Buck Woodard

Welcome to my site, it is under development and a work in progress. Follow the tabs above to review aspects of my work.

I am a cultural anthropologist specializing in historical and applied research, with interests in ethnographic and ethnohistorical writing, and the ethnological study of Native North America. My fieldwork is among Algonquian and Iroquoian communities indigenous to Virginia-Carolina, and diaspora populations in Canada, New York, Oklahoma, and Philadelphia, PA. My research topics include matrilineality, tribal opposition to state structures, revitalization of language use and foodways, and the ways in which the preservation of heritage resources plays out in issues of sovereignty and public representation. 

The images on this page reflect various projects and ongoing research in Virginia, North Carolina, New York, Oklahoma, and the United Kingdom. My field photos of community members are from the Eastern Band of Cherokee, Pamunkey, Tonawanda Band of Seneca, Tuscarora Indian Nation, and United Keetoowah Band.

Museum credits include the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Gilcrease Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.