Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote
Born	1980
Died	August 8, 2020 (aged 40)
Occupation	Historian
Spouse	Keith Richotte
Children	1
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Missouri University of Minnesota
Thesis	Envisioning Nationhood: Kiowa Expressive Culture, 1875-1939 (2009)
Doctoral advisor	Jean O'Brien
Academic work
Discipline	Native American studies
Sub-discipline	History of the Kiowa
Institutions	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote (1980 – August 8, 2020) was an American Kiowa academic. She was a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she taught Native American studies, and she was the author of Crafting an Indigenous Nation: Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era (2019), a finalist for the 2020 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize.

She was born in 1980 to Debbie and Preston Tone-Pah-Hote,^[1] a Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma storyteller.^[2] Her grandfather Murray Tone-Pah-Hote was a silversmith and her great-grandmother Tahdo Ahtone was a cradleboard artist.^[1] She was raised in Orrick, Missouri, and graduated from Orrick High School in 1998.^[1][3]

She studied at the University of Missouri on a Ronald E. McNair Scholarship, where she got a BA in History (2001), before moving on to the University of Minnesota, where she got a PhD in History (2009).^[1] Her doctoral dissertation Envisioning Nationhood: Kiowa Expressive Culture, 1875-1939 was supervised by Jean O'Brien.^[4] She later joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in 2009, where after starting out as a postdoctoral fellow, she was later promoted to assistant professor and eventually associate professor.^[1] At UNC, she taught courses on Native American studies, one of which focused on the Kiowa people.^[5]

As an academic, she specialized in Native American history and culture.^[5] In 2017, she was appointed the University of Missouri's first Cherng Distinguished Scholar, so on November 2, she held the lecture "We’ll Show You Boys How to Dance: Kiowa Dance and Painting, 1928-1940", based on research she did for a book project.^[6] In January 2019, she published Crafting an Indigenous Nation: Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era, a book on the history of Kiowa identity;^[7] it was one of three finalists for the 2020 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize.^[8] In July 2019, as part of her research, she made a visit to the Museum of the Great Plains.^[9]

In 2020, she was hospitalized for leukemia; she died from the illness on August 8, 2020.^[1]

She has a son, who was four at the time of his mother's death.^[1] Her husband Keith Richotte is an academic.^[1]

She was a citizen of the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma.^[1]

• Crafting an Indigenous Nation: Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era (2020)^[10][11]