Lomayumtewa C. Ishii
Born
Lomayumtewa Curtis Ishii

1959/60
NationalityHopi[1]
Other names"Loma"[1]
CitizenshipUnited States
Occupation(s)Professor; academic
Known forBooks on Native American history and sociology[2]
TitleDoctor
Board member offormer Chair of the Applied Indigenous Studies Department at Northern Arizona University[2]
Academic background
Alma materNorthern Arizona University
Thesis"Voices from our ancestors: Hopi resistance to scientific historicide" (2001)
Academic work
DisciplineApplied Indigenous Studies
Sub-disciplineNative American Anthropology and Sociology; Contemporary Native American issues in the United States
InstitutionsUniversity of Iowa
University of Tübingen, Germany
Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis
Smithsonian Institution
Diné College
Temple University Japan
Northern Arizona University[2]
InfluencedIrena Šumi[3]

Lomayumtewa C. "Loma" Ishii is a Hopi associate professor and researcher, working in the Applied Indigenous Studies department at Northern Arizona University.[1]

Early life

He is from a small Hopi settlement in the mesas of Northern Arizona, in Navajo County, called Sichomovi.[2] He attended high school in Irving, Texas, at Irving High School, graduating in 1978.[4] While at college, Ishii pledged Phi Alpha Theta in 1994.[5]

Career

During his PhD studies, Ishii was awarded the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.[6] After obtaining his PhD from Northern Arizona University in 2001,[2] Ishii began working and researching at several institutions, including the Smithsonian, before returning to his alma mater.[2] He then took a postdoctoral fellowship position in Native Studies at the University of Iowa in 2002; at the fellowship culmination he returned to Northern Arizona University as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2003/4.[6] He began a tenure track in 2004,[6] and in 2006 presented work at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu for the university;[7] he earned tenure there in 2010.[6][8] However, he is still a popular speaker and researcher with a variety of institutions. In 2017 he was the keynote speaker at the 39th American Indian Workshop held in Ghent, in Belgium,[2] after having presented at the 30th AIW in 2009.[9]

Native issues in modern society

One element of Ishii's research is study of the continuing social effects of colonization and modernization of Native Americans,[2] something he also speaks about on public platforms. Interviewed for the Tucson Sentinel in 2010, Ishii explained that there are still "cultural and linguistic barriers" for Native people trying to communicate the importance of their religious places to others, suggesting that the meaning of natural sites is hard to explain in Western legal terms.[10] He also spoke to the Albuquerque Journal about polemic elections in the Hopi tribe, explaining that they need leaders who can handle maintaining their tribal identity as well as easing the people into modernization.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Dr. Loma Ishii". Native American Science Curriculum. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Keynote Speaker – Dr. Lomayumtewa C. Ishii". Arrows of Time. 2017-07-25. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  3. ↑ Šumi, Irena; Wilson, Thomas M.; Donnan, Hastings (2005). "Natives, newcomers and others: Metalepsis of belonging in the borderland of Val Canale, Italy" in Culture and Power at the Edges of the State: National Support and Subversion in European Border Regions. Münster: LIT Verlag. p. 124. ISBN 9783825875695.
  4. ↑ "Irving High School Class of 78". Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  5. ↑ "Phi Alpha Theta Initiates". The Historian. 57 (1): 209–244. 1994. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.1994.tb01342.x. JSTOR 24449244.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Sakiestewa Gilbert, Matthew (18 May 2010). "Tenure and promotion awarded to Hopi historian". Beyond the Mesas. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  7. ↑ "Welcome to the Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities" (PDF). Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  8. ↑ "NAU Faculty Awards 2010". Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  9. ↑ "30TH AMERICAN INDIAN WORKSHOP Transgressing Borders – Defining Boundaries Identity, Emotion, and Politics in Indian Country" (PDF). Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  10. ↑ Johnson, Jennifer A. "Apache leaders: Spirits, acorns make land proposed for copper mine sacred". Tucson Sentinel. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  11. ↑ Fonseca, Felicia. "Two Vie To Lead Hopi Tribe that Is in Political Turmoil". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
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