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prosecutor and liaison to Indian tribal governments in western
Oklahoma. He is the founder and President of the Oklahoma
Indian Bar Association. Mikkanen graduated from Dartmouth
College and earned his Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School.
Recently, he received the US Attorney General’s Award for
Exceptional Service in Indian Country. He is interested in and a
collector of Indian art and formerly served as Chair the Board of
Trustees of the Jacobson Foundation in Norman, Oklahoma.
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STEPHANIE PRATT, PhD (Eastern Dakota), descends
DAVID WINFIELD NORMAN (American-Norwegian)
is Chair of the Museum Studies Program at the Institute of
American Indian Art. She is a PhD candidate at the University
of Washington, where she earned her Masters Degree in
Sociocultural Anthropology.
is a writer and art historian living in Oslo. He has studied at the
University of Glasgow and the University of Oslo where his
focus was contemporary art and culture in the circumpolar North
and North Atlantic regions. His writing on Greenlandic art and
exhibition strategies is in CONDITIONS and the catalogue to
the Danish-Greenlandic pavilion at the 13th Venice Biennale.
DG NANOUK OKPIK (Iñupiaq-Inuk) is originally from
Alaska’s Arctic Slope, and her family lives in Barrow. She earned
a BFA in Creative Writing from IAIA and an MFA in Creative
Writing from Stonecoast College. okpik was awarded the
Truman Capote Fellowship. Corpse Whale (University of Arizona
Press, 2012) is her first full-length book. Her poetry has been
published in Touchstone, Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry, Many
Mountains Moving, Poet Lore, Washington Square, Red Ink, and
Sentence. Her work has been anthologized in Effigies: An Anthology
of Indigenous Writing from the Pacific Rim (Salt Publishing, 2009)
and Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas (University of
Arizona Press, 2011).
from the Sisseton-Wahpeton band by her paternal grandmother,
Rosa Daisy Fleury. Pratt taught art history at Plymouth
University for 19 years. Her book, American Indians in British
Art, 1700–1840 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2005) resulted
from her doctoral research on the visual representation of Native
Americans in European Art. She lives in the United Kingdom.
JESSIE RYKER-CRAWFORD (White Earth Chippewa)
NEEBINNAUKZHIK SOUTHALL (Chippewas of
Rama First Nation) is a graphic designer and artist, working in
portrait photography and body painting. She earned an honors
BFA from Oregon State University’s Graphic Design Program
and the University Honors College, with a minor in Fine Arts.
She created the Native American Graphic Design Project to
increase the visibility of North American Indigenous graphic
artists.
MATTHEW RYAN SMITH, PhD, is a writer, independent
curator, and sessional professor at the OCAD University and
the Haliburton School of the Arts, Fleming College. Currently
based in Toronto, Smith’s writings have appeared in several
Canadian and international publications including Canadian Art,
C Magazine, FUSE, Afterimage, and ArtUS.
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