Author and photographer Michael Katakis has been writing about and photographing a wide range of cultures and geographic locations for more than fifteen years. His first book, The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, is a two-year photographic essay of the impact that the memorial makes on its visitors. In 1993 Katakis edited the book Sacred Trusts: Essays on Stewardship and Responsibility. Examples of his photographic work are included in the book 75 Years of Leica Photography. In 1997 the Wright Museum of Art at Beloit College presented an exhibition of Mr. Katakis's West African photography in connection with Dr. Kris Hardin's text, "Three Voices: Images and Reflections from a West African Town." He now resides in Montana and has just completed his first collection of fiction, Dangerous Men.

Robert Preucel is associate curator in the American Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been particularly interested in indigenous issues and archaeological method and theory for more than fifteen years. In 1996, with Dr. Ian Hodder he edited Contemporary Archaeology in Theory. His area specialty is the American Southwest and his dissertation entitled "Seasonal Circulation and Dual Residence in the Pueblo Southwest: A prehistoric Example from the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico" was selected for publication in The Evolutioin of North American Indians. Presently, Dr. Preucel is collaborating with the Pueblo of Cochiti (New Mixico) on a research project focusing on their ancestral village (Kotyiti).

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Sitting Crow, Blackfoot Sioux
William Henry Jackson, 1870s (#256)

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Gerald Vizenor teaches Native American literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of six novels and many other books, including The People Names the Chippewa, a narrative history; Manifest Manners, a collection of essays; and Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors. His second novel, Griever: An American Monkey King in China, won the Fiction Collective Prize and the American Book Award. Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence, and Hotline Healers: An Almost Browne Novel, are his most recent books.