Nancy Mattina taught research and nonfiction writing at Prescott College until her retirement in 2016. She is the author of Uncommon Anthropologist: Gladys Reichard and Western Native American Culture.
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"Adee Dodge is an underrecognized Indigenous artist and intellectual in the scholarly record. During his lifetime he received high acclaim from Native art collectors, academics, curators, and aficionados, as well as other Navajo artists for his paintings. This book provides new insights into why much of Dodge's work went unpublished and why, despite his success as an artist, he was and largely continues to be marginalized from other modern Native painters in most scholarship on this subject."--Laura E. Smith, author of Horace Poolaw, Photographer of American Indian Modernity "Nancy Mattina has written an important biography of a largely unknown Native American artist and scholar who, despite his flaws and lack of recognition during his lifetime, sought to bring greater understanding of the relationship between Navajo culture and non-Native Americans. When considering Dodge's scholarly work, his attempts to share his Navajo culture with a non-Native audience, and his unique style of artwork, it's apparent that his story has been waiting to be told for some time."--Alan Petersen, curator of fine arts at the Museum of Northern Arizona