Originally from Kansas City, Kan., and of Munsee Delaware and Western Cherokee descent, Dr. Johnson teaches cultural geography and Indigenous Nations studies courses. His current research interests concern the broad area of Indigenous peoples’ cultural survival with specific regard to the areas of resource management, political activism at the national and international levels, and the philosophies and politics of place which underpin the drive for cultural survival. Much of his work is comparative in nature but focuses predominately on New Zealand and North America.