Keith Richotte, Jr. is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Director of the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program and Professor at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Richotte has served his tribal nation as an Associate Justice on the Turtle Mountain Tribal Court of Appeals since 2009 and also serves as the Chief Justice of the Spirit Lake Tribal Court of Appeals. His scholarship focuses on federal Indian law, tribal law, tribal constitutionalism, and the relationship between tribal nations and the U.S. Constitution. He received his J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School, his LL.M. from the IPLP Program he now directs, and his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota.


Zoë Wise (Muscogee (Creek) Nation) graduated from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law in 2025 where she received a certificate in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy. After law school she clerked for Chief Justice Carney of the Alaska Supreme Court. While at the College of Law she served as Editor in Chief of the Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, as a Law Clerk for the Tohono O’odham Judicial Branch, and as a Research Assistant working on the Supreme Court Indian Law Database. Before law school Zoë was a paralegal and an Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Zoë earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and her BA in English from Western Washington University.


Jon Marthaler is a graduate of the University of Arizona Eller College of Management, with a master’s degree in management information systems. He did the work to turn this project from a data set into a website.