Clare V. McKanna
Bud McKanna received a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1993. He has been teaching American Indian history at San Diego State University since 1985 and his research examines the treatment of Native American defendants within criminal justice systems in the West. He is the author of Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920 (1997), Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California (2002), The Trial of "Indian Joe": Race and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century West (2003), and White Justice in Arizona: Apache Homicide Cases, in Nineteenth Century Arizona (2005). He is currently finishing a book manuscript "The Court-Martial of Apache Kid" and will begin another this Fall entitled "Cibicu Mutiny: The Court-Martial of Apache Scouts Dead Shot, Dandy Jim, and Skippy."