BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Mr. Edward Lohnes Jr., Chairperson /CEO-Designate **

Minneapolis, MN

Mr. Lohnes is currently one of the Directors of the Division of Indian
Works sponsored by MCC. in Minneapolis, MN. Previously he was a
development and recruitment manager with Peak Staffing, Inc., one of the
Twin Cities largest temporary employment agencies for minorities. He has
served as the president of the Minnesota League of Human Rights
Commissions and has been a long term member of various Human and Civil
Rights Commissions in addition to the Minnesota State League. He was also
CEO and board member of the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) held in
the Twin Cities in 1995 were over 8,000 Native Youth in Olympic style
athletic competition and cultural activities.

He has been employed at the American Indian OIC in the area of job
training and placement. He came to the AIOIC after serving over 10 years
with the Minnesota State Department of Human Rights as an investigator and
supervisor. Mr. Lohnes and his father Ed Lohnes, Sr., are both members of
the Spirit Lake Dakota Reservation of North Dakota. Both are direct
descendents of early Sioux Chief Waantan from that region. Edward Jr, is
also a highly decorated Marine Corp Vietnam Veteran. In addition he has
served for the past two years as the president of the Minneapolis Umpires
Association. He has also consented to become the paid CEO of Diversity
during the Dakota Education and Reconciliation Project series once
salaries are funded.

Dr. John M. Taborn, Ph.D. Vice Chairperson **

Minneapolis, MN

Dr. Taborn is a licensed psychologist and President of J Taborn Associates
Inc., a comprehensive psychological services firm in the Twin Cities. He
is an Associate Professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota in the
Department of Educational Psychology and former Chair of the Department of
Afro-American and African Studies. His research reflects his interest in
the mental health of minority groups as well as the impact of racism on
personal and organizational functioning in the public and private sectors.
Over the years, he has consulted with the leadership and staff of numerous
businesses, corporations, public and private schools, colleges and
universities throughout Minnesota and U.S. Dr. Taborn frequently serves as
an expert witness by the courts and legal system in cases relating to
discrimination and family custody issues.

In addition, various State and National law enforcement agencies and
professional athletic corporations including the National Football League
(NFL), the Minnesota Vikings and Timberwolves, etc. regularly utilize his
Clinical expertise. John is also retired as a Captain with the U.S. Navy
and is a Bush Leadership Fellow recipient. He has authored numerous
articles on Diversity and Overcoming Racism in Education, and serves as a
consultant to the Minnesota Supreme Courts Advisory Committee on Racial
Bias, a Life-Member of “Who’s Who Among Black Americans” and serves on the
board of directors of the Stairstep Foundation. Recently Dr. Taborn was
honored by the Midwest Psychologists Association as its founder and for
his Lifetime service.

Dr. Sandra A. Crossett, Ph.D. Secretary/Treasurer**

St. Cloud, MN

Dr. Crossett has 24 years of experience in public education throughout the
Midwest, 11 of that as a special education teacher and 13 as a school
psychologist. During her career she has worked in eight districts across
Minnesota and Wisconsin with a variety of cultures and economic settings.
She is currently employed in the Osseo-Maple Grove Public School District
(MN’s 4th largest) and is serving her third term as chairperson of the
District’s Psychology Department, which consists of 17 Psychologists. Her
areas of specialty in the school system involve multicultural and bias
free assessment and program planning and consultation for children with
autism and emotional disturbances. Recently she served on the state of
Minnesota’s Committee on Public Education that helped develop and author
the new criteria for educational autism spectrum disorders.

Dr. Crossett is also a licensed psychologist specializing in the
assessment and treatment of children and trauma and abuse victims. In
addition, she serves as a In-home therapist and the Administrative
Director of Family Visions, a Twin City, non-profit community-based agency
that delivers professional counseling services directed toward family
preservation and/or family reunification. Besides her work and service
with the Diversity Foundation, she has also served on numerous other
boards and committees involving human rights, mental health services, and
groups promoting community change.

Lyle Rustad, Executive Director **

St. Cloud, MN

Mr. Rustad has been the principal organizer and overall production
manager in developing the Diversity Foundation, its network and services,
to-date. For more than 30 years, he has worked and volunteered in
organizations such as the American Indian Movement, St. Cloud Area Indian
Center, North American Indigenous Games, US Youth Games, Boys Clubs of
America, NAACP, and other human services, many related to youth and
criminal justice programs, and most reflecting concern for racial justice.
A graduate of the University of Minnesota where he studied social work,
Mr. Rustad pursued graduate study in education and rehabilitation
counseling at the University of South Carolina and, after serving in
Vietnam, was a psychiatric social worker in military corrections. Later,
as director of the 1,200-member Greater Columbia (SC) Boys Club,
supervising more than 100 staff and volunteers, he facilitated its first
racial integration, and inclusion of children with disabilities. He
co-founded the South Carolina Child Abuse Council and the People Against
Sexual Assault program.

In Minnesota, in addition to the Diversity Foundation, Inc., he was
producer, director and co-founder with Dr. Tom Eiselt of Diversity
Productions of Mankato. He has volunteered in support of Vietnam and Gulf
War veterans, in chemical abuse prevention and recovery, in organizations
serving persons with disabilities, in a St. Paul Police Department youth
mentoring program, the St. Cloud Mayor’s Violence Prevention Council, the
Central Minnesota Multicultural Task Force and NAACP, and the St. Cloud
team of the Minnesota Churches’ Anti-Racism Initiative. He coordinated
filming and assisted with the 1995 North American Indigenous Games, the
1995-98 Birch Coulee "Gathering of Kinship" healing events, and the 1997
dedication of Reconciliation Park in Mankato, honoring living Dakota
elders and the memory of the 38 Dakota warriors hung at Mankato following
the 1862 "Dakota Conflict."

L.S. (Lou) Schoen, Consultant ** Minneapolis, MN

Mr. Schoen is a consultant on issues of racism/anti-racism and
multicultural diversity in institutions, on communication and
reconciliation, race and religion, and on non-profit financial
development. He retired in July 1998 as a commission director for the
Minnesota Council of Churches (MCC) where he was lead organizer of the
ecumenical Minnesota Churches’ Anti-Racism Initiative (MCARI), and
supervised the Minnesota Indian Ecumenical Ministry and MCC Refugee
Services, among others, and managed the Sin Fronteras migrant loan
program. He coordinated cross-cultural studies for the United Theological
Seminary of the Twin Cities (1993-95), and a study of the potential for
collaboration in multicultural programming for the Minnesota Consortium of
Theological Schools (1993-98).

In addition to consulting, Lou remains active as an anti-racism
trainer/facilitator and volunteer organizer in MCARI and in the Episcopal
Church where he has held several volunteer leadership positions in the
Diocese of Minnesota, regionally and nationally, as well as in his parish.
He is author of After Jubilee: Justice…or Exile? – The Church in the
Global Economy (Episcopal Parish Services, New York, NY, September, 2000).

He studied political science and organizational development and holds
degrees in journalism and religious leadership. A 1963-64 CBS Foundation
Fellow at Columbia University, he also spent 30 years as a newspaper,
radio and television journalist and corporate public relations executive.

Mr. Jerry L. Carter, Journalist/Marketing/Internet Information Specialist

Annandale, MN

Mr. Carter is an Internet Information Specialist, web site designer
and program specialist for Lakedale Communications, He started and
designed the company's Internet Help Desk. Formerly a county
government reporter for the St. Cloud Times, the Duluth News-Tribune
and other Greater Minnesota newspapers. His journalism experience
includes coverage of city and county government, racial
discrimination, socioeconomic developments, and human relations. His
heritage (Spanish and Southwestern Native American) gives him the
ability to enhance news stories through a minority perspective. As a
volunteer with the St. Cloud Area Indian Center, Mr. Carter begin to
present a more balanced account of news stories related to Native
American issues for area publications. He serves Diversity in the
area of media relations and is currently working toward creating and
upgrading Diversity Foundation projects’ web sites. He also serves
on numerous other civic and non-profit boards and organizations in
his home town, including being a Cub Scout Leader.

James B. Jensen, Attorney/ Small Business Owner

St. Cloud, MN

Mr. Jensen and his wife Julie, are currently co-owners and operators of
the Wild Bird Center of St. Cloud. He previously worked over 10 years in
product development in the legal department at Bankers Systems, Inc.,also
in St Cloud. He is a graduate of the William Mitchell College of Law, with
experience in agricultural and small business financial planning. In
addition he has done extensive legal work, held board memberships with
non-profit agencies, senior citizen law, NSP mediation, as well as working
in numerous social and environmental organizations and legal services for
St. Cloud, Winona County as well as other communities around the state of
Minnesota. Jim's Vita is also presently being updated.

Dr. Bill McNeil, Pathologist, Chief of Winona Community Hospital.

Winona, MN

Dr. William "Bill" McNeil, Director of Pathology and Clinical
Laboratory Medicine at Winona Community Memorial Hospital, Winona,
Minnesota

Dr. McNeil has served as the Director of Pathology and Clinical
Laboratory Medicine (Dacota Pathology Ltd.) at the Winona Community
Memorial Hospital (WCMH) since 1990. He has also served several
years as President of the WCMH Medical Staff in addition to chairing
& serving on many other Medical & Professional Committees at the
Winona hospital. During the 1980's, he was the Director of Pathology
and Clinical Lab Medicine at the Associates in Laboratory Medicine
Ltd. in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Previous to that he completed his
Medical Residency and served as an Associate Pathologist at the
Weland Clinical Laboratory in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Bill completed his undergraduate work in Chemistry & graduated Phi
Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa in 1970. In 1975, He received
his medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine
in Iowa City. He is a member of the Minnesota Medical Society,
College of American Pathologists, American Society of Clinical
Pathologists, and the Minnesota and Iowa Associations of
Pathologists. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the
Winona Community Foundation, WinonaChoice and the Winona Independent
Physicans (IPA) in addition to numerous other professional and
Community memberships. Dr. McNeil has been married to his wife Joan
(an artist & teacher) for over 30 years, and together they have 3
children: Ross, Erin and Collin. In addition to his varied interests
in the Medical field, he is an avid Cross-Country Skiier, gardener
and loves to read. He competed Professionally as a Cross Country
Skiier for many years.

This Multi-talented Medical Doctor has come along ways from his
boyhood roots, where he was raised on a small ranch near the Ft.Peck
Dakota Indian Reservation in Northeast Montana. Like his grandmother
and father before him, he takes pride in maintaining his Dakota
enrollment status at the Ft. Peck Reservation. In 1966, Bill
graduated after attending and completing all 12 years of his Public
education with the Froid Public School System where he was Class
Valedictarian and also a member of their Championship teams in
Football and Basketball. He candidly added that every student in his
school had to participate in sports in order for Froid to have
enough members to field a team. (ie their football team competed in
a Nine-man team league).

Because of Dr. McNeil's broad range of talents and experiences, he
brings the Diversity Foundation a unique perspective and compassion
for reaching out to persons of all cultures and professions in
Minnesota and the Midwest. Being a Dakota enrollee and having lived
and worked in Winona (Wapasha Prairie) for nearly 25 years, Bill has
been instrumental in helping the Diversity Foundation raise funds
and awareness for our projected Dakota educational Documentary
series. The series begins with the Wapasha Prairie story, (the
pre-European history of Winona, Minnesota.) featuring the lives of
Dakota Chiefs' Wabasha I, II & III.

Mr. Oscar Reed, Creator & Director of programs for youth and families
challenged by poverty

Minneapolis, MN

A former outstanding running back for Colorado State University that
led to a legendary nine-year career as a running back for the
Minnesota Vikings that included seven NFL Division championships,
along with 3 Super Bowl appearances. Mr. Reed later served 15 years
as youth programs director for the Minneapolis Public Housing
Authority. He is now director of the Community Empowerment and
Prevention Program in Minneapolis, and a consultant on the circle
process for preventing violence and resolving conflict. With fellow
Viking legend Jim Marshall, he is co-founder of a youth and family
service agency, Life’s Missing Link, Inc. He has an extensive
background in the Native American restorative justice program, and
in leading programs for youth development, employment and
pre-apprenticeship, as well as many other experiences related to
volunteerism, community Public Relations and charitable
fund-raising.

Sgt. Mamie Singleton, Supervisor Investigator, St. Paul Police Department

St. Paul, MN

Sgt. Singleton has over 24 years of experience serving in the patrol,
investigative and administrative divisions of the St. Paul Police
Department. In addition to being one of the first African American females
in Minnesota law enforcement, she was also selected to serve as one of
first female field training officers for 10 of those years. Prior to
graduating from the St. Paul Police Academy, Ms. Singleton received a
scholarship to study communication at Macalester College. She has since
completed the criminal justice program at the College of St. Thomas and is
continuing to pursue her Education in Business Management at the
University of Minnesota.

Active in church and community, Mamie is founder (1994) and director of
the Youth Initiative Mentoring Academies (YIMA) which partners adult law
enforcement and community mentors with “ at-risk youth” in tutoring and
aviation flight training; In addition, she’s a founding member of the
Ramsey County Community Sentencing Program, co-founder of the African
American Breast Cancer Alliance of Minnesota; board member of the
Minnesota Association of Black Physicians and of the American Cancer
Society, Advisory Board president at the Free At Last Church of God in
Christ and assistant to the St. Paul Central District missionary of her
denomination. The St. Paul Urban League and Free at Last church honored
her with their prestigious Community Service and Millennium Awards for
outstanding service. Recently St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly presented Sgt.
Singleton with the City's Karl Neid award for 2002, given annually to the
City's top employee who does the most for the entire community through
their off-duty public service.

Travis Zimmerman, Director, Minnesota Family Investment Program services,
American Indian Opportunities Industrialization Center (AIOIC)

Minneapolis, MN

As a Native youth who’s family came from the Reservation “Rez”(Grand
Portage band of the Ojibwe), Mr. Zimmerman has always felt the need and
purpose to help improve conditions and life for all Indian people and the
commitment to serve as a “unifying liaison” between all races and
cultures. After completing military service and graduating from St. John's
University, he has worked in several areas of youth development, Race
relations and Human Rights with special emphasis in American Indian
cultural recovery and advancement. Prior to his current position, he
provided family self-sufficiency and support services on behalf of the
American Indian Chamber of Commerce in Minneapolis and was a lead
organizer and Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Club of the Mille
Lacs Band of Ojibwe (the first ever on a Minnesota reservation).

From 1995-97, as executive director of the St. Cloud Area American Indian
Center, Mr. Zimmerman helped develop programs to provide services and
opportunities to the urban Indian population never before served. He was
instrumental in starting the annual “Unity Pow Wows” designed to create
awareness and improve understanding between the Native and Non-Native
populations in St. Cloud and surrounding Central Minnesota. He has served
on the St. Cloud Human Rights Commission and worked with “at risk youth”
as a substance abuse/Youth counselor and as a community liaison worker
with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota, and at the St. Cloud
Children's Home.

Nate Emerson, Vice President SouthEast Technical College Winona & RedWing, MN

Bio under development.

CONSULTANTS

Cynthia A.(Lindquist) Mala, Executive Director, North Dakota Indian
Affairs Commission Bismarck, ND

Ms. Mala is currently the Executive Director of the University of North
Dakota's Division of Indian Health Studies. She served previously as the
Exec. Director of the ND Indian Affairs Commision. Cindy was appointed to
that position by Gov. Ed Schafer in 1998, following a 17-year career in
Tribal health services and education. She continues to serve as an adjunct
assistant professor of community medicine and rural health at the
University of North Dakota School of Medicine, and as an advisor on Indian
health issues to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Of Dakotah-Scandinavian
parentage, Ms. Mala grew up on the Spirit Lake Dakota Reservation,
attended high school in Grand Forks, ND. and earned a bachelors degree in
Indian Studies and English at the University of North Dakota (UND) -
directly engaging her heritage, in the face of a mixture of negative
stereotypes imposed by the dominant culture.

She earned a Master's Degree in Public Administration at the University of
South Dakota and is currently a Bush Leadership Fellow, pursuing her
doctoral study in educational leadership at the University of North
Dakota. Her Ph.D. thesis examines Human Rights issues and the early
Dakota/Lakota (Sioux) Treaties and their effects on the Dakota People
today. This study integrates well with Diversity Foundation’s On-going
Educational Documentary Series telling the Early History of the Once Great
Sioux (Dakota) Nation and is serving as one of DF's Major Dakota advisors
for our Documentary series.

Prior to her current appointment, Ms. Mala served as Senior Advisor to the
Director of the Indian Health Service in Washington, DC; staff for the
North Dakota Health Task Force, and as Associate Director of the
University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health. She wrote and
developed the Northern Plains Healthy Start initiative, which was designed
to reduce high infant death rates in 19 American Indian communities in a
four-state area. In 1999, she was honored as one of ten top “Women in
Government” award winners by Good Housekeeping magazine, the Ford
Foundation and the Women’s Center at Rutgers University. Ms. Mala
estimates that half of her time as Director of the N.D. Indian Affairs
Commission is spent dispelling myths about Indians since the Native
American perspective of history is rarely told. As an Educational
Consultant/ Advisor to the Diversity Foundation, she expresses optimism
that together our collaborate vision and Documentary Series will help:
“promote better understanding, relations and healing among and between
both cultures and we can grow together for a better future.”

Andrew (Andy) Paul Favorite, Educator; Archivist, Historian, White Earth
Reservation

Waubun, MN

After 25 years as an educator, primarily for Indian children or their
teachers, Mr. Favorite in 1997 became the Director of Archives and History
for the White Earth band of Ojibwe, building upon prior work as an Ojibwe
linguist, storyteller and developer of educational resources on Native
American Treaties, language, culture and values. Mr. Favorite is an
enrolled member of White Earth, but also counts his descent from the
Yankton Sioux “Dakota” Reservation. He also spent two years as economic
development planner for the Grand Portage Reservation, and prior to his
current position, served as executive director of the White Earth Land
Recovery Project, which seeks to reacquire properties lost or sold by the
White Earth Band from its original reservation allotted under a treaty
with the US Government.

Mr. Favorite earned an MA in educational psychology and studied in the
Educational Leadership Doctoral Program at the University of St. Thomas,
where he also became the first Native American ever inducted into their
Athletic Hall of Fame. He has worked as a recruiter, advisor, counselor,
program administrator or curriculum developer at the University of St.
Thomas, the University of Minnesota-Duluth, as well as Public and Native
American schools throughout Minneapolis and St. Paul. From 1990-93, he
served as Educational Director and Home School Coordinator for the
Shakopee M’dewakanton Sioux (Dakota) Reservation. He currently serves on
numerous boards and committees including the White Earth Tribal College
Board of Trustees and Elder Mental Health Advisory Committee. Andy has
broad expertise in the history of oppression of indigenous peoples in
Minnesota and the USA, and is in high demand as an educator and public
speaker.

Charles Durrell (Chuck) Robertson (Deceased and missed), Sr., Writer/ Consultant/ Collaborator,
Minneapolis, MN

Mr. Robertson will be one of the principal writers for Diversity
Foundation’s Wapasha’s Prairie and Early History of the Dakota (Sioux)
educational and Documentary Series. Most recently, he has become a
theatrical/ film/ video producer and playwright of national renown. In
1996, he founded Prophecy Productions, a Native American theatre company,
which has produced regularly at casinos, universities and Native American
gatherings since 1998, and introduced the play, Born Again Savage, at the
Aboriginal Voices Festival in Toronto in June, 1999. He is writing the
story of tribal encounters with the US Government for Eyapaha Institute,
which is led by actor/producer Floyd Red Crow Westerman in Los Angeles.

Mr. Robertson has more than 34 years experience as an educator and
counselor, and developed the first Indian Studies Program at Black Hills
State University in South Dakota in 1968. He attributes much of his life’s
work and commitment to his early days growing up on the Sisseton-Wahpeton
Dakota Reservation (where he is enrolled) and attending the Flandreau
Reservation Boarding School. Of Dakota and Ojibwe heritage, he became a
program analyst with the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity’s Indian Desk
in 1970, designing and initiating funding for M.A. and Ph.D. study for
Indian students at Harvard, Penn State, and Arizona State Universities and
the University of Minnesota – the first graduate training offered Indian
students in educational administration.

Later, he was the founding chair of the Minneapolis Indian Health Board as
well as one of the founders and principal curriculum writers for the
culture-based K-12 Heart of the Earth Survival School in Minneapolis. He
also administered the Red School House in St. Paul as well as serving as a
lecturer at public and tribal colleges. He has helped develop a program of
chemical dependency treatment and recovery for the State of Minnesota and
defined a Minnesota law that authorizes schools to hire Native American
people to teach cultural information.

COLLABORATORS

Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Tribe, Agency Villiage, South Dakota

Mayor Jerry Miller and City of Winona, Winona, MN.

Project FINE, Winona, MN, co-sponsor of Episode 1: Wapasha’s Prairie

Winona County Historical Society, Winona, MN

Ernest and Vernell Wabasha (7th generation descendant of the first Chief
Wapasha)Lower Sioux Res.

Leonard Wabasha (8th generation descendant…) Mpls., Lower Sioux
Reservation, Morton, MN

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, Minneapolis

Vanguard Productions, Winona, MN

Blue Moon Productions, Minneapolis

Diversity Productions, Mankato, MN

Spirit Lake Dakota Nation, Ft. Totten, ND.

MAJOR ADVISORS

Daniel Pierce Bergin, Producer-Director Twin Cities Public Television

Dr. Roger Bordeaux, Supt. of Sisseton-Wahpeton Schools (Tiospa Zina),
Agency Village, SD

Dr. William Crozier, Retired Chair, History Department, St. Mary’s
University, Winona; board member/ historian, Winona Historical Society

Jerry Dearly, Oglala Lakota, popular pow-wow MC; secondary cultural
teacher, St. Paul Public Schools

Dr. Tom Eiselt, producer-director, Diversity Productions, Mankato, MN

Barbara A. Frey, International Human Rights Law Consultant, St. Paul

Deanna Gallagher, Education Director, Minnesota Advocates for Human
Rights, Minneapolis

Andrew J. Grey, Sr., Chair, Sisseton/Wahpeton Tribal Council, Agency
Village, SD

James Griffin, Deputy Chief (ret.), St. Paul Police Department; historian,
author, board member, Minnesota Historical Society.

Dr. Gwen Griffin, Professor Dept of English, Minnesota State
University@Mankato; Dakota writer/ consultant, SWST enrolled member

Marcie (Taylor) Halfe- Social Worker/ Dakota advisor & Grandaughter of Eli
Taylor, Sioux Valley Dakota Reserve, Manitoba, Canada

Robin Hickman, independent producer of HBO special, The Gordon Parks
Story; former executive producer at KTCA-TV, St. Paul

Mike Hotaine, historian, former Chief, Sioux Valley Reserve, Manitoba,
long-time international pow-wow MC, Dakota culture and language teacher.

David Larson, historian, educator, Wapasha descendant; former Chair, Lower
Sioux Tribal Council, Morton, MN

Dr. Eldon Lawrence, historian, President, Sisseton/Wahpeton Tribal
College, Agency Village, SD

Erich Longie, President, Little Hoop Tribal College, Spirit Lake
Reservation, Fort Totten, ND

Tim Longie, elder advisor/historian, Member and former Chairman, Spirit
Lake Tribal Council, Ft. Totten, North Dakota

Kenneth Lohnes, Spirit Lake Casino Manager, Ft. Totten Children and
DayCare Council,Chr., past SL. TERO Chair.

Virginia Mas, Sisseton-Wahpeton Tribal Council mbr, Elder advisor and
Dakota language teacher, Agency Villiage, South Dakota

Frank McKay, historian, former Chief, Sioux Valley Dakota Tribal Council,
current Police Chief of Dakota/Ojibwe joint Police Department, Manitoba,
Canada.

Eva McKay, Sioux Valley Reserve, Manitoba, Elder Education Advisor to the
Canadian Government

Billy Mills, motivational speaker, Los Angeles, CA; legendary Oglala
Lakota 1964 Olympic distance running champion, one of first athletes
honored on a General Mills Wheaties box

Elizabeth Morgan, Cultural Resource Management Director, Spirit Lake
Reservation, Fort Totten, ND

Myra Pearson, financial accountant, Little Hoop Tribal College; former
Chair, Spirit Lake DakotaTribal Council, Fort Totten, ND
Mark Peterson, Director, Winona County Historic Society

Doris Pratt, Dakota language and Cultural teacher, Sioux Valley Dakota
Reserve, Manitoba

Chief Oliver Red Cloud, Chair, Laramie Treaty Commission, Pine Ridge, SD

Ed Red Owl, Dakota advisor/ historian, Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribal
planner and grant writer/consultant

Mike Selvage, Dakota advisor/ historian, former Sisseton-Wahpeton Tribal
Council member, current SWST Gaming Commisoner

Rodney Steiner, Wabasha descendant, family/ Native American Historian from
Santee Dakota Reservation, Nebraska; Independent Businessman, now Kansas
City, KS

Albert Taylor, historian, Dakota language teacher, Sioux Valley Reserve,
Manitoba

Jake Thompson, Vice Chr. Sisseton-Wahpeton Tribal Council, Historian and
educator @ SWST Schools, Agency Villiage, South Dakota

Ernest and Vernell Wabasha (Wapasha VII), Lower Sioux Reservation, Morton,
MN

Leonard Wabasha (Wapasha VIII), Dakota language & Cultural Educator,
former Computer Specialist, Honeywell, Mpls, Lower Sioux Res, Morton, Mn.

Tom Wilson, Executive Producer, KSTP-TV, St. Paul, MN.