1800-1839. Elias Boudinot, a member of the Cherokee, was a writer and newspaper editor. Born in Georgia in the early 1800's, as Gallegina (aka Buck) Watie, he is probably best known for his work as editor of the Cherokee Phoenix. His advocacy of the Cherokee removal from Georgia in the 1830's eventually led his murder in 1839.

Born in Bartlesville, OK. Former Mayor of Caney,  a Graduate of Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS. Bachelor or Business Adminstration in Finance.

1946-2006. Bowen was a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians from the Allegany Indian Reservation at Jimersontown-Salamanca, New York. He was born at Salamanca in 1946 and a member of the Beaver clan. He grew up in the old Coldspring area of the reservation. Duce attended a one room school at Robinson Run. He then went to the Allegany Indian School in Red House, New York. High school years were spent at the Salamanca Jr.-Sr. High School in Salamanca. He attended Vale Technical Institute at Blairsville, Pennsylvania where he earned a diploma for Automotive Technic and Management. This was followed by courses at Jamestown Community College, English Communication and Children's Literature. He also finished a number of years of biblical courses through the Emmaus Bible School of Oak Park, Illinois. He then finished an incometax study course with Federated Tax Service of Chicago, Illinois, and followed up with a course of study and training with H&R Block.

He was a long time staff member of the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum at Salamanca and the chairperson of the Cornplanter Descendants Association, an organization dedicated to preserving the only Indian land in the State of Pennsylvania and to collect and store data on the Cornplanter situation. Duce Bowen is a descendent of John O'Baill, The Cornplanter. Cornplanter was a Principal Chief of the Seneca People.

Duce Bowen was a victim of the Kinzua Crisis. (The forced removal of the Seneca People during the 1960's due to the construction of the Kinzua Dam on the Allegany River.) The breaking of the Pickering Treaty has a profound effect on those Senecas which were forced from their homes. A way of life was destroyed. The Bowen family lost their land and home to the waters of Kinzua. Duce was bitter over the fact that his father, Leslie Earl Bowen, fought in Europe as a combat engineer than watched as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took his home. Leslie Bowen earned the Purple Heart and the Silver Star in combat. "Within a year and a half we lost practically all of our old people. They died of broken hearts. The Kinzua Dam ended a way of life. I really miss the old road."

Eva was born in Keshena WI; her parents are Lyle and Rose Bowman.  She attended Nebraska Indian Community College where she earned her associate in Child Development. She also attended College of Menominee Nation in Keshena WI. Eva currently has an AA Degree in Education as well as and early Childhood Specialist Degree.

Eva says that education and the youth of the tribe is very important. She would like the youth to remember their history as well as their education. Eva said, "Respect others and yourself, believe in God and your life will be fulfilled with happiness." She said this is a lesson for the youth to remember.

Linda Boyden has spent most of her adult life leading children to literacy. From 1970-1997, she taught in elementary schools in Maryland, Nevada, Montana, and Virginia, receiving her master's in Gifted and Talented Education in 1992 from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.  In 1997, Linda decided to change careers and abandoned full-time teaching for full-time writing. She and her husband, John, moved to Maui where for the next seven years she was a volunteer storyteller at the Makawao Public Library for their weekly Toddler Time Story Hour. She also hosted the library's Young Readers Club for older students after school once a month and was the weekly voice of the UpCountry Kiwanis' telephone StoryLine.

In 2004, Linda and family relocated to Redding, rimmed by Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen in beautiful northern California. Linda is in charge of the Beginning Reading Program at the Sylvan Learning Center. She is a regular storyteller at Barnes & Noble, Shasta County Library in Redding, the Anderson Library, and in many schools. She has recently had her first chapbook of poems published, WomanSong, as well as a CD of her Native American storytelling, Dikanohelvsdi Elisi Unitseli, Stories of the Grandmothers. Currently, she is working on her first storytelling DVD. In her spare time, she and photographer husband, John, enjoy hiking and spoiling their many beautiful grandchildren.

Susan Braine grew up on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana and is enrolled on the Ft. Peck Assiniboine-Sioux Res. She has spent more than 30 years working in Native and public radio. She has managed Zuni Pueblo radio KSHI-FM in Zuni, New Mexico, KMXT-FM in Kodiak, Alaska, and KSKO-AM in McGrath, Alaska. Ms. Braine was instrumental in the on-air debut and initial management of the Three Affiliated Tribes' KMHA-FM in Newtown, North Dakota, KNBA-FM in Anchorage, Alaska, and most recently Hopi radio KUYI-FM in northern Arizona. Braine has also worked with the Blackfeet, Northern Cheyenne and Laguna-Acoma Indian communities to help plan local stations for their reservations.

Over the years, Ms. Braine has been a major player in the development of Native radio. She served as the first network manager for AIROS (American Indian Radio on Satellite), and on the boards of the Alaska Public Radio Network, Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc., the Native American Journalists Association and on the Public Radio Satellite System's Distribution and Interconnection Committee.

Mohawk poet, short story writer, essayist, and editor who frequently addresses her identity as a Native American, woman, and lesbian in her works. Brant, who uses the name Degonwadonti, garnered acclaim in the 1980s for the distinctive voice presented in her fiction and poetry. Brant is of Mohawk ancestry and openly lesbian, two elements that play an important thematic role in her body of work. She was born in suburban Detroit and raised both there and in Canada, she continues to live part-time in each country. After a marriage to an abusive, alcoholic husband ended in divorce, Brant came to terms with her own sexuality at the age of thirty three. It took her even longer to accept her vocation as a writer, which she recognized after being visited with a vision concordant with her Mohawk ancestry. Nearing the age of forty, she was on vacation, driving with her partner Denise Dorsz, when a bald eagle flew in front of the car and told Brant that she was to be a writer. When she resumed home, Brant began to set her thoughts to paper.

Novelist, Teacher, Family Historian. Charles Brashear, English-Scott-Cherokee descent, was born in 1930 in west Texas. He received his B.A. from UC-Berkeley 1956, M.A. from San Francisco State in 1960, and Ph.D. from the University of Denver writing program 1962. Charles taught three years at the University of Stockholm on a Fulbright grant (1962-65), three years at the University of Michigan (1965-68), and 24 years at San Diego State. He retired on a "Golden Handshake" in 1992 in order to devote full time to travel, research, and writing.

Born in 1953 on the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota, she is known for her autobiographies Lakota Woman and Ohitika Woman, both of which she wrote with Richard Erdoes. In Lakota Woman, which was published under the name Mary Crow Dog, Brave Bird recounts her impoverished childhood on the reservation, her rebellious youth, her growing awareness of hat heritage, and her marriage to political activist Leonard Crow Dog. This work, which won the American Book Award in 1991, has been praised for it observant account of the hardships of reservation life and its first-hand portrayal of the American Indian Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, including the 1973 siege of Wounded Knee in South Dakota. Ohitika Woman begins in 1977, where Lakota Woman concluded, and delineates Brave Bird's participation in the Native American Church, her deteriorating relationship with her husband, and her struggles with poverty and alcoholism. Critical reaction to Ohitika Woman was generally positive, with reviewers praising the work's realism and insights into contemporary Native American life. Pat Monaghan has stated: "[We] learn of the difficulties facing Native American woman today: the domestic brutality, the abandonments, the assaults. But we learn as well of the medicine and rituals that strengthen women of Native American heritage."

I am from Wetumka, Oklahoma, and have attended Dartmouth College and Oklahoma City University. I am currently at Stanford University where I study and work for the Native American Program. I am greatly influenced by other Creek poets such as Joy Harjo, Louis Oliver, and my friend Annette Arkeketa, as well as the rhythms of our elders. Creek people sing when they speak and always have a good joke to tell. Mvto.