Alexander Ewen, a member of the Purépecha Nation, is the director of the Solidarity Foundation, a research organization that works on behalf of indigenous peoples. An award-winning journalist and a founding member of the Native American Journalists Association, he is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and papers about Native issues and the coauthor of Voice of Indigenous Peoples: Native People Address the United Nations. Jeffrey Wollock is the research director at the Solidarity Foundation. He is the author of many publications on Native issues as well as scholarly articles and books on other aspects of cultural and intellectual history, including The Noblest Animate Motion: Speech, Physiology, and Medicine in Pre-Cartesian Linguistic Thought, and he also edited the posthumous publication of Frederick Ewen's A Half-Century of Greatness: The Creative Imagination of Europe, 1848-1884.