Building on the Past for the Future

David Chang is Associate Professor of History and American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. His second book, The World and All the Things Upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration (May 2016 University of Minnesota Press), traces how Kanaka Maoli (indigenous Hawaiian people) in the nineteenth century explored the outside world, generated their own understandings of it, and placed themselves strategically in the discursive constructions of global geography they created.

Brenda Child is Associate Professor of American Studies and American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is author of Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community,Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940, and Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000.

Jean O’Brien is Professor of History and American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. In 2015, she was named McKnight Distinguished University Professor, and in 2014 received the Western History Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in American Indian History. She is author of Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England as well as Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650–1790.