Articles by Emilie

On March 15, 2011 it was my honor to be interviewed by Julie West of the Mountain Lion Foundation (MLF) which is based in Sacramento, California, as part of their “ON AIR” podcast series. The topic of my interview was “Native Americans and Mountain Lions.” MLF is a national nonprofit conservation and education organization dedicated to increasing understanding of, and protection for mountain lions (cougars) and their habitat. MLF is one of the oldest and most respected grassroots environmental activist groups in the nation. In 1990 they spearheaded a successful effort to pass the California Wildlife Protection Act – Proposition 117 – landmark legislation that permanently banned the sport hunting of cougars in California, restricted the depredation killing of cougars, and set aside $30 million dollars annually in state funding to acquire and protect critical habitat for all wildlife species. The passage of this law was necessitated by decades of state mismanagement of mountain lions, and reflected a true “grassroots” movement on the part of the citizens of California.

The audio and transcript of this interview can be accessed through the MLF main website – www.mountainlion.org. This interview is also permanently archived.

July 7-9, 2011

Dr. Tom Holm will deliver the Vine Deloria, Jr. Address at the Sixth Annual Vine Deloria, Jr. Indigenous Studies Symposium to be held at Northwest Indian College, July 7-9, 2011. Dr. Holm is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, and is also of Muskogee Creek descendent. He has been involved in American Indian education for over thirty-five years, active in Native American veteran’s affairs, and is a member of the Cherokee Nation’s Sequoyah Commission. Holm served with Bravo Company, 1^st Battalion, 3^rd Marines, 3^rd Marine Division in Vietnam from 1967-68. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma, and has been a professor of American Indian Studies and Political Science at the University of Arizona since 1980 until his retirement in 2009. Before that, Holm taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Over the years he has won several teaching and mentoring awards and has published more than fifty books, articles, book chapters, reviews, editorials, and review essays. In 1996, his book Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls was a finalist for the Victor Turner prize. His recent academic work, The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs, was released by the University of Texas Press in 2005. Warriors and Code Talkers: Native Americans in World War II, a book for high school-aged youths, was published in 2007. Holm’s first novel, The Osage Rose, appeared in 2008. He and his wife, Ina, have two sons, two daughters-in-law, and four grandchildren and live in Tucson, Arizona.

Tom Holm was a close personal friend and colleague of Vine Deloria, Jr. for many years.

Vine Deloria Jr Indigenous Studies Symposium – 2011 Registration Form

Vine Deloria Jr Indigenous Studies Symposium – 2011 Flyer

Vine Deloria Jr Indigenous Studies Symposium – 2011 Announcement