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Susan M. Hill is a Haudenosaunee citizen (Kanyenkehaka) residing at Ohswe:ken (Grand River Territory of the Six Nations). She is an assistant professor of Indigenous studies and contemporary studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford. She holds a PhD in Native studies from Trent University, an MA in American studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a BA in history from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include Haudenosaunee land history, Indigenous-settler relations, Indigenous research methodologies and ethics, and Native education.

Mary Jane Logan McCallum is an assistant professor in the history department at the University of Winnipeg. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Manitoba, an MA in Native studies and Canadian studies from Trent University, and a BA in history from McMaster University. Her research interests include twentieth-century Aboriginal history and the history of Aboriginal women, education, and labor. She is a member of the Munsee-Delaware First Nation in southwestern Ontario.

Heather Ponchetti Daly is a tribal member of the Santa Ysabel Band of Diegueño Indians. She is a PhD candidate in history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation covers twentieth-century political activism by Southern California Mission Indians who opposed termination. This article is dedicated to Professor Melissa L. Meyer.

Robert Alexander Innes is a member of Cowessess First Nation and an assistant professor in the Department of Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. [End Page 601]

Kristina Ackley (Oneida/Bad River Chippewa) teaches Native American studies at the Evergreen State College. She received her PhD in American studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo and her MA in American Indian studies from the University of Arizona. She is currently working on a comparative analysis of Oneida nationalism and expressions of sovereignty.

Malinda Maynor Lowery is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She was born in Robeson County, North Carolina, and is a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. She holds a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. Currently, she is revising a manuscript tentatively entitled "Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation" for publication in the spring of 2010. She has published articles about American Indian migration and identity, school desegregation, and religious music. Lowery has produced three documentary films about Native American issues, including the award-winning In the Light of Reverence, which showed on PBS in 2001 to over three million people. Her two previous films, Real Indian and Sounds of Faith, both concern Lumbee identity and culture. They have been shown nationwide in classrooms, at conferences, and at film festivals, including the 1997 and 1998 Sundance Film Festival. She serves as the president of the board of directors of the Carolina Arts Network, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Robeson County that produces the outdoor drama Strike at the Wind! She has a bachelor's degree in history and literature from Harvard University and a master's degree in documentary film production from Stanford.

Philip Deloria (Dakota Heritage; PhD, Yale University, 1994, American studies) is professor in the Department of History, the Program in American Culture, and the Native American Studies Program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Indians in Unexpected Places (2004) and Playing Indian (1998) and the coeditor (with Neal Salisbury) of the Blackwell Companion to American Indian History (2002). Deloria was the president of the American Studies Association (May 2008–May 2009) and a member of the governing council of the Organization of American Historians. He is the winner of the John C. Ewers Prize in Ethnohistory, Western History Association, 2006 (for Indians in Unexpected Places) and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Program for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1999 (for Playing Indian). Deloria is a member of the Society of American Historians, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Michigan Society of Fellows. His specific interests in U.S. cultural history include American Indians, environmental history, and western and midwestern regionalisms. [End Page 602]

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