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  • Contributors

Kristina Ackley, PhD (Oneida/ Bad River Ojibwe) is member of the faculty in Native American studies at The Evergreen State College. Her scholarly work most recently appeared in American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Her current research examines sovereignty practices in three Oneida communities.

James Allen is professor of psychology and codirector of the Culture and Inter vention Core at the Center for Alaska Native Health Research at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. His most recent work is on cultural approaches to the prevention of substance abuse and suicide with Alaska Native youth.

Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval is associate professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice (2005). He is working on a new book on spirituality, sacrifice, and social justice.

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, founding editor of Wicazo Sa Review, is a long-time professor of Native American studies and professor emerita at Eastern Washington State University. She is a member of the Crow Creek Sioux tribe. Her latest book is New Indians, Old Wars.

Mark Freeland is member of the Sault Saint Marie Ojibwe Nation (Bahweting Anishinaabe). He is currently a doctoral student in the Joint PhD Program at the Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver, concentrating in religion and social change. He is also a community activist for American Indian liberation in Denver, Colorado.

Todd Fuller currently serves as president of the Paw nee Nation College, which he helped cofound in 2004. His first book, 60 Feet Six Inches and Other Distances from Home: The (Baseball) Life of Mose YellowHorse, was published in 2002. Other works have appeared in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, New York Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Quarterly West, Third Coast, and William and Mary Review.

Terri Miles is a graduate student in criminal justice at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is of Muscogee Creek and Sac and Fox descent. Her research interests include the origins of, and arguments deployed by, anti-sovereignty organizations.

David Milward is a doctoral candidate in law and a part-time lecturer at the University of British Columbia. David has worked as both a legal clerk and research consultant for Calgary Legal Guidance. He is a member of the Beardy’s and Okemasis First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada. [End Page 162]

Deborah Popper is professor of geography at the College of Staten Island/City University of New York and visiting professor at Princeton University. Her research focuses on developing sustainable alternatives for regions losing population. With her husband, Frank Popper, she developed the concept of the Buffalo Commons. She is on the governing boards of the American Geographical Society and the National Center for Frontier Communities.

James Riding In (Pawnee) is the editor of Wicazo Sa Review, associate professor of American Indian studies at Arizona State University, and chair of the Board of Trustess of Pawnee Nation College. His publications appear in various books and journals.

Steve Russell is an enrolled Cherokee, a high school dropout, a Texas judge currently sitting by assignment only, and associate professor of criminal justice at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is working on a book about democracy within tribal governments.

Cristine Soliz has a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Washington, Seattle. She is a member of the humanities faculty at Diné College and holds an adjunct graduate lecturer position in English at Colorado State University, Pueblo. Currently, she is serving as faculty association president at Diné College and also as the area chair in historical fiction for the Southwest Texas Popular Culture American Culture Association. She is also the project director of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to explore the use of Native American literature across the disciplines as a way to challenge Native American students to think and write critically in those fields (dchumanities.org). Cristine is not tribal affiliated but her DNA is of the Southwest indigenous peoples: Haplogroup B. Her great grandmother was an urban Mescalero.

Billy J. Stratton is currently a doctoral candidate in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of...

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