Contributors
- Contributors
Duane Champagne is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa from North Dakota. He is professor of sociology and American Indian studies. Professor Champagne has authored or edited over 125 publications. His research interests focus on issues of social and cultural change in historical and contemporary Native American communities.
Robert Keith Collins, PhD is an assistant professor in the American Indian Studies Department at San Francisco State University.
Jon D. Daehnke is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and a graduate of the University of California–Berkeley. Jon's research interests focus on archaeology and the law, heritage and memory, and the interactions between descendant communities and archaeologists.
Jennifer Denetdale [Dine'] is associate professor of history at the University of New Mexico. She teaches courses on Native American and Navajo histories.
Joy Doll is an assistant professor for clinical education in the Department of Occupational Therapy at Creighton University. Previously she acted as coordinator of the Office of Interprofessional Scholarship, Service and Education. She also acts as a member of the Omaha Nation Community Response Team and coordinates community-based participatory research and student learning projects between the Tribe and health professional students and faculty.
Robert Fish is a new graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay with degrees in English literature and humanistic studies. He studied under the direction of Dr. Lisa Poupart and hopes that every student has the great fortune to work with a mentor of her caliber. Having lived his entire life in Green Bay, Robert found his window to the larger world in films and is an avid collector and critic of independent, international, rare, and classic works of cinema.
Neal Grandgenett is the Peter Kiewit Distinguished Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is a frequent program evaluator for the Omaha Nation community and has helped in evaluating programs on the reservation since 2001. He has worked closely with the Omaha Nation Community Response Team in the formative evaluation process of their substance abuse programs and with the reservation's after-school programs.
Ki-Shan Lara is a member of the Hupa Tribe, with Yurok descendancy. She was raised with traditional values of the Hupa and Yurok people. Kishan received her bachelor of arts degree in Native American studies from Humboldt State University, her master of arts degree in linguistics from the University of Arizona, and is currently a doctoral candidate and an instructor [End Page 122] in the College of Education at Arizona State University.
Susan A. Miller is from Tiger Clanand Tom Palmer Band of the Seminole Nation. Her writing includes Coacoochee's Bones: A Seminole Saga.
Marilyn Norcini is a cultural anthropologist and historian. She took her doctorate in anthropology with a minor in American Indian studies at the University of Arizona. She is currently a senior research scientist in the American section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Norcini is the author of Edward P. Dozier: The Paradox of the American Indian Anthropologist.
John Penn is the executive director of the Omaha Nation Community Response Team. He is an enrolled member of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and has worked with youth and families on the Omaha Reservation for many years. He has a master's degree in social work from Colorado State University, where he won the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for community and academic achievement.
James Riding In (Pawnee) is the editor of Wicazo Sa Review, associate professor of American Indian studies at Arizona State University, chair of the board of trustees of Pawnee Nation College, and current president of the American Indian Studies Association. His publications appear in various books and journals.
Steve Russell is an enrolled Cherokee, a high school dropout, a Texas judge currently sitting by assignment only, and an associate professor of criminal justice at Indiana University– Bloomington. He recently completed a book about democracy within tribal governments.
Leanne Simpson is a researcher, writer, and educator of Mississauga and Scottish ancestry. She holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba and is a past director of Indigenous environmental studies at Trent University. Leanne has just completed editing a volume of essays by emerging...
