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William Bauer (Wailacki and Concow) is an enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes. He is assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming and the author of We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here: Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941 (2009).

Robert Keith Collins is an anthropologist and assistant professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University.

Ellen Cushman is associate professor of writing, rhetoric, and American cultures at Michigan State University, citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and a Cherokee Nation Sequoyah Commissioner.

T'hohahoken Michael Doxtater, born in Niagara Falls, New York, grew up on the Six Nations Indian Reserve, and belongs to the Mohawk Turtle Clan. He teaches organizational development at McGill University in Montreal. He was a member of the restructuring team for the American Indian Program at Cornell University, communications consultant for the Government of Canada, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), the Native Business Summit Foundation of Canada, McGill University as director of teacher education, and a member of the Society for Professionals in Dispute Resolution (SPIDR).

Clayton W. Dumont Jr. is a member of the Klamath Tribes of Southern Oregon and professor of sociology at San Francisco State University. He is the author of The Promise of Poststructuralist Sociology: Marginalized Peoples and the Problem of Knowledge (2008).

Andrew H. Fisher received his PhD in history from Arizona State University in 2003 and is currently an associate professor at the College of William & Mary. His research and teaching interests focus on modern Native American history, environmental history, and the American West. His first book, Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity (2010), examines off-reservation communities and processes of tribal ethnogenesis in the Columbia River Basin of the Pacific Northwest.

Adam J. P. Gaudry is Métis and pursuing his PhD in indigenous governance at the University of Victoria. He is conducting his dissertation research on Métis family governance, food production, and the history of Canadian colonialism. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Leo Killsback, an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Nation of southeastern Montana, is an assistant professor at Arizona State University. He specializes in Plains Indian history, traditional tribal governments, and decolonizing indigenous governance. [End Page 150]

Barbara Krauthamer is assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research focuses on the history of African American slavery and emancipation in the United States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations. She has written extensively about African American-Native American intersections.

Lloyd L. Lee is Diné, of the Navajo Nation and of the Kinyaa'áanii (Towering House) and Tl'ááshchí'í (Red Bottom) clans. His maternal grandfather's clan is Áshįįhí (Salt), and his paternal grandfather's clan is Tábąąhí (Water's Edge). He received a doctorate in American studies from the University of New Mexico in 2004 and is currently assistant professor of Native American studies at the University of New Mexico. His research interests include Indigenous and Navajo identity, Indigenous leadership, Indigenous philosophies, and Indigenous community building. He is the book review editor for the academic journal American Indian Quarterly. [End Page 151]

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