The Historiography of John Collier and Current Native American Studies Yuki NAKAMURA The aim of this essay is to reexamine the studies on John Collier by taking the fruit of current Native American Studies into consideration. This new trend does not describe American Indians as victims in American History any more, but focuses on their independent self-activity, which means it describes how American Indians have been conducting themselves in the context of American History. Eventually, new works tend to concentrate on each tribe and its history. However, these tendencies might cause the removal of each tribe history from the official history of America. So, to resolve this problem, this article suggests a new view point by focusing on John Collier. Collier, who was one of the most famous reformers for American Indians in 1920s, became Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1933. The studies on John Collier have had two trends. One is concerned about contacts between whites and American Indians, focusing on how individual tribe of American Indians reacted to Indian New Deal introduced by Collier. The other treats John Collier’s thoughts, analyzing it in terms of cultural pluralism and communitarianism. These two trends have developed in the different fields. This essay argues it is the field of American Indian education that can connect the former and the latter. As for the studies about the policies of Indian education, scholars research individual school due to the rise of Native American Studies. However, the problem here is that the Educational History is written only through the viewpoints of “American Indian History”. So, this essay insists on paying attention to the community day school movement, which was one of the educational programs in Indian New Deal, because this field of analysis has possibility to connect Collier’s thoughts with American Indian independent self-activity.