Heather Bruegl

Heather Bruegl works with institutions and organizations for Indigenous sovereignty and collective liberation. In the Munsee language, Heather’s name is Kiishookunkwe, meaning sunflower in full bloom. Heather is a citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and a first line descendent Stockbridge Munsee. 

She is a graduate of Madonna University in Michigan, holds a Master of Arts in U.S. History, and is currently a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in First Nations Education. Heather travels frequently to present on Native American history, including policy and activism, and has presented at the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brooklyn Law School, and the Tate Museum in London.

Heather respectfully acknowledges that she works and resides on the unceded, traditional and ancestral lands of the Muh-he-con-ne-ok, the Peoples of the Waters that Are Never Still. Today the Muh-he-con-ne-ok reside in Wisconsin and are known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.