Devon A. Mihesuah

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Devon A. Mihesuah (born 2 June 1957) is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation, a historian and writer, and a previous editor of the American Indian Quarterly. She is the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor in the Humanities Program at the University of Kansas. She is the second Native woman to receive a named/distinguished professorship (the first is Henrietta Mann). Her lineage is well-documented in multiple tribal records. Mihesuah has written award-winning books and articles about colonization, boarding schools, stereotypes, research methodologies, Indigenous women, AIM, repatriation, racism, violence against Natives, “fake news,” slander and libel against Natives, in addition to a series of award-winning novels.

Awards:

Daniel F. Austin Award Presented by the Society for Economic Botany
Gourmand International’s World Cookbook Awards: Best Book Award for Arctic, University Press and Heritage Categories, 2020
High Country News’s “This Season’s Best Reads,” November 11, 2019
Literary Hub’s Best of University Press Books, 2019
EcoWatch’s Best Environmental Books of August 2019 for Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the U.S.: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health
Oklahoma Writer’s Federation Trophy Award for Best Non-Fiction Book
Finalist, Oklahoma Book Award
Best of the Rest Law and Order History-True West Magazine, for Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero
Trophy Award for the Best Fiction Book of 2011 presented by the Oklahoma Writers’ Federation for Document of Expectations
Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History Award presented by the Oklahoma Historical Society for Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884-1907
Trophy Award for the Best Non-Fiction Book of 2009 presented by the Oklahoma Writers’ Federation for Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884-1907
Finalist, Oklahoma Book Award for Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884-1907
Special Award of the Jury of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, for Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness
Finalist for Best in the World Cookbook
Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers’ Best Research Book of the Year
Finalist, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
Arizona Writer’s Association Best Non-Fiction Book Honorable Mention for So You Want to Write About American Indians? A Guide for Scholars, Students and Writers
Finalist Oklahoma Book Awards, Grand Canyon Rescue
Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Trophy Award for Best Non-Fiction Book, American Indigenous Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism
Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Trophy Award for Young Adult Novel Award for Lost and Found
Arizona Writers’ Association Best Book of the Year, for Grand Canyon Rescue
Wordcrafters’ Circle of Native Writers
Journal Editor of the Year Award for the American Indian Quarterly, 2001
Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Trophy Award for Best Fiction Book for The Roads of My Relations
Critics’ Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association for Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing About American Indians
Critics’ Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association, for Cultivating the Rosebuds Mihesuah is also the recipient of awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, American Educational Studies Association, American Historical Association, Arizona Humanities Council, Flagstaff Live! Ford Foundation, KU Crystal Eagle American Indian Leadership Award, National Endowment for the Humanities, Newberry Library, Phi Alpha Theta, Smithsonian Institution, Westerners International, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers. At NAU she received the Native American Students United Award for Outstanding Faculty, President’s Award for Outstanding Faculty, and Outstanding Faculty Woman of the Year Award.

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According to Wikipedia, Devon Abbott Mihesuah is a Choctaw historian and writer. She is a former editor of American Indian Quarterly and an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation. She is the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor in the Humanities Program at the University of Kansas. She is the second Native woman to receive a named/distinguished professorship . Her lineage is well-documented in multiple tribal records. Her great, great, great grandfather signed the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. His son, Charles Wilson, served as sheriff and treasurer of Sugar Loaf County in Moshulatubbee District of the Choctaw Nation. His murder in 1884 is documented in Choctaw Crime and Punishment and Roads of my Relations. Her great-grandfather, Thomas Abbott, created the blueprints for the town of McAlester, Oklahoma and his son, Thomas, served as Chief of Police. They are chronicled in "'Gentleman' Tom Abbott: Middleweight Champion of the Southwest," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 68 : 426–437.

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Devon A. Mihesuah's Published Works

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Published Works

Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians. (1999) (251)
Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities (2005) (173)
Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism (2003) (157)
AMERICAN INDIANS: Stereotypes & Realities (1996) (76)
American Indian Identities: Issues of Individual Choices and Development (1998) (61)
Tribal Colleges: Shaping the Future of Native America (1992) (56)
Suggested Guidelines for Institutions with Scholars Who Conduct Research on American Indians (1993) (54)
Indigenizing the Academy (2017) (46)
American Indians, Anthropologists, Pothunters, and Repatriation: Ethical, Religious, and Political Differences (1996) (45)
Commonalty of Difference: American Indian Women and History (1996) (39)
Decolonizing Our Diets By Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens (2004) (33)
So You Want to Write About American Indians?: A Guide for Writers, Students, and Scholars (2005) (31)
Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909 (1994) (27)
Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness (2005) (20)
Indigenous Scholars versus the Status Quo (2003) (15)
A Few Cautions at the Millennium on the Merging of Feminist Studies with American Indian Women's Studies (2000) (12)
Too Dark to Be Angels: The Class System among the Cherokees at the Female Seminary (1991) (12)
Activism and Apathy: The Prices We Pay for Both (2004) (11)
Indigenous Health Initiatives, Frybread, and the Marketing of Nontraditional “Traditional” American Indian Foods (2017) (10)
VOICES, INTERPRETATIONS, AND THE 'NEW INDIAN HISTORY': COMMENT ON THE AMERICAN INDIAN QUARTERLY'S SPECIAL ISSUE ON WRITING ABOUT AMERICAN INDIANS (1996) (9)
A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities (2004) (8)
Introduction: Native Student, Faculty, and Staff Experiences in the Ivory Tower (2004) (7)
Basic Empowering Strategies for the Classroom (2004) (7)
"Indigenizing the Academy": Keynote Talk at the Sixth Annual American Indian Studies Consortium Conference, Arizona State University, February 10-11, 2005 (2006) (7)
So You Want to Write About American Indians (2005) (6)
Sustenance and Health among the Five Tribes in Indian Territory, Postremoval to Statehood (2015) (6)
Searching for Haknip Achukma (Good Health): Challenges to Food Sovereignty Initiatives in Oklahoma (2017) (5)
Out of the "Graves of the Polluted Debauches": The Boys of the Cherokee Male Seminary. (1991) (4)
Finding Empowerment through Writing and Reading, or Why Am I Doing This?: An Unpopular Writer's Comments about the State of American Indian Literary Criticism (2005) (4)
Diabetes in Indian Territory: Revisiting Kelly M. West's Theory of 1940 (2016) (2)
Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens (2020) (2)
Becoming Insane: The Death of Arch Wolfe at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (2022) (1)
Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero (2018) (1)
THE BOYS OF THE CHEROKEE MlALE SEMINARY (2016) (0)
The Hatak Witches (2021) (0)
LaDonna Harris: A Comanche Life (2001) (0)
The Story of Ned Christie: Untruths and Their Consequences [Video] (2018) (0)
The Roads of My Relations (0)
Daughters of the Desk (1994) (0)
Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884–1907 (2009) (0)
Document of Expectations (2011) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry, Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City (2019) (0)
Dance of the Returned (2022) (0)
Chapter 12 overcoming hegemony in native studies programs (2006) (0)
Book Reviews (1982) (0)
Structures of Indifference: An Indigenous Life and Death in a Canadian City by Mary Jane Logan McCallum and Adele Perry (review) (2019) (0)
Choosing America's Heroes and Villains: Lessons Learned from the Execution of Silon Lewis (2005) (0)

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