Denise Lajimodiere is a founder of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, a nonprofit focused on supporting boarding school survivors. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa (Ojibwe).

Sean Sherman is a chef born and raised in Pine Ridge, S.D., and a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe. His primary focus is the revitalization and evolution of Indigenous foods systems throughout North America. In 2014, he opened The Sioux Chef, a business providing catering and food education in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area.

Kim Tallbear-Dauphine is an associate professor of Native studies at the University of Alberta in Canada.

Dina Gilio-Whitaker is policy director and senior researcher at the Center for World Indigenous Studies.

Tiya Miles is a professor of history at Harvard University. Her new book, “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake,” traces a gift from an enslaved mother to her daughter as it passed through the generations.

Ted Van Alst is professor and chair of Indigenous Nations and Native American Studies at Portland State University.

Patty Loew is a journalism professor and director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University.

Anton Treuer is a professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University in Minnesota and a staff member of its American Indian Resource Center.