Wicazo Sa Review

Laura Beard is an associate professor at Texas Tech University, where she specializes in contemporary narrative, autobiographical writings, and women writers of the Americas. Her current book project is on women’s autobiographical traditions in the Americas.

Dr. Cynthia Carsten is a faculty associate in the Department of Religious Studies at Arizona State University, where she teaches on Native American religious traditions, oral traditions, and religion and justice. She has published in Sewanee Theological Review and American Indian Culture and Research Journal. She is currently researching the religious histories of Native American families in the Southwestern United States.

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 Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya’s Earth.

James V. Fenelon (Lakota/Dakota) is professor of sociology at California State University, San Bernardino. He is author of Culturicide, Resistance, and Survival of the Lakota (Sioux Nation), as well as numerous book chapter s and articles. He is enrolled at Standing Rock, has worked in many countries, including in the Dakotas, his origin place. He is working on a book, Indigenous Peoples and Globalization.

Kevin Gover practiced law for fifteen years in Albuquerque and Washington, D.C. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs from 1997 to 2001. He is presently a professor of law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

Renée Holt (Nez Perce/Navajo/Delaware) holds a Master’s degree in history and has been an adjunct faculty member in American Indian studies at Scottsdale Community College in Scottsdale, Arizona and Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, Washington.

Leo Killsback (Northern Cheyenne) earned a Master of Arts degree in American Indian studies from the University of Arizona and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the same program. He teaches a class on Native Americans in film, among other subjects.

Sidner Larson is an enrolled member of the A’a’ni nin (Gros Ventre) tribal community. He is author of Catch Colt, Captured in the Middle, and The War of Words: Colonization and Resistance in American Indian Law, Literature, and Education (forthcoming), as well as many journal articles and shorter works related to American Indians. He is director of American Indian studies at Iowa State University.

Lloyd L. Lee (Diné) is an assistant professor of Native American cultures at the West Campus of Arizona State University. His research focuses on [End Page 202] Navajo identity, masculinity, nationalism, and governance. He is currently researching and writing on the history of Navajo manhood and colonialism’s effect on Navajo men. He earned his doctorate from the University of New Mexico.

Melissa Nelson, Ph.D., (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) is an educator, writer, researcher, indigenous rights activist. She is an assistant professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University and the president of the Cultural Conservancy, a non-profit indigenous rights organization.

Darren J. Ranco (Penobscot) is an assistant professor of Native American studies and environmental studies at Dartmouth College. His research focuses on how indigenous communities resist environmental destruction by using local knowledge to protect cultural resources and how state knowledge systems, rooted in colonial contexts, continue to expose indigenous peoples to environmental risk.

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

Steve Talbot helped found the Native American studies program at the University of California, Berkeley, and was associated with the Indian student occupation of Alcatraz in 1969. He is coeditor of Native American Voices: A Reader and author of Roots of Oppression: The American Indian Question and numerous articles about Indian religious freedom. He retired from California community college system in 1999 and now lives in Oregon, where he continues to teach and write.

Tink Tinker, an enrolled member of the Osage Nation, is professor of American Indian cultures and religious traditions...