Dr. Craig Howe, bio:

Craig Howe is director of the Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies, a nonprofit research center committed to advancing knowledge and understanding of American Indian communities and issues important to them. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, taught in the Graduate Studies Department at Oglala Lakota College, and served as deputy assistant director for cultural resources at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, and director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library in Chicago.  He co-edited This Stretch of the River, has developed innovative hypermedia tribal histories projects and creative museum exhibitions, lectured on American Indian topics across the U.S. and Canada, and provides professional development and cultural awareness training to schools and organizations. Howe was raised and lives on his family’s cattle ranch in the Lacreek District of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation where he is designing and building Wingsprings, an architecturally unique retreat and conference center. He is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.