Anthropologist and activist : Staying the course: action and reflection in the career of Robert K. Thomas/Samuel Stanley -- Robert K. Thomas and the monteith theory/Albert L. Wahrhaftig -- Old man coyote: the anthropologist as trickster, buffoon, wise man/Murray L. Wax -- Bob Thomas as colleague/Vine Deloria, Jr. -- Contributions to Cherokee studies : Politics came first: a reflection on Robert K. Thomas and Cherokee history/Tom Holm -- Individuals and relatives/Robert D. Cooter -- Looking back to Tahlequah: Robert K. Thomas' role among the Oklahoma Cherokee, 1963-1967/Albert L. Wahrhaftig -- Bringing home the fire: Bob Thomas and Cherokee studies/Raymond D. Fogelson -- Riding behind with a pillow strapped on/Kenneth Fink -- Tribalism and identity : the "ideal tribe" and "mass society" in tribal communications research/Richard M. Wheelock -- The Lumbee tribe and its quest for federal recognition: Lumbee Centurions on the trail of many years/David E. Wilkins -- What is Lumbee Indian culture? Does it exist?/Ben Chavis -- The role of christianity and church in contemporary Navajo society/Steve Pavlik -- Attending to the sacred: a christian learns from a nighthawk/Terrence R. Anderson -- Impacts of the study of American Indian spirituality: opening up to the holy/Thomas J. Hoffman -- A legend in his own time: some initial reflections on the work of Robert K. Thomas/John A. (Ian) MacKenzie -- Dr. Robert K. Thomas: a Cherokee war chief in modern times/Carol Nadjiwon -- In memoriam to Robert K. Thomas and pan-Indianism/M.A. Jaimes Guerrero -- American Indians and colonialism : Colonialism as a theme in American indigenous writing/Jack D. Forbes -- From experience to theory, from theory to experience: Robert K. Thomas and the tradition of Book VII of Plato's Republic/Otto Feinstein -- Military conquest of colonial Arizona territory/Henry F. Dobyns -- Remembering Bob Thomas: his influence on the American Indian liberation struggle/Ward Churchill.
Robert K. Thomas and Chinua Achebe: an indigenous perspective of the impact of colonialism on tribal society/Phyllis Deery Stanton -- Other paths traveled : Memories of Robert K. Thomas/Strwart K. Etsitty -- Our friend, Mr. Thomas/Joe R. Cancio -- Experience as narrative, culture, and person/Rolland H. (Bud) Wright -- Another aspect of an old friend: Robert K. Thomas as hillbilly/Jim Griffith -- So long as/Ernest L. Schusky -- We'll have feathers in our hats, but we won't be no Indians/Andrew Dreadfulwater -- The ride home/Earnie Frost -- Robert K. Thomas: a bibliography/Stan Thomas -- Roads not taken (for Robert K. Thomas)/Dick Pope.
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