Rodney Frey was a professor of ethnography and Distinguished Humanities Professor at the University of Idaho. Now a professor emeritus and hospital lay chaplain, he holds a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Colorado, and since the mid-1970s has partnered with tribal communities including the Crow, Coeur d'Alene, Nez Perce, Warm Springs, and Wasco. He is the author of Stories That Make the World: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest, The World of the Crow: As Driftwood Lodges, and Landscape Traveled by Coyote and Crane: The World of the Schitsu'umsh--Coeur d'Alene Indians.
Leonard Bends is a retired Sundance Chief.
