Ned Blackhawk, a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone, is the second American Indian professor at Yale University in Connecticut.

Blackhawk is a history professor in the History and American Studies Department. He most recently taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

“I grew up away from these communities, and yet I chose to be a historian. Why? To mend some wounds that have been made by cultural misunderstandings," Blackhawk, who grew up in Detroit, Michigan, told The Yale Daily News.

Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, a member of the Tuscarora Tribe of New York, joined Yale in 2006 as a history professor.

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Number of American Indian profs doubles — from one to two (The Yale Daily News 9/23)