Advisory Board

Colin G. Calloway
Colin G. Calloway is Professor of History and Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. His many books include Crown and Calumet: British-Indian Relations, 1783-1815 (1997), New Worlds For All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of America (1997), First Peoples; A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (2004), and, as editor, Our Hearts Fell to the Ground, Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost (1996).

R. David Edmunds (Cherokee)
R. David Edmunds is Watson Professor of American History at the University of Texas at Dallas. His books include The Shawnee Prophet (1983), Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership (1984) and Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire (1987). He is a past president of the American Society for Ethnohistory and gave the 2004-5 Distinguished Lectures for the Organization of American Historians.

Donald L. Fixico (Shawnee, Sauk & Fox, Creek, Seminole)
Donald L. Fixico is Distinguished Foundation Professor in the Department of History of Arizona State University. He has served on the Advisory Council for the National Endowment for the Humanities and his books include The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge (2003), and The Urban Indian Experience in America (2000).

Louis Masur
Louis Masur is the Director of American Studies and the Kenan Professor of American Institutions and Values at Trinity College. He is the author of 1831: Year of Eclipse and Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series, and the editor of Reviews in American History. He brings to the project a broad grounding in the general currents of American intellectual and cultural history.

L. G. Moses
L. G. Moses received his doctorate from the University of New Mexico in 1977. He specializes in American Indian history, the history of the American West, and the history of American anthropology. In addition to numerous scholarly articles and chapters in anthologies, his books are The Indian Man: A Biography of James Mooney (1984; 2002), Indian Lives: Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Native American Leaders (1993), and Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933 (1996).

Jean O'Brien (Ojibwe)
Jean O'Brien is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota and holds adjunct status in the departments of American Indian Studies, American Studies, and the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies. O'Brien is the author of Dispossession of Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790. She is currently working on a book on nineteenth century New Englanders' representations of local and regional Indian history.

Loriene Roy (White Earth Anishinabe)
Loriene Roy is Professor in the School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin. She is Director and Founder of "If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything," a national reading club for Native Children and "Honoring Generations," a graduate scholarship program for indigenous students. ĘShe was elected President of the American Library Association for 2007-2008. She has published over 100 edited books, articles, chapters, and short stories. She serves on the advisory boards for the International Children's Digital Library, Webjunction, the Sequoyah Research Center, and Dia de los Ninos/Dia de los Libros. Roy received a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MLS from the University of Arizona.

Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche)
Paul Chaat Smith is associate curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Smith is coauthor of Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee and has written numerous essays on cultural politics. He is one of the principal curators responsible for the permanent history gallery at the NMAI, and with Truman Lowe organized an exhibition by performance and installation artist James Luna at the 2005 Venice Biennale.

Stephen Warren
Stephen Warren is an assistant professor of history at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. His first book is The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005). His research blends fieldwork among the Shawnees with archival research on colonial and nineteenth century history.

Robert Warrior (Osage)
Robert Warrior is a scholar whose work spans the fields of Native American history, literature, social movements, and expressive culture. His book Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (written with Paul Chaat Smith) chronicles the world of American Indian politics and protests during the 1960s and 1970s. His most recent book, The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction was published in 2006 by the University of Minnesota Press. Warrior has consulted with Children's Television Workshop, appeared in James Fortier's documentary on the Alcatraz occupation Alcatraz Is Not An Island, and has done on-screen and off-screen work for The History Channel.

Jace Weaver (Cherokee)
Jace Weaver is Director of the Institute for Native American Studies at the University of Georgia. His work is highly interdisciplinary, though focusing primarily on three areas: religious traditions, literature, and law. He is the author or editor of eight books, including That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community, Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture, and Turtle Goes to War: Of Military Commissions, the Constitution and American Indian Memory. He is currently completing a book on Native American literary criticism with Robert Warrior, Craig Womack, and Simon Ortiz.

N. Bird Runningwater (Cheyenne/Mescalero Apache)
N. Bird Runningwater serves as a creative consultant for We Shall Remain. He is the Associate Director, Native American and Indigenous Initiatives at the Sundance Institute and serves as a programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. Runningwater is on the board of directors of Native American Public Telecommunications, advises the First Peoples Fund's Community Spirit Arts Awards and serves on the National Editorial Board for YES! A Journal of Positive Futures. Before joining the Sundance Institute, Runningwater served as the Executive Director of the Fund of the Four Directions, a private philanthropy, and was chairman of the board for Native Americans in Philanthropy.

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