Barbara Alice Mann is Professor of Humanities at the Jesup Scott Honors College of the University of Toledo, Ohio. She has published around 500 articles and chapters and fifteen books, including Spirits of Breath: The Twinned Cosmos of Indigenous America and Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas. Kaarina Kailo previously served as Professor of Women's Studies at Oulu University, Finland; as Senior Scholar at the Finnish Academy; and in various positions at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Canada. She has published several books, anthologies, and hundreds of articles on the gift economy, ecofeminism/mythology, bear lore, women's folklore, and sauna healing. She is also the editor of Wo/men and Bears. The Gifts of Nature, Culture and Gender Revisited (2008).