Red Hoop Talk EP 16: TOM HOLM, Cherokee Nation, Veteran and Retired Professor
Tom Holm is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation from Oklahoma. Tom Holm holds the title of Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. He was a member of the Cherokee Nation’s Sequoyah Commission. Tom served with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines in Vietnam. Tom served on two Native American commissions for the Department of Veterans Affairs in the 1980s. In 1996, his book Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls was a finalist for the Victor Turner prize. His book The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs, was released by the University of Texas Press in 2005. Warriors and Code Talkers: Native Americans in World War II, a book for high school-aged youths, was published in 2007. Tom published his first novel, The Osage Rose, in 2008. Anadarko, its sequel, was released in 2015. Tom edited, with Steve Pavlik and M. Elise Marubbio, Native Apparitions, a collection of essays on Native Americans in film released in 2018. For more information on Tom Holm and his literature please visit the following links.
https://ais.arizona.edu/users/tom-holm
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/native-apparitions
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