Raymond J. DeMallie (October 16, 1946 – April 25, 2021)[1] was an American anthropologist whose work focuses on the cultural history of the peoples of the Northern Plains, particularly the Lakota.
[2] In 1985 he founded and became the director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University Bloomington, alongside Douglas Parks, whom he worked collaboratively throughout majority of his career to preserve and translate various Indigenous languages, after having first met in 1980.
[5] This inspired DeMallie's decision to attend the University of Chicago for undergraduate and graduate work; Eggan would eventually serve as the chair of his dissertation committee.
Other influential teachers at Chicago included Sol Tax (with whom he worked as a member of the staff of Current Anthropology), George Stocking, Ray Fogelson, and David Schneider.
[5] During his career at Indiana, DeMallie trained a significant number of scholars who have taken up research and teaching posts in several fields concerned with Native North American studies.