• Chairperson, appointed to North Dakota State Advisory Committee on Civil Rights by the United States Commission on Civil Rights

• Secretary and Member, Board of Trustees, Sakakawea Chapter, Girls Scouts of America

• Board Member, Northern Plains Ballet

On Servant Leadership . . .
 
“To serve others, to be of some use to family, community, nation or the world is one of the main purposes for which human beings have been created…True happiness comes only to those who dedicate their lives to the service of others.” (The Sacred Tree)

Education

    Ph.D. Teaching and Learning
        University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
    M.A. English
        St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
    Honors B.A. English
        Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA

Professional Memberships

• Modern Language Association
• Oral History Association
• National Indian Education Association
• American Studies Association

Selected Publications

• Co-editor and contributor, American Indian Biographies (Salem Press)
• Editor, American Indian History (Salem Press)
• “One Bull: ‘A Man of Good Understanding’” (North Dakota History: A Journal of the Northern Plains)
• “’March of Civilization’: Standing Rock and the Sioux Act of 1889” (Centennial West)

Selected Presentations

• “Into the Light of Christian Civilization”: St. Elizabeth’s Boarding School for Indian Children, 1886-1968. Larry Remele Fellow, North Dakota Humanities Council.
• Black Elk Speaks: Literature and Spirituality. National Endowment for the Humanities.
• Medicine, Culture, and Family: Implications for Health Care Providers. North Dakota Nursing Conference.
• “Lakota Picttography of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Plains Indian Seminar, Cody, WY.
• Wild West Indians. Native American Studies Conference, Lake Superior University, Sault Ste. Marie, MI
• Standing Rock and the Sioux Act of 1889. Northern Tier States Symposium, Montana State Historical Society.

Select Media

• Healing Nations. Gryphon Productions, Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Red Horse: Lakota Account of the Custer Battle. Prairie Public Television, Fargo, ND.
• Paha Sapa: Seven Generations of Betrayal. Baseline Productions for Home Box Office, Santa Fe, NM.
• The Killing of Sitting Bull. Prairie Public Television, Fargo, ND
• Bittersweet Memories: The Indian Boarding School Experience. Kit Kat Productions, Bismarck, ND.

Undergraduate Courses Taught

• Introduction to American Indian Studies
• Civil Rights in America
• Contemporary American Indian Societies
• Plains Indian Culture
• Indians in American History
• American Indian Literature
• American Indian Religion
• Crime Literature

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