Inductees 1999

Helen TeAta Gale Cole was born half Chickasaw and half Choctaw in Tishomingo, Oklahoma in 1922.

Neal McCaleb, who served as Assistant Secretary, Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs from July, 2001 until November, 2002, was a strong advocate for tribal economic development during his tenure in office.

Samuel Paul was born near Fort Arbuckle, I.T. in the Chickasaw Nation in 1848. Ten years later, his family founded what would become Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.