Dr. Cameron Shriver

Cam Shriver is a Myaamia Research Associate at the Myaamia Center and a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Miami University. He is currently building a GIS database of Myaamia reserves and land transactions in nineteenth-century Indiana, as requested by tribal government.

Dr. Shriver completed his Ph.D. in history at Ohio State University in 2016. In addition to his work for the tribe, he is also revising a book manuscript entitled "The Contest for Information in the Colonial Great Lakes" which details changing surveillance efforts between Miami-Illinois speakers and colonizing empires in the eighteenth century. He has taught American history and, most recently, "Introduction to the Miami Tribe" at Miami University.

Publications - Dr. Cameron Shriver

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

“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 - Dr. Cameron Shriver

“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.