Conference Speakers:

Confirmed Speakers:

Prof. Carla Pratt J.D. Professor of Law, Texas Wesleyan University (Choctaw Freedmen Descendant)

Prof. Cedric Sunray, American Indian Studies and Tribal Language Instructor, (MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians)

Prof. Robert K. Collins, Asst. Professor of Am. Indian Studies, San Francisco State Univ. (Choctaw)

Dr. Kristy Felenhouse-Giles, Scholar Oklahoma Freedman

Mr. Terry Ligon, Genealogist, Researcher, Publisher (Chickasaw and Chickasaw Freedmen Descendant)

Prof. Jesse Schreir, Asst. Editor, Freedmen and Southern Society Project. Univ. of Maryland. (Scholar on Choctaw Freedmen)

Prof. Art T. Burton, Asst. Prof. American History, Chicago, Illinois (Specialist in Black Cowboys of the Western Frontier)

Angela Y. Walton-Raji, Historian, Genealogist, Author (Choctaw Freedmen Descendant)

Special Guests:

Khadijah Matin, National President, African American Historical & Genealogical Society Inc. (Cherokee Freedmen Descendant)   

Kenneth J. Cooper Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. (Cherokee Freedman Descendant)

Tamela Tenpenny Lewis, Co-Founder, and President, Preservation of African American Cemeteries, Incorporated, & Past President, Arkansas Chapter African American Historical & Genealogical Society.