Home › Authors › Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. b. 1965 ยท 6 books Biography Member of Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians. Professor and Chair of Indigenous Nations Studies and Director of the School of Gender Race and Nations at Portland State University. Books by Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. Never Whistle at Night 2023 Pour One for the Devil 2023 Mother Chicago Mother Chicago 2021 Unnerving Magazine 2019 Sacred Smokes Sacred Smokes 2018 Faster Redder Road 2015