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 & Writer; Known for "Rez Ball," "Echo" & "Reservation Dogs"

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

Singer, Songwriter, Philanthropist, & Native American Tribal Advocate

Actor Known for "The Magnificent Seven," "Yellowstone" & "1883"; Advocate for Native American Youth; Ambassador for Native Wellness Institute

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

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

Former President & CEO of American Indian Higher Education Consortium

Tribal Attorney, Indigenous Rights Activist & Founder of Not Your Mascots

Environmental Activist & Author; Climate Justice, Renewable Energy & Sustainability Advocate; Executive Director of "Honor the Earth"

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

Award-Winning Native American Christian Author; Poet-Storyteller & Speaker; Enrolled Citizen of the Potawatomi Nation

Actor Best Known for "The Twilight Saga," "Descendants" & "Julie and the Phantoms"

Film, TV & Theater Actress Known for "Killers of the Flower Moon" & "Under the Bridge"

Musician & Actor Known for "Dead Man," "Resident Alien" & "Reservation Dogs"

Lakota Sioux Actor & Activist; Known for "Twilight," "Banshee" & "The English"

Actress & Writer Known for "Rutherford Falls" & "Reservation Dogs"; Podcaster, "Woman of Size"; Native American Rights Activist

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

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

Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health