Hanay Geiogamah

Biography

Hanay Geiogamah is a Native American playwright, television and movie producer, and artistic director born in 1945 in Oklahoma to a Kiowa father and Delaware mother. He has held distinguished positions as professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center from 2002 to 2009. Geiogamah is widely recognized for his work behind and in front of the camera, including self-narration in "Bearing Witness, Native American Voices in Hollywood".