Robert A. Williams, Jr. is an Enrolled Member, Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Regents Professor, E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Chair of the University of Arizona Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, and co-author of Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law (7th ed. 2017). Professor Williams' book, The American in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest received an Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in 1990.
Peter d'Errico is Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies University of Massachusetts. He wrote: "I taught Legal Studies for more than thirty years at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. During the whole time, I represented and consulted with Native clients in state and federal litigation."
Peter d'Errico also has a related blog at which he posts "occasional reports and essays on Indigenous peoples’ legal issues and topics related to the US claim to own Native lands and have “plenary power” over Native peoples."
Valerie Lambert, Ph.D., is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation and Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs received the 2022 Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award.
David H. DeJong, Ph.D., is Director of the Pima-Maricopa Irrigation Project and author of multiple books.
Scott W. Anderson is Professor Emeritus of Geography at SUNY Cortland. Prof. Anderson was an expert witness in the Cayuga Land Claim trials (1999-2001). The book description states Prof. Anderson "developed new methodological tools for determining a better estimate of the value of this land."
Antonio T. Bly, Ph.D., is the Peter H. Shattuck Endowed Chair in Colonial American History at California State University, Sacramento.
Gregory Ablavsky, Ph.D., is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, Stanford Law School. He previously was a law clerk for the Native American Rights Fund in Washington, D.C. Professor Ablavsky's book, Federal Ground: Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories, received the Cromwell Article Prize and the Kathryn T. Preyer Prize from the American Society for Legal History.
Ned Blackhawk, Ph.D., is a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone of Nevada and is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American studies in Yale University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professor Blackhawk also is the co-founder of the NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project. Professor Blackhawk's book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, received the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction. On May 2, 2023, Professor Blackhawk discussed this book with Susan Gonzalez of Yale News. On April 25, 2023, Professor Blackhawk also discussed this book in the podcast: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History with director of Yale University Press, John Donatich.
Professor Blackhawk also wrote an award-winning history focusing on the Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone Indigenous Peoples of the Great Basin Region:
Elias Kelly is an agricultural specialist and Migrant Education Program Coordinator, Lower Yukon School District. In the Introduction (pp. 4-5) to the book below, Elias Kelly states: "I am also an Alaska Native Yup’ik Eskimo....My family lives in Alaska, which I call home. The Yukon River is part of that home. Here is a story of my side of the river."
Kyle T. Mays, Ph.D. is an Afro-Indigenous (Saginaw Chippewa) public speaker, writer and scholar and Associate Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning reporter, author, and citizen of Cherokee Nation.
Caroline Dodds Pennock, D.Phil., FRHistS, is Senior Lecturer in International History in the University of Sheffield's Department of History. In her academic profile, Dr. Dodds Pennock wrote: "I have just published a major trade book, On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe, telling the stories of the Indigenous Americans who ‘discovered’ Europe in the sixteenth century. The story of these Indigenous Americans abroad is a story of abduction, loss, cultural appropriation, and, as they saw it, of apocalypse - a story that has largely been absent from our collective imagination of the times."
David Treuer, Ph.D., is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota and a Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He also earned a Ph.D. in anthropology. Professor Treuer's book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award.
Note: BLS Library also provides a digital edition of:
Michael Witgen is a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and a professor in the Department of History and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. Professor Witgen's book, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America, was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in History.