Robert Allen Warrior Explained

Robert Warrior (born 1963, Osage), is a scholar and Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kansas. 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.^[1] Warrior served as president of the American Studies Association from 2016 to 2017.^[2]

Early life and education

Robert Allen Warrior was born in Marion County, Kansas, in 1963.^[3] Warrior belongs to the Grayhorse District of the Osage Nation. He earned a bachelor's degree in speech communication from Pepperdine University, a master's degree in religion from Yale University, and a doctoral degree in systematic theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Career

In 1999, Warrior taught at Cornell University.^[3] Warrior previously taught at Stanford University, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Illinois.^[4] He has served as president of the American Studies Association (ASA) and helped found the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).^[5]

Honors

In 2018, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted Warrior.^[6]

Publications

• The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)^[4], part of the Indigenous Americas series
• with Paul Chaat Smith, Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (The New Press, 1996)^[4]
• Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (University of Minnesota Press, 1994)^[4]
• Canaanites, cowboys, and Indians 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).

External links

• Publisher webpage for Like a Hurricane 

Notes and References

1. Book: Pulitano . Elvira . Toward a Native American Critical Theory . registration . 2003 . Nebraska University Press . 9780803237377 . 60 . 1st .
2. Web site: 2016-2017 President Robert Warrior | ASA.
3. Robert Allen Warrior . Rahm-Barnett . Shay . New Plains Review . Fall 2011 . 12 . 1 . 68. 14 December 2018 . Edmond, OK. 9780983735700 .
4. Web site: Robert Warrior . Department of American Studies . 20 July 2016 . University of Kansas . 14 December 2018.
5. Web site: 2016-2017 President Robert Warrior . American Studies Association . 14 December 2018.
6. News: Duty . Shannon Shaw . Dr. Robert Warrior named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . 14 December 2018 . Osage News . 17 May 2018.