Peter Perkins Pitchlynn (1806-1881) was a prominent Choctaw leader during the removal period, and played a major role in building the national tribal government in the nineteenth century. He was the son of John Pitchlynn, a white trader, and Sophia Folsom, a mixed-blood Choctaw. Educated as a youth at local schools, he attended the Choctaw Academy in Kentucky and the University of Nashville in 1827-28.
Marcia Haag is Professor of Linguistics Emerita at the University of Oklahoma. She is the co-author of Choctaw Language and Culture: Chahta Anumpa, volumes 1 and 2.
Henry Willis, a native speaker of Choctaw, is a Choctaw community teacher. Both Haag and Willis are linguistic consultants for the Language Program, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Clara Sue Kidwell, former Assistant Director for Cultural Resources at the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., is retired as the founding director of the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina. She is the author of Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970.