Donald Andrew Grinde Jr., a professor at the

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, is noted for his scholarship and writing on Native American issues. Grinde was born in Savannah, Georgia, and has

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heritage. He received his B.A. from Georgia Southern College (1966), and received his M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1974) from the

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. He taught at Mercyhurst College,

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, the

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, and the

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before moving to Buffalo in 2004 as chair of its American Studies Department, now part of the Transnational Studies Department for which he is now director of graduate studies. He has published widely on Native American topics, with a particular emphasis on study of the Iroquois Confederation (Haudenosaunee). Grinde and Bruce E. Johansen became known for their works showing a connection from the

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of the Iroquois to the drafting of the

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. Vine Deloria Jr., "Comfortable Fictions and the Struggle for Turf", in He served as a thesis adviser for

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, current

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Publications

* ''Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy'' (Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 2006) translation, originally published in 1991 * ''A Political History of Native Americans'' (

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, 2002) , recognized as "Outstanding Academic Title" in 2003 by Choice Magazine * with Bruce E. Johansen & Barbara Alice Mann, foreword by Vine Deloria Jr., ''Debating Democracy: Native American Legacy of Freedom'' (Santa Fe: Clearlight Publishers, 1997) * with Bruce Johansen, ''The Encyclopedia Of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People, From Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller'' :paperback: (Da Capo Press, 1998) :hardcover: ( Henry Holt & Co., 1997) * with translations by Robert Griffin, ''Apocalypse de Chiokoyhikoy, Chef des Iroquois...'', in French (Quebec City: Laval University Press, 1997) * with Bruce Johansen, foreword by

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, ''Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples'' (Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishing, 1995) * with Duane Champagne, foreword by

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, ''Native America: Portrait of the Peoples'' (

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, 1994) * with Carole Gentry, ''The Unheard Voices: American Indian Responses to the Columbian Quincentenary'' (UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 1994) * with Oren Lyons, John Mohawk, et al., foreword by

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, ''Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, the Iroquois Nation and the U.S. Constitution'' (Santa Fe: Clearlight Publishers, 1992) * with Bruce Johansen, foreword by Vine Deloria Jr., ''Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of American Democracy'' (UCLA American Indian Studies, 1991)
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* ''The Iroquois and the Founding of the American Nation'' (San Francisco: Indian Historian Press, 1977)

References

External links

University of Buffalo faculty page
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