Craig Howe is director of the Center
for American Indian Research and Native Studies, a nonprofit research center
committed to advancing knowledge and understanding of American Indian
communities and issues important to them. He earned a Ph.D. from the University
of Michigan, and taught at Oglala Lakota College, Washington University in St.
Louis, Grinnell College, the University of Michigan, and the University of
Saskatchewan. Howe served as deputy assistant director for cultural resources
at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, DC, and director of the D’Arcy McNickle
Center for American Indian History at the Newberry Library in Chicago. In
addition to his dissertation titled Architectural Tribalism in the
Native American New World,
he co-edited This
Stretch of the River,
and authored articles and book chapters on numerous topics, including tribal
histories, Native studies, museum exhibitions, and community collaborations. He
has developed innovative hypermedia tribal histories projects and creative
museum exhibitions, lectured on American Indian topics across the U.S. and
Canada, and provides professional development and cultural awareness training
to schools and organizations. Howe was raised and lives on his family’s cattle ranch
in the Lacreek District of the Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation where he is designing and building Wingsprings,
an architecturally unique retreat and conference center. He is an enrolled member
of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.