Jack Norton

Jack Norton

Contributing Author

Chapter 7: The Past is Our Future: Thoughts on Identity, Tradition and Change

Jack Norton (Hupa/Cherokee) is Emeritus Professor of Native American Studies at Humboldt State University. He is Hupa/Cherokee descent and an enrolled member of the Yurok Nation. He was the first California Indian appointed to the Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian History at the University of California, Riverside and author of Genocide of Northwestern California and Centering in Two Worlds.

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