Contributors
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Heather Bouwman is an associate professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, where she specializes in colonial and early American literature. Her first novel, The Remarkable and Very True Story of Lucy and Snowcap, is forthcoming (Marshall Cavendish, Fall 2008). Intended for readers ten and up, Lucy and Snowcap is a historical fantasy set in the Americas in 1787.
Jim J. Buss (PhD, Purdue University) is an assistant professor of history at Oklahoma City University. He is currently working on a manuscript that examines the historical memory of nineteenth-century lower Great Lakes settlement, The Winning of the West with Words: Clearing the Middle Ground for American Pioneers.
Cathleen D. Cahill is an assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico. She received her PhD in 2004 from the University of Chicago. She is working on a book-length study of the Indian Service titled Federal Fathers and Mothers: The United States Indian Service, under contract with University of North Carolina Press.
Katherine Ellinghaus holds a five-year Monash Fellowship in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. She has a PhD in history from the University of Melbourne and was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne from 2002 to 2006. Katherine is the author of Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937 (University of Nebraska Press, 2006) and Blood Will Tell: Native Americans of Mixed Descent and Assimilation Policy, 1880s–1940s (in preparation). She has published articles in the Pacific Historical Review, Frontiers, Aboriginal History , and the Journal of Australian Studies. Her current project explores Indigenous economic self-sufficiency in Australian and United States assimilation policies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [End Page 224]
Susan E. Gray is a member of the History Department at Arizona State University and coeditor of Frontiers. “Miengun’s Children” is drawn from her book manuscript, Lines Descent: Family Stories from the North Country, under contract with the University of North Carolina Press.
Tiya Miles is associate professor in the Program in American Culture, in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, and in the Native American Studies Program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her award-winning first book, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, was published by the University of California Press in 2005. In 2006, she coedited, with Sharon P. Holland, a multidisciplinary collection on Afro-Native cultures, histories, and arts, titled Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press).
Carolyn Butler Palmer holds the Legacy Chair in Modern and Contemporary Arts of the Pacific Northwest in the History of Art Department at the University of Victoria. She is interested in the cultural interfaces between various North American cultural groups and has held fellowships from University of Pittsburgh’s Mellon Foundation and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Butler is currently writing a book about David Neel and indigenous cosmopolitanism.
Sherry Farrell Racette is an interdisciplinary scholar with an active arts practice. An associate professor of art history at Concordia University, her current research projects include a study of eighteenth-century painted Algonkian garments, the role of Indigenous women in knowledge creation, and contemporary Indigenous art history. Most recently, she curated an exhibition of Concordia’s Indigenous Alumni and illustrated two children’s books for Métis authors Wilfred Burton and Rita Bouvier. Recent exhibitions of her work include Connective Tissue (Musée des Maîtres et Artisans du Québec, Montreal, Quebec, 2007) and Crème Moietié et Moietié (Maison des Artistes, St. Boniface, Manitoba, 2008). Her artworks appear in a number of public collections, including the Saskatchewan Arts Board, MacKenzie Art Gallery, and the Canada Council’s Art Bank. Sherry is currently participating in Art, Gender, and Creativity Process, a collaborative exploration by eleven Indigenous women artists at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A mother and grandmother of First Nations and Irish descent, she is a member of Timiskaming First Nation in Quebec.
Jacki Thompson Rand is an...
