Vincent Collette is a professor of linguistics at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, and the editor of Nakón-i'a wo! Beginning Nakoda and A Concise Dictionary of Nakoda (Assiniboine). He is interested in Indigenous languages of North America, and is specialized in historical linguistics, semantics, and morphology.
Tom Shawl has worked as a Nakoda culture and language instructor at the Aannii Nakoda college in Fort Belknap and jr./sr. high in Harlem, Montana. He currently manages the Teeples IGA grocery store in Browning, Montana, and is an instructor for the YAM program based out of Montana State University.
Wilma Kennedy (1923-2020) Heȟága hóta'į wį́yą (Echo of the elk woman) was an educator and activist from Carry the Kettle Nakoda First Nation. She was involved with the Nakoda community's culture and traditions, and co-authored Nakón-i'a wo! Beginning Nakoda and A Concise Dictionary of Nakoda (Assiniboine).