Daniel R. Wildcat, Ph.D., a Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, is the co-founder and Director of a groundbrealing Native American research non-profit, the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center, and is also the Director of the American Indian Studies Program at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, where he has taught for 25 years. A leading Native American environmentalist, his recent activities have included helping form the American Indian and Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group and co-organizing several major events on climate change and Indigenous people. He is the author, co-author or editor of several books, including: Power and Place: Indian Education In America (with Vine Deloria, Jr); and most recently, Red Alert: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge, which suggests indigenous ingenuity (“indigenuity”) will be required to solve our ecological crises. haskell.edu
