Contributors
- Contributors
Clarissa Confer received her Ph.D. in 1997 from Pennsylvania State University. She is currently teaching Native American and nineteenth-century U.S. history at the University of Florida. Her research has focused on the Five Southeastern Nations, and her book on the Cherokee experience during the Civil War is forthcoming from the University of Oklahoma Press. She has presented papers and published articles on both southeastern indigenous peoples and members of western native nations, focusing on their self-identity and interaction with Anglo-Europeans.
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, is the founding editor of Wicazo Sa Review, professor emerita of Native American studies at Eastern Washington University, a writer, and a poet. Her books include The Politics of Hallowed Ground: Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty (with Mario Gonzalez), Anti-Indianism in Modern America, and Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice, winner of the Gustavus Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America.
Mary Louise Defender-Wilson (Dakota/Hidatsa) is a North Dakota humanities scholar, educator, and traditional artist. Among her many awards are the 1999 National Heritage Fellowship in the Folk and Traditional Arts and the NEA Trendholm Civil Rights Award. She has produced CDs of her traditional oral histories and storytelling, including The Elders Speak (with Francis Cree), My Relatives Say, and most recently Undechechapi.
James Fenelon (Lakota/Dakota) is associate professor at California State University, San Bernardino. He is author of Culturicide, Resistance, and Survival of the Lakota (Sioux Nation), numerous book chapters, and articles in the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations; Journal of Black Studies; Race, Gender, and Class; American Indian Culture and Research Journal; and Journal of World-Systems Research. He is enrolled at Standing Rock, has worked in many countries, including his origin place in the Dakotas, and is working on a book, “Globalization and Indigenous Peoples.”
Craig Howe (Oglala Lakota) earned a Ph.D. in architecture and anthropology from the University of Michigan and is a member of the Graduate Studies faculty at Oglala Lakota College. He served as deputy assistant director for cultural resources at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, and as director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library. He has developed innovative tribal histories projects and museum exhibitions, taught Native studies courses in the United States and Canada, authored numerous articles, and is a founder and president of NativeESP.
Matthew L. Jones embodies a rare combination of performing talent with a commitment to education and a passion for his nation’s story to be told. [End Page 150] The Otoe-Missouria nation were the first Native Americans to meet with the Lewis and Clark expedition. Jones has researched the encounters from many perspectives. His knowledge and continued efforts keep the oral traditions of his people at the forefront of his presentations. Jones has consulted on television and motion picture scripts to help authenticate the Native American perspective. He has authored articles and edited books regarding Native American roles in history and in current society. During this exciting anniversary year, Jones continues to research while lecturing at the University of Nebraska and speaking at engagements across the country.
J. Diane Pearson holds the first doctorate in American Indian studies from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and teaches American Indian studies at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB). In addition to serving as tribal consultant on economic development, she has hosted the Bay Area Indian Conference, the Lakota Language Conference, and the Urban Voices Conference at UCB. She is currently publishing new materials on the Numipu in the Indian Territory, Numipu governments and history, the peoplehood model of identity, the politics of disease, and repatriation of photographic images. She also designs and teaches self-help study skills classes for Native American college students.
James Riding In is a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and associate professor of justice studies and American Indian studies at Arizona State University. He received an A.A. degree from Haskell Indian Junior College, a bachelor’s in history from Fort Lewis College, and...
