D'Arcy McNickle
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| Born | January 14, 1904 St. Ignatius, Montana |
| Died | October 10, 1977 (aged 73) Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Occupation | Anthropologist, Novelist, Political Activist |
| Alma mater |
University of Montana (1921-1925) Oxford University (1925-1926) University of Grenoble (1926-1933) |
| Notable works |
The Surrounded The Hawk Is Hungry and Other Stories |
(William) D'Arcy McNickle (January 14, 1904 – October 10, 1977) was a writer, Native American activist, college professor, and anthropologist.
D’Arcy McNickle, an enrolled Salish Kootenai on the Flathead Indian Reservation, became one of the most prominent twentieth-century American Indian activists. He was born on January 14, 1904, to an Irish father, William McNickle, and a full Cree Métis mother, Philomene Parenteau. His mother fled to Montana to escape the Metis revolution and eventually found solace in the Flathead reservation. He grew up on the Flathead Reservation in St. Ignatius, Montana and went to mission and non-reservation boarding schools. At the age of seventeen, he gained attendance to the University of Montana where he attended from the years 1921-1925. This is where he found his love for language and began to pursue his wordsmith qualities, where he studied Greek and Latin. In 1925 McNickle sold his land allotment on the Flathead Reservation so that he could raise the money necessary to study abroad at Oxford University and the University of Grenoble. After returning to the United States, McNickle lived in New York City until he was hired by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1936.
McNickle worked under Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier during the 1930s and 1940s. The Bureau of Indian Affairs first hired him as an administrative assistant, but by 1950 he had been appointed chief of the tribal relations branch, and he soon became an expert. He was appointed the director of the University of Colorado's American Indian Development, Inc. in 1952, and received an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1966. Later that year, he moved to what is now the University of Regina, to create the anthropology department. In 1972, he helped create the Center for the History of the American Indian in Chicago's Newberry Library; the center was named in his honor in 1984. Also named in his honor was the library at the Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Reservation.
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