Gregory H. Bigler (Euchee, enrolled with the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma) is a tribal judge and lawyer who exclusively represents Native American tribes. He devotes much of his time to the Polecat Euchee Ceremonial Grounds and has contributed to Euchee language revitalization efforts for three decades. Kristen A. Carpenter is Council Tree Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Boulder and a tribal judge. She is coauthor of Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law, Seventh Edition.
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"In Rabbit Decolonizes the Forest, Gregory H. Bigler connects the old and the new, the local and the global, to provide insights into the circumstances of the Euchee particularly and, by extension, of Native American peoples generally. Bigler joins a long line of distinguished and creative Indigenous writers who were, and are, committed to keeping the past alive in the present for the sake of the future."-Jason Baird Jackson, author of Yuchi Folklore: Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community "With Rabbit Decolonizes the Forest, readers take a seat on the stomp grounds' visitors bench and immerse themselves in the beauty of Euchee culture. Bigler's retelling of the communal stories he grew up with pulls us into the world of the misbehaving Shaw-jane, her bumbling Bear kin, the ever-present little people, wild onion dinners, and ribbon dancing, thus keeping the ancient Euchee ways alive. With each telling and reading, the stories decolonize an ancient people and those of us lucky enough to pick up this book."-Sandra Muse Isaacs, author of Eastern Cherokee Stories: A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance