A member of the Mescalero Apache tribe, Inés M. Talamantez
is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A graduate of Dartmouth
College, Professor Talamantez is the author of Teaching Religion and Healing
and has contributed articles to Native Religions and Cultures of North America: Anthropology
of the Sacred and Unspoken Worlds: Women's Religious Lives. Film interviews with Professor Talamantez on American Indian spirituality and advice for American Indian youth are a featured part of the documentary film and DVD on the Crow Shoshone Sun Dance entitled, Native Spirit: The Sun Dance Way.
A selection of these video clips can be viewed by visiting World Wisdom's
American Indian Resources
page.
She is the past president of the Indigenous Studies Group at the American Academy
of Religion and is one of the most well known American Indian scholars. She has
pioneered the creation of a PhD program in religious studies with an emphasis in
Native American Religious Traditions at UCSB, awarding PhDs to twenty-six Native
American scholars.
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