Dr. Kelly Morgan is from Standing Rock Indian reservation in North and South Dakota. Kelly attended the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. At UND she graduated with a B.A. in Indian Studies (1989) and a M.A. in English (1990). Kelly then accepted a Centennial Research Assistantship in the fall of 1990 to attend the University of Oklahoma, Norman. She completed an Interdisciplinary PhD. in American Indian Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Norman (1997). She finished a Masters of Legal Studies in Indigenous Peoples Law in 2017 and will graduate in May 2018. Currently she is enrolled in the Masters of Legal Studies in Oil, Gas, and Energy Law at the University of Oklahma, Norman and is expected to graduate in 2019.
She has taught for the University of Oklahoma, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Bowling Green State University, the University of Toledo, University of Findlay, St. Cloud State University, Augsburg College, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College and Sitting Bull College on Standing Rock. She co-authored Contemporary Native American Authors: A Biographical Dictionary (1997) with Kay Juricek. Dr. Morgan has worked in archaeology since 2010. As a field archaeologist and tribal liaison she worked to protect cultural and natural resources alongside other archaeologists and environmentalists in North Dakota, Montana, South Dakota and on the island of Guam. Currently she is the Tribal Archaeologist for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. In her capacity as the archaeologist she strives to protect all cultural resources on the reservation for the people of Standing Rock. Dr. Morgan was the Tribal Archaeologist for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North and South Dakota. She has worked in the Tribal Historic Preservation office since 2014. Her position with the tribe ended in February 2018. She is currently pursuing further development of Lakota Consulting LLC. Based in North Dakota she does training in Cultural Resource Law and Traditional Cultural Properties, tribal consultant work, and contract work with federal agencies and corporations. |
Holding a dried tinpsila bloom when working on a well pad project in 2012.
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