Dr. Jose Brandao - TAHTHE 2005

Dr. Jose Brandao Professor Western Michigan University

Biography
Dr. Brandão teaches courses on North American Native history in general at Western Michigan University, the history and culture of the Iroquoian linguistic group in particular, and on the history of Canada (especially New France) and of Colonial America. Dr. Brandão specializes in the history of Northeastern North America to about 1783. His research focuses on Native-European relations in general, and upon the history, culture and interaction of the Iroquois Indians with their Native and European neighbours. In addition to his position at Western Michigan University, Dr. Brandão is series co-editor of The Iroquoians and Their World, an on-going series of publications related to the history and culture of the Iroquoian linguistic group published by the University of Nebraska Press. He is also co-director of the French Michilimackinac Research and Translation Project
Education

Publications
Nation Iroquoise: A Seventeenth-Century Ethnography of the Iroquois. Edited by José António Brandão, Translated by José António Brandão with K. Janet Ritch. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003). "Iroquois Expansion in the Seventeenth Century: A Review of Causes." European Review of Native American Studies, Dec. 2001. "Forgotten Voices: Nineteenth-Century French Canadian Views of Iroquois-French Relations," in M. Behiels and M. Martel, eds., Nation, Ideas, Identities: Essays in Honour of Ramsay Cook (Oxford University Press, 2000). Your Fyre Shall Burn No More": Iroquois Policy Towards New France and Its Native Allies to 1701 (University of Nebraska Press, 1997; Paperback edition, 2000). "The Treaties of 1701: A Triumph of Iroquois Diplomacy," Ethnohistory, 43 (Spring 1996) (coauthor). My Country, Our History (coauthor) (Pippin Publishing, 1995; 2nd Rev. Ed., 2002).
Online References
biography taken from http://www.wmich.edu/history/facultystaff/facultyprofiles/brandao.html

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Nation Iroquoise: A Seventeenth-Century Ethnography of the Iroquois. Edited by José António Brandão, Translated by José António Brandão with K. Janet Ritch. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003).