Dr. Cameron Shriver

Dr. Cameron Shriver

Dr. Cameron Shriver

Cam Shriver, Senior Research Associate in the Myaamia Center, works on Indigenous history with a particular emphasis on the Myaamia experience of the last four centuries. Most recently, his research has investigated histories of colonial and Native American education, and the legal and social history of Myaamia allotments. In both cases, these projects emerged from ongoing conversations with the community and the Miami Tribe’s Cultural Resources Office. His forthcoming book weaves together a history of the Miami Tribe and Miami University to reflect on why and how the relationship between the nation and university is transformative, particularly in light of the trends in Indigenous education (such as land plunder, assimilation, and mascots) since 1800. And, as P.I. of a three-year NEH grant, Shriver leads a team developing GIS-based archival and educational tools to help revitalize connections between people and the landscape.

His research has been supported by, among others, the NEH, the Mellon Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and fellowships at the Huntington, John Carter Brown, and Newberry Libraries. His PhD dissertation (Ohio State University) argued that eighteenth-century French and British empires in the Great Lakes sought and struggled to build and maintain effective intelligence-gathering bureaucracies, primarily due to Indigenous control over travel and news networks.

In addition to various courses in early American history, Shriver frequently teaches “Introduction to the Miami Tribe” at Miami University.

Publications

Copies of many of these articles can be obtained by emailing Dr. Shriver at shrivecm@miamioh.edu

The Story of Two Miamis: Education and the History of a Tribe and University. Book manuscript under contract, University of Nebraska Press.

“Mapping Myaamia Landownership, 1795-1846” in American Revolutions in the Digital Age, ed. Nora Slonimsky, Ben Wright, and Mark Boonshoft (Cornell University Press, forthcoming).

“Situating Settlement in Ohio: The Eighteenth Century from Local and Atlantic Perspectives” in Settling Ohio: First Nations and Beyond, ed. Timothy G. Anderson and Brian Schoen (Ohio University Press, 2023), 38-6

“Community-Engaged Scholarship from the Perspective of an Early-Career Academic” in Replanting Cultures: Community-Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country , ed. Benjamin Barnes and Stephen Warren (State University of New York Press, 2021).

“Wily Decoys, Native Power, and Anglo-American Memory in the Post-Revolutionary Ohio River Valley.” Early American Studies 16, no. 3 (Summer 2018): 431-59.

“Indians, Empires, and the Contest for Information in Colonial Miami and Illinois Countries.” PhD Dissertation, Ohio State University, 2016.

Presentations

Invited talk (jointly with George Ironstrack): “Aacimwahkionkonci: Stories from the Land,” 21st Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago. November 2022.

Keynote Roundtable, “Digital Pedagogy and Public Engagement.” Symposium: The America’s Online: Thinking Digitally About Early America. November 2021.

Roundtable, “Public History, Today and Tomorrow.” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting. July 2021.

“Mapping Myaamia Landownership, 1795-1846.” Symposium: The Age of Revolutions in the Digital Age, Iona College. September 2020.

Moderator: “iiši-wiicimiihkimontiaanki myaamia nipwaayonikaaninki - How We Work Together at the Myaamia Center,” International Year of Indigenous Languages: Perspectives Conference, Fort Wayne, IN. November 2019.

Roundtable participant: “Community Collaborations in Canada and the United States: A Roundtable on Transnational Perspectives on Ethnohistorical Futures.” American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, State College, PA. September 2019.

Organizer and presenter: “Histories of Indigenous Slavery: a Roundtable.” Myaamia Center, Oxford, OH. April 2018.

With Doug Peconge: “Understanding Indiana Reserves” Myaamiaki Conference, Oxford, OH. March 2018.

“Adaptive Resistance: Pragmatic Change in Myaamia Politics, 1795-1846” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. July 2017.

“British Surveillance in the Wake of Pontiac’s War,” Annual Meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Ann Arbor, MI. June 2017.

“Opening Doors to Indian Country: the Perspective of an Early Career Academic,” Community-Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country Symposium, Tulsa. April 2017.

“Euro-American Forts: The View from Miami-Illinois Country,” American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, Las Vegas. November 2015.

“taaniši iilweenki (How is That Said?): Politics and Language in Colonial Myaamionki,” American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, Indianapolis (Panel organizer). October 2014.

“A Republic of Bad Birds? Oral and Written Indigenous Politics,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. July 2014.

“Bad Birds and Knox’s Spies: Gathering Information in Indian Country,” McNeil Center for Early American Studies Works-in-progress Series, Philadelphia. March 2014.

“Villages Built Close Together’: Native Town and National Identities in the Revolutionary Great Lakes,” American Indian Studies Seminar Series, Newberry Library, Chicago. October 2013.

“Wabash Indians: How Rivers Influenced Eighteenth Century Miami Territory and Community,” American Society for Ethnohistory Conference, New Orleans. September 2013.

“Rethinking Literacy and the Public Sphere in the Indigenous Great Lakes,” Ohio State Interdisciplinary Seminar in Literacy Studies, Columbus. March 2013.

“Ritual Aspects of Mobility and Miami-Illinois Identity, 1660-1800,” Annual Meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. June 2012.