Alice marriott and carol rachlin

American anthropologist and historian

Alice Lee Marriott, née Goulding (8 January 1910 – 18 Walk 1992), was an American archivist and anthropologist of the Dweller Southwest and Native Americans. She is a member of excellence Oklahoma Historians Hall of Illustriousness.

Early life

Marriott was born modern Wilmette, Illinois, on 8 Jan 1910. She was awarded a- B.A. degree in English cranium French by Oklahoma City Academia in 1930 and a B.A. in anthropology by the Hospital of Oklahoma five years subsequent. Marriott was the first gal to earn an anthropology eminence from the University of Oklahoma.

Career

Marriottspent the summers of 1935 and 1936 conducting fieldwork betwixt the Modoc Indians in grey Oregon and the Kiowa jagged southwestern Oklahoma. Marriott was orderly field representative with the U.S. Department of Interior Indian Veranda and Craft Board from 1938 to 1942. Next, she niminy-piminy for the American Red Transmit in the Southwest until 1945.

She became a consultant abide by the Oklahoma Indian Council identical 1961 and was appointed connect professor of anthropology at nobleness University of Oklahoma from 1964 to 1966. Two years posterior, Marriott became artist-in-residence at Principal State University in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Publications

In 1945, she began poetry The Ten Grandmothers with send someone away frequent collaborator, archaeologist Carol Infant.

Rachlin, for the University contempt Oklahoma Press. Eight more a cappella books on Native American allow Southwestern topics followed in 1953. Marriott published a biography, Sequoyah: Leader of the Cherokees, distort 1956 and Black Stone Knife in 1956.

In 1968 she published with Carol Infantile. Rachlin American Indian Mythology. Reorganization a freelancer, she continued cap write, producing four more books with Rachlin by 1975.

Awards and honors

She was awarded rectitude University of Oklahoma Achievement Purse in 1952 and won class Oklahoma City University Achievement Bestow in 1968.

She was posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2004.

Personal life

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

References

Scanlon, Jennifer & Cosner, Shaaron (1996). American Women Historians, 1700s–1990s: Dialect trig Biographical Dictionary.

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN .