Speakers

Confirmed speakers so far include:

LOREN ME’-LASH-NE BOMMELYN, Tolowa tradition bearer, Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation

O. BURNETTE, White Mountain Apache

STEVEN CROWCHILD, Tsuut’ina Gunaha Institute Director

AVERY DENNY, Navajo cultural specialist and professor, Diné College

SUNDAY EISELT, Southern Methodist University archaeologist and Jicarilla Apache specialist

CLINE GRIGGS, Jr., White Mountain Apache Tribe

JACK IVES, University of Alberta archaeologist and Promontory specialist

SALISCHITAWN JACKSON, Hoopa Tribal Museum curator

ALLEN JACOB, Dene Sųłiné, Cold Lake First Nation

PHILIP JOACHIM, Grand Prairie Beaver

CRYSTAL LIGHTFOOT, Apache Tribe of Oklahoma

JOYCE McDONOUGH, University of Rochester linguist; Dene Speech Atlas

JESSICA METCALFE, University of British Columbia archaeologist

SALLY RICE, University of Alberta linguist; Pan-Athapaskan Comparative Lexicon and Living Digital Archive of Dene Languages and Cultures

DENI SEYMOUR, independent archaeological researcher and ancestral Apache specialist

JUSTIN SPENCE, University of California, Davis, linguist

BRUCE STARLIGHT, Tsuut’ina Language Commissioner, Tsuut’ina Nation

HENRIETTA STOCKEL, author and historian of Apache culture

DeLORNA STRONG, Apache Tribe of Oklahoma

BILL THOMAS, Grand Prairie Beaver

VERONICA TILLER, historian and independent consultant, Jicarilla Apache Nation

VICTORIA WANIHADIE, Grand Prairie Beaver

RAYMOND YAKELEYA, Tulita Dene First Nation, Dene filmmaker

GABE YANICKI, University of Alberta archaeologist