2023-2024: Makalika Naholowa’a (Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian)
2022-2023: Phil Brodeen (Bois Forte Band of Chippewa)
2021-2022: Colleen Lamarre (Mohawk)
2020-2021: Thomasina Real Bird (Ihanktonwan Oyate)
2019-2020: Robert Saunooke (Eastern Cherokee)
2018-2019: Joel West Williams (Cherokee Nation)
2017-2018: Diandra Benally (Navajo)
2016-2017: Jennifer Weddle (Northern Cheyenne)
2015-2016: Linda Benally (Navajo)
2013-2015: Mary Smith (Cherokee Nation)
2011-2013: 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)