Rick Church

Roland Rick Church is an enrolled member of the Stockbridge Munsee Mohican Nation. He is a Marine Corps veteran of the war in Vietnam. Rick also is a veteran of 26 years in law enforcement with 6 different agencies. Rick has a master degree in Forensic Psychology and has taught Criminal Justice for 4 colleges starting with The College of the Menominee on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. He is a graduate of the F.B.I. Academy Command College Quantico and served as the Director of Public Safety for his tribe as well as a current Police & Fire Commissioner. Rick is also the Tribal Liaison for the Arizona Authors Association. He has written a series about a Native American ex-cop, private investigator named Noel Two Horses who runs a private investigation agency out of his mystery bookshop in Prescott, Arizona. Noel Two Horses and his partner Clair Blue Crow work public defender drug cartel cases on the Mexican border just a few hours from Prescott as well as trying to save clients from drug cartels and court. The series starts with the book White Doe, it progresses with War Party, Counting Coup, Drums along the Fox, Bear Child, Dark Bull and Dog Soldier. Rick has added a Second Edition of Drums along the Fox between his public speaking engagements at native cultural events. Rick is currently doing a speak over of a Mohican leader for the Museum of The American Revolution in celebration of Patriots of Color. Rick is retired but lives between Arizona and Wisconsin.