Indian School on Magnolia Avenue: Voices and Images from Sherman Institute

About the Authors

214 About the Authors Jon Ille grew up on Crow Reservation and taught at Little Big Horn College on Crow. He is completing his Ph. D. in American History at the University of California, Riverside. As part of his graduate work in history, Ille interned at Sherman Indian School Museum, where he researched the Special Five Year Navajo Program. Robert R. McCoy is an associate professor of history at Washington State University, where he teaches Public History. In 2004, Routledge published Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf, and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest. He is currently researching stock raising in central and eastern Oregon. Jean A. Keller is adjunct professor of American Indian Studies at Palomar College and the author of the first book on Sherman Institute, Empty Beds: Indian Student Health at Sherman Institute. Michelle Lorimer is completing her Ph. D. in American History at the University of California, Riverside. Her research examines the representation of Native Americans within the Spanish Mission system of California in comparison to the scholarship centered on California’s missions. She is a developing scholar on the meaning and messages of photographs taken of Native Americans. Leleua Loupe teaches American history at several institutions, including California State University, Fullerton, and Mount San Antonio College. She has authored articles on American Indians of Southern California and wrote her dissertation on Sherman Institute. William O. Medina is an adjunct professor of American history at Riverside Community College and San Bernardino Valley Community College. He completed his Ph. D. at the University of California, Riverside. His dissertation was titled “Selling Indians at Sherman Institute.” Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert (Hopi) is an assistant professor of American Indian Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 215 He has written extensively on Sherman Institute, including a book titled Education beyond the Mesas: Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010). In addition to his written work, Sakiestewa Gilbert has co-produced Beyond the Mesas, a thirtyminute documentary film on the Hopi boarding school experience (www. beyondthemesas.com). Lorene Sisquoc (Apache/Cahuilla) is Museum Curator and Cultural/ Traditional Leader at Sherman Indian High School in Riverside, California. She teaches Native American traditions at Sherman Indian High School, and she published Boarding School Blues with the University of Nebraska Press. Clifford E. Trafzer (Wyandot Ancestry) is professor of American history and the Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs at the University of California, Riverside. He has published several books, including Boarding School Blues, Native Universe, and Death Stalks the Yakama. Kevin Whalen has spent three years researching the off-reservation American Indian boarding schools of the United States, in particular the topic of Native American employees working within the educational system during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He is completing his Ph. D. in history at the University of California, Riverside, and is writing a book on the outing system at Sherman Institute. Shaina Wright (Pomo) completed her undergraduate degree in Native American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a Ph. D. student in Native American history at the University of California, Riverside. Her research centers on gendered education and curriculum at off-reservation Indian boarding schools, with an emphasis on Sherman Institute. Index ...