CONTRIBUTOR:

David E. Wilkins

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

McKnight Presidential Professor

DEPARTMENT:

American Indian Studies

INSTITUTION:

University of Minnesota

BIOGRAPHY:

David E. Wilkins is a citizen of the Lumbee Nation and holds the McKnight Presidential Professorship in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He has adjunct appointments in Political Science, Law, and American Studies. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill in December, 1990. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Hollow Justice: Indigenous Claims Against the U.S. (2013); The Navajo Political Experience, 4th ed. (2013); The Hank Adams Reader (2011), The Legal Universe (with Vine Deloria, Jr., 2011), and Documents of Native American Political Development: 1533 to 1933 (2009). His articles have appeared in a range of social science, law, history, and ethnic studies journals.