My Chickasaw Studies: Formative Experiences

Wendy St. Jean

Wendy St. Jean, Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Purdue University Calumet, says that her road trips to Oklahoma to conduct research on the Chickasaws were formative experiences during graduate school.

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