Beth Ritter

Beth Ritter is an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, holding a joint appointment in Anthropology and Native American Studies. Her work focuses on federal Indian policy, contemporary Native American issues (including gaming, health, dispossession, and repatriation), and applied anthropology in Native North America.

• Worked with the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska since 1989
• Published in journals like Human Organization, Great Plains Quarterly, and Great Plains Research
• Produced scholarly research reports for the Ponca Tribe

Current research includes an article on 19th-century Ponca history and a book on the dispossession of the Yankton Sioux Tribe. Recent courses taught: Introduction to Native American Studies, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Native Americans and Health, Research Ethics in the 21st Century: Indians and Anthros, and Introduction to Anthropology.