Pun Plamondon is a member of the Grand River Bands of Ottawa (Michigan), and Turtle Clan. He is a tradition bearer, oral historian, and Master Storyteller. He has served as a Tribal Council member and First Nations Advocate. He is an author, pow wow master of ceremonies, and lecturer. In a former life he co-founded the radical White Panther Party, was an FBI 10 Most Wanted fugitive, and successful U.S. Supreme Court litigant. His Supreme Court challenge stopped the Nixon Administration from wiretapping domestic dissidents without a warrant. Currently he is President Pro Tem of CURR, the Congress of Unrepentant Radicals.

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