Robert Warrior (born 1963,

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), is a scholar and Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the

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. With

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, 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

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from 2016 to 2017.

Early life and education

Robert Allen Warrior was born in

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, in 1963. Warrior belongs to the Grayhorse District of the Osage Nation. He earned a bachelor's degree in speech communication from

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, a master's degree in religion from

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, and a doctoral degree in systematic theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Career

In 1999, Warrior taught at

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. Warrior previously taught at

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, the

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, and the

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. He has served as president of the

(ASA) and helped found the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).

Honors

In 2018, the

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inducted Warrior.

Publications

*''The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction'' (

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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'' (

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' Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 59(1-2), 1–8. * 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).

References

External links

*Publisher webpage fo
''Like a Hurricane''
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