Chief of the Lenape, and author of The Grandfathers Speak, Native American Folk Tales of the Lenape People, which included many stories never before recorded.

Geary Hobson is a professor of English, specializing in Native American literature, at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Deer Hunting and Other Poems (1990) and the editor of The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature (I979). He has served since I99I as the project historian of Returning the Gift, otherwise known as the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.

Linda Hogan, a Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and activist, is widely considered to be one of the most influential and provocative Native American figures in the contemporary American literary landscape. Not only is Hogan a prolific writer, but through her work she has distinguished herself as a political ideologist and an environmental/philosophical theorist. Her characteristically holistic representation of the human experience is important in that it centers on the concept that all life is interconnected; only by acknowledging and appreciating the relation of human life to other life forms, she says, can one fully respect and care for oneself.

Sara was born into the Youngblood family and raised in northeastern Oklahoma near the banks of Lake Eucha in Rattlesnake Hollow. She inherited her storytelling skills from her father, who could spin a tall tale at the drop of a hat, all while baiting the end of a hook or reeling in a fish. Her appreciation for her heritage came from her Cherokee grandmother, whose lessons of life and of love still warm her heart today.

After graduating from the University of Oklahoma, Sara spent more than two decades working in the financial institution business in Oklahoma City. The knowledge of banking that she developed over those years gives her the perfect background to create the heroine in her mystery, banker Sadie Walela.

In 1996, Sara decided to start writing. Since then, her articles have appeared in various periodicals across the nation and she has won awards for her writing including essays, short stories, and poetry. She is a member of The National League of American Pen Women, Mystery Writers of America, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, and Oklahoma Writers' Federation.

Author of Strong hearts, wounded souls : Native American veterans of the Vietnam War, Holm received his PhD from the University of Oklahoma in 1978, and is currently a professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona in Tuscon. He is also a Vietnam War veteran.

The daughter of Chief Winnemucca, Sarah Winnemucca (born in 1844) spent a good deal of her life fighting unsuccessfully for better treatment for her people. As an adult, she taught school and later married a white man and moved to the East, giving up tribal ways for an acculturated life.

Born in 1947, Gabriel Horn graduated from Florida State University and received his native name, White Deer of Autumn, from a mentor who had seen the name in a vision. Horn has been a teacher, writer and activist, and was involved in the American Indian Movement during the 1970's. Currently he teaches at St. Petersburg Junior College in south Florida.

Horn is of Kanien'ke:haka and Mohawk decent. She is an elder from the Kahnawake of Mohawk Territory. She has a Masters of Arts from Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario). Horn teaches at Concordia University and runs the Mohawk Nation News.

George Horse-Capture was born in Fort Belknap, Montana in 1937. He received a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology in 1974 from the University of California and a Master's degree from Montana State University in 1979. Horse-Capture went to school to study anthropology and history in order to contribute and commit his life to working toward bettering the condition of the Indian people. He believes that the future of the Native American people lies in a renewed understanding of the old ways. He has worked as an assistant professor in the American Indian Studies at Montana State University and served as curator of the Plains Indian Museum in Cody, Wyoming from 1980-1990. He has also been consultant to the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

Gregg Howard teaches the Cherokee language at Texas A&M University in Commerce, Texas. His company, Various Indian Peoples Publishing Co has produced language learning programs in Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Delaware, and Muskogee(Creek). He is a member of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. He recently released a video of nine traditional Cherokee stories, told in the traditional way, entitled "Tales of Wonder."  He was chosen as the 1997 "Storyteller of the Year", Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers.