John DePriest

John DePriest is a linguist, musician, educator, and songwriter based in New Orleans and an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He holds a PhD from Tulane University, where he has taught in the Center for Global Education since 2016. He leads the band Bogue Chitto and works to preserve and expand the use of the Choctaw language and music. He was a 2025 resident at A Studio in the Woods in the Bulbancha Residencies program.