David Martinez

David Martinez(Akimel O’odham, Mexican) is an associate professor of American Indian Studies at Arizona State University. He is also 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). Currently, he is working on a project on Akimel O’odham environmental philosophy, titled When Elder Brother Sank Into the Earth: What the Story of the Huhugam Teaches About the Kinship Between Land, Spirit, and People.