Yá¹át¹ééh! Shi éí Renae Watchman yinishyé. Tódích¹íí¹nii éínishyé¹ dóó
Kinyaa'nii báshíshchíín. Áádóó Tsalagi (Bird) éí da shichei dóó Táchii'nii éí da shinálí.

Dr. Renae Watchman Dearhouse is originally from Shiprock, New Mexico. She completed her Ph.D. in the Department of German Studies, jointly with the Graduate Program in Humanities from Stanford University in 2007. Her dissertation,"Fictionalizing the Indigenous in German Travel Literature," is
transdisciplinary and exposed how German Others, namely explorers, narrated ‹and sometimes, fictionalized‹the stories, lives, and the environments of the Indigenous communities they encountered.

Dr. Dearhouse has reversed the traditional lens of ethnography, as an American Indian woman, and studied Germans as Powwowthusiasts. She published an essay entitled "Powwow Overseas: The German Experience," in the anthology: Powwow by the University of Nebraska Press (2005).

The mutual friendship between "Germans" and "Indians" has been a life-long journey, and has contributed to Dr. Dearhouse's research in a variety of ways. In October 2004, she was invited by the Berlin-European Academy and the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation to travel to Berlin to speak about the Navajo Nation as part of a panel promoting awareness about Cultural Minorities in both Europe and North America. In 2008, Dr. Dearhouse presented a paper entitled: "Circles of Friendship: Indigenous Hosts and European Travelers" at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, which
was subsequently published in their departmental Journal. For all her work, Dr. Dearhouse has been awarded the German American Friendship Award of the German Ambassador.

When she is not reading, writing and researching, you can find her enjoying her family, weaving, beading, sewing, baking, traveling, or chillin' at a Powwow.

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