Native American Authors

Devon Mihesuah
, 1957-

Choctaw

Mihesuah is a Professor of History at Northern Arizona University and an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. She received her PhD in 1989 from Texas Christian University. She is the editor of American Indian Quarterly, and the author of numerous articles and books.

Awards and Honors

1989 Phi Alpha Theta and Westerners International Award for Best Dissertation in Western History
1992 NAU Outstanding Faculty Woman of the Year Award
1993 NAU President’s Award for Outstanding Faculty
1994 Native American Students United Award for Outstanding Faculty
1995 Critics’ Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association for Cultivating the Rosebuds
1996 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

Online resources by or about Devon Mihesuah:

Devon A. Mihesuah home page
Author: Devon A. Mihesuah
Type: authorbio
Description: Contains Mihesuah’s vita and information on her publications and university courses.

URL: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~mihesuah/

Books by Devon Mihesuah:

Mihesuah, Devon. American Indians : stereotypes and realities
Atlanta, GA : Clarity, 1996.
Genre: Nonfiction
ISBN: 0932863221

Mihesuah, Devon. Cultivating the rosebuds : the education of women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Genre: Nonfiction
ISBN: 0252019539

Mihesuah, Devon. Natives and academics : researching and writing about American Indians
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
Genre: Nonfiction
ISBN: 0803282435

Mihesuah, Devon. The roads of my relations
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2000.
Genre: Short Stories
ISBN: 0816520402

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