Native Nations
The Survival of Indigenous Peoples, 4th Edition
About the Authors
Anvita Abbi earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University. She identified a new language family—the Great Andamanese—a moribund language that is key to understanding the peopling of Asia and Oceania. An author and editor of 24 books, she serves on the editorial board of several journals in India, America, and Europe. She is at present Adjunct Professor at the Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver and serves on the Expert Committee of the UNESCO World Atlas of Languages.
Judith Frost graduated from the University of Chicago and has a Master's degree in Urban Planning (MUP) from New York University. She has researched public policy regarding child development and is a board member of Literacy for Incarcerated Teens. Her work as a research analyst for the New York City government focused primarily on prevention of corruption in government programs. After retirement, she has worked as an editor, writer, tutor, and volunteer with the Kalahari People's Fund, including work with the ǂKhomani San in the South African Kalahari.
Jeffry Gayman is a Professor of Media and Communication at the School of Education at Hokkaido University. He earned his Ph.D. in educational anthropology at Kyushu University and is the author of “Ainu Puri: Content and Praxis of an Indigenous Philosophy of a Northern People” in Indigenous Philosophies of Education Around the World (2018a) and co-authored “Rethinking Japan’s Constitution from the Perspective of the Ainu and Ryūkyū Peoples” in The Asian-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (2018b), as well as numerous other publications.
Robert K. Hitchcock is currently a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He has a B.A. in Anthropology and History from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. He has worked mainly in Africa for the past five decades on human rights, indigenous peoples, refugees, and resettlement issues. He is the co-author of The Ju/' hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence: Development, Democracy, and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa (Biesele and Hitchcock 2011) and People Parks, and Power: The Ethics of Conservation-Related Resettlement (Sapignoli and Hitchcock 2023).
Douglas W. Hume is a Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Center for Applied Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University. He earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Connecticut and is the author of “Transmission of Swidden Farming Ritual Knowledge among Households in Eastern Madagascar” (2020), “Darkness in Academia: Cultural Models of How Anthropologists and Journalists Write about Controversy” (2016), “Malagasy Swidden Agriculture: The Influence of Conservation Organizations on Indigenous Knowledge” (2012), “Belief Systems and Stakeholders in Madagascar’s Swidden Farming” (2009a), “Vary Gasy: Meanings of Rice and Implications for Agricultural Development in Eastern Madagascar” (2009b), “Swidden Agriculture and Conservation in Eastern Madagascar: Stakeholder Perspectives and Cultural Belief Systems” (2006), as well as numerous other publications. He regularly leads an ethnographic field school in northern Belize and has published several articles and reports from research with his students (e.g., Murrell and Hume 2018; Hume et al. 2022).
Xabier Irujo (Basque born in exile) is a Professor of Genocide Studies and the Director of the William A. Douglass Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the Public University of the Navarre and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of the Basque Country and is the author of the books, Gernika, 1937: The Market Day Massacre and Gernika: Genealogy of a Lie (2019), as well as numerous other publications.
Stephen M. Lyon is a Professor of Anthropology and Head of Education Programmes and Development at The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations. He earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Kent at Canterbury and is the author of the book, Political Kinship in Pakistan: Descent, Marriage and Government Stability (2019), and numerous other publications.
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman is a Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Middle Eastern and African History, and Senior Research Fellow at the university’s Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in History of the Middle East at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Amazigh Politics in the Wake of the Arab Spring (2022), A Century of Arab Politics: From Arab Revolt to the Arab Spring (2016), The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States (2011), and The Crystallization of the Arab State System, 1945-1954 (1993), and editor or co-editor of 13 volumes dealing with modern Middle East and North African affairs.
Margaret Mutu (Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whātua) is a Professor of Maori Studies at the University of Auckland. She earned her Ph.D. in Maori studies and linguistics at the University of Auckland, and is the author of the books, Te Whānau Moana: Ngā kaupapa me ngā tikanga: Customs and Protocols (Matiu and Mutu 2003), The State of Maori Rights (2015), and Ngāti Kahu: Portrait of a Sovereign Nation (Muto et al., 2017), and numerous other publications.
Sharlotte Neely is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University. After being awarded the B.A. in anthropology from Georgia State University, she earned both her M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of the book, Snowbird Cherokees: People of Persistence (2021), as well as dozens of other publications. Snowbird Cherokees (1993) has been the inspiration for the award-winning film of the same name. Recently the 30th anniversary edition of Snowbird Cherokees (2021) was published with a new foreword written by Indigenous People from both the Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma Cherokees) and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (North Carolina Cherokees). One of the themes of her research is that it is not contradictory for Indigenous Peoples to be both traditional and adaptive.
‘Umi Perkins (Native Hawaiian/Kanaka Maoli) teaches Hawaiian history at the Kamehameha Schools, Kapalama and is a Lecturer at the Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and has written for The Nation, as well as having numerous other publications.
Maria Sapignoli is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan in Milan, Italy. She has done extensive work among San peoples in the Kalahari, especially in Botswana and Namibia. She has a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Bologna in Italy and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Essex University in England. She is the author of Hunting Justice: Displacement, Law, and Activism in the Kalahari (2019) and is a co-editor of Palaces of Hope: The Anthropology of Global Organizations (Niezen and Sapignoli 2017).
Dikka Storm was a Curator and Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Sciences at Tromsø Museum, she earned her cand. polit. in geography from University of Bergen. She is now retired, and still working as senior researcher at The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT Norwegian Arctic University. Her focus is on the studies of the Sámi “Markebygd”, settlement and population in the county of southern Troms, “Gressmyrskogen – en bygd på Senja. Bosetningsmønsteret i markebygdene 1700-1900” (2008). From this area she has published articles about the economic situation, demography, reindeer-herding, and the religious situation in connection to the Pietistic Mission during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Mark Q. Sutton is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Bakersfield, and now teaches at the University of San Diego. He earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Riverside, and is the author of more than 250 publications, including An Introduction to Native North America (2021).
Myrna Tonkinson received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Oregon. She was Research Coordinator at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra, and Research Officer to the Northern Territory Aboriginal Land Commissioner. She taught Anthropology at the University of Western Australia until her retirement in 2014.
Robert Tonkinson is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia, where he was professor 1984-2003. He previously taught Anthropology at the University of Oregon, Australian National University. He did fieldwork among Western Desert Aboriginal people over several decades, beginning in 1964. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia. His publications include The Mardu Aborigines: Living the Dream in Australia’s Desert (2002).
Yuan-Chao Tung has taught for over three decades in the Department of Anthropology at the National Taiwan University. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Southern Methodist University and is the editor of Sea of the Islands: Anthropological Studies of Oceania (in Chinese, 2009) and author of other publications.
Virginie Vaté is a tenured research fellow at the (French) National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), where she is a member of the Group “Societies, Religions, Secularisations” (GSRL, UMR 8582, CNRS-EPHE-PSL). She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology of the University of Paris Nanterre and recently was co-editor, with D. Oparin, of a special issue of the Canadian journal Etudes Inuit Studies (2021, vol. 45, nos. 1-2) devoted entirely to Indigenous people of Chukotka, entitled Chukotka: Understanding the Past, Contemporary Practices, and Perceptions of the Present (Oparin and Vaté 2021).
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