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 the Chickasaw Language Revitalization Program and an award-winning artist. He holds...

Phillip Carroll Morgan (Choctaw/Chickasaw) is an award-winning author of several Chickasaw Press and White Dog Press titles, including Chickasaw Renaissance, Riding Out the Storm: 19th Century Chickasaw Governors and Their Intellectual Legacy, which won the Gold Independent Publishers Book Award in...

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.

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 education from Montana State University. In 2015, Barnes was named the...

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 last fourteen years with the Chickasaw Nation. Barnes is the author...

Sherrie Begay grew up hearing Chickasaw spoken by her father, Ben Courtney, and has had a lifelong passion for studying the Chickasaw language. She is a certified Chickasaw language teacher and currently teaches live online classes to students from all...

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

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 she has been involved in the field of genealogy for over...

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, and received his master’s degree in Dietetics from the University of...

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 and culture. Born near Fillmore, Oklahoma, she lived within the Chickasaw Nation her entire life....

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 are attributable to his efforts and his detailed knowledge of the land near...

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 Columbia, Canada. She began learning Chikashshanompa' in 2008 as an intern for...

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....

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 Nation Dynamic Woman of the Year. Cochran holds a...

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 researching Chickasaw history, language, and culture. She is...

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. Little Loksi is Eli’s debut into the world...

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, which examined tone and intonation interactions at word boundaries in the Cherokee...

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 also serves as director of the Native American Studies...

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 2006 for “Chickasaw Village Names from Contact to Removal,” published in Mississippi...

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 the American Indian honored her as a literary artist through their...

JoAnn Ellis is a fluent speaker of Chikashshanompa', a specialist in the Chickasaw Language Department, and an instructor for its Master/Apprentice program. She is also an adjunct professor for Chickasaw language studies at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma.

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 and Native American studies from Colgate...

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.

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 both a master of fine arts in painting and a bachelor’s degree...

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 degree in education from the University of Oklahoma, and is...

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

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’s degree in elementary education with early childhood certification and a...

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.

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 training in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in...

Branden Hart, a Chickasaw citizen, is an accomplished photographer, musician, and songwriter. His love of photography began when he first picked up a camera as a child, and as an adult, he has continued to pursue that passion professionally. Chokma’si:...

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, Tishomingo’s Way Off Broadway Players, and Ada Community Theater. He enjoys, singing,...

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 tribe to fly in space. Herrington, an active and dedicated...

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....

Born in Coatsworth, Indian Territory, Vinnie May (James) Humes was an original enrollee of the Chickasaw tribe. She enrolled in Wapanucka School at the age of eight with no knowledge of English and later earned her GED at age 70....

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 Nation, contributing to graphic design for the Rosetta Stone...

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. Johnson joined the Chickasaw Nation Language Preservation Division full-time in 2023 as...

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 University. Lambert served the Oklahoma Heritage Association for thirty-two years as...

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, the University of Houston, and later at the prestigious Art...

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 Writers, 1772-1924.

Aaron Long, a Choctaw citizen, is an award-winning designer and artist. He worked for the Chickasaw Nation for nearly ten years in various roles, including museum exhibit development and book publishing. Long holds a bachelor’s degree in public relations and...

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 State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma.

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 school. She earned a master’s degree in English and journalism from East...

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 began collaborating with the Chickasaw Nation in 2012. She has been a...

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 editing of the 2012 title, Anompilbashsha Asilhha' Holisso: Chickasaw Prayer Book....

Stanley Nelson is a 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 columnist for newspapers and other media-related...

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 is commissioner of health policy for the Chickasaw Nation Division of Health. She has a doctorate in nursing from Texas Women’s University, and completed her nurse practitioner degree at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She...

Vicki May Penner, Chickasaw-Cherokee, is the retail manager at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma. She holds a master’s degree in education from East Central University and spent 25 years in education before joining the Chickasaw Nation.

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 with hospitals in Pakistan to improve health...

Towana Spivey, a retired historian, archeologist and museum curator, has authored numerous historical publications and participated in television documentaries and feature films throughout the world.  He has lectured on military and frontier history as well as Native American culture for...