Devon Mihesuah
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Devon Abbott Mihesuah (born 2 June 1957) is a Choctaw historian and writer, and a previous editor of the American Indian Quarterly.

Mihesuah's non-fiction work concentrates on stereotypes and misrepresentations of Native American peoples, customs and beliefs in academic writing. She is often associated with radical scholars such as Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Craig Womack and Waziyatawin Angela Wilson in an indigenous decolonization movement within Native American Studies.

Bibliography

Fiction

• Big Bend Luck: A Tuli Black Wolf Adventure (forthcoming, 2008)
• The Lightning Shrikes
• Grand Canyon Rescue: A Tuli Black Wolf Adventure
• Roads of My Relations

Nonfiction

• Choctaw Crime and Punishment: Intersections of Resistance, Politics and Justice, 1884-1907 (forthcoming, 2009)
• Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909
• So You Want to Write About American Indians? A Guide for Scholars, Writers and Students
• ed. First to Fight: The Story of Henry Mihesuah
• Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness
• ed. Repatriation Reader: Who Owns Indian Remains?
• ed. Natives and Academics: Research and Writing About American Indians
• American Indigenous Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism
• American Indians: Stereotypes and Realities
• ed. Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities

Awards

Special Award of the Jury of the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, for Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness; Finalist for Best in the World Cookbook.

Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers' Best Research Book of the Year; Finalist, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights; and Arizona Writer’s Association Best Non-Fiction Book Honorable Mention for So You Want to Write About American Indians? A Guide for Scholars, Students and Writers

Finalist Oklahoma Book Awards, Grand Canyon Rescue

Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Trophy Award for Best Non-Fiction Book, American Indigenous Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism

Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Trophy Award for Young Adult Novel Award for Lost and Found.

Arizona Writers’ Association Best Book of the Year, for Grand Canyon Rescue.

Wordcrafters’ Circle of Native Writers’ Journal Editor of the Year Award for the American Indian Quarterly, 2001

Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Trophy Award for Best Fiction Book for The Roads of My Relations

Critics' Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association for Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing About American Indians.

Critics' Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association, for Cultivating the Rosebuds.

See also

• List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
• Native American Studies

External links

• Mihesuah's homepage at Kansas University

• Mihesuah's American Indian Health website