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Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson)
Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson) is a Chickasaw citizen, also of Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, and Euro-American descent. A conversational speaker of the Chickasaw language, he is the director of...
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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.
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...
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
Winner of the 2001 American Book Award and the North American Indian Prose Award in 1998, associate professor Amanda Cobb-Greethem specializes in Native American Studies, and served as...
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...
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...
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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...
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 bachelor’s degree in animation at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has worked as a contractor for the Chickasaw Nation...
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...
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...