About the Contributors
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Thomas J. Blumer is a Catawba Indian historian and the author of numerous books and articles, including, most recently, Catawba Indian Nation: Treasures in History.
James Taylor Carson is Professor of History and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. His most recent book is Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South, and his essay here is his first step toward undertaking a reconsideration of the history of the Old South.
Andrew Denson is Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University and the author of Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830–1900.
Rayna Green is Curator and Director of American Indian Life at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, where she curates exhibitions, produces films and recordings, researches, and writes on Native representations, women, material culture, and American food and wine. In the fall she taught a course on Native food as the Lehman Brady Joint Professor of Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke and UNC.
Larry J. Griffin is the Reed Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also teaches in the History and American Studies departments. His teaching and research interests include collective memory, social identity, and the intersection of race, rights, and region. He and Harry Watson are the editors of Southern Cultures.
Lorene B. Harris is a librarian at the University of South Carolina Lancaster, which houses the papers of Catawba Indian scholar Dr. Thomas J. Blumer. Her personal collection of Catawba pottery includes pieces by contemporary Catawba potter Keith Brown, who was taught by his grandmother Edith Harris Brown, one of the principal figures in her photo essay.
Christopher Arris Oakley is an Assistant Professor of History at East Carolina University, where he specializes in North Carolina Native American history. His first book, Keeping the Circle: American Indian Identity in Eastern North Carolina, 1885–2004, presents an overview of the modern history and identity of the Native peoples in twentieth-century North Carolina.
Katherine M. B. Osburn teaches Native American and environmental history at Tennessee Technological University. Her first monograph, Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1885–1934, examined women's responses to gendered assimilationist policies. Her current book analyzes the tribal rebirth of the Mississippi Choctaws.
Brett H. Riggs is an archaeologist with the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He helps direct the labs' Catawba Project, a long-term archaeological research program that explores the development of the Catawba Nation, c. 1700–1840.
Lee Tiger is a member of the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida and, with his late brother Stephen, one-half of the musical heart of "Tiger Tiger," whose most recent album was Native to This Country. He continues to make music in Miami, Florida, and remains a strong advocate for the Miccosukees.
Patsy West began the Seminole/ Miccosukee Photographic Archive in 1972. An ethnohistorian, historic preservationist, teacher of Seminole history, and lecturer, she also has contributed to exhibitions and documentary films and authored three major publications, numerous journal essays and magazine articles, and two hundred articles for an award-winning column in the Seminole Tribe's newspaper. She currently serves as Guest Curator for The Art of the Seminole and Miccosukee Indians at the Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach.
