Guest Editor's Preface
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I am pleased to put together this special issue of SAIL honoring A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff. She is the dean of Native American literary studies and has helped many scholars bring to fruition innumerable projects. Her efforts with ASAIL, MLA, and the NEH have built the foundations that all of us have used to raise our scholarship and teaching. My idea was to use the tradition of the Festschrift to honor her. Accordingly, you will find some thoughtful appreciations and tributes to her towering accomplishments in the field and articles that advance areas of study close to her heart. As you read and ponder this special issue of SAIL, please join all of us in thanking LaVonne for her unselfish assistance to the field and to our lives.
James Ruppert is the President's Professor of English and Alaska Native studies at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He is a past-president of ASAIL and has published extensively on Native American literature. His most recent publications include Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature (Prentice Hall, 2001) and Our Voices: Native Stories of Alaska and the Yukon (U of Nebraska P, 2001).
