Hunter Gray [John R Salter Jr]'s Page

I'm an American Indian: Mi'kmaq / St. Francis Abenaki / St. Regis Mohawk. I grew up in the Navajo country of Northern Arizona and Western New Mexico.

Hunter Gray has written and published numerous articles and essays on social justice and related issues and has provided a number of oral histories. He is the author of a book: Jackson, Mississippi: An American Chronicle of Struggle and Schism, 1979 and 1987, and several extensive monographs. Over the years, he has received various honors for his social justice work and teaching. Among them is the 1989 annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for historical and contemporary social justice activities -- given by the North Dakota State King Commission and the Governor. In 2005, he was honored with the Elder Achievement Award from Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. He retired from the University of North Dakota as a full professor in 1994 and lives at Pocatello, Idaho with his wife of 48 years. His website is www.hunterbear.org

See Outlaw Trail: The Native as Organizer
http://hunterbear.org/outlaw_trail1.htm
[Published in the anthology Visions and Voices: Native American Activism and the Civil Rights Movement, 2009]