Professor of English 30959 Frog Creek Road

University of South Dakota Vermillion, SD 57069

Vermillion, SD 57069 (605) 624-9279

(605) 677-5974 or 677-5229

Years at USD: 24 Academic Rank: Professor, granted, 1989

Education

Ph.D., English (American Literature), University of Oklahoma, 1978

M.A., English, Austin Peay State University, 1970

B.A., English, Tennessee Technological University, 1968

Professional Experience

Professor of English, University of South Dakota, 1978-Present

Instructor, Western Oklahoma State University, 1977-78

Graduate Associate, University of Oklahoma, 1971-77

Teacher, Montgomery Central High School, 1970-71

Graduate Assistant, Austin Peay State University, 1969-70

Teacher, Fort Campbell Middle School, 1968-69

Dissertation

The Spirit of Place in Contemporary American Indian Poetry. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms International, 1978.

Selected Publications

Books

The Nature of Native American Poetry. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

South Dakota Rainbow: An Anthology of Multicultural Literature . Pierre: South Dakota Education Association, 2000.

One-room Country School: South Dakota Stories. Co-edited with Charles L. Woodard. Brookings: South Dakota Humanities Foundation, 1999.

Essays

"Leslie Silko's Novels as Acts of Resistance." Phati'tude Literary Magazine , 1, 2

(Fall 2001): 119-21.

“Universities Should Accept Corporate Funding Only if No Strings are Attached.” NEA Advocate. August 2001:

“Elizabeth Cook Lynn” and “Anna Lee Walters.” The Columbia Companion to the 20th Century American Short Story, ed. Blanche Gelfant. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001: 211-15 and 549-54.

“(Karen) Louise Erdrich,” A Reader’s Companion to the Short Story in English.

Ed. Erin Fallon, R.C. Fedderson, Maurice A. Lee, , Susan Rochette-Crawley and Mary Rohrberger. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2000: 141-55.

"Elizabeth Cook-Lynn," "Joy Harjo," and "Lance Henson," Dictionary of Literary Biography, 175, Native American Writers of the United States,

Kenneth Roemer, ed., Detroit, Washington, D.C., London: Gale Research,

1997: 38-42, 112-18, 119-22.

"Lance Henson," "Carter Revard" and "Roberta Hill Whiteman" entries for

Encyclopedia of North American Indians, ed. Don Birchfield. NY: Marshall Cavendish, 1997: v. 5: 643-44, v. 8: 1134, v. 10: 1391-92.

"A Perspective on Work in Native American Short Fiction," Silver Anniversary Anthology, Thomas Gasque, ed. Brookings: SD Humanities Council, 1997: 63-71.

"Joy Harjo," "Linda Henderson Hogan," "Wendy Rose," and "Roberta Hill Whiteman," Handbook of Native American Literature. A. Wiget, ed.,

New York: Garland, 1996: 437-44, 449-52, 495-98 and 539-43.

"Nesting in the Ruins" in English Postcoloniality: Literatures from Around the World, ed. R. Mohanram and G. Rajan. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1996:

179-87.

"Ceremony: from Alienation to Reciprocity" in Teaching American Ethnic Literatures, ed. David Peck and John Maitino. Albuquerque:

University of New Mexico Press, 1996: 69-82.

"Joy Harjo," "Linda Henderson Hogan," "Wendy Rose," and "Roberta Hill Whiteman," Dictionary of Native American Literature, A. Wiget, ed.,

New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994: 437-43, 449-52, 495-98 and 539-43.

"Beyond False Boundaries," Studies in American Indian Literatures, 6, 1 (Spring 1994): 71-82.

"Heartbeat: Within the Visionary Tradition," Walt Whitman of Mickle Street, ed. Geoffrey Sill, Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1994: 224-35.

"A Report on the Costa Rican Women's Congress." People's Culture, 14-15 (1993): 2.

"Shirley Bordeaux," "Buffalo Bird Woman," "Agnes Picotte." In Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, ed Gretchen Bataille. New York: Garland, 1993.

"Wounded Knee in Literature." Bulletin. Vermillion: Institute of American Indian Studies, University of South Dakota (Winter 1990): 6-10.

"Leslie Marmon Silko" (headnote). The Heath Anthology of American

Literature, Vol. 2, ed. Paul Lauter, et al. Lexington: D. C. Heath, 1990:

2167-68.

"Leslie Marmon Silko" (teaching suggestions). Instructor's Guide for the Heath Anthology of American Literature, Ed. John Alberti. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1990.

"Leslie Marmon Silko" (article). Cyclopedia of World Authors II. Pasadena:

Salem Press, 1989: 1361-62.

"Discovering Our Natural Resources in Language and Place." In Approaches

to Teaching Momaday's "The Way to Rainy Mountain", ed Kenneth Roemer. New York: Modern Language Assoc., 1988: 85-88.

"Searching for the Body of America: The Life and Work of Meridel Le Sueur."

Englisch Amerikanische Studien (Jan. 1988): 121-28.

"Outlook for Survival," Denver Quarterly, 48, 4 (1980): 22-30.

Film script

South Dakota: A Meeting of Cultures, with Jerry Wilson, filmed by Cottonwood Productions, funded by South Dakota Library Assoc., 1985.

Reviews

Black Elk Lives: Conversations with the Black Elk Family. In South Dakota History, 32, 2 (Summer 2002): 170-71.

Winning the Dustbowl. Great Plains Quarterly, 22, 2 (Spring 2002): 129-30.

"Joy Harjo Brings Poetic Justice to South Dakota." In People's Culture. New Series # 38, 1997: 3.

Review of Ella Deloria's The Buffalo People. In South Dakota History (Fall/Winter 1995-96).

Review of Michael Castro's Interpreting the Indian. In American Indian Quarterly, 17, 2 (1993): 277-78.

Review of Lance Henson's another distance. In Studies in American Indian

Literatures, 5, 3 (1993): 108-9.

Review essay of Gerald Vizenor's Dead Voices and Louis Owens's Other Destinies.

In South Dakota History, 23, 3 (1993): 271-72.

Review of Andrea Lerner, ed., Dancing on the Rim of the World. In Wicazo

Sa Review, 7, 1 (1991): 64-65.

Review of Harper's Anthology of 20th Century American Indian Poetry. In

American Indian Quarterly, 14, 2 (1990: 211-13.

Poetry

Wild Iris. Norman: Point Riders Press, 1978.

"Lost in a Dream," "Splendid Woman," "Dakota Woman." In North Dakota

Quarterly, 48, 4 (1980): 22-30.

"Vermillion Spring," "this morning," "Monument in Boise City." In The Point

Riders Great Plains Poetry Anthology. Norman: Point Riders Press, 1982: 68, 76, 156.

"Woman and Seeds of Spring." In Horizons: The South Dakota Writer's

Anthology, ed . Nancy Iverson and Linda Hasselstrom. Hermosa: Lame Johnny Press, 1983: 191.

"The Seed and the Spirit" (a series of poems). In John Banasiak's Photographs

of Nicaragua. Vermillion, SD: University Art Galleries, University of South Dakota, 1988.

"Nebraska Voices." In Nebraska Territory (Spring 1991).

"Listening to Public Radio on the way to Vermillion." In The Longneck, 1, 1 (1993): 15.

"Shoulda Told Him." In The Longneck, 2 (1994): 36.

"Quarter Sections." On Common Ground Gazette. Mitchell: Oscar Howe Art Center, 1995. This poem has also been typeset and matted for hanging with the travelling exhibition in Rapid City, Dahl Fine Arts Center, Jan. 15-Mar. 13; Gettysburg, Sunset Museum, Mar. 16-Apr. 28; Brookings, May 1-30; Sioux Falls, Old Courthouse Museum, June 3-July 15; Aberdeen, Dacotah Prairie Museum, July 18-Aug. 27; Mitchell, Oscar Howe Art Center, Aug. 31-Sept. 29 and CORN PALACE, Agri-Cultural Art Exposition, Sept. 30, 1995.

"From the Wish Book." In The Longneck, 4 (1996): 21.

"Before the Rebellion," "Feliz Nuevo Ano," and "To Tuxtla." In Vermillion Literary Project (1996): 62, 72, 81.

"Emotional Sea." Demos (1996): 87.

"Ode to Hyakutake." The Canberra Times (August 2, 1997): C 10.

"Vision at the End of the Century" and "Whose origin we do not know." In The Longneck, 5 (1997): 23.

"The First of March," "Plume Tune," and "Cobwebs." Vermillion Literary Project (1999): 12, 24, 88.

“First Day of the New Year.” Vermillion Literary Project (2000): 90.

“Light Falling.” South Dakota Magazine. 17, 4 (November/December, 2001): 44.

“Ocean of Snow.” South Dakota Magazine. 17,5 (January/February, 2002): 75.

Publications pending

1. “Pele’s Pen: Native Hawaiian Poetry”

2. "Completing the Poem: The Social Vision of Tennessee Williams," accepted forpublication by the Tennessee Williams Literary Journal.

3. "Making the Medicine Wheel," accepted for publication in a reconciliation

anthology, ed. Charles Woodard.

5. "Teaching Contemporary Native Poetry in Context: The Flooding of Sacred Land" for a book on teaching Native literatures and languages, edited by Charles L. Woodard.

6. Essay on Native poetry for the Cambridge University Press Companion to Native American Literature, Ed. Kenneth Roemer.

7. Open letter to Carter Revard for Studies in American Indian Literature.

Honors and Recognition

1. Selected Representative of South Dakota Colleges and Universities for the

South Dakota Center for the Book Board of Advisors, 2002.

2. Awarded writing residency by Fundacion Valparaiso for July 3-30, 2002.

2. Among 35 higher education leaders invited by the National Education Association to the Current Issues Forum held in Washington, DC, May 31-June 2, 2001.

3. 2001 Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching, for Tenured faculty

4. My nominee, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, was one of 12 honorees who were presented National Humanities Medals, December 20, 2000, by President Clinton.

5. I was asked to be the American Indian Literature subject specialist for the Infography, an on-line publication of Fields of Knowledge, 171 Goose Green Rd., Vershire, VT 05079-9640. <http://www.Infography.com>

6. Professional Associate, 1999 NEH Institute: "Re-imagining Indigenous Cultures: The Pacific Islands," East-West Center, Honolulu, June 13-July 17.

7. My essay, "The Black Hills in Literature," presented at the Dakota History Conference in May 1996, won second place in the professional category of their annual competition. I was presented the award May 30, 1997 at a Dakota History Conference luncheon awards ceremony.

8. My American Literature student, Nancy Hanisch, won second place in a contest sponsored by D.C. Heath for her essay, "Appreciation by Radical Displacement," written for my American Literature survey course, English 342 and published in the Spring 1996 issue of the Heath Anthology of American Literature Newsletter.

9. My American Literature student, Tasha Miller, won second place in a contest sponsored by D.C. Heath for her essay, "A Comparison of Slave Narratives," written for my American Literature survey course, English 341 and published in the Spring 1995 issue of the Heath Anthology of American Literature Newsletter. She received a teaching assistantship and entered the M.A. program in English at Iowa State Univ., for fall 1996.

10. Appointed to membership on the South Dakota Humanities Council for a

three-year term, beginning July 1, 1992. Term extended an additional

three years. Elected SDHC Vice Chair in 1995.

11. Chair, South Dakota Humanities Council, July 1, 1997-June 30, 1999. I served as a Humanities Council member through June 2001.

12. Appointed to the National Public Relations Committee of the National

Education Association, 1989.

13. Featured in Not Behind Closed Doors: How Citizen Advocates Make Public

Policy, ed. Georgia Mattison and Sandra Storey. Jefferson and London:

McFarland, 1992.

14. Listed inWho's Who of International Writers.

15. Listed in Who's Who in the Midwest.

16. Listed in2000 Notable American Women. Raleigh: American Biographical Institute, 2000.

l7. Listed inInternational Who’s Who of Professional and Business Women, 8th Edition, 2000.

18. Listed in the Directory of American Scholars, 11th ed., Gale Group, 2003.

19. Member of the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association's

American Indian Literature Discussion Group, 1982-86.

Selected Professional Activities

1. Y Writers voice workshop and reading, Whittier Middle School and Sioux Falls Public Library, Thursday, January 16, 2002, sponsored by SD Arts Council.

2. “An Overview of Contemporary American Indian Literature” presented June 25, 2002, as part of “Gaining Perspectives Teachers’ Institute,” conducted by the Institute of American Indian Studies, University of South Dakota.

3. Conducted “South Dakota Rainbow Project” workshop as the final segment of “The Stories, the Science and the Spirit,” Discovery Center, Pierre, SD, June 13, 2002.

4. Presented “Pele’s Pen: Native Hawaiian Poetry” at the Native American

Literature Symposium, Mystic Lake Casino, Prior Lake, MN, April 13, 2002.

5. Presented a program on One-Room Country School: South Dakota Stories

at the Pierre Street Emporium, Pierre, SD, Sept. 22, 2001

6. Presented “Literary Responses to Spirit Mound” for the Pierre Area Chamber of Commerce’s Lewis and Clark History Forum, July 5, 2001 and for the Lake Co. Historical Society and Lincoln School in Madison, SD, October 9, 2001.

7. Presented a paper, “Native American Poets on Globalization and Sustainability ,” at the Third World Studies Conference, October 6, 2001, Omaha, NE.

8. Presentations at the Dakota Conference, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, May 24-25, 2001: “An Introduction to The Nature of Native American Poetry Emphasizing Politics and Values on the Northern Plains,” Chaired session on the South Dakota Rainbow Project, featured at the Autograph Party for Regional Authors.

9. Presented “The Mythic Continuum: The Poetry of Carter Revard,” at The Modern Language Association Conference, 2000, Washington, D.C.

10. “ Relationships between People and the Earth in the Literature of South Dakota and the Midwest,” Adams Homestead Festival, Adams Homestead and Nature Preserve, North Sioux City, Iowa, August 12, 2000.

11. The South Dakota Rainbow Project: Presented a four-hour sessions on multicultural literature of South Dakota for the South Dakota Education Association’s Current Trends Workshop, June 28, 2000 (Memorial Middle School, Sioux Falls, SD) and for the “Cultural Harmony Conference,” Memorial Middle School, Sioux Falls, October 14, 2000.

12. Presented “Pele’s Pen: Native Hawaiian Poetry” at the Third World Studies Conference, Omaha, NE, October 7, 2000. I presented this in April 2000 at the USD Humanities Research Forum.

13. Speaking tour of Europe, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark--May 17, 2000, Lecture: ”Recent Native American Poetry; Chemnitz Technical University, Chemnitz, Germany--May 22, 2000, Lecture: “What We Can Learn from Native American Literature; Oldenburg University, Oldenburg, Germany--Workshops: May 27, 2000, “Literature of the Native American Literary Renaissance;” June 3, 2000, “Native American Literature at the Turn of the Century; Peter Pazmany Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary--May 31, 2000, dialogue with American Studies faculty and students.

14. English Department Colloquium Lecture, “The Mythic Continuum: The Poetry of Carter Revard,” April 7, 2000, University of South Dakota.

15. Moderator for "Reading Around the World" workshop, National Federation of Humanities Councils, Washington, DC, November 20, 1998.

16. Attended Humanities Iowa Days in Sioux City, October 26, 1998 and wrote a report of the events for the South Dakota Humanities Council.

17. "The Radical Conscience in the Writing of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn" presented at the Third World Studies Conference, Omaha, NE, October 10, 1998.

18. "Spirit Mound, the Natives and Lewis and Clark" presented at the Dakota Conference on History Literature, Art, and Archaeology, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, May 29, 1998 and also to the Institute for the Spirit gathering at W.H. Over Museum, August 28, 1998.

Student Mentoring:

1. English 283 students Alfred Walking Bull, Sharon Wegner and Evie Dodd presented creative non-fiction at a session of Ideafest 2002 entitled “Creative Responses to William Least Heat Moon’s Blue Highways, April 19, 2002.

2. Travelled with and mentored students who presented at the Native American Literature Symposium, April 11-13, 2002. Mystic Lake Casino, Prior Lake, MN: Victor Singingeagle, Mary Blackbonnet, Natasha Bordeaux, Joel Waters, Patti DiMond and Keith Collett.

3. Faculty Sponsor of Vanessa Short Bull and Terry Huisman who presented essays at Ideafest 2001, April 6, 2001.

4. Advisor to students Kathleen Gleich and Elliot Harmon and from my Honors English 193 who presented a session on Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima for Ideafest April 14, 2000. Gleich and Harmon also presented their papers at the the National Undergraduate Research Conference at Missoula, Montana in April 2000.

5. Graduate student Candy Hamilton presented am essay written for my American Indian Literature class, “A Journey of the Spirit to Heal a People” on the Big Foot Memorial Ride at the Dakota Conference, May 25, 2000. Keith Collett presented a paper on African literature written for my Seminar in Multicultural Literature ant the Third World Studies conference, Omaha, October 2000.

6. Participant in “BRANCHES,” a program that has matched Prisca Ngondo, an international student at USD, with my family.

7. Wawokiya mentor to English major Joel Waters.

8. Supervised Molly Kuxhaus for the Tech Fellow Program, Fall 2002

Courses taught

English 193: Honors English

English 214: American Indian Literature

English 283: Creative Writing I

English 241: Survey of American Literature I

English 242: Survey of American Literature II

English 445/545: American Indian oral literature/ non-fiction

English 446/546: American Indian poetry/fiction/drama

English 448/548: Women Writers

English 495/595: Topics

English 496: Senior Seminar

English 497: Directed Research in English

English 797: Directed Research in English

English 734: Seminar in 20th Century Studies

English 793: Seminar in Special Topics

English 755: Seminar in Western Regional Literature

English 775: Seminar in Regional/Cultural Studies

English 801: Seminar in Multicultural Literature

Thesis/Examination Committees since 1991

1. Chaired committee of Janet Nordgren. Thesis and M.A. completed. 1991.

2. Committee of Dwight Markus. Thesis completed.

3. Chaired committee of Theresa Jackson. Thesis and M.A. completed 1992.

4. Committee of Leah Klarmann. M.S.S., May 1993.

5. Chair, committee of Josh Moehling, Honors thesis completed, May 1993.

6. Committee of Cara Wells, thesis completed, May 1993.

7. Committee of Cheryl Nelson. M.S.S., May 1993.

8. Chair, committee of Bonnie Franklin, Thesis and M.A. completed, May 1994.

9. Chair, committee of Sonja Saunders. Thesis and M.A. completed May 1996. Dean Kaufman nominated Ms. Saunders for the 1997 Distinguished Master's Thesis Award to be presented by the Midwestern Assoc. of Graduate Schools.

10. Committee of Marilyn Carlson Aronson. Thesis & M.Ed. completed May 1997.

11. Chair, committee of Eric Parry. Thesis and M.A. completed May 1996.

12. Chair, committee of Beth Wulf. Thesis completed August 1997.

13. Committee of Susan Martens. Thesis and M.A. in English completed December 1997.

14. Chair, committee of Julie Gross. MA in English completed May 1997.

15. Chair, committee of Tori Christie. M.A. in English completed May 1998.

16. Chair, committee of Sabine Lawless. M.A. in English completed May 1998.

18. Committee of Jay Killion, M.A. in English completed May 1998.

19. Committee of Theresa Hessey, M.A. in History completed May 1998

20. Chair, committee of Ann Placek Ryken. Thesis advisor, completed Dec. 1999.

21. Committee of Jolene Buehrer, Ph.D. in English, May 2001.

22. Committee of Rita Olson, Ph. D. in English.

23. Committee of Candy Hamilton, M.A. in English, July 2001.

24. Committee of Bradley James Schnabel, MA in History, July 2001

25. Committee of Tashia Tucker, Honors Thesis Completed, December 2001.

26. Committee of Angela M. Harrison, Honors Thesis

27. Committee chair for Patti DiMond

28. Committee chair for Cecilia Ragaini

Selected Service

1. President, USD Council of Higher Education, 1993-94 and 2000-2001; Newsletter writer and editor for USD COHE, 1996-97, current Secretary, USD COHE. Member, Institutional Management Committee.

2. Political Action Chair, Living River Group, Sierra Club.

3. College of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2002.

4. Co-chair, English Department, Americanist Search Committee, 2002-03

5. Presented “Literary Reflections on Spirit Mound” for the Lewis and Clark Teacher Institute, June 28, 2001, USD.

6. Moderator, Native American Writers Forum, “Stereotypes in Literature and their Impact on Native Children in the Classroom,” National Indian Education Association Conference, October 29, 2000, Sioux Falls Convention Center.

7. “Literary Responses to Spirit Mound,” Lewis and Clark Festival, W.H. Over Museum, August 25, 2000.

8. Featured speaker on South Dakota’s one-room country schools at Sioux Empire Fair, Sioux Falls, SD, Aug. 10, 2000

9. English Department Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1999-2000.

10. English Department Poet Selection Committee, 1999-2000.

11. Workshop with Charles Woodard, "The Gathering of Community Memories," Great Plains Conference, Rapid City, SD, October 1, 1999.

12. South Dakota Humanities Council Reading Series Scholar: I led discussion

of Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things in Scotland, SD, September 29, October 13 and November 11, 1998.

I received only travel reimbursement--no honorarium or perdiem.

13. Presented "Mount Rushmore and the Presidency," a dinner speech for people gathered for an evening with Juan Mestas, NEH Deputy Chairman at Mount Rushmore, September 18, 1998. I received no honorarium or perdiem.

14. "Visions of Place," Poetry Reading for the Women's Circle, United Church of Christ, April 16, 1998. I received no honorarium.

15. English Department's selection committee for the poet position in the Creative Writing program, 1997-98

Grants

1. IdEA Program grant ($500) to fund MariJo Moore, January 22, 2003.

2. IdEA Program grant ($500) to fund Janet McAdams, fall 2002.

3. Project director for SD Humanities Grant for presentation by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, November 13, 2002.

4. Project director for SD Humanities Grants for presentations by Lance Henson, Nov. 7, 2001 ($1,000) and Tiffany Midge, April 3, 2002 ($800). Acquired additional funding for Henson and Midge and for presentations by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Oct. 3, 2001) from Institute of American Indian Studies, College of Arts & Sciences, TRIO Programs and the IdEA project.

5. Project director for SD Humanities Grants for presentations by Allison Hedge Coke, February 26; Roberta Hill, March 14; and Carter Revard, April 4 and 6, 2001.

6. SD Humanities Council Grant for presentations by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, November 27, 2000 ($220 honorarium plus round trip auto transportation from Rapid City to Vermillion).

7. Coordinated Native Writers Series for Spring 2000 with Margaret Quintal to feature Lance Henson, Janet Campbell Hale and Allison Hedge Coke. Funding from English Department ($2,000), SD Humanities Council ($300) and Program Council ($1,000).

8. Grants from SD Humanities Council for presentations by authors Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, November 22, 1999 ($220 honorarium plus round trip auto transportation from Yankton to Vermillion). Funding for Jerome Kills Small to perform as Charles Eastman, Sept. 27, 1999 ($220).

9. Stipend in the amount of $3,250 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for my participation in the NEH Institute: Reimagining Indigenous Cultures: The Pacific Islands at the East-West Center, Honolulu, June 14-July 16, 1999.

10. A grant in the amount of $1,922.01 to provide me with a portion of one month's salary during the summer of 1998 for the purpose of compiling a book of multicultural literature from South Dakota and the surrounding area to be used in K-12 classrooms, through Office of Research from U.S. West.

11. Coordinated the visit of Robert J. Conley, March 30-31, 1998.

12. Coordinated the visit of Ray Young Bear, funded by TRIO Programs, the Native American Culture Center, and Institute of American Indian Studies at the University of South Dakota and the SD Humanities Council

10. Coordinated the visit of Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice, funded by the English Department and Bush Foundation, presentations April 20 and 21, 1997.

11. Coordinated a grant from the SD Arts Council to fund a Mixed-Blood Theatre production, "Dr. King's Dream"--Performances at USD, Mar. 20, 1997, Vermillion H.S., and Wakonda School, Jan. 28, 1997.

References

Professor Carter Revard, Department of English, Washington University,

St. Louis, MO. 63130

Professor Alan R. Velie, Department of English, University of South Dakota,

Vermillion, SD 57069.

Dr. Richard Stinshoff, Department of American Studies, Oldenburg University,

Oldenburg, Germany