Steven J. Crum Papers

Steven J. Crum is a Western Shoshone tribal member who grew up on several reservations in New Mexico, Colorado, and Nevada. He moved to Phoenix for college and received his B.A. from Arizona State University in 1975. He continued his education and received his Master of Education at the University of Arizona in 1977. In 1983, he earned his Ph.D. at the University of Utah. In 1984, he became an assistant professor at California State University, Chico where he taught in the Department of History. He later became a professor at the University of California, Davis where he taught in the Department of Native American Studies. He also became the Chair of the Department of Native American Studies in 2007. He has written a book and other scholarly articles about Western Shoshone history and culture including The Road on Which We Came: A History of the Western Shoshone, University of Utah Press, 1994. Some of his other research focuses on Native Americans in higher education and the ethnohistory of North America, with a focus on the 20th century.