Robert Kahn
Robert Kahn became acquainted with Indigenous America by teaching high school and living on the Tohono O’odham reservation in Arizona for six years. On summer vacation in 1981, he narrowly escaped a Guatemalan army massacre in a Maya village in Guatemala. He left the reservation in 1984 to work as a paralegal in U.S. immigration prisons. His nonfiction book, Other People’s Blood: U.S. Immigration Prisons in the Reagan Decade, was the first book-length history of U.S. immigration prisons. He worked as a reporter, editor and columnist for daily newspapers for 15 years and continues to write a weekly column for Courthouse News.