Paul Goble is an award-winning author and illustrator of over 30 children's books. Goble's life-long fascination with Native Americans of the plains began during his childhood when he became intrigued with their spirituality and culture. His illustrations accurately depict Native American clothing, customs and surroundings in brilliant color and detail. Goble researches ancient stories and retells them for his young audience in a manner sympathetic to Native American ways. Mr. Goble has authored or contributed to the following World Wisdom titles:

• Red Cloud’s War: Brave Eagle’s Account of the Fetterman Fight (author/illustrator)
• Horse Raid: The Making of a Warrior (author/illustrator)
• Custer’s Last Battle: Red Hawk’s Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (author/illustrator)
• The Man Who Dreamed of Elk-Dogs (author/illustrator)
• The Woman who Lived with Wolves & Other Stories from the Tipi (author/illustrator)
• The Boy and His Mud Horses: And Other Stories from the Tipi (author/illustrator)
• The Earth Made New: Plains Indian Stories of Creation (author/illustrator)
• Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters (author/illustrator)
• All Our Relatives: Traditional Native American Thoughts about Nature (author/illustrator)
• The "Foreword" to The Gospel of the Redman: Commemorative Edition, by Ernest Thompson Seton
• "Remembering Marco Pallis" in The Way and the Mountain: Tibet, Buddhism, & Tradition, by Marco Pallis

Rodney Frey is an educator and writer on world religions, but particularly on North American Indian traditions. Prof. Frey explains that his professional interests center on "the role and the significance of the oral traditions, particularly as those traditions influence a people's relationships with their ‘landscape’ and mediate the impact of Euro-American changes." He is Professor of American Indian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Idaho. Prof. Rodney Frey wrote the foreword for Paul Goble's Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters .