50 Events That Shaped American Indian History, Volume I and II

Editors

Donna Martinez (Cherokee), PhD, graduated magna cum laude from the University of Washington in political science. She is professor and chair of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Denver. Donna Martinez is the author of five books, including Urban American Indians: Reclaiming Native Space and Native American World.

Jennifer L. Williams Bordeaux (Sicangu Lakota/Yankton Dakota) is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate, Rosebud, South Dakota. She has a master’s degree in political science. Jennifer is currently the executive assistant in the department of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Denver.

Contributors

Terry Ahlstedt earned his PhD at the University of Nebraska with his dissertation “John Collier and Mexico in the Shaping of U.S. Indian Policy: 1934–1945.” His specialty is the history of the American West and Native American history.

Katherine Brooks earned her doctorate in American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona in 2014 and has worked with Native communities in the Southwest for the past eight years. Dr. Brooks specializes in American Indian material culture, ethnography, and applied anthropology. Previous degrees include an M.A. in anthropology from New Mexico State University. Currently, Dr. Brooks works as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona, School of Anthropology, and is an associate professor of anthropology at Cochise College.

Jonathan Byrn is a PhD student in American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona, studying American Indian law and policy, indigenous governance, and historical archaeology. He holds a master’s degree in history from Murray State University with research areas in American Indian and western history, cultural preservation, and cultural exchange.

Roger Carpenter is an associate professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He is the author of “Times Are Altered with Us”: American Indians from First Contact to the New Republic (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) and The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Huron and the Iroquois, 1609–1650 (Michigan State University Press, 2004). He has also published articles in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, The Journal of Early American Wars and Armed Conflicts, and the Michigan Historical Review. In addition, he has contributed book reviews to publications such as The American Historical Review and The Canadian Journal of History.

Menoukha R. Case is an associate professor of cultural studies at SUNY Empire State College. Her previous publications are both creative and academic. Her most recent work, Weaving the Legacy: Remembering Paula Gunn Allen, co-edited with Stephanie Sellers, is forthcoming from West End Press.

Amy Casselman is an adjunct professor of ethnic studies at San Francisco State University and the author of Injustice in Indian Country: Jurisdiction, American Law, and Sexual Violence against Native Women. Prior to her career in academia, Amy was a caseworker for the Washoe tribe of Nevada and California.

Angela D’Arcy, of the Acjachemen Nation, has been working to protect indigenous sacred lands, waters, and cultures for over 15 years. She is the Executive Director of Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples, a Los Angeles-based community organization and Affiliate of the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples dedicated to building the capacity of Native nations and indigenous people on social and environmental justice issues.

Christine DeLucia is assistant professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. She received her PhD in American Studies from Yale University. Her first book, on King Philip’s War and its contested legacies, is under contract with Yale University Press, for the Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity.

Nikki Dragone, a scholar of Lakota/Dakota descent, teaches American Indian Studies and English at Black Hills State University. Dragone completed her PhD in American Studies and her J.D. at SUNY at Buffalo. She has published articles and book chapters on Native American literature and film, indigenous rights and Haudenosaunee history.

Angelique EagleWoman (Wambdi A. WasteWin) is a law professor who teaches Native American Law, tribal nation Economics and Law, and Native American Natural Resources Law at the University of Idaho College of Law. She is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota.

Torivio A. Foddor (Taos Pueblo, Comanche, Kiowa, Cherokee) is the associate director of the High Plains American Indian Research Institute (HPAIRI) at the University of Wyoming. Dr. Foddor is a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Wyoming American Indian Studies Program.

Claudia J. Ford has had a global career in development and health, spanning three decades and all continents. Her research interests are in gender, traditional ecological knowledge, historical ethnobotany, and sustainable agriculture. Dr. Ford earned her BA at Columbia University, and MA and PhD at Antioch University.

Anne A. Garner, PhD, MFA, is a historian in global indigenous studies, an art historian, and a visual artist. Her recent scholarship includes an analysis of contemporary indigenous art in North America as a statement of decolonization and sovereignty. Currently, Dr. Garner teaches at SUNY Empire State College, Cheektowaga, New York, and at Excelsior College, Albany, New York.

Frances Holmes has a PhD in Education: Language, Literacy and Culture and an MA in Native American Studies. Of Muscogee (Creek) ancestry, Kay is currently an assistant professor at Lewis College in Durango, CO, in the Native American & Indigenous Studies Department.

C. Richard King, professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University, has written extensively on the Native American mascot controversy, race and popular culture, and white power. He is also the author/editor of four books, including Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy, a CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Title, Unsettling America: Indianness in the Contemporary World, Beyond Hate: White Power and Popular Culture, and most recently Redskins: Insult and Brand.

Katie Kirakosian received her MA (’07) and her PhD (’14) in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She currently works at Kaplan University as an assistant academic chair in the School of General Education.

Alexis Kopkowski, MA, is a PhD student of American Indian studies and public health at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on healthcare delivery, health disparities, and violence prevention among the American Indian population.

Alan Lechusza Aquallo, PhD, maintains a strong track record of multidisciplinary research and multi-media performances focused upon Native American/indigenous identity and how this complicated locus is re-presented and conceptualized through the music, expressive arts and culture, both traditional and contemporary. As a Native scholar, Dr. Lechusza Aquallo’s critical research provides alternative epistemologies designed to establish new theoretical concepts for the study and sociopolitical advancement of scholarship. Dr. Lechusza Aquallo’s guiding philosophy is firmly engaged toward fostering new directions of Native/indigenous research, artistic practice, and multidisciplinary methodologies that produce new knowledge for the academy and the artistic community. He is currently a tenured professor of American Indian Studies at Palomar College, San Marcos, California.

Patty Loew, PhD, is a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Life Sciences Communication, a documentary producer, and former broadcast journalist in public and commercial television. Loew (Bad River Ojibwe) is the award-winning author of three books: Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal, Native People of Wisconsin, and Seventh Generation Earth Ethics, a collection of biographies of Native American environmental leaders. Loew has produced more than a dozen documentaries, including the award-winning Way of the Warrior, which aired nationally on PBS in 2007.

Drew Lopenzina is a professor of Early American and Native American literature at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period (SUNY Press 2012). His cultural biography of Pequot activist and minister William Apess, Through an Indian’s Looking-Glass, will appear with the University of Massachusetts Press in 2017.

Anne Luna-Gordinier (Choctaw/Cherokee) is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Sacramento State. She earned a JD from the James E. Rogers College of Law and a MA in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona. She received a PhD in sociology from Howard University.

Paul McKenzie-Jones is the author of Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power. He received his PhD in history from the University of Oklahoma in 2012 and is currently an assistant professor of Native American studies and history at Montana State University–Northern.

Jeff Means (Enrolled Member: Oglala Sioux tribe) is an associate professor of history at the University of Wyoming. His most recent article publication is “Indians shall do things in common” in Montana: The Magazine of Western History. He is working on his first book, From Bison to Beeves: Cattle and the Economic Evolution of Oglala Lakota, 1750–1920.

K.D. Motes is associate professor of history at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. He holds a PhD in history with a focus on Native American history from the University of California, Riverside.

Azusa Ono is an associate professor at Osaka University of Economics in Osaka, Japan, and a visiting fellow at the Institute of American Studies at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan.

Selene Phillips is a member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe in Wisconsin and an assistant professor at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. She teaches journalism and Native American studies in the communication department and researches and does Chautauqua performances of Sacagawea and Mary Todd Lincoln.

Ramon Resendiz is a graduate student in the M.C. Native Voices program in documentary film at the University of Washington, which aims to decolonize the portrayal and construction of indigenous peoples across media. He is a Ronald E. McNair Fellow and graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Texas with a double major in philosophy and anthropology.

Rosalva Resendiz earned her PhD in sociology at Texas Woman’s University and is an associate professor at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, Department of Criminal Justice. She is the coauthor of On the Edge of Law: Culture, Labor and Deviance on the South Texas Border (2007) and author/editor of Gender, Crime & Justice: Critical and Feminist Perspectives (2015).

Daniel Winunwe Rivers is an assistant professor in the Department of History at The Ohio State University and an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. His research focuses on LGBT communities in the twentieth century, Native American history, the family and sexuality, and U.S. social protest movements.

Rhianna C. Rogers is assistant professor of cultural studies at State University of New York (SUNY)-Empire State College. Her previous publications and research focus on the historical and archaeological impacts of European settlement on Native communities in the Eastern United States and Mesoamerica.

Caskey Russell, originally from Seattle, is an enrolled member of the Tlingit tribe. He received his BA and MA from Western Washington University, and his PhD from the University of Oregon. He is the Director of American Indian Studies at the University of Wyoming. His is co-author of Critical Race Theory Matters: Education and Ideology.

LeRoy Saiz is the current program coordinator for Jeffco Public Schools–Title VII Indian Education Program, located in Golden, Colorado, where his scholarly and professional emphasis locates the implementation of indigenous educational models not only in the field of education, but also within community development.

Alan G. Shackelford is an assistant professor of American Indian history in the American Indian Studies Department at the University of North Dakota. His research focuses on late Pre-Columbian and early colonial history of the Mississippi Valley. He received his PhD in American history from Indiana University at Bloomington.

Megan Tusler received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2015 and currently works for the MA Program in the Humanities. Her current project is called American Snapshot: Urban Realism from New Deal to Great Society and argues that minor and counter-culture movements in the twentieth-century United States produce unique forms of realism in response to social crisis, particularly through the mode of the photo-text. She is a member of the Osage Nation of Oklahoma.

Mark van de Logt, assistant professor of history, Texas A&M University, Qatar, specializes in Plains Indian history and is the author of War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army (2010) and several articles in the Journal of Military History and American Indian Quarterly.

Kiara M. Vigil is an assistant professor of American studies at Amherst College and the author of Indigenous Intellectuals: Sovereignty, Citizenship, and the American Imagination, 1880–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2015). She has received fellowships from Amherst College, the Mellon Foundation, the Autry National Center, Williams College, the Newberry Library, and the University of Michigan.

Joe Watkins, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is the Supervisory Anthropologist and Chief, Tribal Relations and American Cultures Program, National Park Service. Watkins’s studies include the ethical practice of anthropology and anthropology’s relationships with descendant communities, including American Indians, Australian Aboriginals, New Zealand Maori, and Japanese Ainu.