IITIO Elder Gordon Yellowman to Feature as Speaker at 2025 Sovereignty Symposium

Chief Gordon Yellowman Sr. (Cheyenne), renowned artist and IITIO Elder, will feature among speakers on the 2025 Sovereignty Symposium June 12 morning panel on Healthcare and Healing, on the topic of

“Restoring Balance: Indigenous Approaches to Health and Well-Being.”

He will also be providing the Opening Ceremony Camp Call and the Closing Prayer for the 2025 Sovereignty Symposium.

Mr. Yellowman is Peace Chief, Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation.

Gordon Yellowman, Peace Chief Cheyenne & Arapaho Nation, Leads Opening Prayer at IITIO Convention

Chief Gordon Yellowman, Sr., is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. He has extensive knowledge of Cheyenne history, customs, traditions and religious beliefs. Has 20+ years, experience working and administering federal and tribal programs. Gordon has curated 5 exhibitions on various cultural and art topics of Cheyenne and Arapaho arts and traditional arts. He is co-author of numerous exhibition catalogs and scholarly texts. Most recent the Donald Danforth Jr., Collection, at the St. Louis Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri. A quick summary of Chief Gordon Yellowman Sr. is as follows:

Currently serves as the Tribal Historian for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Department of Language and Culture
Assistant Executive Director of Education, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.
2015-19 Member, Native American Leadership Council, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
2016 September, Essay Published for Plains Indian Art of the Early Reservation Era: The Donald Danforth Jr. Collection at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
2016 “Honored One” Sovereignty Symposium, Sovereignty Inc., OKC, Okla.
2012 “Honored One” Red Earth, Inc., Red Earth Arts Festival.
2012, Co-Instructor with Dr. Jerry Bread entitled; Tribal Government and Leadership Evolvement, Native American Indian Studies, University of Oklahoma.
2007-15 Adjunct Professor, faculty for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, campus of Southwestern Oklahoma State University class titled; Southern Plains Indian Art and Native Belief Systems.
2010 Essay Published for “Infinity of Nations” National Museum of American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.
1991-89 Oklahoma State University, discipline Architectural Technology Oklahoma State University, OKC campus.
26 years, work experience for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Government.
20 years of working with federal mandates, NAGPRA, NMAI and NHPA.
Served as Chairman, Repatriation Review Committee, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.