David Martinez (Akimel O’odham/Hia Ced O’odham/Mexican) is an associate professor of American Indian Studies and the author of Dakota Philosopher: Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009), editor of The American Indian Intellectual Tradition: An Anthology of Writings from 1772 to 1972 (Cornell University Press, 2011), and author of Life of the Indigenous Mind: Vine Deloria Jr and the Birth of the Red Power Movement (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). His publications appear in, among other venues, the American Indian Quarterly, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Studies in American Indian Literatures, and Journal of the Southwest. His areas of concentration are American Indian intellectual and political history, contemporary American Indian art and aesthetics, and O’odham culture and history. Currently, Martínez is putting in the final revisions for his fourth book, Crisis on the Verde River: Carlos Montezuma Finds His Yavapai Voice in the Stories and Lessons of His Community, which completed two successful rounds of peer review at the University of Arizona Press. In addition, Martínez is researching his fifth book, The Resilient History of the Hia Ced O’odham: O’odham Sovereignty During the American Era, 1850-2015.