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Robert B. Anderson is on the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Regina and is the past president of the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Temashio Anderson is an undergraduate student at Northern Arizona University, majoring in Applied Indigenous Studies and Environmental Science. He is a member of the Diné/Scott's Valley Band of Pomo Indians.

Janine Bowechop (Makah) is the executive director of the Makah Cultural and Research Center, the tribal museum and cultural center of the Makah Indian Nation in Neah Bay, Washington. She is the author of "Contemporary Makah Whaling," in Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Vision, and has presented nationally and internationally on methodologies of Native American heritage preservation.

D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark (Meskwaki) is assistant professor of American Indian studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His book on mascots, with Cornel D. Pewewardy, is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press as part of the Contemporary Indigenous Issues series, edited by Devon A. Mihesuah.

David H. DeJong is a public involvement specialist with the Pima-Maricopa Irrigation Project. He is nearing completion of his PhD in American Indian policy studies from the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Patricia Pierce Erikson is an independent scholar who has taught cultural anthropology and Native American studies at Smith College, the University of Washington–Tacoma, and the University of Southern Maine. She is the author of "'Defining Ourselves Through Baskets,'" in Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast [End Page 353] Ethnology, Traditions, and Vision, and (with Helma Ward and Kirk Wachendorf) Voices of a Thousand People: The Makah Cultural and Research Center (University of Nebraska Press, 2002).

Jonathon Erlen received his PhD in history from the University of Kentucky. He currently is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Public Heath and history of medicine librarian in the Falk Library at the University of Pittsburgh.

Robert J. Giberson is the associate dean of undergraduate and international programs at the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Regina. Drawing on his background in working with aboriginal groups, his current research and consulting activities focus on entrepreneurship and business strategy in private and community based aboriginal organisations. In his role as associate dean he regularly works with the School of Business and Public Administration at the First Nation University of Canada, and is actively involved in promoting the professional development of aboriginal faculty.

Blake Hausman (Cherokee) is a lecturer in English at Western Washington University and Whatcom Community College. He has studied at the University of Georgia, Lancaster University (UK), and Western Washington University and is returning to graduate school in fall 2005 to pursue a PhD in English at the University of California-Berkeley.

Kevin Hindle is a professor with the Australian Graduate School of Management at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.

Sudie Hofmann is an associate professor in the Department of Human Relations and Multicultural Education at St. Cloud State University and a founding member of SCSU'S Coalition Against Cultural Genocide.

Bob Kayseas is with the School of Business and Public Administration for the First Nations University of Canada and is currently serving as director of economic development for the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations.

Sidner Larson is an enrolled member of the Fort Belknap Indian Community of north-central Montana. He is currently Director of American Indian Studies at Iowa State University and the author of Catch Colt, Captured in the Middle, and numerous articles in the field of American Indian studies.

Mary Jane Lupton is Professor Emeritus at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, and the author of James Welch: A Critical Companion (Greenwood Press, 2004). [End Page 354]

Devon A. Mihesuah (Oklahoma Choctaw) is editor of the American Indian Quarterly and the author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books.

Mindy J. Morgan is an assistant professor of anthropology at Michigan State University and a member of the American Indian Studies faculty.

John Lloyd Purdy is professor of English at Western Washington University. He is the editor of Word Ways: The Novels of D'Arcy McNickle (1990) and The Legacy of D'Arcy McNickle: Writer, Historian, Activist (1996). His poetry and fiction have...

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