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Renya Katarine Ramirez (born 1959) is a Ho-Chunk American anthropologist, author, and Native feminist. She is a professor of anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. Ramirez has written 2 books on Native American culture.

Early life and education

Reyna K. Ramirez was born in 1959 to Woesha Cloud North and Robert Carver North. She has 3 sisters and a brother. She is the youngest granddaughter of prominent Native American leaders Elizabeth Bender Roe Cloud and Henry Roe Cloud. Ramirez is an enrolled member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. She completed a Ph.D. at Stanford Graduate School of Education in 1999. Her dissertation was titled, Healing through grief: Native Americans re-imagining, culture, community and citizenship in San Jose, California. Ramirez's doctoral advisor was Renato Rosaldo.

Career

Ramirez is a professor of anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a Native feminist scholar. Ramirez is the executive producer, co-producer, screenwriter, and co-director of the film, Standing in the Place of Fear: Legacy of Henry Roe Cloud.

Personal life

Ramirez is married to Gil and has a daughter and 2 sons.

Selected works

• Ramirez, Renya K. (2007). Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4030-0.
• Ramirez, Renya K. (2018). Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-4962-1268-9.

References

1. "VIAF".
2. ^ McNulty, Jennifer (December 13, 2018). "Author's grandparents stood up to 'colonial power' in early 1900s". Indianz. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
3. ^ Ramirez, Renya Katarine (1999). Healing through grief: Native Americans re-imagining, culture, community and citizenship in San Jose, California (Ph.D. thesis). Stanford University. OCLC 83290481.
4. ^ Grad, Rachel (March 21, 2018). "Professor Digs Into Family History To Tell Story Of Native American Activism". UC Santa Cruz Anthropology Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
5. Ramirez, Renya K. (2008). "Learning across Differences: Native and Ethnic Studies Feminisms". American Quarterly. 60 (2): 303–307. doi:10.1353/aq.0.0021. ISSN 0003-0678. JSTOR 40068539. S2CID 146619200.
6. Reviews of Native Hubs:
   • Buff, Rachel Ida (2009). "Review". Wíčazo Ša Review. 24 (2): 193–195. doi:10.1353/wic.0.0046. ISSN 1533-7901. S2CID 201764896.
   • Maxwell-Long, T. (2008). "Review". Choice Reviews. eISSN 1523-8253. ISSN 0009-4978.
   • Peters, Evelyn J. (2008). "Review". Progress in Human Geography. 32 (5): 729–731. doi:10.1177/03091325080320050606. ISSN 0309-1325. S2CID 144860350.
   • Nichols, Roger L. (March 2008). "Review". Journal of American Ethnic History. 27 (3): 123. doi:10.2307/27501846. eISSN 1936-4695. ISSN 0278-5927. JSTOR 27501846. S2CID 254490942.
7. Reviews of Standing Up to Colonial Power:
   • "Review". Publishers Weekly. 265 (43): 80. October 2018.
   • Osburn, Katherine M. B. (March 2020). "Review". Journal of American History. 106 (4): 1100–1101. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaz778. ISSN 0021-8723.

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