About the Speaker:  Ines M. Talamantez has a Ph.D. in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature and has been faculty in the Religious Studies Department at UCSB since 1979. Her recent publications include: "In the Space Between the Earth and the Sky" in Native Religions and Cultures of North America: Anthropology of the Sacred; "Vine Deloria Jr., Critic and Coyote: Transforming Universal Conceptions"; and "The Presence of Isanaklesh. The Apache Female Deity and the Path of Pollen," updated and reprinted in Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives.

Donald Fixico, Ph.D.
Arizona State University

About the Speaker:  Donald L. Fixico is currently a Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. Prior to Arizona State University, he was the Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor of American Indian History, CLAS Scholar and founding Director of the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies at University of Kansas. In 2000 President Clinton appointed him to the Advisory Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work focuses on American Indians, oral history, and the U.S. West. Recent publications include: The Urban Indian Experience in America; The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge; Daily Life of Native Americans in the Twentieth Century; and Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts and Sovereignty, 3 volumes, ed,.  Presently, Professor Fixico is completing Osceola: Patriot and Warrior of the Seminoles for Pearson Longman Press in 2008.