Contributors
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alyssa mt. pleasant is assistant professor of Native American studies in the Transnational Studies Department of the University at Buffalo (suny). Her recent publications include “Independence for Whom? Expansion and Conflict in the Northeast and Northwest,” in The World of the Revolutionary American Republic, edited by Andrew Shankman (Routledge, 2014) and “Guiding Principles: Guswenta and the Debate over Formal Schooling at Buffalo Creek, 1800–1811,” in Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education, edited by Brian Klopotek and Brenda Child (sar Press, 2014). Mt. Pleasant is completing a manuscript about the Buffalo Creek reservation titled “After the Whirlwind: Haudenosaunee People and the Emergence of U.S. Settler-Colonialism, 1780–1825.”
stephen h. greetham serves as chief general counsel to the Chickasaw Nation Department of Commerce and as the nation’s special counsel on water and natural resources. Greetham was formerly a partner in the Nordhaus Law Firm in Albuquerque, where he served as water and general counsel to several American Indian tribes. Greetham has taught federal Indian tax, gaming, and water law at the University of New Mexico Law School and the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
benjamin r. brady is a graduate student at the University of Arizona Zuckerman College of Public Health.
howard m. bahr is emeritus professor of sociology at Brigham Young University. [End Page 547]
laura beard is professor and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta, where she is also an adjunct professor of Native studies. Her research and teaching interests include women writers in the Americas, contemporary life narratives, and narratives of the Indian residential school experience.
gus palmer is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and interim director of Native American studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is a linguistic anthropologist whose main area of concentration is American Indian languages. He is presently working on a Kiowa dictionary with other Kiowa speakers in Oklahoma. A fluent speaker of Kiowa, Palmer developed and taught the Kiowa language course from 1992 through 2003. He spent several summers working with the Pawnee Nation language revitalization and preservation program, producing curriculum and updating original South Band and Skiri digital sound recordings for use by tribal members. Palmer has published one book, Telling Stories the Kiowa Way (2003), articles in journals, and poems and fiction in anthologies and literary magazines.
valerie lambert (enrolled, Choctaw Nation) is associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and past president of the Association of Indigenous Anthropologists.
michael lambert (enrolled, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) is associate professor of African studies and anthropology and director of the African Studies Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [End Page 548]
