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About the Contributors Thomas J. Blumer is a Catawba Indian Christopher Arris Oakley is an Assistant historian and the author of numerous books Professor of History at East Carolina and articles, including, most recently, Catawba University, where he specializes in North Indian Nation: Treasures in History. Carolina Native American history. His first book, Keeping the Circle: American Indian Identity James Taylor Carson is Professor of in Eastern North Carolina, 1885–2004, presents an History and Associate Dean in the Faculty overview of the modern history and identity of of Arts and Science at Queen’s University, the Native peoples in twentieth-century North Kingston, Ontario. His most recent book is Carolina. Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South, and his essay here is his Katherine M. B. Osburn teaches Native r fi st step toward undertaking a reconsiderati Am on erican and environmental history at of the history of the Old South. Tennessee Technological University. Her first monograph, Southern Ute Women: Autonomy Andrew Denson is Assistant Professor of and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1885–1934, History at Western Carolina University and examined women’s responses to gendered the author of Demanding the Cherokee Nation: assimilationist policies. Her current book Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830–1900. analyzes the tribal rebirth of the Mississippi Choctaws. Rayna Green is Curator and Director of American Indian Life at the National Brett H. Riggs is an archaeologist with the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Research Laboratories of Archaeology at the Institution, where she curates exhibitions, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. produces films and recordings, researches, He helps direct the labs’ Catawba Project, a and writes on Native representations, women, long-term archaeological research program material culture, and American food and that explores the development of the Catawba wine. In the fall she taught a course on Native Nat ion, c. 00–80. food as the Lehman Brady Joint Professor of Documentary Studies and American Studies Lee Tiger is a member of the Miccosukee at Duke and UNC. Tribe of Florida and, with his late brother Stephen, one-half of the musical heart of Larry J. Griffin is the Reed Professor of “Tiger Tiger,” whose most recent album was Sociology at the University of North Carolina Native to This Country. He continues to make at Chapel Hill, where he also teaches in the music in Miami, Florida, and remains a strong History and American Studies departments. advocate for the Miccosukees. His teaching and research interests include collective memory, social identity, and the Patsy West began the Seminole/ intersection of race, rights, and region. He Miccosukee Photographic Archive in 92. and Harry Watson are the editors of Southern An ethnohistorian, historic preservationist, Cultures. teacher of Seminole history, and lecturer, she also has contributed to exhibitions and Lorene B. Harris is a librarian at the documentary films and authored three major University of South Carolina Lancaster, publications, numerous journal essays and which houses the papers of Catawba Indian magazine articles, and two hundred articles scholar Dr. Thomas J. Blumer. Her personal for an award-winning column in the Seminole collection of Catawba pottery includes pieces Tribe’s newspaper. She currently serves as by contemporary Catawba potter Keith Guest Curator for The Art of the Seminole and Brown, who was taught by his grandmother Miccosukee Indians at the Society of the Four Edith Harris Brown, one of the principal Arts, Palm Beach. g fi ures in her photo essay. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

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Thomas J. Blumer is a Catawba Indian Christopher Arris Oakley is an Assistant historian and the author of numerous books Professor of History at East Carolina and articles, including, most recently, Catawba University, where he specializes in North Indian Nation: Treasures in History. Carolina Native American history. His first book, Keeping the Circle: American Indian Identity James Taylor Carson is Professor of in Eastern North Carolina, 1885–2004, presents an History and Associate Dean in the Faculty overview of the modern history and identity of of Arts and Science at Queen’s University, the Native peoples in twentieth-century North Kingston, Ontario. His most recent book is Carolina. Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South, and his essay here is his Katherine M. B. Osburn teaches Native r fi st step toward undertaking a reconsiderati Am on erican and environmental history at of the history of the Old South. Tennessee Technological University. Her first monograph, Southern Ute Women: Autonomy Andrew Denson is Assistant Professor of and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1885–1934, History at Western Carolina University and examined women’s responses to gendered the author of Demanding the Cherokee Nation: assimilationist policies. Her current book Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830–1900. analyzes the tribal rebirth of the Mississippi Choctaws. Rayna Green is Curator and Director of American Indian Life at the National Brett H. Riggs is an archaeologist with the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Research Laboratories of Archaeology at the Institution, where she curates exhibitions, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. produces films and recordings, researches, He helps direct the labs’ Catawba Project, a and writes on Native representations, women, long-term archaeological research program material culture, and American food and that explores the development of the Catawba wine. In the fall she taught a course on Native Nat ion, c. 00–80. food as the Lehman Brady Joint Professor of Documentary Studies and American Studies Lee Tiger is a member of the Miccosukee at Duke and UNC. Tribe of Florida and, with his late brother Stephen, one-half of the musical heart of Larry J. Griffin is the Reed Professor of “Tiger Tiger,” whose most recent album was Sociology at the University of North Carolina Native to This Country. He continues to make at Chapel Hill, where he also teaches in the music in Miami, Florida, and remains a strong History and American Studies departments. advocate for the Miccosukees. His teaching and research interests include collective memory, social identity, and the Patsy West began the Seminole/ intersection of race, rights, and region. He Miccosukee Photographic Archive in 92. and Harry Watson are the editors of Southern An ethnohistorian, historic preservationist, Cultures. teacher of Seminole history, and lecturer, she also has contributed to exhibitions and Lorene B. Harris is a librarian at the documentary films and authored three major University of South Carolina Lancaster, publications, numerous journal essays and which houses the papers of Catawba Indian magazine articles, and two hundred articles scholar Dr. Thomas J. Blumer. Her personal for an award-winning column in the Seminole collection of Catawba pottery includes pieces Tribe’s newspaper. She currently serves as by contemporary Catawba potter Keith Guest Curator for The Art of the Seminole and Brown, who was taught by his grandmother Miccosukee Indians at the Society of the Four Edith Harris Brown, one of the principal Arts, Palm Beach. g fi ures in her photo essay.

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