Graduate Student Carlton Shield Chief Gover Featured in the Coloradan
Graduate Student Carlton Shield Chief Gover Featured in the Coloradan, CU's Alumni Magazine.听
A Walk in Two Worlds
Published:听March 18, 2021听鈥⑻鼴y听Daniel Strain
American Indians and archaeologists have had a long and often fractious history. Carlton Shield Chief Gover is trying to change that.
Just after World War II,听Carlton Shield Chief Gover鈥檚听(PhDAnth鈥22) grandfather was facing an uncertain future in Oklahoma. Philip Gover was a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, an American Indian nation outside Tulsa. He had lost his arm fighting in Italy and was struggling to complete his undergraduate degree.
That鈥檚 when one of his professors pulled him aside and delivered the blunt assessment: 鈥淲hat is a one-armed Indian going to do without an education in this country?鈥
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