Contributors
- Contributors
Rachel Ida Buff teaches in the History Department and Comparative Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is currently working on a book about deportation and migration.
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a member of the Crow Creek Tribe, has published eleven books and is a long-time professor of Indian studies at Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington; University of California–Davis; and Arizona State University. With her colleagues, Dr. William Willard (Cherokee), Dr. Beatrice Medicine (Lakota), and Roger Buffalohead (Ponca), she founded Wicazo Sa Review. She makes her permanent home in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Her recent work is a collection of essays called New Indians, Old Wars.
Sarah Deer, a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, is currently a visiting professor at William Mitchell College of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She received her undergraduate degree in women’s studies and philosophy from the University of Kansas, and her J.D. with tribal lawyer certificate from the University of Kansas School of Law. Professor Deer has worked for the Tribal Law and Policy Institute (an Indian-owned and -operated nonprofit organization) since 2002.
Jennifer Nez Denetdale is an associate professor of history at Northern Arizona University. The author of two books and several articles on Navajo history, she is currently working on a history of Navajo women.
Matthew L. M. Fletcher is an associate professor at Michigan State University College of Law and director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center. Professor Fletcher is an enrolled member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, located in Peshawbestown, Michigan. He is coauthor (with David Getches, Charles Wilkinson, and Robert Williams) of the forthcoming sixth edition of Cases on Federal Indian Law. He recently published American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law.
Mishuana R. Goeman (Seneca) is an assistant professor currently teaching in the Native American Studies, English, and Women and Gender Studies departments at Dartmouth College. In fall 2009 she will join the Women Studies department at UCLA. Her publications include “From Place to Territories and Back Again: Centering Storied Land in the Discussion of Indigenous Nation-building” in the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies and “(Re)Mapping Indigenous Presence on the Land in Native Women’s Literature” in American Quarterly, and she is coauthor (with Anne Calhoun and Monica Tsethlikai) of “Achieving Gender Equity for Native Americans,” a chapter in Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity through Education, a winner of the Groves Conference on Marriage and Family 2005 Feldman Award.
Lisa Kahaleole Hall is a Kanaka Maoli Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Wells College in Aurora, New York. She also has a courtesy appointment as a visiting assistant professor in the American Indian Studies Program at Cornell University. Her most recent work, “‘Hawaiian at Heart’ and Other Fictions” and “Strategies of Erasure: U.S. Colonialism and Native Hawaiian Feminism,” appeared in [End Page 202] The Contemporary Pacific and American Quarterly, respectively.
Penelope Myrtle Kelsey is the author of Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Worldviews and Writing. She is of Seneca descent with familial roots in western Pennsylvania and New York. Kelsey is an assistant professor of U.S. ethnic literature at Western Illinois University, where she teaches Native American literature, First Nations film, and women’s literature. Her current manuscript, Building a Longhouse, discusses Haudenosaunee literature, film, and visuality as expressions of Indigenous cultural resurgence and Six Nations tribal theory. She is also editor of Strawberries in Brooklyn, a collection of essays on the writings of Mohawk poet Maurice Kenny.
Dian Million is Tanana Athabascan with extended family in Alaska, Washington, and Oregon. She received her Ph.D. in ethnic studies from University of California–Berkeley in 2004 and has been an assistant professor in American studies at the University of Washington in Seattle since 2002. Her research explores issues around an Indigenous politics of knowledge contextualized by the residential school discourse in Canada. Her present work explores the emotional content of colonialism as well as social and bureaucratic emotional management in Indian Country.
Renya K. Ramirez is an enrolled member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and is...
