1915–1986.  Percy Bullchild was a well-known musician, artist, and storyteller.   At the age of sixty-seven, Percy Bullchild, a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people into a permanent written record. He regarded this undertaking—to “write the Indian version of our own true ways in our history and legends,” as he puts it—as both a corrective and an instructive tool.

Author of the 2001 book A Journey Back.  Burnette is a writer, poet and a Native American storyteller. He divides his time between a home on St. Croix in the Virgin Islands and an RV that is his home somewhere.

Diane Burns attended the Institute of American Indian Art in Sante Fe, New Mexico where she was awarded the Congressional Medal of Merit for academic and artistic excellence. She later attended Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City. Her 1st book of poetry, Riding the One-Eyed Ford, 1981, has been nominated the William Carlos Williams Award, and is included in the St. Marks Poetry.

Jimalee Burton was born in 1920 in eastern Oklahoma. She came to prominence with her collected poetry, prose, and traditional stories entitled Indian Heritage, Indian Pride: Stories That Touched My Life. Aside from her poetry and prose, Jimalee Burton is also known as a graphic artist who melded traditional motifs with contemporary themes and media. She served as editor of the intertribal newspaper, The Native Voice, for fifteen years.

Although born and raised in southern Illinois, he generally claims Oklahoma as his home, arguing that his "relatives who remain strongly attached to [their Native American] identity live there." After completing high school, Bush hitchhiked across the United States for several years before attending Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, from which he graduated in 1972 with degrees in art and history. Following graduation, he became involved in the American Indian Movement, helped to establish the Institute of the Southern Plains (a Cheyenne Indian School in Oklahoma), and taught subjects relating to Native American culture at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and several other colleges. In 1980 he earned a master's degree in English and fine arts from the University of Idaho. Lyricism, narrative intensity, vivid images, and a realistic attention to detail characterize the style of Bush's Poetry. Frequently imbued with a sense of outrage at past and present injustices that white society has perpetrated against Native Americans and the natural environment, Bush's works focus on themes of identity, cultural conflict, social struggle, and the disintegration of traditional values. Although criticized for sometimes weighing down his poetry with anger and sentimentality, most commentators concur that Bush possesses a distinctive poetic voice that dramatizes the suffering and aspirations of Native Americans.

1996 N.C. Heritage Award Recipient, Cherokee tribal elder Robert Henry Bushyhead called his native Kituhwa dialect a gift of the Great Spirit. With the help of his daughter Jean Bushyhead, a teacher in the Cherokee schools, he devoted years to documenting this legacy. That preservation process began many years ago, however, when he not only developed a love of his native language but also a gift for telling the stories of what it meant to him and to the Cherokee people.

Born in 1914, he grew up in the Birdtown community of the Qualla Boundary, living with his mother, father, and older brother in a one-room log cabin. He remembered a large fireplace at one end of the cabin that served the family for cooking, light, heat, and coals. "And the medicine man," he said, "used hot coals from the fireplace to heat his hands which he applied to our sick bodies while he read his formulas." The medicine man wrote his formulas in Kituhwa, the Cherokee dialect Robert Bushyhead learned from his mother. . .