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Power and Place: Indian Education in America (with Vine Deloria Jr.) and
Red Alert!: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge, which is a Native response to the environmental crisis and marked the beginning of Wildcat’s leadership in the climate change crisis. A Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, Wildcat talked about his first experiences teaching at Haskell and being able to develop a Western civilization class that was comparative, with an Indigenous counterpoint to the European tradition. “I think that it really made no sense to separate our cultures, who we were as Indigenous people from that part of the Earth that gave us our identity, our ceremonies, our languages, our dwellings, our food, our housing,” he explains. “Culture, I always saw as related with a particular place on the planet.”