Larry Sellers

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Larry Sellers Osage, Cherokee, and Lakota. Traditional ceremonial leader and actor who played the leading Indian role Cloud Dancing (for which he received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor) in the popular series “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”. While on Dr. Quinn, Sellers is credited as the show’s Native American Consultant. His other roles were […]

Lisa Tiger

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Lisa Tiger Muscogee, Creek, Seminole, Cherokee and Irish descent. HIV/AIDS educator and motivational speaker. Lisa has been doing AIDS education since learning she was infected with the virus in 1992.

Elizabeth Kucinich

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Elizabeth Kucinich British organic food and vegan advocate. She has produced two documentaries and is married to the retired eight-term US Government affairs, policy and partnerships professional, Documentary Producer, and wife of Former US Representative from Ohio Congressman and two-time Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.

Montano Rain

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Montano Rain Born Jicarilla and Mescalero Apache and Spanish-Sephardic lineal descendant, he holds familial ties to the Ohkay Owingeh, Lakota, Pawnee, Pojoaque, Diné, Paiute, Southern Ute, Haudenosaunee, Mescalero Apache, and Lakota Nations. Rain’s grandfather was born on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation, and his maternal great-great-grandmother was born on the Mescalero Apache Reservation. Rain former board […]

Sage Galesi

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Sage Galesi Born Jicarilla and Mescalero Apache, Spanish-Sephardic and Italian lineal descendant, she holds familial ties to the Ohkay Owingeh, Lakota, Pawnee, Pojoaque, Diné, Paiute, Southern Ute, Haudenosaunee. Sage’s grandfather was born on the Jicarilla Reservation and her great-great-grandma from her mother’s father side was born on the Mescalero reservation. Sage a former board member […]

Esai Morales

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Esai Morales Esai Morales Puerto RicanEasi co-founded the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, created to advance the presence of Latinos in the media, telecommunications and entertainment industries. Film credits include Bad Boys, La Bamba, Rapa Nui, Mi Familia, Fast Food Nation, Paid in Full, The Line, Atlas Shrugged: Part II, Jarhead II: Field of Fire, […]

LaDonna Harris

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LaDonna Harris LaDonna Harris ComancheLaDonna has devoted her life to building coalitions that create change. She has been a consistent and ardent advocate on behalf of Tribal America. In addition, she continues her activism in the areas of civil rights, environmental protection, the women’s movement and world peace. She is the founder and president of Americans […]

Chief Leonard Crow Dog

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Chief Leonard Crow Dog Chief Leonard Crow Dog Sicangu LakotaLakota Medicine man, Spiritual leader, Spiritual intercessor, and story teller of Lakota tribe in Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota of Turtle Island who became well known during the Lakota takeover of the town of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1973, known as the […]

Chief Oren Lyons

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Chief Oren Lyons Chief Oren Lyons, is Faithkeeper of the Wolf Clan, Onondaga Council of Chiefs of the Hau de no sau nee, or Six Nations — Onandaga, Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora. Chief Lyons helped establish the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations in 1982. He has been very active defending indigenous […]

Michael O’Keefe

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Michael O’Keefe Board Member, Red Nation Celebration Institute Golden Globe Award Winner, Academy Award Nominee, Actor. known for his roles as Danny Noonan in Caddyshack, Ben Meechum in The Great Santini, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Darryl Palmer in the Neil Simon movie The Slugger’s Wife. He also appeared […]

Tokala Clifford

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Tokala Clifford Tokala Clifford, Oglala Lakota. Tokala is a direct descendant of the Lakota (Sioux) Holy Man Black Elk on his mother’s side.  Actor. known for Wind River (2017), Yellowstone, Into the West, Dreamkeeper. Tokala was the youngest person ever to represent a nation before a session of the United States Congress. Tokala Represented the Oglala […]

Paul Audley

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Paul Audley Paul Audley, President of Film L.A. Inc. Audley, has been Arizona state director of the Trust for Public Land and has an extensive background in community-based nonprofit organizations and government, including having served as Mayor of Fairfield, Conn., and deputy secretary of State in Connecticut.

A Martinez

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A Martinez Board Member, Red Nation Celebration Institute Mexican and Apache on his father’s side, Piegan Blackfeet and Northern European on his mother’s. Actor, writer, singer with roles in the daytime soap operas Santa Barbara, General Hospital, One Life to Live, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Days of Our Lives, and the primetime dramas L.A. Law, Profiler, and Longmire. His feature films […]

Theda Newbreast

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Theda Newbreast Theda Newbreast, Blackfeet Nation (Makoyohsokovi – Blackfoot name) was born and raised on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, with a Relocation experience in the SF Bay area during the Civil rights Movement, entering UC Berkeley at 17 years old and receiving her B.S.W & M.P.H. in Health Promotion and Prevention.  Theda is a founding board […]

Shari Belafonte

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Shari Belafonte Shari Belafonte, Haudenosaunee on mothers side Marquerite Byrd and Taino on fathers side Harry Belafonte. Actress, Model, Writer, Singer. She is known for her work on Hotel (1983), Plastic Daydream (2018), Primrose Lane (2015). Currently on The Morning Show  (TV series) and Sistas (TV Series).  She is married to Sam Behrens since December 31, 1989.

Aubrey Hicks

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Aubrey Hicks Executive Secretary, Red Nation Celebration Institute Executive Director at USC;  USC Price Sol Price School of Public Policy | Bedrosian Center

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