Paul Chaat Smith is a Comanche author, essayist, and curator. His work explores the contemporary landscape of American, and American Indian art and politics. From 2001 to June 2025, Smith served as curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Exhibitions include Americans, James Luna’s Emendatio, Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian, and Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort. He is the author of Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong (2009) and Like a Hurricane: the Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (1996, with Robert Warrior).