Robert Warrior (born 1963, Osage), is a scholar and Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the
University of Kansas
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. With Paul Chaat Smith, he co-authored ''Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee''. He is generally recognized, along with Craig Womack, as being one of the founders of American Indian literary nationalism. Warrior served as president of the
American Studies Association
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from 2016 to 2017.
Early life and education
Robert Allen Warrior was born in Marion County, Kansas, in 1963. Warrior belongs to the Grayhorse District of the Osage Nation.
He earned a bachelor's degree in speech communication from
Pepperdine University
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, a master's degree in religion from
Yale University
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Cornell University
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University of Oklahoma
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, and the
University of Illinois
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. He has served as president of the
American Studies Association
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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inducted Warrior.
Publications
*''The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction'' (
University of Minnesota Press
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, 2006) , part of the ''Indigenous Americas'' series
*with Paul Chaat Smith, ''Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee'' (
The New Press
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* co-author of ''American Indian Literary Nationalism'' (University of New Mexico Press, 2008)
* co-author of ''Reasoning Together: the Native Critics Collective'' (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009).