To Be Indian

Joy Porter is Principal Investigator of the Treatied Spaces Research Group (treatiedspaces.com) and Professor of Indigenous and Environmental History at the University of Hull, United Kingdom. William N. Fenton (1908-2005) was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at New York State University and the author of The Great Law and the Longhouse and The False Faces of the Iroquois. Odie Brant Porter (Seneca Nation) has served as the Seneca Nation's fiscal controller and as budget director of the University of Kansas. She represents Allegany Territory on the Seneca Nation Council.

Throughout Porter's biography, the larger theme of Parker's life stands out: his struggle to shape an authentic and successful Indian identity despite obstacles within and without. Porter's gracefully written study adds to a growing literature on both twentieth-century American Indian history and Indian identity and its biographical format makes it particularly engaging reading." - The Journal of American History "Students of cultural mediation, race relations, and intellectual history, particularly as these relate to American Indian history, will want to read this book." - -Ethnohistory "An important contribution to American Indian history, to cross-cultural studies and to the history of education." - American Studies in Scandinavia "As a biography of Arthur Parker's life, To Be Indian offers a storehouse of information" - Studies in American Indian Literatures "This biography gives us in-depth information on Parker" - Journal of American Ethnic History