{{Short description|American academic}} {{More footnotes needed|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox person | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1946}} | birth_place = Northeastern Oklahoma | education = University of Oklahoma (PhD) | spouse = {{marriage|Ina|1975}} | children = 2 | module = {{Infobox military person | embed = yes | allegiance = United States of America | branch = [[United States Marine Corps]] | service_years = 1967–1968 | unit = [[Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines]] }} | website = {{URL|https://ais.arizona.edu/person/tom-holm}} }}
'''Tom Holm''' (born 1946) is a professor in the Native American Studies program at the [[University of Arizona]].
Holm is a registered citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He is also of [[Muscogee|Muskogee]] descent. Holm served in the United States Marines during the Vietnam War. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the [[University of Oklahoma]]. Besides being part of the University of Arizona's Native American Studies program he was previously a professor of political science at that institution.
Among works by Holm are ''Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls: The Native American Veterans of the Vietnam War'' and ''The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era'' (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005). In 2008 a novel by him entitled ''Osage Rose'' was published.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080907144607/http://uanews.org/node/19428 University of Arizona news article on Holm's novel]}}</ref>
==Awards and nominations==
In 1997 received the Outstanding Native American Faculty Award.
Selected for an Excellence in Teaching Award during the U of A’s “Year of the Undergraduate” in 1988.
In 2004 was honored with the Graduate College’s Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award.
Finalist for the Victor Turner Prize in ethnographic writing in Canada.
== Works == * {{cite book |last1=Holm |first1=Tom |author1-link=Tom Holm |editor-last=Rosier |editor-first=Paul C. |editor-link=Paul C. Rosier |title=Code Talkers and Warriors: Landmark Events in Native American History |publisher=Chelsea House Pub |date=July 1, 2007 |location=New York |isbn=9780791093405 }} (168 pgs.) * {{cite book |last1=Holm |first1=Tom |author1-link=Tom Holm |title=Strong Hearts, Wounded Souls |publisher=University of Texas Press |date=March 1, 1996 |location=Austin |isbn=0292730985 }} (254 pgs.) * {{cite book |last1=Holm |first1=Tom |author1-link=Tom Holm |title=Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism |publisher=Twelve |date=August 1, 2023 |location=New York |isbn=1538709503 }} (320 pgs.) * {{cite book |last1=Holm |first1=Tom |author1-link=Tom Holm |title=The Osage Rose |publisher=University of Arizona Press |date=March 15, 2008 |location=Tucson |isbn=0816526508 }} (256 pgs.) * {{cite book |last1=Holm |first1=Tom |author1-link=Tom Holm |title=Anadarko: A Kiowa Country Mystery |publisher=University of Arizona Press |date=October 1, 2015 |location=Tucson |isbn=0816531811 }} (248 pgs.) * {{cite book |last1=Holm |first1=Tom |author1-link=Tom Holm |title=The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era |publisher=University of Arizona Press |date=September 1, 2005 |location=Austin |isbn=0292709625 }} (264 pgs.)
==References== <references/> ===Sources=== *[http://web.arizona.edu/~aisp/holm.htm University of Arizona biography of Holm] *[https://sbs.arizona.edu/news/remembering-navajo-code-talkers-qa-professor-emeritus-tom-holm Remembering Navajo Code Talkers: Q&A with Professor Emeritus Tom Holm] *[http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A419 Native American authors listing for Holm] *[https://www.library.pima.gov/news/meet-tom-holm-the-librarys-newest-writer-in-residence/ PIMA County public library press release of Holm]
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