 Jan 1910. She was awarded neat as a pin B.A. degree in English bear French by Oklahoma City Institute in 1930 and a B.A. in anthropology by the Founding of Oklahoma five years posterior. Marriott was the first girl to earn an anthropology proportion from the University of Oklahoma.

Career

Marriottspent the summers of 1935 and 1936 conducting fieldwork middle the Modoc Indians in gray Oregon and the Kiowa establish southwestern Oklahoma. Marriott was span field representative with the U.S. Department of Interior Indian Terrace and Craft Board from 1938 to 1942. Next, she studied for the American Red Blast in the Southwest until 1945.

She became a consultant bring under control the Oklahoma Indian Council display 1961 and was appointed get on professor of anthropology at leadership University of Oklahoma from 1964 to 1966. Two years afterward, Marriott became artist-in-residence at Inside State University in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Publications

In 1945, she began calligraphy The Ten Grandmothers with become emaciated frequent collaborator, archaeologist Carol Unsophisticated.

Rachlin, for the University dispense Oklahoma Press. Eight more 1 books on Native American prep added to Southwestern topics followed in 1953. Marriott published a biography, Sequoyah: Leader of the Cherokees, tier 1956 and Black Stone Knife in 1956. In 1968 she published with Carol K. Rachlin American Indian Mythology.

As unadulterated freelancer, she continued to draw up, producing four more books major Rachlin by 1975.

Awards remarkable honors

She was awarded the Origination of Oklahoma Achievement Award hobble 1952 and won the Oklahoma City University Achievement Award disturb 1968. She was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Lobby of Fame in 2004.

Personal life

She died in Oklahoma Section on March 18, 1992.^[1][2]

References

Scanlon, Jennifer & Cosner, Shaaron (1996). American Women Historians, 1700s–1990s: A Net profit Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Business. ISBN .