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  • Contributors

Robert B. Anderson is on the Faculty of Administration of the University of Regina and is the current president of the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Jessica Ball is a professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, Canada. She is coordinator of First Nations Partnership Programs (www.fnpp.org) and principal investigator in Early Childhood Development Intercultural Partnerships (www.ecdip.org).

R. Cruz Begay has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a member of the Tohono Oodham Nation. She lived and worked on the Navajo Reservation for twenty years.

Ann Burnett received her ba in economics from Colorado College, her MA in communication from the University of Northern Colorado, and her PhD from the University of Utah with a focus on jury decision making. Her research appears in such publications as the Journal of Applied Communication Research, the Journal of Communication, Communication Quarterly, and the Journal of Law and Policy, among others. Dr. Burnett is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and director of women's studies at North Dakota State University.

Leo Paul Dana is founder and editor of the Journal of International Entrepreneurship. He is based at the University of Canterbury.

Michael G. Doxtater (T'hohahoken) is director of Indigenous Studies in Education Learning and Teaching (ISERT) for the Faculty of Education at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Jonathon Erlen received his PhD in history from the University of Kentucky. He currently is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Public Heath and history of medicine librarian in the Falk Library at the University of Pittsburgh. [End Page 821]

Carrie Garrow (JD, MPP) is executive director of the Center for Indigenous Law, Governance, and Citizenship at Syracuse University College of Law and lead external evaluator of the Oglala Sioux Tribe's Comprehensive Indian Resources for Community and Law Enforcement Project.

Anne Ruggles Gere is professor of English and professor of education at the University of Michigan, where she directs the joint PhD program in English and education.

Kevin Hindle is a professor with the Australian Graduate School of Management at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.

Mary Nix Hollowell teaches in the area of educational foundations and has conducted qualitative research with Indigenous communities in the northeast and midwestern United States.

Robert Alexander Innes is a Plains Cree member of Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan and is a PhD candidate in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Arizona.

Rhonda Baynes Jeffries teaches in the area of curriculum studies with a focus on helping educators and various community agents understand the links between curriculum and culture using qualitative research methodologies.

Bruce E. Johansen, Frederick W. Kayser Research Professor in Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, is the author, most recently, of Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues: An Encyclopedia (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2004).

Miriam Jorgensen (PhD) is the research director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development and associate director for research of the Native Nations Institute, a unit of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona.

Bob Kayseas is with the School of Business and Public Administration of the First Nations University of Canada and is currently serving as director of economic development for the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.

Virgil Masayesva (Hopi) is director of the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, a tribal training and support organization based at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

Garth M. Massey is director of the International Studies Program and a professor of sociology at the University of Wyoming.

Deborah McGregor is Anishinabe from Wiigwaskingaa in Ontario. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Geography and Aboriginal Studies. [End Page 822]

Michael D. McNally teaches religion and American studies at Carleton College in Minnesota and is the author of Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Mark Meister is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at North Dakota State University, where he teaches courses in intercultural communication, communication...

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