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D'Arcy McNickle was born on 14 January, 1904 in St. Ignatius, Montana, is an American novelist. Discover D'Arcy McNickle's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Occupation Anthropologist novelist political activist
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 14 January, 1904
Birthday 14 January
Birthplace St. Ignatius, Montana
Date of death 10 October, 1977
Died Place Albuquerque, New Mexico
Nationality Montana

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1885

His mother was among numerous Métis who had fled to Montana in the late 19th century to escape the aftermath of suppression following the 1885 Riel Rebellion, also known as the North-West Rebellion.

She eventually found refuge at the Flathead reservation.

McNickle grew up on the reservation in St. Ignatius.

He attended mission schools there and boarding schools located elsewhere, off the reservation.

1904

William D'Arcy McNickle (January 14, 1904 – October 10, 1977) (Salish Kootenai) was a writer, Native American activist, college professor and administrator, and anthropologist.

Of Irish and Cree-Métis descent, he later enrolled in the Salish Kootenai nation, as his mother had come to Montana with the Métis as a refugee.

He is known also for his novel The Surrounded.

D'Arcy McNickle was an enrolled Salish Kootenai on the Flathead Indian Reservation.

He was born on January 14, 1904, to William McNickle, ethnic Irish, and Philomene Parenteau, Cree-Métis.

1925

At the age of seventeen, McNickle entered the University of Montana, graduating with the class of 1925.

His study of Greek and Latin inspired his love for language, and he began to explore writing.

After graduating, in 1925 McNickle sold his land allotment on the Flathead Reservation in order to raise money to study abroad at Oxford University and the University of Grenoble.

After returning to the United States, McNickle lived and worked for a time in New York City.

1926

McNickle was married three times: First to Joran Jacobine Birkeland from 1926 to 1938; they had a daughter, Antoinette Marie Parenteau McNickle.

1930

McNickle worked under John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, during the 1930s and 1940s.

During this period, Collier encouraged reorganization of self-government among the Native American tribes, and many began to assert greater autonomy for their peoples.

McNickle developed expertise in a wide range of areas related to Native American policies.

1936

In 1936 he published his first novel, The Surrounded.

That year he was hired as an administrative assistant at the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and moved to Washington, DC.

His best-known work may be his debut novel, The Surrounded (1936).

It tells of Archilde León, a young half-Salish man who returns to the Flathead Indian Reservation and his parents' ranch.

He has difficulty dealing with both his ethnic Latino/white father and his traditionalist Indian mother, who has increasingly returned to her culture.

The relationship between him and his parents becomes strained when they express their regret that he wants to go away to a big city far from home.

León begins to find his place on the reservation after Modeste, an elder, teaches him the stories of Salish history.

He reconciles with his father and adopts his mother's Salish traditions.

At the end of the novel, he is wrongly accused of two murders (one committed by his mother) and surrenders to law enforcement in a scene referred to by the book's title.

This collection of sixteen stories demonstrates the range of McNickle's literary style, organized into three loose categories:

1939

He next married Roma Kaye Haufman (1939–1967).

They had a daughter, Kathleen D'Arcy McNickle.

1944

He helped found the National Congress of American Indians in 1944.

1950

By 1950, he had been promoted to chief of the tribal relations branch at the BIA.

He also began to publish non-fiction works on Native American history, cultures, and governmental policies.

1952

In 1952 McNickle was selected as director of American Indian Development, Inc., which was affiliated with the University of Colorado at Boulder.

He was also active with other Native American organizations, as tribes began to assert their drive for civil rights and to work more closely together as an ethnic group.

1961

He was instrumental in drafting the "Declaration of Indian Purpose" for the 1961 American Indian Chicago Conference.

1966

Continuing his academic work, McNickle moved in 1966 to what is now the University of Regina, to develop a new anthropology department.

1969

Lastly, he was married to sociologist Viola Gertrude Pfrommer, from 1969 to 1977.

1972

In 1972, McNickle helped create the Center for the History of the American Indian in Chicago's Newberry Library.

1977

McNickle died of a heart attack in October 1977.

In addition to his works in Native American history and culture, McNickle wrote short stories and novels.