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=Laurie Arnold= Laurie Arnold is a writer, scholar, and member of the Sinixt Band of the Colville Confederated Tribes. Her body of work encompasses many elements of Native history. Arnold works in contextualizing Indigenous and colonial responses in their encounters. She also works to uncover spiritual and cultural practices from the periods before colonization.

Early Life
Arnold grew up in Keller, Washington.

Education
Arnold earned her bachelor’s degree in history from Oregon State University. She returned to her studies in 2005 and obtained her Ph.D. in history at Arizona State University.

Career
Arnold serves as the Director of Native American Studies at Gonzaga University. She also serves as an Associate Professor of History at the institution. Prior to her work at Gonzaga University, she worked at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She also worked at the University of Notre Dame. She has worked on projects with the High Desert Museum, the National Council on Public History, the History Colorado Center, and the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.

Work
Her work expands and improves existing narratives about American history by including Indigenous perspectives to express their own stories and experiences. Laurie Arnold presents some of her research in her book Bartering with the Bones of Their Dead: The Colville Confederated Tribes and Termination which was published by the University of Washington Press in 2012. Arnold's book chronicles a Native tribe's twenty-year conflict over maintaining its position as a sovereign nation. She presents the Colville Confederated Tribes of North Central Washington as a unique example of a tribe that pursued the policy of termination which was implemented by the Eisenhower Administration. It was a policy that the majority of tribes and bands opposed. As a historian and insider who grew up hearing the stories of her elders, Arnold provides an insight into this struggle.

Laurie Arnold’s research runs the gamut of topics. She has written on Mourning Dove, a Colville writer, the Indigenous Columbia Plateau, Native gambling, and the development of academic programs. Her studies also examine the ways that modern Native American playwrights use the stage to communicate Native historical and contemporary experiences.Arnold has also created works that have been featured in publications such as Time Magazine, and her scholarship has been included in academic journals such as Montana: The Magazine of Western History, the Western Historical Quarterly, and The Public Historian.

Awards
Arnold was awarded the Frederick W. Beinecke Senior Research Fellowship at Yale University, and she also received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (Laurie Arnold, Gonzaga, n.d.). Her work also earned her a grant through The National Endowment for the Humanities.