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Nancy Oestreich Lurie

Between 1954 and 1963, Lurie worked frequently as a researcher and expert witness for tribal petitioners in cases brought before the U. S. Indian Claims Commission, including Lower Kutenai (Ktunaxa), Lower Kalispe l(Kalispel), Quileute, Sac and Fox Nation, Winnebago (aka Ho-Chunk), Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Eastern Potawatomi; after 1963 she appeared as an expert witness in regard to the Wisconsin Chippewa and Menominee in federal courts.

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Lurie’s research specialties are ethnohistory, action anthropology and museology; her areal focus is on North American Indians, especially the Ho-Chunk (aka Winnebago) and the Dogrib (Taicho) of the Canadian NWT; and the comparative study of territorial minorities.

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Lurie was a professor of anthropology (1963–1972) at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, a visiting scholar with a Fulbright-Hay Lectureship in Anthropology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark (1965–66), and head curator of anthropology (1972–1992) at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

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