Author Biography
Lionel Larré is a professor at Bordeaux Montaigne University, and a researcher in Indigenous studies. He is the author of several articles on Native American history, culture and literature, of a book on Native American autobiography (2009), and one on Cherokee history (2014). He is also the editor of a collection of texts by Cherokee author John Milton Oskison (Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition, University of Nebraska Press, 2012), and of a biography of John Ross by Oskison (Unconquerable, UNP, 2022). He served as president of Bordeaux Montaigne University between 2020 and 2024. He is currently on a one-year (2025-26) research mission with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the ECHELLES research center (Paris Cité University). He is preparing a book on the Society of American Indians (1911-1923), an activist pan-Indian organization of Indigenous intellectuals.
