Cynthia Leanne Landrum

I am an Independent scholar who teaches United States History and American Indian History at Clark College. I hold a PhD in American Indian History from Oklahoma State University, an MA in American Indian History from the University of South Dakota, and a BA in English Literature from the University of Delaware. In the past, I have taught in the Indigenous Nation's Studies Program/History Department at Portland State University. Prior to my career in academia, I worked as Assistant Curator for the Textile Department at the Baltimore Museum of Art and as a Museum/Conservation Technician in Collections Management and Conservation at the National Museum of American History, the National Postal Museum, and at the National Museum of Natural History in the Smithsonian Institution complex. My other academic publications are as follows: Chapter "Stewards of the Sacred: the Spiritual Landscape of American Indian Education" in "The Clean Place: Honoring Indigenous Spiritual Roots of Turtle Island" by Michael Hankard (JCharlton Publishing, Ltd), Foreword "The Chesapeake Bay Tribal Chiefdoms" in "Steps:The History of Port Deposit, Maryland" by Barbara J. Bolgiano (Apprentice House Press/Loyola University), Book "The Valley of the Kings: Rehabilitation of the People of the Columbia River and Pacific Rim Through Ceremonialism" (JCharlton Publishing, Ltd), Chapter "Always a People: Chief Turkey Tayac and the Resurrection of the Piscataway People" in "Exploring Indigenous Social Justice (JCharlton Publishing, Ltd), Chapter "The Dann Sisters: Defenders of the Western Shoshone Homeland" in "Our Cause Will Ultimately Triumph: Profiles in American Indian Sovereignty (Carolina Academic Press), Article "Kicking Bear, John Trudell, and Anthony Kiedis (Of the Red Hot Chili Peppers): 'Show Indians' and Pop-Cultural Colonialism" in American Indian Quarterly Volume 36, Number 2, and Chapter "Shape shifters, Ghosts, and Residual Power: An Examination of Northern Plains Spiritual Beliefs, Location, Objects, and Spiritual Colonialism", in "Phantom Pasts, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History" (University of Nebraska Press).