Contributors
- Contributors
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is Sianti/Ihanktowan, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Ft. Thompson, South Dakota. Her New Indians, Old Wars essays on pedagogy, Native American studies, history, and literary criticism was published in 2007. Cook-Lynn is the recipient of an Oyate Igluiwitaya award given by Native university students in South Dakota to those who “aid in the ability of the people to see clearly in the company of each other.”
Clayton Dumont is a professor of sociology at San Francisco State University and an enrolled member of the Klamath Tribe of Southern Oregon. His book, The Promise of Poststructuralist Sociology: Marginalized Peoples and the Problem of Knowledge, was published in 2008. He teaches “Ancestors or Data? Culture, Conflict, and the NAGPRA” each spring at SFSU.
Patricia A. Etter is recently retired from Arizona State University as curator of the American Indian Research Library, Labriola Center. She currently serves on the editorial committee of Western Historical Quarterly, and on the board of directors of the Oregon California Trails Association. She is author of several books and prize-winning articles dealing with overland migration. Her recent book, California Odyssey, will be available in 2009.
James V. Fenelon is professor of sociology at California State University, San Bernardino, publishing Culturicide, Resistance, and Survival of the Lakota (Sioux Nation), numerous book chapters, and journal articles on Indigenous peoples. He is of Lakota/Dakota descent, enrolled on Standing Rock, and teaches race/ethnic relations, urban sociology, social movements, Indigenous issues, political sociology, and sovereignty, while dedicating his professional life to assisting social justice struggles.
Lawrence W. Gross is a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, enrolled on the White Earth Nation in northern Minnesota. He currently teaches in the Department of Native American Studies at Montana State University–Bozeman. He is working on a book on the comic vision and healing as a response to postapocalypse stress syndrome. He is also writing a book on the works of Jim Northrup.
David Martínez (Gila River Pima) received his PhD in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1997. Before joining the Department of American Indian Studies at Arizona State University in fall 2007, he taught at the University of Minnesota for seven years. His book, Dakota Philosopher: Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought, was published in 2009.
Susan A. Miller is from the Tiger Clan and Tom Palmer Band of the Seminole Nation. Her writings include Coacoochee’s Bones: A Seminole Saga (2003). [End Page 140]
Cathy Notarnicola earned her MA in American Indian studies from the University of Arizona–Tucson. She has been employed in the curatorial departments of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., and the Arizona State Museum in Tucson. She has worked on exhibitions of American Indian materials and has written articles on Southwest textiles and basketry for American Indian Art and Hali magazines. She also assisted Ann Lane Hedlund with manuscript preparation for the publication Blanket Weaving of the Southwest, by Joe Ben Wheat.
S. Alan Ray is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and president of Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois. A teacher of federal Indian law, his recent publications have focused on Native American cultural property rights, sacred sites law, and tribal identity formation. He is the author of “A Race or a Nation? Cherokee National Identity and the Status of Freedmen’s Descendants,” Michigan Journal of Race & Law 12 (Spring 2007).
Justin B. Richland, PhD, JD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. He is a justice pro tempore of the Hopi Appellate Court, the highest court of the Hopi Nation, and founding chairman of the board of The Nakwatsvewat Institute, Inc., a nonprofit organization offering social justice services to native nations in the United States. His book, Arguing with Tradition: The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court, appeared in 2008.
James Riding In (Pawnee) is the editor of Wicazo Sa Review, associate professor of American Indian studies at Arizona State University, and the chair of the board of trustees of Pawnee Nation College. His publications appear in various...
