Masters: Portland State University, Luana K. Ross (born 1949) is a Native American sociologist of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, located at Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana.
[10] Her research and teaching interests include Native Women, Visual Sociology, Criminality/Deviance, Race/Ethnic Relations, and Indigenous Methodology.
Ross' work has been influenced by the scholar activist, Angela Davis, who mentored Luana for the year that she received the Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship and studied at University of California Santa Cruz.
Ross is currently the co-director of the Native Voices Graduate Program of the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington.
[13] Ross herself has produced several award-winning films, including The Place of the Falling Waters (1991), White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men (1996), and A Century of Genocide in the Americas: The Residential School Experience (2002).