Authors

Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson, PhD)

Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson, PhD) is the executive officer for the Chickasaw Nation Language Preservation Division and a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. A conversational speaker of Chikashshanompaꞌ...

Jeannie Barbour

Jeannie Barbour, Chickasaw historian, artist, and author, is active in Native American issues including protection of Southeastern tribal culture and artifacts. Her award winning illustrations and...

Mary Ruth Barnes

Mary Ruth Barnes is a Chickasaw artist, teacher, and writer. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from North Carolina State University, and received her master’s degree in...

Wiley Barnes

Wiley Barnes, a Chickasaw citizen, holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Oklahoma State University, and has spent twenty-one years forging a career in the publishing industry, and the...

Sherrie Begay

Sherrie Begay (Fani' Iskanno'si, “Little Squirrel”) grew up hearing Chickasaw spoken by her father, Ben Courtney, and has had a lifelong passion for studying the Chickasaw...

Fuller L. Bumpers

Fuller L. Bumpers, an attorney from Batesville, Ark., is a writer and historian specializing in Native American issues.

Kati Cain

Kati Cain is a Chickasaw citizen, research specialist, and genealogist for the Chickasaw Nation Literary Arts Division. Her main area of focus is Chickasaw Nation Indian Territory, 1839-1907, and...

Gabriel Cannon

Gabriel Cannon is a Chickasaw citizen, also of Muscogee (Creek) and Euro-American lineage. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Health and Exercise Science from the University of Oklahoma...

Pauline Carpenter Brown

Pauline Carpenter Brown (1931-2022) was a fluent speaker of Chikashshanompa' (the Chickasaw language) from the Shawi' (Raccoon) Clan and had considerable knowledge of Chickasaw history...

Mitch Caver

Mitch Caver's passion for Chickasaw history has led to a steadfast friendship with the Chickasaw Nation. Many of the most important recent discoveries concerning Chickasaw historical research...

Kari A.B. Chew

Kari A.B. Chew is a Chickasaw citizen and postdoctoral fellow for the NeȾolṉew̱ “one mind, one people” Indigenous Language Research Partnership at the University of Victoria in British...

Amanda Cobb-Greetham

Amanda Cobb-Greetham, a Chickasaw citizen from Oklahoma, is a long-time university professor and the award-winning author of Listening to Our Grandmothers Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for...

Steffani A. Cochran

Steffani A. Cochran is a Chickasaw citizen who has devoted over two decades of public service to promoting and defending tribal sovereignty in Indian Country. She was named the 2011 Chickasaw...

Michelle Cooke

Michelle Cooke is a senior staff writer for Chickasaw Press and a Chickasaw citizen. She has worked for the Chickasaw Nation since 2007, where her focus has been writing about, teaching, and...

Eli Corbin

Eli Corbin has been artistic from a young age. He received his certification in graphic design from Kiamichi Technology Center in Durant, Oklahoma, and enjoys spending most of his free time drawing...

Samantha Cornelius, PhD

Samantha Cornelius, PhD, has worked with Indigenous languages and projects by and for Indigenous peoples since 2013. She completed her dissertation, Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee, in 2018...

Thomas Cowger

Thomas W. Cowger, Ph.D., is a professor of history at East Central Uni­versity in Ada, Oklahoma, and has held the Chickasaw Na­tion Endowed Chair in Native American Studies since 2004. He...

John P. Dyson

John P. Dyson is retired after teaching Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University at Bloomington for almost forty years. He received the Chickasaw Nation’s Heritage Preservation Award in...

Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer

Sarah Elisabeth Sawyer is a story archaeologist. She digs up shards of past lives, hopes, and truths, and pieces them together for readers today. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of...

JoAnn Ellis

JoAnn Ellis is a fluent speaker of Chikashshanompa', a specialist in the Chickasaw Language department and an instructor for its Master/Apprentice program. She also is an adjunct professor for...

Alison Fields

Dr. Alison Fields is the Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Oklahoma. She received her bachelor of arts in English...

David Fitzgerald

David Fitzgerald is a lifelong resident of Oklahoma and a professional photographer for more than thirty years. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 2005, and three times...

Danielle R. Fixico

Danielle R. Fixico is a Chickasaw, Muscogee, and Choctaw artist from Morris, Oklahoma, whose work focuses on raising awareness for women’s issues in First American communities. She received...

Glenda Galvan

Glenda A. Galvan was born into the Fox Clan of the Chickasaw and is her clan’s storyteller. She often travels to share her traditional tribal stories.  She holds a bachelor’s...

W.T. Skye Garcia

W. T. Skye Garcia is a retired instructor of music at East Central University (ECU), where for thirty-four years he taught piano, piano pedagogy, composition, music theory, and sacred music. He...

Sarah Angeline Gilmore Garcia

Sarah Angeline Gilmore Garcia is a Chickasaw citizen also of Muscogee (Creek) lineage. She bears the name of her grandmother who was an original Chickasaw enrollee. Sarah holds a bachelor&rsquo...

Richard Green

Richard Green has been a tribal historian of the Chickasaw Nation since 1994. He was founding editor of the Journal of Chickasaw History and Culture.

Robin Gunning

Dr. Robin R. Gunning (Chickasaw) graduated from the University of Oklahoma Medical School in 1967. He served as a preventive medicine officer in the U.S. Army in Vietnam, completed residency...

Branden Hart

Chickasaw citizen Branden Hart is an accomplished photographer, musician, and songwriter. His love of photography began the first time he picked up a camera as a child. As an adult, he has...

Trey Hays

Trey Hays grew up in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, and has been heavily involved with theater, including productions at Murray State College in Tishomingo, East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma...

John Herrington

When John Herrington joined the crew of the shuttle Endeavour in 2002—more than four decades after the first manned space flight—he became the first enrolled member of a Native American...

Linda Hogan

Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and activist Linda Hogan was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize with her 1990 novel, Mean Spirit. In 1998, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement...

Jesse and Vinnie May Humes

Jesse Humes was a Methodist minister for 34 years, and a fluent speaker in Chickasaw and Choctaw. He represented the Chickasaw tribe in Washington, advocating the governorship as an elected...

Lauren John

Lauren John is a Chickasaw citizen currently pursuing a master’s degree in sequential art at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has worked as a contractor for the Chickasaw...

Kimberly Johnson, PhD

Kimberly Johnson, PhD, has worked with the Chickasaw Nation in different capacities since 2015, when she began participating in the NSF-funded Chickasaw Verb Project as a graduate student...

Paul F. Lambert

Paul F. Lambert, Ph.D., was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and raised in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He holds degrees from Murray State College, East Central Oklahoma State University, and Oklahoma State...

Mike and Martha Larsen

A student of history, Chickasaw artist and sculptor Mike Larsen researches the past events of the subjects he paints and sculpts. He studied traditional art disciplines at Amarillo Junior College...

Daniel F. Littlefield Jr.

Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. is the director of the Sequoyah Research Center at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock and the author of numerous books including A Biobibliography of Native American...

Aaron K. Long

Aaron Long, Choctaw, is an award-winning designer and artist. He worked for the Chickasaw Nation for nearly ten years in a number of roles, including museum exhibit development and book publishing....

Michael W. Lovegrove

Michael Lovegrove, historian and native Oklahoman, received his doctorate from the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of several historical societies, and is a professor of history at Rose...

Dorothy Milligan

Dorothy Milligan was born in 1926 in Snow Hill, Arkansas, and moved to Sulphur, Oklahoma, as child. There she began her career in journalism at the town newspaper while still in high...

Phillip Carroll Morgan

Phillip Carroll Morgan (Choctaw/Chickasaw) is an award-winning author of three Chickasaw Press titles: Chickasaw Renaissance and Riding Out the Storm: 19th Century Chickasaw Governors and Their...

Juliet Morgan, PhD

Juliet Morgan, PhD, is the senior linguist manager of the Chickasaw Nation Language Preservation Division. She has been working with Indigenous communities and language projects since 2009 and...

Pamela Munro

Pamela Munro is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has collaborated with Chickasaw fluent speaker Catherine Willmond on two publications, and aided in the...

Stanley Nelson

Stanley Nelson is senior staff writer for Chickasaw Press and a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He joined the Chickasaw Press staff in 2010, after spending thirty years as a manager, editor, and...

Amanda L. Paige

Amanda L. Paige, associated with the Sequoyah Research Center at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, is a historian, author, archivist, researcher, and museum specialist.

Judy Goforth Parker

Judy Goforth Parker is administrator of the Chickasaw Nation Division of Health. She has a doctorate in nursing from Texas Women’s University, and has completed her nurse practitioner degree...

Vicki Penner

Vicki May Penner, Chickasaw-Cherokee, is retail manager at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma. She holds a master’s degree in education from East Central University and spent...

Anthony Perry

Anthony Perry grew up in Oklahoma and now lives in England with his wife and young children. He works as a quality improvement manager in the National Health Service in England and volunteers...

Towana Spivey

Towana Spivey, a retired historian, archeologist and museum curator, has authored numerous historical publications and participated in television documentaries and feature films throughout the...

Juanita J. Keel Tate

Juanita Tate, a Chickasaw elder, was noted for her knowledge of tribal history and culture. She was a great-granddaughter of Edmund Pickens, the first elected Chickasaw chief. She has written...

Margie Testerman

Footprints Still Whispering in the Wind is Margie Testerman’s first published collection of poetry, though she has been writing poetry for more than 30 years. Her work is inspired by her...

Rebecca Hatcher Travis

Rebecca Hatcher Travis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation whose roots are deep in Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and Texas. Her poetry manuscript, Picked Apart the Bones, won the First Book...

Steve Vanlandingham

Steve Vanlandingham is a folk musician, educator, and amateur paleontologist. He holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma, where he also studied archaeology...

Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace is a Choctaw citizen and the founder and president of creativeMINDS DATA located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Chris’s creative interests include photography, graphic design, digital...

Donna Courtney Welch

Donna Courtney Welch (Fochik Hilha, “Dancing Star”) is an award-winning Chickasaw artist. A native Oregonian, Welch moved to Oklahoma in 2016, with her family, to connect more closely...

Shanda Willis McDonald

Shanda Willis McDonald is a rock hound, artist, and folk musician living in her childhood hometown of Shawnee, Oklahoma. Her illustrations in Good Night, Trilobite were inspired by a fossil hunting...

Catherine Willmond

Catherine Willmond is a native speaker of Chickasaw born in McMillan, Oklahoma. She is a 2006 inductee into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame, and in 2010 received the Nation’s Silver Feather award...