Chickasaw Unconquered & Unconquerable

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 writing have been featured in exhibitions and books.

Winner of the 2001 American Book Award and the North American Indian Prose Award in 1998, associate professor Amanda Cobb-Greetham specializes in Native American Studies and served as administrator of the Division of History and Culture for the Chickasaw Nation. Her honors as an author were for Listening to Our Grandmother's Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949 (2000).

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 Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. In 2007, she was inducted into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame, and served as a Writer in Residence for the Chickasaw Nation.

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 was named Oklahoma Photographer of the Year three times.