Author Archives: Traci L. Morris

This is the final week of manuscript preparations on the Native American Voices textbook.  This week it is off to Prentice-Hall! It has been a lot of work and I am still knee deep in editing the art portion of the manuscript.  However, the hard copies of both the art manuscript and the entire manuscript,Continue reading “Prepping the Manuscript for Submission”

“But will Obama ever be able to do enough to satisfy us all?” This is a very interesting statement. Anyone have any thoughts about this?  Check out the Newsweek article The Audacity of Hoping; that’s where this quote is from [clearspring_widget title=”Widget” wid=”47ed6adf5dd4b967″ pid=”497ba3bf3938a878″ width=”400″ height=”300″ domain=”widgets.clearspring.com”]

So I am just wondering what Indian Country thinks of this statement at the inauguration: “…we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around … when yellow will be mellow … when the red man can get ahead, man;Continue reading ““The red man can get ahead man…””

Today I am working on writing an introductory section of the Native Voices Text. It is on Tribal Sovereignty and Nation Building.  I just taught a class on this subject in the fall, so it is fresh in my mind. But, there is so much to say, I am having difficulty putting it into layman’sContinue reading “Today’s Topic is Native Nation Building…”

I am overwhelmed with work right now. Since August, I have been working with Susan Lobo and Steve Talbot on the 3rd Edition of the popular Native American Studies textbook, Native American Voices: A Reader for Pearson/Prentice Hall.  I am honored to be a co-editor with these two well respected academics! We are down toContinue reading “Editor in Training…”