Biography:
Jay Hansford C. Vest PhD. is an enrolled member of the federally recognized Monacan Indian Nation, a and he is a direct descendent of the seventeenth century Pamunkey chief Opechancanough who arrested Captain John Smith as a murder suspect during British Colonilization of Tsenacomoco (Powhatan Virginia) in 1607, and he is an honorary Pikuni (Blackfeet) in ceremonial adoption (June 1989). Dr. Vest is a full professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He is author of Will-of-the-Land: A Philosophy of Wilderness Praxis (2010), Native American Oralcy: Interpretations of Indigenous Thought (2014), Beyond the Ram’s Horn Tree: Studies in Salish Sacred Geography: Lolo Peak to Waterton-Glacer Park (foin press) and Packs-Pulled-Up Pass: Studies of Kootenai Sacred Geography: Waterton –Glacier Pass (in Press), and Thunder at the Backbone of the World: Waterton- Glacier Park – Badger Two Medicine Wildlands (forthcoming) and The Bobtail Stories: Growing Up Monacan (forthcoming), as well as more than two hundred fifty scholarly journal articles, chapters in books and other published writings.
Title : Breathing fire and sweating the rotgut An indigenous response to the great alcohol addiction among the blackfeet