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339 Contributors Kristina Ackley (Oneida Bad River Ojibwe) is a member of the faculty in Native American Studies at Evergreen State College. She received her ma in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona and her PhD in American Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is currently working on a comparative analysis of Oneida nationalism and expressions of sovereignty. Miranda J. Brady’s research addresses issues of representation, identity, and power in the use of public media. She examines how technologies of mediation and cultural policies are employed by institutions to shape the terms of American Indian involvement in public and political life. In 2007 Brady was awarded a short-term fellowship from the Newberry Library’s D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History. Her recent work is concerned with the use of digital media in public spaces, discourse, and political economy. Brady’s dissertation examined the intersection of cultural policy, power, nationalism, and digital technology in the National Museum of the American Indian. She is an assistant professor of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. M. Teresa Carlson is originally from Vancouver Island on British Columbia’s west coast. She has a ba and postgraduate diplomas in cultural resource management from the University of Victoria. She has worked in museums and cultural centers for almost twenty years. She found the years she spent at Stó:lõ Nation creating a cultural center and archaeological repository to be the most rewarding, as she was able to engage in collaborative research, including various topics in Aboriginal self-governance, culture and heritage, rights and title, education, and exhibits and programming. In 2001 she moved to Saskatoon with her husband, Keith, and their two children. She is currently the acting director of the Diefenbaker Canada Centre at the University of Saskatchewan, the only Prime Ministerial museum, archives, and research center in Canada. The Diefenbaker Centre hosts a wide variety of exhibits and associated educational programming. Brenda J. Child (Red Lake Ojibwe) is an associate professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her book Boarding School Seasons: Ameri- 340 Contributors can Indian Families, 1900–1940 won the North American Indian Prose Award. She is a member of the executive council of the Minnesota Historical Society and the Indian advisory committee to the Eiteljorg Museum. Brian Isaac Daniels is a doctoral student in history and anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses upon how cultural heritage laws and cultural institutions engender historical awareness. Daniels has an extended ethnographic commitment to western North America, where he has worked with Native communities on issues surrounding heritage rights, repatriation, and recognition. As a joint-degree student he is currently at work writing two dissertations: one about the political uses of heritage laws by Indigenous communities and the other about museums, preservation laws, and the production of history in the United States. His research has been underwritten by fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation , the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution. Gwyneira Isaac obtained her PhD from Oxford University in 2002; she is an assistant professor and director of the Museum of Anthropology at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on the relationships people develop with their past through material culture, leading her to explore the history of anthropology and photography as well as the development of tribal museums in the Southwest. Bridging these different topics has resulted in her interest in developing theories that integrate anthropology, art, and history to form interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to the study of society. She has conducted fieldwork at the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico, and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington dc. Her book, Mediating Knowledges: Origins of a Zuni Tribal Museum, has recently been published by the University of Arizona Press. Hal Langfur teaches the history of Brazil, colonial Latin America, and the Atlantic world as well as ethnohistory at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750–1830 and editor of the forthcoming Native Brazil: Beyond the Cannibal and the Convert, 1500–1889. His articles have appeared in various U.S. and Brazilian academic journals, including the Journal of Social History, the Hispanic American Historical Review, the Americas, Ethnohistory, Revista da História, and Tempo. He...

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