Jacques Condor (Maka-Tai-Meh) is a retired educator of Abenaki heritage. He is the author of Condor Tales a collection of 12 tales of the supernatural in Alaska and Canada.

Robert J. Conley, born December 29, 1940, in Cushing, Oklahoma, lives in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the capital city of the Cherokee Nation, with his wife Evelyn. Following a long career as a professor of English and of American Indian Studies, he is now writing fulltime. His books include Mountain Windsong, Nickajack, The Way of the Priests, and The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories and lives in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the historic capital of the Cherokee Nations, with his wife Evelyn, also Cherokee. Conley is writing full-time.

Katsi Cook teaches about healing plants in the Akwesasne Mohawk traditions and is a presenter on Native childbirth. She has been active in the Indigenous Women's Network and has pursued health and environmental issues. She is the program director of First Environment Project, a Mohawk activist, and a former editor of Akwesasne Notes.

Born on a Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Cook-Lynn identifies her family's literary and political background, her Dakota heritage, the northern plains landscape, and Kiowa novelist N. Scott Momaday's writings as her greatest influences. Her grandmother, who wrote for a newspaper, and her grandfather, who helped develop an early Dakota dictionary, along with her father's and grandfather's experiences as tribal council members, contributed to her identity as both a writer and a Dakota. She began writing in college, but received little attention for her work until Then Badger Said This was reissued in 1983. In this work she implements a variety of perspectives and forms, including verse, personal narrative, oral history, story, and essay, to depict life on the reservation and affirm her Dakota heritage. The novel From the River's Edge similarly focuses on Dakota values and familial relationships as well as the effects of damming the Missouri river. Cook-Lynn is especially concerned with the effects of, and the tension between, white culture and Native American identity. She has commented that "writing is an essential act of survival for contemporary Americ n Indians. I'm not interested in some kind of melancholy reminiscence.... I'm interested in the cultural, historical, and political survival of Indtan nations, and that's why I write and teach."

Leo Clifton Cooper was a man of many facets and talents. He possessed a strong will and rugged physique with which he was able to overcome a series of setbacks and misfortunes which began early in his life with the death of his mother when he was only eleven months old. He was a native American born to Seneca-Iroquois parents (Heron Clan) on the Allegany Reservation in the town of Carrollton, New York. There were eleven children, he being the youngest, and then at the age of three he was taken to the Thomas Indian School on the Cattaraugus Reservation. Shortly after that his oldest sister brought him back home to the family. A man of great humor, he decided he should have three days of birthdays. A mix-up in the Bureau of Indian Affairs listed his birthday as February 11, 1909 when it should have been the ninth of that month. All attempts to change it proved futile so he decided he should have presents and celebrations on all three days, even in later years . . .

1818-1863. George Copway, from the Mississauga Band of the Ojibwe, was an author whose autobiographical works were some of the earliest published writings by a Native American. Born in Ontario in 1818, he spent the first part of his life working as a Methodist missionary, and much of the second half as a writer and travelling speaker.

George Cornell was born in 1948. He has a Ph.D degree. Cornell is an associate professor of English and History and director of the Native American Institute at Michigan State University, and serves on the Board of Trustees to the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution.

Jesse Cornplanter, whose Seneca name was Hayonhwonhish, was born September 16, 1889 on the Cattaraugus Reservation. His father was Edward Cornplanter (Seneca name Sosondowah), a Faithkeeper of the Longhouse religion.

At an early age Jesse took an interest in drawing. Arthur C. Parker, an ethnologist, met him and asked him to make drawings of Seneca life for Parker to use as part of his ethnological studies of the Seneca. It is these drawings which make up the bulk of this collection . . .

Jeanette Henry Costo is an author and editor who has worked together with her husband, Rupert Costo, to produce works on Native American history and culture. She is also a founding member of the American Indian Historical Society.

Rupert Costo was born in 1906. He was president and a founding member of the American Indian Historical Society, an all-Indian organization of Native American scholars, professionals, artists and traditional historians. He has organized and directed convocations of Indian scholars at Princeton, New Jersey, and at Aspen , Colorado. Costo is the author of Contributions and Achievements of the American Indian, and together with his wife Jeanette Henry Costo has written and edited scholarly works on Native American history and culture.