The University of Arizona Press

Debra K. S. Barker (Rosebud Sioux / Sicangu Lakota Nation) serves as director of the American Indian Studies Program and is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. She teaches and researches past and contemporary Lakota writing, Indigenous literary aesthetics, decolonial studies, and the representation of American Indians in Euramerican culture. Her publications include articles on the American Indian boarding school, Lakota life writings, and the literary production of Louise Erdrich.