Biography:
Patty Loew, Ph.D., is a professor in the Medill School of Journalism and Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University. A member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Loew is author of Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal, now in its second edition, which won the Wisconsin Library Association's 2002 Outstanding Book Award. She wrote Native People of Wisconsin, which is used by 18,000 Wisconsin school children as a social studies text. Her newest book, Seventh Generation Earth Ethics won the 2014 Midwest Book Award for Culture. Loew has produced many documentaries for public and commercial television, including the award-winning Way of the Warrior, which aired nationally on PBS in 2007. Loew works extensively with Native youth, teaching digital storytelling skills as a way to grow the next generation of Native storytellers and land stewards. She is a former member of the national board of directors for both UNITY: Journalists of Color and the Native American Journalists Association. Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern, Loew held professorships in the Department of Life Sciences Communication and the Department of Civil Society and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Loew holds honorary doctorates from Edgewood and Northland Colleges.
(From Northwestern website)
Selected Works by Patty Loew:
Books
Patty Loew, Ph.D., is a professor in the Medill School of Journalism and Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University. A member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Loew is author of Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal, now in its second edition, which won the Wisconsin Library Association's 2002 Outstanding Book Award. She wrote Native People of Wisconsin, which is used by 18,000 Wisconsin school children as a social studies text. Her newest book, Seventh Generation Earth Ethics won the 2014 Midwest Book Award for Culture. Loew has produced many documentaries for public and commercial television, including the award-winning Way of the Warrior, which aired nationally on PBS in 2007. Loew works extensively with Native youth, teaching digital storytelling skills as a way to grow the next generation of Native storytellers and land stewards. She is a former member of the national board of directors for both UNITY: Journalists of Color and the Native American Journalists Association. Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern, Loew held professorships in the Department of Life Sciences Communication and the Department of Civil Society and Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Loew holds honorary doctorates from Edgewood and Northland Colleges.
(From Northwestern website)
Selected Works by Patty Loew:
Books
- Seventh generation earth ethics : native voices of Wisconsin. Madison, WI. (2014)
- Indian nations of Wisconsin : histories of endurance and renewal (Second ed.). Madison. (2013)
- Native people of Wisconsin (Revised and expanded ed.). Madison, WI (2015)
- Sacred Stick (2013)
- Protect Our Future (2013-2014)
- Naanan Nimiseyug (My Five Sisters) (2012)
- After The Storm (2010)
- Way of the Warrior (2007)
- Great Lakes Legacy (2007)
- Home Away from Home (1996)
- The Spring of Discontent (1990)
- Fishing for Answers : How to Reduce the Contaminants in Sport Fish (1989)
- On Wisconsin (1988)
- No Word for Goodbye (1986)
- Loew, Patty, “A Digital Gift to the Seventh Generation,” Yukhika-latuhse: She Tells Us Stories, Oneida Nation Native Journal, Fall 2013.
- Loew, Patty; Thannum, James (2011). "After the Storm: Ojibwe Treaty Rights Twenty-Five Years after the Voigt Decision". American Indian Quarterly. 35 (2): 161–191. doi:10.5250/amerindiquar.35.2.0161. ISSN 0095-182X. JSTOR 10.5250/amerindiquar.35.2.0161. S2CID 159166284.
- Tynan, Tim and Loew, Patty “Organic Video Approach: Using New Media to Engage Native Youth in Science," American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Volume 34, Number 4 (winter 2010)
- Loew, Patty; Mella, Kelly (2005). "Black Ink and the New Red Power: Native American Newspapers and Tribal Sovereignty". Journalism & Communication Monographs. 7 (3): 99–142. doi:10.1177/152263790500700301. ISSN 1522-6379. S2CID 144662802.
- Loew, Patty, “Tinker to Evers to Chief: Baseball From Indian Country, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 87, Number 3 (spring 2004).
- Loew, Patty, “Back of the Homefront: Oral Histories of Native American and African-American Wisconsin Women During World War Two,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol 82, Number 2 (winter 1998–99).
- Loew, Patty (1998-01-01). "Natives, Newspapers, and "Fighting Bob"". Journalism History. 23 (4): 149–158. doi:10.1080/00947679.1998.12062479. ISSN 0094-7679.
- Loew, Patty (1997). "Hidden Transcripts in the Chippewa Treaty Rights Struggle: A Twice Told Story. Race, Resistance, and the Politics of Power". American Indian Quarterly. 21 (4): 713–728. doi:10.2307/1185721. ISSN 0095-182X. JSTOR 1185721.