Huping Ling (; born 1956) is a professor of history, the founder of the Asian studies program, and the past department chair at Truman State University.
 She is the Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor by the Chinese Ministry of Education at Wuhan Theoretical Research Center of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council and China Central Normal University, and a Visiting Professor of the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies at Jinan University.
 She is the inaugural book series editor "Asian American Studies Today" for Rutgers University Press and served as the Executive Editor for the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS 2008-2012).
 She also serves as a consultant to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Guangdong Provincial Government and on the Board of Directors of Women Writers Association in Shanxi Province of the Chinese National Writers Association.
 A Ford Foundation Prize-winning author, she has published eleven books and over hundred articles on Asian American studies, including immigration and ethnicity, assimilation and adaptation, transnationalism, family and marriage, employment patterns, and community structures.
Claudio Lomnitz is the Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.
 Prior to teaching at Columbia, Lomnitz was a Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Committee on Historical Studies at the New School University.
 He served at different points in time as co-director of the University of Chicago's Mexican Studies Program (with Friedrich Katz), Director of the University of Chicago's Latin American Studies Program, and Director of Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.
 He has also taught at University of Chicago, where he was Professor of History, New York University, El Colegio de México, and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, in Mexico City.
 At the New School University, Lomnitz was appointed editor of the academic journal Public Culture, which moved with him to Columbia University in 2006.
 He continued to serve as editor until 2011.
Betty Louise Bell was born on November 23, 1949.
 She is a scholar and fiction writer of Cherokee ancestry.
 Bell is a former director of the Native American Studies Program and former assistant professor of American culture, English, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.
 Her areas of scholarly interest include Native American literature, Women's Studies, nineteenth-century American literature, and creative writing.
 She earned her PhD in 1985 from Ohio State University.
 Her first novel "Faces in the Moon" was published in 1994 and received favorable reviews.
 In addition, Bell has published critical articles on Native American Literature that emphasize the political and personal aspects of Native American identity.
Bonnie Combes HeavyRunner (died November 24, 1997) founded the Native American Studies program at the University of Montana.
 She was the director of the Native American Studies department and pioneered the creation of The Payne Family Native American Center on the University of Montana campus.
 She was a member of the Blackfeet Nation and worked to create a support system for Native American students on the University of Montana campus until her death of ovarian cancer on November 24, 1997.
Mary Ting Yi Lui (born 1967) is Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University and Head of Yale's Timothy Dwight College.
 She is Yale's first tenured professor specializing in Asian American Studies and the first Asian American female to serve as Head of a Yale residential college.
 A former Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for Yale University's American Studies program, she is also affiliated with Yale's Ethnicity, Race, and Migration program and its Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.
 Lui is the author of "The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City," a co-winner of the 2007 Best Book Prize for History from the Association for Asian American Studies.
The Wíčazo Ša Review ("Red Pencil" in Lakota) is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal of Native American studies.
 The journal was established in 1985 by editors-in-chief Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Roger Buffalohead, and William Willard.
 "Wíčazo Ša Review" is published by the University of Minnesota Press, which acquired it in 1999.
 Originally it was published at Eastern Washington University, under the guidance of its Native American Studies center.
 Issues include essays, articles, interviews, reviews, poems, short stories, course outlines, curriculum designs, scholarly research and literary criticism reflective of Native American studies and related fields.
 The current editor is James Riding In (Arizona State University).
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water is the debut novel of author Michael Dorris, published in 1987.
 It tells the story of three generations of Native American women: Rayona, who is half African-American, her mother Christine, and Christine's mother Aunt Ida.
 The story is told in three distinct sections, one for each woman.
 Throughout the book, themes of family, identity, and heritage are highlighted and examined.
Jon Butler (born June 4, 1940) is a historian and Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University.
 He earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota, and is known for his research on the role of religion in early American history.
 At Yale, he served as chair of the American Studies Program from 1988 to 1993, the director of the Division of the Humanities from 1997 to 1999, and chair of the Department of History from 1999 to 2004.
 He was dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 2004 to 2010, and also served as interim University Librarian.
Tiya Alicia Miles is an American historian.
 She is a professor at the University of Michigan in the Program in American Culture, Center for Afro-American and African Studies, Department of History, and Native American Studies Program.
 Her research includes African American and Native American interrelated and comparative histories (especially 19th century); Black, Native, and U.S. women's histories; and African American and Native American women's literature.
 She has been a MacArthur Fellow.
Michael Anthony Dorris (January 30, 1945 – April 10, 1997) was an American novelist and scholar who was the first Chair of the Native American Studies program at Dartmouth.
 His works include the memoir, "The Broken Cord" (1989) and the novel, "A Yellow Raft in Blue Water" (1987).
 He was married to author Louise Erdrich and the two frequently collaborated in their writing.
 He committed suicide in 1997 while police were investigating allegations that he had abused his daughters.

Question: Where was the author of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water the first Chair of the Native American Studies program?
Answer: Dartmouth