Gerald Vizenor (Ojibwe) is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.  He is a citizen of the White Earth Nation in Minnesota, and has published more than forty books, novels, literary and cultural studies, and poetry.  Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity, a collection of essays, is his most recent publication.  Vizenor has received many awards including the American Book Award for Griever: An American Monkey King in China, the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award, and the Mark Twain Award from the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature.