Resistance in the Blood

Gerald Vizenor is Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico and Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published more than thirty books. Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance, Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, Native Storiers, Father Meme, Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence, Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57, Shrouds of White Earth, and Chair of Tears are his most recent books. Vizenor is a citizen of the White Earth Nation in Minnesota, and has received an American Book Award for Griever: An American Monkey King in China, the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award, and the Lifetime Literary Achievement Award from the Native Writer’s Circle of the Americas.