Michael Zimmerman Jr. is an enrolled member of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan and Indiana. He has formerly worked as their Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Tribal Historian, and lead Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act consultant. He is currently a consultant on Potawatomi language for his band and the Forest County Potawatomi as well as working full time as the Ojibwe Language and Culture Instructor at the Indian Community School of Milwaukee where he teaches K4 through 8th grades.