Contributors
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Mark Anderson has published three books, including Pancho Villa's Revolution by Headlines. A forthcoming study, Cowboy Imperialism and Hollywood Film, explores the frontier myth in popular movies. His current research includes a study of how Canada's mainstream press has imagined Indians since 1867. He holds a PhD from the University of California and is presently an associate professor of history at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan.
Caroline F. Butler is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her recently completed doctoral dissertation explores the experiences of resource workers on the north coast of British Columbia.
Duane Champagne is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa from North Dakota. He is a professor of sociology and American Indian studies, a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the UCLA Native Nations Law and Policy Center, senior editor for Indian Country Today, a member of the TLCEE (Tribal Learning Community and Educational Exchange) Working Group, and educational report contributor to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues State of the World's Indigenous Issues State of the World's Indigenous Peoples Report. Professor Champagne was director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center from 1991 to 2002 and editor of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal from 1986 to 2003. He has written or edited more than one hundred publications, including Native America: Portraits of the Peoples, The Native North American Almanac, Social Order and Political Change: Constitutional Governments among the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Creek, and Social Change and Cultural Continuity among Native Nations. Champagne's research focuses primarily on issues of social and cultural change in both historical and contemporary Native American communities. He has written about [End Page 509] social change in a variety of Indian communities, including Cherokee, Tlingit, Iroquois, Delaware, Choctaw, Northern Cheyenne, Creek, and others.
Daniel M. Cobb is an assistant professor of history at Miami University and a former assistant director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at The Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. He wishes to thank Albert Wahrhaftig for generously sharing his time and memories.
Lawrence W. Gross is enrolled in the White Earth nation as a member of the Minnesota Chippewa tribe. He has served as Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow at the University of California–Santa Barbara in the Department of Religious Studies. Currently, he is living in Bemidji, Minnesota, where he is researching the Anishinaabe storytelling tradition as it relates to cultural survival, revival, and maintenance.
Charles R. Menzies is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia and a member of the Ts'msyeen Nation. His current work explores the development of the industrial economy in northern British Columbia and its implications for the construction of race, gender, and social class.
Carmen Robertson recently accepted a position as assistant professor of contemporary aboriginal art history at the University of Regina after teaching at First Nations University of Canada for five years. Her research relates to issues of representation in the media, and she is currently completing a book-length project investigating how the National Film Board of Canada has imagined aboriginal artists in documentaries. This essay is part of a joint Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada–funded project with Mark Anderson that analyzes constructions of indigeneity in Canada's print media.
Stephen Spence is a PhD candidate at the University of New Mexico. He studies film and popular culture in postcolonial and transnational contexts. [End Page 510]
