Devon A. Mihesuah, an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor in the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas. Her most recent book is "Dance of the Returned." A historian by training, Mihesuah is former editor of the American Indian Quarterly and the author or editor of over a dozen award-winning books on Indigenous history and current issues, as well as novels, including "The Hatak Witches," "Ned Christie," "Choctaw Crime and Punishment," "Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness" and "Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health."
Awards: National Endowment for the Humanities, Ford Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, American Educational Studies Association, American Historical Association, Arizona Humanities Council, Flagstaff Live!, Newberry Library, Phi Alpha Theta, Smithsonian Institution, Westerners International, Wordcrafters’ Circle of Native Writers, Oklahoma Book Awards, Gourmand International Food and Wine, Society for Economic Botany, Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, Arizona Writers’ Association, Critics’ Choice, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, Oklahoma Historical Society
Communities: Indigenous or Native American
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