Question: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water was written by the Chair of Native American Studies at which college?

Context articles: Bonnie HeavyRunner
Wíčazo Ša Review
Winfried Fluck
Claudio Saunt
Huping Ling
Mary Ting Yi Lui
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
University of Texas Press
Encyclopedia of American Studies
Michael Dorris

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.
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).
Winfried Fluck studied German, English and American literature at Freie Universität Berlin, Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.
 In 1972, he got his doctoral degree from Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation on aesthetic premises in the literary criticism of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
 For his Habilitation, the European qualification for a professorship, he wrote a study on American realism as a form of “staged reality” "(Inszenierte Wirklichkeit)".
 After visiting scholarships at Harvard and Yale University, he got his first appointment as a professor at the University of Constance in Germany before he became Professor and Chair of North American Culture at the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
 Winfried Fluck taught as a guest professor at Princeton University and the Universidad Autonoma Barcelona, and he was a research fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, the Advanced Studies Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, and the Internationales Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum in Vienna.
 From 2005-2008, he was chair of the Research Reviewing Committee of the German Research Council on the humanities.
 He is a founding member of the Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, funded by the German Universities Excellence Initiative, and is directing it together with Ulla Haselstein.
 He is also co-director of the Futures Of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College established and directed by Donald E. Pease.
Claudio Saunt is a professor, author, and historian of Early America, the U.S. South, and Native American Studies.
 Saunt is the prize-winning author of "West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776" (forthcoming, 2014), "Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family" (2005), "A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816" (1999).
 Saunt received his Ph.D. in Early America from Duke University in 1996 and presently works as a Richard B. Russell Professor in American History at the University of Georgia, Athens.
 Saunt is also the University's Chair of the History Department, Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History, and Associate Director of the Institute of Native American Studies.
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.
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.
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.
The University of Texas Press (or UT Press) is a university press that is part of the University of Texas at Austin.
 Established in 1950, the Press publishes scholarly books and journals in several areas, including Latin American studies, Texana, anthropology, U.S. Latino studies, Native American studies, African American studies, film & media studies, classics and the ancient Near East, Middle East studies, natural history, art, and architecture.
 The Press also publishes trade books and journals relating to their major subject areas.
The Encyclopedia of American Studies (EAS) covers the history and culture of the United States, from pre-colonial days to the present, and the American Studies movement.
 The "Encyclopedia of American Studies" first appeared in 2001 as a four-volume print edition, published by Grolier Press.
 The EAS was sponsored by the American Studies Association, which appointed an editorial board consisting of Johnnella Butler, Robert Gross, and Miles Orvell.
 (Robert Gross was replaced by Jay Mechling during the first year of planning.)
 The intent behind the EAS was to create a work that would serve the needs of scholars, graduate students, college students and a high school audience, a work that would be accessible yet authoritative and that would cover the range of American history and culture from an interdisciplinary perspective.
 Articles in the EAS range from the singular features of American material culture (e.g. the Statue of Liberty or Barbie Dolls) to the broadest concepts of American intellectual culture (e.g. Exceptionalism and Millennialism) as well as the methods and theories of American Studies.
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.