MIKE GATES

Mike is a member of the Seneca Nation of New York.  After he retired from the County of Hawai’i Fire Department, he and his wife Michelle and son Gabriel moved to New York so they could be close to the Seneca culture. 

WILDHORSE SINGERS

The Wildhorse Singers are an intertribal powwow drum group. Since their beginning, the Wildhorse Singers have been committed to the preservation of Indian ways and traditions of helping the Native American community. They promote and live an alcohol and drug free way of life, and encourage younger members of the drum group to stay in school, study hard and to pursue higher education.  Many of the adult members of Wildhorse hold Bachelors Degrees and mentor the younger members of Wildhorse. A stong focus is to provide spiritual and moral support to Native Americans incarcerated in correctional institutions, traveling to various Federal and State prisons to sing and perform as well as to support ceremonies for Native American inmates. The Wildhorse Singers have traveled and sung at many pow wows across the US, and have performed at many charity events, fundraisers, Indian centers, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, junior colleges, universities, museums, and businesses. Wildhorse hosts an annual pow wow in Torrance, California. 

FREDRICKA “FREDDIE” HUNTER

Freddie is a member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana.  She is the wife of Robb Hunter, Jr (member of the Shoshone Paiute) and the proud mother of Sunny Rae, Tashina and Robert and a proud grandmother of Blaine Jr. and Daisy.   Freddie began dancing when she was very young but only when she became an adult did she begin traveling to various places in the United States.   Freddie serves as the Director of American Indian Student Services at the University of Montana.