Patrick Ka'ano'i a Native Hawaiian was born 1947 in the territory of Hawai'i.  He was a music major at the University of Hawai'i, and is now a Composer and Hawaiian Cultural Specialist.  He has been awarded a Gold Award by the New York Film Festival, and an Hawai'i Educational Television award in 1975, for his song "Mother and Child".

Michael Kabotie was born on September 3, 1942 on the Hopi Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona. He grew up in the village of Shungopavi and attended school on the reservation until the Hopi high school was closed. He graduated from Haskell Indian School in Lawrence, Kansas in 1961. While in his junior year there he was invited to spend the summer at the Southwest Indian Art Project at the Universigty of Arizona. Participants included Fritz Scholder, Helen Hardin, Charles Loloma and Joe Hererra (who became a life long friend and his primary artist mentor) . . .

Co-author of Lakota & Dakota animal wisdom stories, Pamela Kaizen is a Dakota storyteller with great knowledge of the Northern Plains oral traditions.

Kurt Kaltreider is of Nanticoke, Cherokee, German, and English descent. He received a Ph.D. in philosophy and clinical psychology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1977.  He is the author of American Indian Cultural Heroes and Teaching Tales, and American Indian Prophecies: Conversations with Chasing Deer.

Kame'eleihiwa is a respected Hawaiian scholar, author of several books, and activist for Hawaiian sovereignty and the Hawaiian language. She is also the director of the Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Barrie Kavasch was born in 1942, Springfield, Ohio. She received her education at Western Connecticut University. She is President of Native Harvests, Inc (food business) and is working on a new book on American Indian foods as well as a book on American Indian plants and people and along with several childrens books for young readers. She has done extensive ethnobotanical research on food and medicinal documentation. She writes, photographs and illustrates.

Juanita Tiger Kavena is a Creek tribal member who grew up in Oklahoma and attended East Central State College. In 1948 she took a teaching position on the Hopi Reservation, where she met and married Wilmer Kavena, and was adopted into the Hopi tribe. A home economist, she has collected more than 100 authentic recipes based on the Hopi staple foods.

Actress Geri Keams (Navajo) is known for her portrayals of strong elders in movies such as Buffalo Dreams, Edge of America, in which she played the indomitable Mother Tsosie, and NMAI's A Thousand Roads, in which she plays Johnny Chee's grandmother. A professional storyteller, Keams has performed her children's show "Stories and Songs of My People" internationally and leads educational workshops. She has written two children's books sharing Navajo and Cherokee stories. Keams' first film role to attract attention was Little Moonlight, in Clint Eastwood's 1976 Civil War drama The Outlaw Josey Wales. Prior to that, Keams performed in the Native American Theatre Ensemble. She was born in Winslow, Arizona and received a BFA in drama education from the University of Arizona. Keams lives in Los Angeles, California.

A member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, Keeshig-Tobias is a children's author and storyteller.  He has written two books, Emma and the trees and Bineshiinh dibaajmowin / Bird talk.

1919-1999. Keewaydinoquay Pakawakuk Peschel was a scholar, ethnobotanist, herbalist, medicine woman, teacher and author. She was an Anishinaabeg Elder of the Crane Clan. She was born in Michigan around 1919 and spent time on Garden Island, a traditional Anishinaabeg homeland.