Donald A. Grinde Jr.
Donald Andrew Grinde Jr., a professor at the University at Buffalo, is noted for his scholarship and writing on Native Americans in [the United States|Native American] issues.
Grinde was born in Savannah, Georgia, and has Yamasee heritage. He received his B.A. from Georgia Southern College, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. He taught at Mercyhurst College, Buffalo State College, UCLA, the University of Utah, University of California, Riverside, California Polytechnic State University, [San Luis Obispo], and the University of Vermont before moving to Buffalo in 2004 as chair of its American Studies Department, now part of the Transnational Studies Department for which he is now director of graduate studies. He has published widely on Native American topics, with a particular emphasis on study of the Iroquois Confederation. Grinde and Bruce E. Johansen became known for their works showing a connection from the Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois to the drafting of the United States Constitution.
He served as a thesis adviser for Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, current Prime Minister of Somalia.
Publications
- Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy translation, originally published in 1991
- A Political History of Native Americans , recognized as "Outstanding Academic Title" in 2003 by Choice Magazine
- with Bruce E. Johansen & Barbara Alice Mann, foreword by Vine Deloria Jr., Debating Democracy: Native American Legacy of Freedom
- with Bruce Johansen, The Encyclopedia Of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People, From Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller
- with translations by Robert Griffin, Apocalypse de Chiokoyhikoy, Chef des Iroquois..., in French
- with Bruce Johansen, foreword by Howard Zinn, Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples
- with Duane Champagne, foreword by Dennis Banks, Native America: Portrait of the Peoples
- with Carole Gentry, The Unheard Voices: American Indian Responses to the Columbian Quincentenary
- with Oren Lyons, John Mohawk, et al., foreword by Peter Matthiessen, Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, the Iroquois Nation and the U.S. Constitution
- with Bruce Johansen, foreword by Vine Deloria Jr., Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of American Democracy and
- ''The Iroquois and the Founding of the American Nation''