Background
Cook, Samuel Robert was born on May 1, 1965 in Radford, Virginia, United States. Son of Thomas Eugene and Mary Arena Cook.
( Monacans and Miners sheds new light on the indigenous a...)
Monacans and Miners sheds new light on the indigenous and immigrant communities of southern Appalachia by comparing the political, economic, and social experiences of the Monacans, a historically significant Native American group in Amherst County, Virginia, with those of Scottish and Irish settlers who made their home in Wyoming County, West Virginia, in the late eighteenth century. The Monacans are the descendants of a powerful people who both fought and traded with the Powhatan Indians. As a tide of English settlers swept through Virginia and continued west, some Monacans took refuge in the Blue Ridge Mountains. For the next few centuries the Monacans, like some other Native American groups in the Southeast, were legally classified as black and not permitted to vote or hold office. Many were also forced into indentured servitude, laboring in apple orchards for large landowners. Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic resurgence of Monacan ethnic and political identity and independence. They have won legal recognition as a tribe, collaborated with local universities to document their history, and worked to create a tribal museum. Samuel R. Cook tells the story of the Monacans in a uniquely comparative way. Their changing fortunes and relationships with outsiders are juxtaposed with the experiences of Scottish and Irish settlers in rural Wyoming County, West Virginia, a region now dominated by the coal industry.
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Cook, Samuel Robert was born on May 1, 1965 in Radford, Virginia, United States. Son of Thomas Eugene and Mary Arena Cook.
Bachelor in History, Radford University, 1983. Master of Arts in American Indian Studies, University of Arizona, 1992. Doctor of Philosophy in Comparitive Cultural Studies, University of Arizona, 1997.
Research assistant American Indian studies University of Arizona, Tucson, 1990—1992, adjunct instructor American Indian studies, 1996. Adjunct professor anthropology Radford University, Radford, Virginia, 1998. Adjunct professor appalachian studies Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, 1999—2000, assistant professor appalachian studies & American Indian studies, 2000—2004, associate professor appalacian studies & American Indian Studies, since 2004.
Coordinator American Indian studies Virginia Tech, since 2000. Consultant on American Indian exhibits Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, since 2002. Research & educational consultant Virginia Indian Tribal Alliance for Life, Richmond, since 2001.
Consultant Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Huntington, West Virginia, 1999—2002, Monacan Indian Ancestral Museum Committee, Bear Mountain, Virginia, since 1996, Monacan Indian Nation Federal Recognition Project, Bear Mountain, since 1997. Chair Kontland Farm History Revitalization Committee, since 2003.
( Monacans and Miners sheds new light on the indigenous a...)
Organizer Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Huntington, West Virginia, 1999—2002, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, Charleston, 1999—2002. Fellow: Society for Applied Anthropology. Member: Society for Humanistic Anthropology, Appalachian Studies Association, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, American Anthropological Association.
Married Susan Ewing Fleming, January 3, 1955.
