Stephen F. Schneck is chairman of the department of politics and director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., which studies current public policies regarding Catholic social attitudes.

The Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness is a nonprofit organization.

Natalie Moore-Lopez is president of Native Americans at Princeton University.

John W. Hart is professor of Christian ethics at Boston University’s School of Theology and has expertise in American Indians and North American indigenous religions. He has also written several books about Christian environmental theology

Robert Odawi Porter, a member of the Seneca Nation, is senior associate dean and professor at Syracuse University’s College of Law in Syracuse, N.Y. He is Dean’s Research Scholar of Indigenous Nations Law and directs The Center for Indigenous Law, Governance and Citizenship.

Keith E. Sealing, is dean at Syracuse University’s College of Law in Syracuse, N.Y., tracks court cases involving American Indian religious issues. He has researched whether the First Amendment free-exercise clause should prohibit states from banning religiously motivated polygamy.

Thomas J. Carty is an assistant professor of American studies and history and chair of the Social Sciences Department at Springfield College in Springfield, Mass. He specializes in U.S. religion and politics and is the author of A Catholic in the White House? Religion, Politics and John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign.

Oren R. Lyons is a professor of American studies at State University of New York, Buffalo. He is a faithkeeper in the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, responsible for maintaining and representing customs and traditions of his people. He publishes Daybreak, a national American Indian magazine.

gkisedtanamoogk, who is Wampanoag, teaches Native American studies at the University of Maine.