Robert Warrior, Ph.D. (Osage), is Director of American Indian Studies and Professor of American Indian Studies, History, and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. He is the author or co-author of four books: American Indian Literary Nationalism (with Craig Womack and Jace Weaver); The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction; Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (with Paul Chaat Smith); and, Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions. His scholarly essays and articles have appeared in Wicazo Sa Review, Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, American Quarterly, Genre, and many others, while his journalistic work has appeared in a broad array of publications, including News from Indian Country, Lakota Times, Village Voice, C&C, The Progressive, and UTNE Reader. Warrior was formerly the Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma. Along with lecturing widely in the US and Europe, Warrior was a delegate to the 1990 hemispheric Encuentro of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas in Ecuador and has participated in scholarly conferences in Guatemala, Mexico, and in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario in Canada.