Jenny L. Davis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and an associate professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is the director of the American Indian Studies Program. Her previous book, Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance (University of Arizona Press, 2018) received the 2019 Beatrice Medicine Award from the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures.