Native American Heritage Speakers

Native American Filmmaker, Producer & Director; Known for "Reservation Dogs," "Mekko," "Barking Water" & "Four Sheets to the Wind"

Award-Winning LGBTQ Navajo Filmmaker & Emmy-Nominated Director

Singer, Songwriter, Philanthropist, & Tribal Advocate

Principal Chief of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation

Cultural Speaker; Advocate for Culturally Responsive & Trauma Responsive Organizations; Stage Actress

Academy Honorary Award-Winning Native American Actor Known for "Dance with Wolves," "The Last of the Mohicans" & "Geronimo: An American Legend"

Award-Winning Native American Actor & Stand-Up Comedian

Cultural Specialist at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian & Writer at Smithsonian Magazine

Indigenous Award-Winning Author of "Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption"

Founder of Cheekbone Beauty, Social Impact Entrepreneur & Advocate for Education; 2024 WXN Canada's Most Powerful Women Top 100

Designer & CEO of the Indigenous Clothing Line, B. Yellowtail; Advocate for Native Young Women & Girls

Cheyenne-Holdulgee Muscogee Activist, Poet, Writer, Lecturer & Curator; President & Executive Director of The Morning Star Institute

Indigenous Speaker, Consultant, Educator & Author; Anishinaabe/Mushkegowuk Cree Heritage; Indigenous Community Advocate

Comic Book Creator Known for "Tribal Force;" Actor & Producer Known for "So Close to Perfect" & "Reservation Dogs"

Native Author, Speaker, Storyteller & Musician; Lawyer Specializing in Work With Tribal Bars & Native Communities

Scholar & Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of New Mexico; Indigenous Literature Author; Member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation

Indigenous Climate & Community Activist; Hip-Hop Artist; Author of "Imaginary Borders"

Bram Stoker Award-Winning Blackfeet Native American Author of Experimental Fiction, Horror, Crime & Science Fiction; Ineva Baldwin Professor of English, University of Colorado

Navajo Director, Writer & Editor

Assembly of First Nations Yukon Regional Chief