Winged Messenger Nations: Birds in American Indian Oral Tradition
The Team
John Glover
John Glover was born and raised in northwestern Montana where his father was an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation. John received his B.A. degree in political science and international relations from Concordia College and his doctor of jurisprudence from Willamette University College of Law. He is currently an Associate Professor in American Indian Studies at Black Hills State University.
Rob Campbell
Rob Campbell has a M.A. from Augustana College in History, an A.B. from Harvard University, also in History, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in History. Campbell came to Black Hills State University in 2005. His research interests include U.S. environmental history, historical geography, and the history of Britain and its empire. Much of his work has dealt with visual data analysis.
Eileen Dowd-Stukel
Eileen Dowd Stukel is a native of St. Louis, MO. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences in 1978 and her Master of Science degree from South Dakota State University in Wildlife Science in 1982. Stukel has worked for the South Dakota Game, Fish, & Parks as a Senior Wildlife Biologist in Wildlife Diversity for 26 years. She is a certified Wildlife Biologist by The Wildlife Society.
Erica Gajda
Erica Gajda is a Black Hills State University graduate and is now attending law school.
Garth Spellman
Professor Garth M. Spellman received a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2006. He began teaching at Black Hills State University in 2006 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Vertebrate Evolution. Two of Professor Spellman’s publications include Speciation in the White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis): a multilocus prospective, written with V.W Wlastrom and J Klicka in 2012, and Isolation Driven Divergence: speciation in a widespread North American Songbird (Aves: Certhiidae) with J. Manthey and J. Kilcka in 2011.
Justin Tibbits
Justin Tibbitts was born in Butte, Montana. He attended Hill City High School and then Black Hills State University. Tibbitts has attained a Bachelors degree in Environmental Biology and another B.S. in American Indian Studies.
Prairey Walkling
Prairey Walkling grew up on the Sicangu Lakota/Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. In 2004, she received her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology with a minor in American Indian Studies from Black Hills State University. After this, she worked in child protection in rural Nebraska and then served two years in AmeriCorps near the New Mexico/Mexico border. In 2013, she received her Master of Arts in Curriculum & Instruction from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Annie Woodle
Annie Woodle has a B.S. of Mass Communication from Black Hills State University and an M.S. in Instructional Design & Technology from Full Sail University. She is currently appointed as an adjunct instructor in the Mass Communication Department at Black Hills State University. Woodle teaches
courses in media issues & journalism. She has used her technical expertise to collaborate with many BHSU faculty members on a variety of media and research projects, including oral histories, video production, and social media.
