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Linda Hogan
Linda K. Hogan (born 1947 Denver) is a Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories.
Ada DeerLife-long advocate for social justice, Ada E. Deer was the first woman to head the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Louise Erdrich
Karen Louise Erdrich, (Little Falls, Minnesota June 7, 1954) is an American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. Erdrich is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance.
Yvonne St. Germaine

Yvonne St. Germaine is a Cree Musician and speaker who travels with her incredible story. Prior to Yvonne's miracle that took place, July 26, 2006, she was leading a very dark lonely abused suicidal life. Yvonne was addicted to many things; alcohol, prescriptions pills and street drugs. She became severely addicted to crack cocaine. Yvonne was seeking hope and healing when she attended a Pilgrimage at Lac Ste.Anne, Alberta. In desperation she went forward to the prayer line and cried out to God!! It was then Yvonne felt the hand of Jesus touch her ....an instant miracle took place! Yvonne was chosen that moment by Jesus Christ. By His Grace she was instantly set free from the bondage she was in. Yvonne never experienced detox or withdrawal and since that very day she has been a willing vessel for her Savior, telling all who are seeking hope that Jesus Saves!
Radmilla Cody

Radmilla Cody is (Diné/Navajo) and African-American. She is a Grammy nominee, a multiple Native American Music Awards winner, an international performer, a former Miss Navajo Nation, and the founder of the “Strong Spirit: Life is Beautiful not Abusive” campaign.
Cody would like to be referred to as ‘Dine/Navajo,’ ‘indigenous’ and ‘Native.’ When asked why this is important to her she states, “I used to refer to myself as ‘Native American,’ but over time I have learned more about colonization and the colonial terms that came with the assimilation process which continues today. We are original people of this so-called USA, therefore we should be acknowledged as such, but also to ourselves as indigenous, as the indigenous backgrounds we identify with; indigenous, or Native of our own territories.. Not the European settlers’ or colonial settlers’ identification of who they think we should be. We must reclaim our identity and stop allowing the settler-colonialists to define who we are.”
Kim Seyesnem Obrzut
Kim Obrzut has been casting bronze for 18 years, focusing primarily on American Indian art and Hopi maidens. Her dexterity in the medium is reflected in her unique and elegant style, which has earned her praise in museums, private collections, magazines and books all over the world. She combines modern design techniques and traditional values with an artistic philosophy, creating masterfully executed bronze figures.
Her favorite art is traditional, although in her own work she likes to explore new possibilities making her work very unique. Kim understands the beauty of the female, which is of utmost importance in Hopi society and captures it in her powerful and expressive sculptures.
Angela Murray-Heavy-Runner

As a Blackfeet woman, Angela Murray-Heavy-Runner understands her sixth grade students’ complicated family backgrounds: In the past, she’s taught Blackfeet children who were born addicted to amphetamines or lived with their grandparents because of family troubles. She knows cultural rules and taboos. Some of the male students in her sixth grade class, for example, wear long braids down their backs in deference to an ancient Blackfeet belief that hair-cutting is bad luck. Others might come to school on the occasional Monday with faint stains of red paint on their faces, left over from a weekend ceremony. Like many Native teachers, she’s aware some children and their families are distrustful of schools and teachers. In the past, many white teachers arrived only to leave within a year or two. Memories from the boarding-school era linger, too—echoes of a time when school was a place of cruelty, where their culture was systematically unraveled.

Naomi Lang

Naomi Lang (born December 18, 1978) is an American ice dancer. With skating partner Peter Tchernyshev, she is a two-time (2000 and 2002) Four Continents champion, a five-time (1999–2003) U.S. national champion, and competed at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Lang is the first Native American female athlete to participate in the Winter Olympics.
Karen Noles

Born and raised in the very small town of Merna, Nebraska, Karen`s talent for art was encouraged from a very early age. Upon graduation from the Omaha School of Commercial Art at the age of 19, the Hallmark Card Company promptly hired her as a greeting card illustrator where she continued to work in illustration for Hallmark and other companies for nearly 20 years before venturing into the fine art market. She has also created collector plate series for the Hamilton Group and the Bradford Exchange, and illustrations and designs for children`s products for Roth International.
Karen has lived, raised a family, and professionally painted on the Flathead Indian Reservation located in Northwest Montana for the last 35 years. Her renowned specialty is oil paintings of Native Americans, especially Indian children. Karen`s sensitive portrayal of pre- and early reservation Indians, using actual Native Americans modeling authentic period clothing and collectible artifacts, has generated a national following. Her meticulous, fine brush attention to the Indian`s exquisite and masterful use of bead and quill work is stunning.
Mitchelene BigMan

BigMan was born and raised on the Crow reservation in Montana. She enlisted at age 21 and went on to become a mechanic supporting a combat battalion.
When she retired after two decades, she formed the Native American Women Warriors. The group includes all ranks and branches of service. They promote diversity and equality in the military and on reservations.
Nearly 5,000 Native American women have served in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. BigMan's grandmother served in WWII.
Lyla June Johnston
Lyla June Johnston was raised in Taos, New Mexico and is a descendent of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages. Her personal mission in life is to grow closer to Creator by learning how to love deeper. This prayer has taken her on many journeys and materializes in diverse ways.
She is a student of global cycles of violence that eventually gave rise to The Native American Holocaust and the destruction of many cyclic relationships between human beings and nature. This exploration birthed her passion for revitalizing spiritual relationships with Mother Earth and cultivating spaces for forgiveness and reconciliation to occur between cultural groups. She is a co-founder of The Taos Peace and Reconciliation Council, which works to heal intergenerational trauma and ethnic division in the northern New Mexico. She is a walker within the Nihigaal Bee Iiná Movement, a 1,000-mile prayer walk through Diné Tah (the Navajo homeland) that is exposing the exploitation of Diné land and people by uranium, coal, oil and gas industries. She is the lead organizer of the Black Hill Unity Concert which gathers native and nonnative musicians to pray for the return of guardianship of the Black Hills to the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota nations. She is the also the founder of Regeneration Festival, an annual celebration of children that occurs in 13 countries around the world every September.
In 2012, she graduated with honors from Stanford University with a degree in Environmental Anthropology. During her time there she wrote the award winning papers: Nature and the Supernatural: The Role of Culture and Spirituality in Sustaining Primate Populations in Manu National Park, Peru and Chonos Pom: Ethnic Endemism Among the Winnemem Wintu and the Cultural Impacts of Enlarging Shasta Reservoir. She is a musician, public speaker and internationally recognized performance poet. Lyla June ultimately attributes any achievements to Creator who gave her the tools and resources she uses to serve humanity.
Josephine Myers-Wapp

Josephine Myers-Wapp (1912-2014). Wapp was born in Apache, Oklahoma, where she learned Comanche ways from her grandmother, Tissy-Chauer-Ne. She studied at St. Patrick’s Mission in Anadarko, Oklahoma as well as Haskell University in Lawrence, Kansas. Josephine also studied fiber arts and education at the Santa Fe Indian School and was later recruited by Allan Houser and Lloyd New in 1962 to become one of the first instructors at the newly established Institute of American Indian Arts where she taught traditional techniques, including textiles, fashion design, beadwork, and native dance. She was a beloved figure and inspirational instructor who devoted her life to the revitalization of indigenous cultures. Her award-winning work has been exhibited throughout the United States and around the world.

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