We Are The Warriors – Panel Bios
The Land We Live On is excited to welcome the following panelists for our post-screening discussion about the documentary "We Are The Warriors"
Maulian Bryant is the Executive Director of the Wabanaki Alliance. She has been with the Alliance since its founding in 2020, serving for four years as President of the Wabanaki Alliance Board before being named the Executive Director in December 2024. She served as the first Penobscot Nation Tribal Ambassador from 2017-2024, having been appointed by Penobscot Nation Chief Kirk Francis. Prior to her work as Ambassador, Bryant served as an elected member of the Penobscot Nation Tribal Council. She grew up on Indian Island within the Penobscot Nation’s Reservation and is the daughter of former Penobscot Nation Chief Barry Dana, who served from 2000-2004. Bryant is an outspoken advocate on the issue of derogatory mascots and imagery. Her advocacy resulted in the state of Maine enacting laws that changed the annual Columbus Day in October to Indigenous Peoples Day and prohibited public schools from using derogatory mascots. Her other passion is finding ways to strengthen and expand programs that help preserve and teach the customs and traditions of the Penobscot people. She is a loving mother to three daughters and centers them in much of her work making the state and country a safer and more equitable place for her children and all tribal people. She believes in leading with love and making progress by finding shared humanity.
David Camlin is an independent filmmaker, editor, and video producer who is drawn to stories about human connection. His recent work includes Mary and Molly (2023), a short animated film about a young woman discovering her Penobscot heritage co-directed with and adapted from a play by Penobscot Elder Donna Loring; and Welcome to Commie High (2020), a feature-length documentary about the founding and legacy of an alternative public high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that has been broadcast nationwide by PBS stations. El Lobo y La Paloma (2019) is a flamenco-inspired live performance about loss, grief, and our connection to the spiritual world with accompanying educational material currently available in corrections facilities nationwide via the tablet-based learning system Edovo, and through online and theatrical screenings.
Osihkiyol (Zeke) Crofton-Macdonald is a Wolastoqey person from the Houlton Band of Maliseets in Maine (Metaksonikewiyik) and the Oromocto First Nation (Welamukotuk) in New Brunswick, Canada. Zeke has spent his life advocating for Native rights in the United States and Canada. He is currently serving as the Tribal Ambassador for the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians. He is the Board President of the Wabanaki Alliance and Tribal Co-Commissioner for the Houlton Band on the Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission. Before assuming his duties as Ambassador, Zeke worked for the Welamukotuk First Nation in Resource Development Consultation, with the Wolastoqey Nation New Brunswick as a co-researcher documenting treaty hunting and harvesting right in the province, as a research associate at the Atlantic Canada Studies Centre at the University of New Brunswick, and worked for the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians with the Indian Child Welfare Act.
Meadow Dibble, Ph.D. is a writer, organizer, and public memory advocate who has been facilitating complex, searching conversations about modes of historical recovery while developing sustained local engagement processes aimed at surfacing truth, fostering healing, and achieving justice. Originally from Cape Cod, Meadow lived for six years on Senegal’s Cape Verde peninsula, where she published a cultural magazine from 1996–2000 and coordinated foreign study programs. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University’s Department of French Studies and taught at Colby College from 2005–2008. From 2019–2023, Meadow served as a Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. In 2022-2023, she served as Co-Lead on the Place Justice initiative, carried out in partnership with the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations.
