Donald A. Grinde Jr.

Donald Andrew Grinde, Jr., a professor at the University at Buffalo, New York, is noted for his scholarship and writing on Native American issues. Along with his work in Native American studies he teaches multiple core classes. One of these being UGC 111 (World Civilization 1) here the class is taught as a team. The Teaching Assistants provide extra assistance and grade their students assignments and tests. Grinde also is responsible for this along with providing the lecture for the classes.

As far as performance for his lecturing skills go his track record is on the negative side. An anonymous student once said, "I don't understand how he got employed". On ratemyprofessor.com, a site were students review their professors, there are mainly negative reviews and the only positive trend is that Grinde provides answers to tests. Overall the opinion of his students remains sunstantially negative for the time being.

He served as a thesis adviser for Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, former Prime Minister of Somalia.

Publications

• Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy (Tokyo: Misuzu Shobo, 2006) translation, originally published in 1991
• A Political History of Native Americans (CQ Press, 2002) ISBN 978-1-56802-683-1, recognized as "Outstanding Academic Title" in 2003 by Choice Magazine
• with Bruce E. Johansen & Barbara Alice Mann, foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr., Debating Democracy: Native American Legacy of Freedom (Santa Fe: Clearlight Publishers, 1997) ISBN 978-0-94066-679-5
• with Bruce Johansen, The Encyclopedia Of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People, From Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller

paperback: (Da Capo Press, 1998) ISBN 978-0-30680-870-8

hardcover: (Henry Holt & Co., 1997) ISBN 978-0-80503-270-3

• with translations by Robert Griffin, Apocalypse de Chiokoyhikoy, Chef des Iroquois..., in French (Quebec City: Laval University Press, 1997) ISBN 978-2-76377-449-7
• with Bruce Johansen, foreword by Howard Zinn, Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples (Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishing, 1995) ISBN 0-94066-652-9
• with Duane Champagne, foreword by Dennis Banks, Native America: Portrait of the Peoples (Visible Ink Press, 1994)
• with Carole Gentry, The Unheard Voices: American Indian Responses to the Columbian Quincentenary (UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 1994) ISBN 978-0-935626-39-1
• with Oren Lyons, John Mohawk, et al., foreword by Peter Matthiessen, Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, the Iroquois Nation and the U.S. Constitution (Santa Fe: Clearlight Publishers, 1992) ISBN 0-94066-650-2
• with Bruce Johansen, foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr., Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of American Democracy (UCLA American Indian Studies, 1991)  in print and internet
• The Iroquois and the Founding of the American Nation (San Francisco: Indian Historian Press, 1977) ISBN 978-0-91343-629-5

External links

•  University of Buffalo faculty page:  Donald A. Grinde, Jr.