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1989 – 1991: Donald A. Grinde

Professor Donald A. Grinde, Jr. is a Yamasee Indian. He is a longstanding member of the American Indian Movement. Professor Grinde has published over ten books and fifty articles since the early 1970s. He has received publication commissions from the U.S. Congress and served on an advisory board of 8 historians to plan the 200th anniversary of the Library of Congress. He has also given published testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs. Professor Grinde specializes in Iroquois history and the history of Native American Thought. He is married to Kari J. Winter, Associate Professor of English, University of Vermont and has three sons, Drew, Kee, and Zane.

Selected Publications

1977 The Iroquois and the Founding of the American Nation. San Francisco: Indian Historian Press.
1991 Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy (with Bruce E. Johansen). Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles.
1994 Unheard Voices: American Indian Responses to the Columbian Quincentenary, 1492-1992 (with Carole Gentry). Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles.
1995 Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples (with Bruce E. Johansen). Santa Fe: Clear Light.
1997 The Encyclopedia of Native Indian Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People from Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller (with Bruce E. Johansen). New York: Henry Holt and Co.
1998 Learning to Navigate in a Christian World in Native American Religious Identity: Unforgotten Gods, pp. 124-133. Maryknoll: Orbis Books

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