(seminar speakers are listed here)  

Speakers

Randy & Edith Woodley
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Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley is a Keetoowah Cherokee professor, poet, activist, former pastor, missiologist and historian.  His books include Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision.  

Edith Woodley is an Eastern Shoshone tribal member, speaker, mentor, artist, mother, grandmother and farmer.  

Together the Woodley's have served for many years in culturally relevant ways in indigenous communities, including church leadership, the Indigenous Center For Earth Justice, and Eloheh Farm & Seeds.  

Portland Seminary,  Eloheh 

Henrietta Mann

Dr. Henrietta Mann is a Cheyenne enrolled with the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes and she is the founding President of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College.  She held endowed chairs and taught for many years at Montana State University and other universities and graduate schools.  She has won so many awards that they wouldn't fit on this page.  

Her claim to WJEF fame is being the auntie of Nick Ross-Dick, former Cru Nations staff who helped bring WJEF to Yakima.  

MSU

J Goins

Jerry, also known as "J" Goins (which he prefers), is a longtime friend of WJEF.  He and his wife, Stephanie, live in New Haven, Connecticut, where she has been overseeing the international programs for an anti Child Trafficking organization for about 10 years.  J’s people are located in a Native community in North Carolina that is not federally recognized. 

J has been in cross-cultural ministry for close to 40 years, concentrating most of his efforts since 2005 on health and balance in First Nations communities.  He has a high regard for the values, standards, customs and practices that the First Nations traditionally used to establish this peace and harmony. The Traditional Elder, irreplaceably important to Indigenous communities in the past, is just as vital to healthy communities in the 21st century.  J is here to lead a discussion that will help us understand how to have a more active interchange with Elders.

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​Makaiwa Kanui

Makaiwa Kanui is from Hilo in the Hawaiian Islands and is wife to Maika'i and mother to Kauila and 'Ekemana. She serves with InterVarsity Hawaii as a campus minister of Hui Ho'omana- a Native Hawaiian-focused ministry and also as a justice program coordinator. Makaiwa is fierce in her love for Ke Akua (God), people, land, and self as a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), Chinese, Portuguese, Filipino, and Samoan. The Kanui Family spent 8 months living on Mauna Kea serving as protectors. Creator is calling her forth as a Wisdom Keeper and a Truth Speaker.

Rashawn Ramone

Rashawn Ramone is a campus minister working with Native InterVarsity at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico. He is from the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation.  

Rashawn loves praying with students, working along side his family, and planting new Native student fellowships. Each summer he brings students, staff and friends to his home community of Torreon, NM to experience how Creator is moving in that place--We call this immersion experience: LiSteN (Learn and Serve in Navajoland).

Visions of Restoration    LiSteN 

Wade Adakai

My name is Wade M. Adakai (Adika’í Yázhí, transl. “Little Gambler”) Clans: Tł’ááshchí’í - Táchii’nii - 'Áshiihi - Bit'ahnii. My wife and I live in Window Rock, AZ. I am a graduate of East Texas Baptist University, a co-host of the academic duo Little Cheiis, and recent presenter at the 17th Annual NAIITS Symposium. I am currently a photographer/cinematographer for Tsehootsooi Medical Center, a poet, musician, and aspiring philosopher/theologian with an interest in exploring the Navajo Epistemology and Ontology. Most importantly, I am a follower of Yeshua.

Wade    Little Cheiis