Joe Starita

Joe Starita is an American author and journalist known for books on Native American history and figures, including *I Am a Man: Chief Standing Bear’s Journey for Justice* and *Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor*. He spent 13 years at the *Miami Herald* before joining the University of Nebraska journalism faculty in 2000, and his 1995 book *The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge* was translated into six languages and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.