Noah Ramage
Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Associate
Office:
HQ 271
Fields of interest:
Native American and Indigenous Studies, Settler Colonialism in the United States, U.S. Imperialism, Indigenous Democracy and Nationalism, Capitalism in the U.S. West
Bio:
Noah Ramage specializes in Native American and Indigenous history. His first book project, Phoenix on Fire: The Cherokee Republic from Reconstruction to Annexation, focuses on the political and economic development of the Cherokee Nation and Indian Territory during the closing decades of the 19th century. His dissertation on the same topic was awarded the “Friends of Cal” Dissertation Prize.
Starting with the Cherokee government’s approach to Reconstruction, Phoenix on Fire explores how this self-described “republic” instituted important reforms during the 1880s which helped mitigate the costs of settler encroachment and promote the extension of Cherokee nation-building. In reexamining the supposed end of sovereignty, the project invites a fresh interpretation of the links between U.S. imperialism abroad and Oklahoma’s path to statehood, granted in 1907. Noah is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Research Interests
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Native American and Indigenous Studies
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Settler Colonialism in the United States
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U.S. Imperialism
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Indigenous Democracy and Nationalism
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Capitalism in the U.S. West
Prizes and Awards
Western History Collection Masterson Fellowship, 2022
American Philosophical Society Phillips Fund for Native American Research, 2022
Articles
“Not Just Native Sovereignty: ICWA’s Survival is a Bellwether for Democracy” Opinion piece in AHA Perspectives Daily (2023)
“The Cherokee Republic as Indigenous Resistance” Contributing blog for the OER Project (2023)
“Sovereignty is Not So Fragile: McGirt and the Failure of Denationalization” Opinion piece in AHA Perspectives Daily (2022)
“We Have Always Been Global: Tribal Nations in the Democratic Slide” Opinion piece in AHA Perspectives Daily (2022)
Conferences
“Charles Thompson and the Cherokee Nation’s Radical Reconstruction, 1875-1879,” WHA, 2024.
Roundtable: “Beyond Forty Acres: Manifestations & Memory of Land Reform in the Civil War Era,” SCWH, 2024.
“‘All Are Indians’: The Expanding Legal Jurisdiction of the Cherokee Nation, 1866-1897,” WHA, 2023.
Roundtable: “Slavery, Dispossession, and the State: New Directions in Financial History,” SHEAR, 2023.
“White Immigration to the Postwar Cherokee Nation,” BOCA LONGA, 2023.
“Honest Settlers: Permitted Foreign Laborers in the Cherokee Nation Proper, 1879-1893,” WHA, 2022.
Teaching
Instructor of Record
NATAMST R1A: Native History According to Native Authors (2021)
Graduate Student Instructor
History 133A: History of American Capitalism (2023)
History 7A: United States History until the Civil War (2019, 2020)
History 7B: United States History since the Civil War (2020)