Marty Kreipe de Montaño is manager of the Resource Center of the George Gustav Heye Center, NMAIs Manhattan branch. A member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi from Kansas, she has an M.A. in Ethnohistory of North American Indians from the University of Kansas. Ms. de Montaño, who lives in New York City, is co-author of The Native American Almanac, selected by Choice magazine as one of the Outstanding Academic Books for 1995.

Tom Coffin, who lives in Phoenix, has an extensive background in painting, sculpture, and architectural restoration. A Kansas native and member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi and Creek tribes, Mr. Coffin received a B.F.A. degree in painting and sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute.