Richmond L. Clow is professor emeritus of Native American Studies at the University of Montana in Missoula. A graduate of the University of South Dakota, he received his doctorate in history from the University of New Mexico. Clow has written extensively on the American Indians of the Northern Great Plains in addition to the history of the Black Hills. A longtime contributor to South Dakota History, he is the editor of The Sioux in South Dakota History: A Twentieth-Century Reader from the South Dakota Historical Society Press. He received the Robinson Award from the South Dakota State Historical Society for lifetime achievement in history.