Table of Contents
Foreword: Dear Bob
Tom Hoffman
Introduction
Steve Pavlik
ANTHROPOLOGIST AND ACTIVIST
Staying the Course: Action and Reflection in the Career
of Robert K. Thomas
Samuel Stanley
Robert K. Thomas and the Monteith Theory
Albert L. Wahrhaftig
Old Man Coyote: The Anthropologist as Trickster, Buffoon,
Wise Man
Murray L. Wax
Bob Thomas as Colleague
Vine Deloria Jr.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHEROKEE STUDIES
Politics Came First: A Reflection on Robert K. Thomas
and Cherokee History
Tom Holm
Individuals and Relatives
Robert D. Cooter
Looking Back to Tahlequah: Robert K. Thomas' Role among
the Oklahoma Cherokee, 1963-1967
Albert L. Wahrhaftig
Bringing Home the Fire: Bob Thomas and Cherokee Studies
Raymond D. Fogelson
Riding Behind with a Pillow Strapped On
Kenneth Fink
TRIBALISM AND IDENTITY
The "Ideal Tribe" and "Mass Society"
in Tribal Communications Research
Richard M. Wheelock
The Lumbee Tribe and Its Quest for Federal Recognition:
Lumbee Centurions on the Trail of Many Tears
David E. Wilkins
What Is Lumbee Culture? Does It Exist?
Ben Chavis
The Role of Christianity and Church in Contemporary
Navajo Society
Steve Pavlik
Attending to the Sacred: A Christian Learns from a Nighthawk
Terrence R. Anderson
Impacts of the Study of American Indian Spirituality:
Opening Up to the Holy
Thomas J. Hoffman
A Legend in His Own Time: Some Initial Reflections on
the Work of Robert K. Thomas
John A. (Ian) MacKenzie
Dr. Robert K. Thomas: A Cherokee War Chief in Modern
Times
Carol Nadjiwon
In Memoriam to Robert K. Thomas and Pan-Indianism
M. A. Jaimes Guerrero
AMERICAN INDIANS AND COLONIALISM
Colonialism as a Theme in American Indigenous Writing
Jack D. Forbes
From Experience to Theory, From Theory to Experience:
Robert K. Thomas and the Tradition of Book VII of Plato's
Republic
Otto Feinstein
Military Conquest of Colonial Arizona Territory
Henry F. Dobyns
Remembering Bob Thomas: His Influence on the American
Indian Liberation Struggle
Ward Churchill
Robert K. Thomas and Chinua Achebe: An Indigenous Perspective
on the Impact of Colonialism on Tribal Society
Phyllis Deery Stanton
OTHER PATHS TRAVELED
Memories of Robert K. Thomas
Stewart K. Etsitty
Our Friend, Mr. Thomas
Joe R. Cancio
Experience as Narrative, Culture, and Person
Rolland H. (Bud) Wright
Another Aspect of an Old Friend: Robert K. Thomas as
Hillbilly
Jim Griffith
So Long As
Ernest L. Schusky
We'll Have Feathers in Our Hats, But We Won't Be No Indians
Andrew Dreadfulwater
The Ride Home
Earnie Frost
Robert K. Thomas: A Bibliography
Stan Thomas
Roads Not Taken (For Robert K. Thomas)
Dick Pope
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