Harald E. L. Prins

Harald E. L. Prins is a Dutch anthropologist (1951- ) who taught at Bowdoin and Colby colleges, and is now a Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University. A multiple award-winning scholar and native rights activist, he has done extensive fieldwork among Mi'kmaq and other tribes in North and South America. His documentary film credits include "Our Lives in Our Hands" and "Oh! What a Blow that Phantom Gave Me." Having published books and articles in seven languages, he authored or co-authored several books, including "The Mi'kmaq: Resistance, Accommodation, and Cultural Survival," "Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge," "Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000," and "Indians in Eden: Wabanakis and Rusticators on Maine's Mt. Desert Island, 1840s - 1920s." For his research and guest lecturing, he travels across the globe, but loves returning to his wife Bunny McBride and their intrepid cats Mick & Mack with whom they share their cedar-wood and limestone home tucked away in an oak-forested valley teeming with wildlife and bordering a large lake in the beautiful Flint Hills.