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Terry White’s career as a musician started in Oak Park, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, where he began teaching himself guitar as a teenager. After graduating from highschool, he started a band, Modern Day Saints, and they moved to Los Angeles, where they enjoyed a rabid LA following as regulars on the legendary Sunset Strip. In 1994, White moved back to Chicago, started a solo career, but also...

Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate is a Chickasaw classical composer and pianist. His compositions are inspired by North American Indian history, culture, and language. Among many recent premieres, Tate’s highlights include commissions from the New York Philharmonic and Turtle Island Quartet. On August 15, 2025, the Dover Quartet released their newest album ‘Abokkoli Taloowa’ (Woodland Songs), which fea...

Hattie Lee Mendoza, a member of the Cherokee Nation whose art is inspired by her native ancestry, but also by a rural Kansas upbringing, answers a question coming from Jim Bachor, a graphic designer and mosaic artist based in Chicago... ••• Hattie Lee Mendoza is a member of the Cherokee Nation whose art is inspired by her native ancestry, but also by a rural Kansas upbringing. She illustrates narr...

Chris Vallillo is a singer-songwriter and roots musician, who makes the people and places of ‘unmetropolitan’ America come to life in song. Having spent dozens of years in the rural Midwest, he has a natural affinity for American roots music. ••• https://www.chrisvallillo.com/ https://ilhumanities.org/speakers/chris-vallillo https://m.youtube.com/user/1936Angelus ••• William A Rodriguez is an indi...

Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and the multiple New York Times bestselling author of techno-thrillers such as ‘Robopocalypse’, ‘The Clockwork Dynasty’, and ‘The Andromeda Evolution’ (an authorized sequel to the Crichton classic). He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters degrees in Machine Learning and Robotics. His new novel, ‘Hole in the Sky’, is a s...

Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez is the executive director of ‘Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery’, leading a global team in the goal to document indigenous slavery across the Western Hemisphere. Trained as an anthropologist, historian, and indigenous slavery scholar, Dr. Rael-Gálvez has served as the former Senior Vice President of Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preserv...

Sondra Segundo is a multidisciplinary artist and Haida language activist. She is a regalia maker, traditional and contemporary artist, author and illustrator of children's books, singer-songwriter, and keeper of ancestral songs. Sondra is the lead female vocalist of the Seattle-based tribal funk band, Khu’éex’, and sings/tells stories in the Tlingit and Haida languages. She also produces music...

Sunburnt Stone is a band based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their music combines various influences and genres between country, blues, rock, and Americana. All the band members, Andrew Wilson, Daryl Young, and Nichole Tsosie, are Diné, members of the Navajo Nation. Their songs generally reflect experiences in life, sunset skies, and the pains of broken glass weathering through the souls of each and...

Felicia Pichette is an indigenous language student and teacher at the Spokane Language House in the state of Washington, in the United States. Its mission is to create a new generation of fluent speakers of Np’oq͗ ínišcn, the Spokane language, which is a dialect of Salish. In turn, the Salish language is highly endangered and at risk of disappearing. Only a few years ago, there were just two Eld...

Dennis Dewa is a Zuni Pueblo artist dedicated to preserving his cultural heritage through vibrant and meaningful artwork. His paintings capture the essence of his Native American roots, blending traditional motifs and iconography with contemporary flairs. He has also taught art classes to youth at the Zuni Youth Enrichment Program in the Pueblo of Zuni, inspiring the next generation of Native Amer...

Steph Littlebird is an artist, curator, writer, and a registered member of Oregon’s Grand Ronde Confederated Tribes. As a descendant of the Chinook and Kalapuyan people, Littlebird makes sure that much of her artwork challenges mainstream portrayals of Native people. As an artist, Littlebird’s work combines traditional aesthetics with contemporary materials and subject matter to forge connections...

Mily Treviño-Sauceda is an American writer, trade unionist and executive director of ‘Alianza Nacional De Campesinas’, the National Alliance of Farmworker Women, a nonprofit organization advocating for the safety and rights of women laborers in agriculture. She is celebrated as a founder of the women’s farmworker movement in the United States. Woody Guthrie’s ‘Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)’...

Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate is a Chickasaw classical composer and pianist. His compositions are inspired by North American Indian history, culture, and language. Among many recent premieres, Tate’s highlights include commissions from the New York Philharmonic and Turtle Island Quartet. On August 15, 2025, the Dover Quartet released their newest album ‘Abokkoli Taloowa’ (Woodland Songs), which fea...

Hataałii is a Diné (Navajo) singer, songwriter, and poet born Hataałiinez Wheeler in Window Rock, AZ, the capital of the Navajo Nation. His name comes from the Navajo term ‘hatałii’, also spelled ‘yataalii’, which means ‘singer’ in English. Singers are medicine men who perform traditional healing ceremonies and blessing rites intended to protect and cure the body, mind, and spirit. Hataałii's...

Preston Singletary is a Native American musician glass artist. He grew up in the Seattle area listening to the stories told by his Tlingit great-grandparents. His art has become synonymous with the relationship between Tlingit culture and fine art. His glass sculptures deal with themes of Tlingit mythology and traditional designs, while also using music to shape his contemporary perspective of Nat...

Daisychain is a female-fronted blues/psych rock band based out of Chicago. Drawing from influences like Patti Smith, Melvins, The Velvet Underground, and Jack White, audiences can expect expressive guitar solos, a dynamic rhythm section, and smoky vocal harmonies all paying homage to a familiar sound. Their debut album, ‘All In A Name’, has been released June 27, 2025, and was produced by Sylvia M...

Américo Mendoza Mori, a Peruvian researcher and teacher of Latin American and Indigenous Studies at Harvard University, introduces himself in Quechua… ••• The following narrative includes excerpts from a collection of testimonies and interviews entitled ‘The Universal Phrasebook Of Indigenous Languages (UPIL), where it is all about the voices, accents, and speech patterns of indigenous people anyw...

Her question is an ongoing topic and issue, especially for indigenous communities, due to tariffs, immigration policies, authoritarianism, especially in the United States… ••• Ellen Jones is a British literary translator from Spanish to English, an editor, and an occasional writer based in Mexico City. https://youtu.be/jFjb0P8eDpg?si=Tvie5eABqnteH5fI ••• Rebecca Webster is an Oneida teacher, autho...

The following narrative includes excerpts from ‘Since The Age Of Our Grandfathers’, a travelogue which is part of a collection of testimonies and interviews entitled ‘The Universal Phrasebook Of Indigenous Languages (UPIL), where it is all about the voices, accents, and speech patterns of indigenous people anywhere in the world, hand in hand with my own personal anecdotes and observations. In addi...

The following narrative includes excerpts from a currently untitled collection of testimonies and interviews, where it is all about people’s voices, accents, and speech patterns, hand in hand with my own personal anecdotes and observations. In addition to that, people are free to introduce themselves and speak their minds openly in their indigenous languages, without any paraphrases or expectation...

Steph Littlebird is an artist, curator, writer, and a registered member of Oregon’s Grand Ronde Confederated Tribes. As a descendant of the Chinook and Kalapuyan people, Littlebird makes sure that much of her artwork challenges mainstream portrayals of Native people. As an artist, Littlebird’s work combines traditional aesthetics with contemporary materials and subject matter to forge connections...

Joseph Russell Diabo, born on December 25th 1955, is a son of a Kahnawake Mohawk Iron Worker, and is a member of the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada. His work as a First Nations policy analyst focuses on Canada’s colonial history, the history of resistance, and decades of advocacy. Since Russ was a teenager, he has been active in indigenous politics. He was at the 1972 BIA takeover in W...

Question for Marcie Carter: “In the beginning, the mountains thought they were people… How does the story go on from there?” ••• Marcie D. Carter was born and raised in Lewiston, Idaho and is an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe. She has a BS in Biology from Lewis Clark State College and an MS in Wildlife Resources from the UI. She’s currently working on a PhD in Natural Resources at the UI-C...

Daisychain is a female-fronted blues/psych rock band based out of Chicago. Drawing from influences like Patti Smith, Melvins, The Velvet Underground, and Jack White, audiences can expect expressive guitar solos, a dynamic rhythm section, and smoky vocal harmonies all paying homage to a familiar sound. Their debut album, ‘All In A Name’, has been released June 27, 2025, and was produced by Sylvia M...

Chris Vallillo is a singer-songwriter and roots musician, who makes the people and places of ‘unmetropolitan’ America come to life in song. Having spent dozens of years in the rural Midwest, he has a natural affinity for American roots music. ••• https://www.chrisvallillo.com/ https://ilhumanities.org/speakers/chris-vallillo https://m.youtube.com/user/1936Angelus ••• Interview conducted by Marco R...