Faculty Information

■ Academic conference presentation

1.	2023/06/04	Transnational Mobility within a Settler Colonial State: Indigenous Peoples’ Cross-Border Migration in the Post-WWII United States (Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for American Studies)
2.	2021/06/19	Urbanization of Native Americans: Indian Relocation Programs (1952-73) and Urban Native Americans Today (The Japanese Association of Immigration Studies Annual Meeting Symposium)
3.	2020/10/14	No Home in Our Homeland”: Native American Homelessness in Denver since the 1980s (Western Hisotory Association)
4.	2018/10/19	"To Keep Native Family Together: Indian Child Welfare in Denver since the 1950s" (Western History Association)
5.	2015/09/27	Foster Care and Adoption of Urban Native Americans: Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 and its Limit (Japanese Association for American History)
6.	2015/01/22	The Denver March Powwow
7.	2014/11/07	People at the Crossroads: Native Americans in Denver (Phi Alpha Theta, Department of History Colloquium)
8.	2014/07/12	Interview Research in Contemporary Historical Research, and How to Disclose the Research Result and Giving Back to the Source Community (Joint- Research Project on Building a Cooperative Relationship with the Native American Source Communities in the U.S. that Provide their Ethnographical Data)
9.	2012/05/13	Urban Relocation and Labor of American Indians: Promotion of Indian Employment through the Indian Relocation Program and Fight over Indian Employment Preference (Kansai American History Association)
10.	2011	Five Months Later...: Lives in Rikuzentakata (American Studies Association)
11.	2010	"Indian Preference in the Bureau of Indian Affairs: Occupation of the BIA Center in Littleton, Colorado and Morton v. Mancari" (Mid-America Conference on History)
12.	2008	"Studying History of Native Americans in Cities" in OAH/JAAS Panel: Native American Studies in Global Context-The Japanese Perspective (, Organization of American Historians Annual Conference,)
13.	2007	"The Japanese Student's Perspective" in OAH/JAAS Ten Years and Growing: Americans and Japanese Reflect on the Short-Term Residency Program (Organization of American Historians Annual Conference)
14.	2005	"The Development of the Denver Native American Community in the 1960s" (Western History Association Annual Conference)
15.	2004	"Denver March Powwow: The Development of American Indian Community and the Creation of Modern Pan-Indian Identity in Denver" (Mid-America American Studies Association Annual Conference)
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■ Books and Articles

1.	2023/09	Article	Urban Native American Women and Intersectionality: Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Class, and Tribal Membership Amreican History pp.38-53 (Single)
2.	2022/06/25	Article	Urbanization of Native Americans: The Indian Relocation and Employment Assistance Programs (1952-73) and Urban Native Americans Today The Annual Review of Migration Studies (28),pp.33-46 (Single)
3.	2016	Book	Urban American Indians: Reclaiming Native Space (Collaboration)
4.	2016/08	Book	"Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978" 50 Events That Shaped American Indian History: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic vol.2,pp.596-612 (Single)
5.	2016/08	Book	“American Indian College Fund, 1989” 50 Events That Shaped American Indian History: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic vol.2,pp.684-700 (Single)
6.	2013/08	Book	"Native Americans" Encyclopedia of Military Science
7.	2012/09	Book	Amy Hill Hearth, Strong Medicine Speaks: A Native American Elder Has Her Say (Collaboration)
8.	2011	Article	'I Am a Denver Indian!':The Bureau of Indian Affairs' Relocation Program and Denver's Native American Community Colorado History: The Journal of History Colorado 16,pp.83-91 (Single)
9.	2011	Article	The Fight for Indian Employment Preference in the Bureau of Indian Affairs: Red Power Activism in Denver, Colorado and Morton v. Mancari The Japanese Journal of American Studies pp.171-191 (Single)
10.	2008	Article	"'Living in the Two Worlds': Development of Urban Native Community and Organizations in Denver, Colorado, 1955-1980" pp.109-130 (Single)
11.	2004	Article	"The Relocation and Employment Assistance Programs, 1948-1970: Federal Indian Policy and the Early Development of the Denver Indian Community" Indigenous Nations Studies Journal pp.27-50 (Single)
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■ Academic background

1.	2004/08～2008/05	〔Doctorial Course〕 Native American history, History, Arizona State University, Completed, Ph.D.
2.	2001/05～2003/05	〔Master Course〕, Graduate School, Division of History and Anthropology, University of Northern Colorado, Completed, M.A.

■ Belonging society

1.		American Studies Association
2.		Japanese Association for American History
3.		Japanese Association for American Studies
4.	2010～2011	∟ International Committee
5.		Organization for American Historians
6.		Western History Association
7.	2021	The Association for Migration Studies
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■ Research topic, funded research, and department laboratory expense

1.

2001～

Native Americans in Urban Areas (Key Word : Native American history, policy history, urban studies)

■ Lecturer and lecture

1.

2020/11/10

People at the Crossroads: Native Americans in Denver (Online)

■ Present specialized field

History of Europe and America, Area studies (Key Word：Native American History)