Victor Montejo is Professor of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Joel Monture (Teionhehkwen) is a Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Ohsweken, Ontario. He has been a professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM, and he currently lives in Madison, WI.

Born in 1958, Irvin Morris, a member of the Tobaahi clan of the Navajo Nation, teaches composition, Native American Literature and Creative Writing / Fiction at Dine College. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University and a PhD in American Indian Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has published multiple short stories.

Daniel David Moses, poet and playwright, lives and writes full-time in Toronto. His publications include the books of poems Delicate Bodies (Nightwood Edition, Harbour Publishing, I992) and The White Line (Fifth House, 1990) and the plays Coyote City ( 1990) and Almighty Voice and His Wife (I992) (both from Williams-Wallace). He also coedited An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English with Terry Goldie for Oxford University Press, 1992.

Johnny Moses is a storyteller,healer,and respected spiritual leader who carries the medicine teachings of his Northwest Coast ancestors. Born in a remote Nootka village on the west coast of Vancouver Island,British Columbia,Moses has a multitribal ancestry that includes the Nootka,Saanich,Snohomish,Dwamish,and Chehamus peoples. He trained under seven traditional medicine teachers,is fluent in eight native languages,and received a bachelor's degree in education from the University of British Columbia at the age of 18. Today,Johnny Moses serves as an ambassador for his Northwest cultures and as a voice of his people's medicine teachings.

1888-1964.  Mike Mountain Horse was born in 1888 and died in 1964. Mountain Horse wrote My People, the Bloods with the help of Burkitt and was later prepared by Dempsey for publishing. Mountain Horse was a Christian, but felt a considerable pride in the past of his warrior people. His book is devoted mainly to tribal history.

1888-1936. Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) was born in Idaho to an Okanogan father and a Colville mother, and died on August 8, 1936 at the age of forty-eight. Drawing from her experiences, Dove's writings documented the unfair treatment of, and loss of identity suffered by, mixedbloods, particularly the abuse of mixedblood women by white men. She attended the Sacred Heart Convent in Ward, WA, and business school in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.