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  • Contributors

Joanne Barker is an enrolled member of the Lenni-Lenape nation of eastern Oklahoma and assistant professor in Native American Studies at University of California, Davis. She earned her Ph.D. in 2000 from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was awarded the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship in the Department of Native American Studies and the University of California President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship. She is currently editing a collection of essays on indigenous struggles for self-determination.

Ben Chavis is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Indian tribe of southeastern North Carolina. He grew up with his grandparents, parents, and nine brothers and sisters in a small Indian community. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He has worked with American Indians, African Americans, Asians, and Mexicans throughout the Southwest and southeastern United States. He is director of the American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland, California.

Clayton W. Dumont Jr. is associate professor of sociology at San Francisco State University and an enrolled member of the Klamath Tribes of Southern Oregon. In addition to his work on NAGPRA politics, he has written on ancient forest politics in the Pacific Northwest and on affirmative action politics in California.

Tom Holm is professor in the American Indian Studies Program of the University of Arizona. His research and publishing has focused on American Indian Vietnam War veterans (Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War). He is now working on the concept of peoplehood as a model for American Indian studies. He is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. His military service was with the U.S. Marine Corps from 1966 to 1970, with service in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968.

Nancy Intermill is a student at Washington State University studying social sciences. She has worked on a university campus for twenty-four years; currently she is employed as administrative assistant for the Program in Statistics at WSU, an academic department affiliated with two colleges. Through the years she has observed how different universities and colleges approach the same goals in different ways.

Steve Pavlik teaches American Indian studies, social studies, and science at Vision Charter High School in Tucson, Arizona. He has a master’s degree in American Indian studies from the University of Arizona. His special interests include Native American spirituality and environmental issues. He is the editor of A Good Cherokee, A Good Anthropologist: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Thomas. [End Page 180]

J. Diane Pearson teaches Native American studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley. She holds a Ph.D. in American Indian studies from the University of Arizona. She has served as a consultant in self-determination and economic development, a research analyst, and a coauthor of “Final Report: Impact Evaluation of Stop Grant Program for Reducing Violence against Women among Indian Tribes,” Tribal Law and Policy Program, American Indian Studies Programs, University of Arizona. In addition she has taught a wide variety of classes on American Indian–related topics to a wide variety of audiences.

Mary Virginia Rojas is a doctoral candidate in the Religious Studies Department at University of California, Santa Barbara. She currently holds a two-year Grinnell Consortium Fellowship at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where she teaches Native American, Chicana/o, and diasporic religions. Her scholarly and community work has overlapped Native American religious systems and Chicano cultural expressions.

Kimberly TallBear works as a program development consultant to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe and the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe. She is a Ph.D. student in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on the limitations of “the nation” for tribal development, the political and racial implications for tribes of genetic research, and the practice of measuring blood quantum to determine tribal citizenship. She has presented papers all over the world addressing the link between tribal environmental policy and self-determination and racism and indigenous peoples.

William Willard is professor emeritus in the Departments of Anthropology and Comparative American Cultures at Washington State University. His interests are American Indian literature...

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