Contributors
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David H. DeJong has a doctorate in American Indian policy studies from the University of Arizona. He has written extensively on the Gila River Indian Community water rights settlement history and implementation. He has been the director of the Pima- Maricopa Irrigation Project, a tribally operated, federally funded project that is designing and constructing the Community’s new irrigation system, for eight years and has been with the project for fourteen years.
Jean Dennison, Ph.D., is a citizen of the Osage Nation and an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina– Chapel Hill. Her primary research examines Osage Nation constitution writing and implantation within the context of the nation’s 2004–6 citizenship and government reform process. Her book Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty- First- Century Osage Nation was published by the University of North Carolina Press. She has also published articles in the American Indian and Culture Research Journal, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, and Heritage & Society. The primary goal of her academic endeavors is to explore how various American Indian people today are constructing, negotiating, and contesting the ongoing settler colonial process. Dennison’s other areas of interest include representation, visual anthropology, and North American Indian citizenship, governance, and sovereignty.
Jason Eden earned his doctorate in history at the University of Minnesota in 2006, completing a dissertation under the direction of Dr. Jean O’Brien. He is currently an associate professor of history at Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota. He regularly teaches courses dealing with racial issues in the United States and Colonial North American history. He has published articles in the History Teacher, Cross-Cultural Gerontology, and other scholarly journals. [End Page 132]
Mary L. Keller is an academic professional lecturer in religious studies at the University of Wyoming. Her teaching and research interests focus on struggles for power and meaning at the interfaces within and across cultural identities, particularly as they relate to the overarching maps that govern community storytelling. She is a member of the Restoring Sacred Lands on Common Ground Alliance. [End Page 133]
