Melinda Maxwell-Gibb is an Associate English professor and member of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Gender Studies (CIIEG) and at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico’s Metropolitan Campus. Having received her PhD from the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras, she is a Native American scholar whose research interests include (re)construction of language/history, (re)presentation of oral tradition/ceremony, and other facets of intertribal identity. Maxwell’s current research focuses on pre- and post-colonial indigenous migration and the connections between the indigenous tribes of the Southeastern U.S. and those of the Indigenous Caribbean. She has published numerous articles and book chapters within her area of research.