The Native American Studies Committee

 

Evan Haefeli

Evan Haefeli is Assistant Professor in the History Department, where he has taught colonial American and Native American history for the past 2 years. He has published several works relating to the history of the native peoples of the northeast, including (with Kevin Sweeney of Amherst College) Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003) and Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the1704 Deerfield Raid (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006). His most recent piece, “On First Contact and Apotheosis: Manitou and Men in North America,” appeared in the journal Ethnohistory in the fall of 2007.

He has spent time in native communities in Quebec and Maine studying their history and language and is currently working on the history of the original inhabitants of the New York City area.