Contributors
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Melissa Rinehart has worked as a cultural anthropologist for over twelve years with Native American communities, including the Miami of Indiana and Oklahoma. Her work with the Miami includes the removal period as well as contemporary language recovery efforts over the past decade. Other interests include Native American Indian representation over time, the boarding school era, and traditional medicinal practices.
Alison Fields is the Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West, an assistant professor of art history and affiliated faculty in film and media studies at the University of Oklahoma. She also serves as the managing editor of American Indian Quarterly.
Michelle M. Jacob (Yakama) is an associate professor of ethnic studies and affiliated faculty in sociology at the University of San Diego, where she teaches courses in American Indian studies and comparative ethnic studies. Her work has been published in several journals, including Wicazo Sa Review, Social Justice, Societies Without Borders, International Feminist Journal of Politics, American Behavioral Scientist, and Race, Gender & Class, as well as interdisciplinary anthologies. She engages in scholarly and activist work that seeks to understand and work toward a holistic sense of health and well-being within indigenous communities. Her work has been funded by the Ford Foundation, American Sociological Association, National Institute of Mental Health, National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Aging, and University of San Diego Faculty Research Grants. She is currently working on a book project that [End Page 574] analyzes models of grassroots activism on the Yakama Reservation to articulate a theory of indigenous social change.
Jennifer Adese is a Cree-Métis woman whose wahkohtowin (kinship ties) connect her to the Lenny/Lennie, Dubé, Wabasca/Blandion, and Gladu families. She is also a PhD candidate in the Department of English & Cultural Studies at McMaster University.
Jon Daehnke is a visiting assistant professor in American studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Jon is a graduate of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the humanities at Stanford University. His research interests focus on cultural heritage and the law; Native American studies; public representations of heritage and memory; the relationship between anthropologists and Indigenous communities; critical approaches to nature, culture, and the environment; and the archaeology of landscapes. He has conducted research throughout the western United States with a primary emphasis on the heritage landscape of the Pacific Northwest of North America. He has published an article on heritage stewardship and the complexities of federal recognition of American Indian nations in the Journal of Social Archaeology and has a forthcoming article in Wicazo Sa Review that explores the tensions surrounding the use, identity, and value of a site of public history that has connections to both Indigenous communities and Lewis and Clark. Jon also has publications on nagpra compliance and human response to catastrophic changes in landscape. He is currently working on a manuscript that documents and explores the dynamic and contested nature of Indigenous identity, federal recognition, and tangible and intangible heritage on the Columbia River.
Jeff Fortney is a doctoral student at University of Oklahoma, working with Dr. Fay Yarbrough. His interests include Choctaw slaveholding and the Creolization of Native leadership. He plans to complete a dissertation that addresses these subjects with Robert M. Jones as a test case.
Doreen E. Martinez is a transnational Indigenous epistemologist with an educational background in sociology and gender studies. Her work focuses on contemporary identity representations and voice primarily [End Page 575] in community-located or community-driven projects. Her largest body of work is an ethnographic study of “everyday” Native women’s understandings and practices of medicine in everyday ways. She has been working in various Indigenous communities for nearly twenty years. She is of Mescalero Apache, Mexican, and Dutch lineage. [End Page 576]
