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  • Contributors

Elizabeth Archuleta (Yaqui/Chicana) is an assistant professor of contemporary American and American Indian literatures and affiliated faculty in Native American studies at the University of New Mexico. She sits on the Board of Directors of the American Native Press Archives/Sequoyah Research Center and has articles forthcoming in Wicazo Sa Review and Indigenous Peoples Journal of Law, Culture, and Resistance.

James Bell is the founder and director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute. He is a national leader in devising and implementing strategies to remedy the disproportionality of young people of color in the juvenile justice system. Prior to founding the Burns Institute, James served as a staff attorney at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco for over twenty years, representing incarcerated youth.

Amanda J. Cobb (Chickasaw) is an associate professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico, where she directs the Institute for American Indian Research.

Benedict J. Colombi is a near term doctoral candidate in cultural anthropology at Washington State University in Pullman. His dissertation research is theoretically focused on socioeconomic growth, culture scale, and social power and the elite-directed consequences of large dams and natural resource development in the lower Snake River watershed. He received his master's degree in anthropology from the University of Idaho at Moscow and a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Burke A. Hendrix is an assistant professor at Cornell University appointed to the Department of Government and the Program on Ethics and Public Life.

Joshua Don Hinson (Chickasaw/Choctaw/Muscogee Creek /Cherokee, enrolled Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma) is a masters degree candidate in Native American art history at the University of New Mexico. He currently serves the Chickasaw [End Page 744] people as the archivist for the Chickasaw Nation Photographic Archives in Ada, Oklahoma.

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian) is an assistant professor in American studies and anthropology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where she teaches classes on Indigeneity, race, and citizenship and is completing a book titled, "Rehabilitating the Native: The Politics of Hawaiian Blood and the Question of Sovereignty."

Tina Kuckkahn is a member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewas and is the director of the House of Welcome Longhouse Education and Cultural Center at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.

Nicole Lim is an assistant professor of ethnic studies at California State University in Sacramento. Ms. Lim also works as an attorney for the National Indian Justice Center and is the director of development for the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center. She is a member of the Pinoleville Band of Pomo Indians.

James Lujan, an alumnus of Stanford University and USC Film School, is a writer and filmmaker from Taos Pueblo. His historical play, Kino and Teresa, about the aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, premiered in March 2005 in Los Angeles.

Anya Montiel was the curatorial research assistant for contemporary art at the NMAI (2002-4) and is currently the curator of collections for the Tohono O'odham Nation Cultural Center and Museum in Topawa, Arizona.

Judith Ostrowitz is an art historian specializing in Native American art of the Northwest Coast region, author of Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art (University of Washington Press, 1999), and currently an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University.

Barbara Perry is an associate professor in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Ontario. She has published widely on hate crime, including a book entitled In the Name of Hate: Understanding Hate Crime (Routledge, 2001).

Akim D. Reinhardt is an assistant professor of American Indian history at Towson University in Towson, Maryland.

Linda Robyn is an associate professor of criminal justice at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. She has published articles on a variety of Indigenous issues including the environment, Indigenous knowledge, and resistance to resource colonialism.

Beverly R. Singer has been an active film and video maker for twenty years and is currently an associate professor of anthropology and Native American studies [End Page 745] at the University of New Mexico. She is the author of Wiping the...

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