Alyssa Mt. Pleasant

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Alyssa Mt. Pleasant received her graduate training in History and American Indian Studies at Cornell University. She teaches broadly in American Indian history and offers courses in American Indian Studies. Mt. Pleasant’s research focuses on the experiences of American Indians of northeastern North America. Her dissertation, “After the Whirlwind: Maintaining a Haudenosaunee Place at Buffalo Creek, 1780-1825,” examines the social, political, and religious dynamics of the Buffalo Creek Reservation in western New York State. In 2007, Penn State Press will publish her essay “Debating Missionary Presence at Buffalo Creek: Haudenosaunee perspectives on the intersection of land cessions, government relations, and Christianity” in Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians and Catholics in Early North America.