2001-2013 ~ Patty Ferguson-Bohnee (Pointe-au-Chien)
2009-2011 ~ Lael Echo Hawk (Pawnee)
2007-2009 ~ Heather Dawn Thompson (Cheyenne River Sioux)
2005-2006 ~ Joseph Martin (Menominee)
2004-2005 ~ Douglas R. Nash (Nez Pearce)
2003-2004 ~ Thomas Weathers (Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska (Aleut))
2002-2003 ~ Suzanne Ojibway Townsend Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa)
2001-2002 ~ Samuel Hill (Lumbee)
2000-2001 ~ Kirke Kickingbird (Kiowa)
1999-2000 ~ Lawrence Baca (Pawnee)
1998-1999 ~ Kalyn Free (Choctaw)
1997- 1998 ~ Richard A. Monette (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa)
1996-1997 ~ Kirke Kickingbird (Kiowa)
1995-1996 ~ Arvo Q. Mikkanen (Kiowa/Comanche)
1994-1995 ~ Jonny Bearcub Stiffarm (Assiniboine)
1993-1994 ~ Tricia A. Tingle (Choctaw)
1992-1993 ~ Connie Hart Yellowman (Cheyenne/Arapaho)
1991-1992 ~ Arvo Q. Mikkanen (Kiowa/Comanche)
1990-1991 ~ Judy Leaming (Catawba/Cherokee)
1989-1990 ~ Carey Vicenti (Jicarilla Apache)
1988-1989 ~ Gerald Hill (Oneida Wisconsin)
1987-1988 ~ Rita Keshina (Menominee)
1986-1987 ~ Steve Titla (San Carlos Apache)
1985-1986 ~ Kathleen Simpson
1983-1985 ~ Lawrence Baca (Pawnee)
1982-1983 ~ Alan Parker (Chippewa Cree Tribal Nation)
1981-1982 ~ Unknown
1978-1981 ~ Larry Echo Hawk (Pawnee)
1977-1978 ~ Leroy W. Wilder (Karuk Tribe of California Indians)
1976-1977 ~ W. Richard West, Jr. (Cheyenne/Arapaho)
1973-1976 ~ Thomas Fredericks (Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation)