Tehanetorens was a master storyteller in the Mohawk tradition and also author of Roots of the Iroquois and Wampum Belts. During his lifelong career as a teacher, he established youth groups at Akwesasne to promote native values, served as president of the Indian Defense League of America, and founded the Six Nations Indian Museum in 1954 to serve as a cultural center for tribal people in the Six Nations region . . .

Forbes is the author of numerous books, monographs and articles. He is also a poet, a writer of fiction, and a guest lecturer in Russia, Japan, Britain, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Norway, Mexico and elsewhere. He received his Ph.D from the University of Southern California in 1959, having graduated from Glendale College in l953 and from Eagle Rock High School in 1951. Forbes was born at Bahia de los Alamitos in Suanga (Long Beach) California in l934. He grew up on a half-acre farm in El Monte del Sur in the San Gabriel Valley and in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California.

Professor Forbes has served as a Visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Warwick, England, as the Tinbergen Chair at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Linacre College of Oxford University, and as a Visiting Professor in Literature at the University of Essex, England.

Jack Forbes is the recipient of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement for 1997. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow.

Della Frank lives and works on the Navajo Nation. Her poetry has appeared in such publications as Blue Mesa Review and Studies in American Indian Literature and has been anthologized in Neon Powwow and Returning the Gift. She is co-author of Duststorms: Poems From Two Navajo Women.

"I am of Navajo 'Beside the Water Clan' origin. I now live near the Four Corners area of the World. I am in the process of getting ready for 'an artist show' in Cortez, Colorado. I will read my works and discuss 'origins of my life' as best as I know how. I also have a book coming out from Navajo Community College Press entitled Duststorms: Poems from Two Navajo Women, with another writer. I live and work on the Navajo Reservation. This year I am an administrator. I oversee a dormitory, the staff at this dormitory, and the Navajo-Ute students who reside at this dormitory. I would like to continue my writing, which gives me courage, identity, and strengthens a Native American in the hardships of America. I have three children. I am alone. I like solitude, it gives me time to think."

Gregory Frazier was born in Richmond, Indiana. He obtained a BBA degree from Temple University, MBA from the University of Puget Sound and his PhD (Economics) in 1985. A professional motorcycle adventurer, he produces documentary films and writes books and articles about his adventures and various aspects of motorcycling around the world. He is a frequent contributor to the automotive and motorcycle industry press worldwide. Frazier has a wide range of business interests including Intra City Properties and the Whole Earth Motorcycle Center. He is the Chairman of Indians For United Social Action, Inc., a volunteer Native American association dedicated to educating the general public on American Indian and Alaska Native traditions, practices and the federal/state and local governmental policies affecting them.