CJ is an enrolled Member of the Crow Nation, Member of the Big Lodge Clan and Child of the Greasy Mouth Clan.  He currently serves as the Crow Nation Energy Director. Prior to that, he worked in private practice as an Energy Consultant for Indian Energy Development and Infrastructure for five years. CJ currently serves as a Board Member and Co-Founder of the National Tribal Energy Association (NTEA). He was duly elected and served 2 terms (8 years) as a Senator in the Crow Legislative Branch. There, he served as Chairman of the Natural Resource Committee and the Infrastructure Development Committee for 8 years, through 2015. He was instrumental in the passage of Coal Development Deals, with Cloud Peak Energy for the Big Metal Mine and with Westmoreland Coal for Tract 1. After serving in the Crow Nation Legislature, CJ served as the Crow Nation Energy Advisor & Legislative Liaison in 2016.

CJ was previously appointed to serve on Congressman Ryan Zinke’s Natural Resource Advisory Committee for the 114th Congress. He was elected by the Natural Resource Advisory Committee to serve as the Vice Chairman in 2014.  In 2013 he was the first Native American to be appointed to and serve the Montana Coal Board, by Governor Steve Bullock, where he was elected and served as Vice Chairman.  In addition to all of this, CJ worked 10 years as a Coal Miner.

In 2019, CJ Stewart was Appointed to the National Coal Council by U.S. Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry. He was reappointed to the National Coal Council by U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette for a 2020 to 2022 term. 

CJ and his wife Tara have been married 30 years and have 3 children, 2 daughters and 1 son, and 3 beautiful grandchildren.

Margo Gray is President of Margo Gray and Associates and in 2018 was elected to the Osage Nation Minerals Council. She received her education at Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK and the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. In addition to many state and local activities, she is the Co-Founder of the United Women in Tribal Organization, on currently serves on the Board of Directors and was the first native woman Chair of the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED) and is a Board member for the American Indian Business Network Board Member for National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA), and is an active member of Women Empowering Women for Indian Nations. She is the first Native American to sit on the National Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Margo has been keynote speaker for numerous conferences across the U.S and Globally, advocating for Native American businesses.

Gray is a proud Osage business woman who has built a profitable business in a traditionally male industry for the past 21 years. Her leadership and determination has won her numerous prestigious honors and awards and including been selected as The Journal Record’s “50 Making a Difference” recognizing Oklahoma’s leading Women. Ms. Gray also received the “Badger Award for Tenacity and Perseverance in Business” by the American Indian Business Leaders Association and the “Georgeann Robinson Humanitarian Award” presented by the Oklahoma Federation of Indian Women. Her company was the 2007 recipient of the “State Business of the Year” award bestowed by the American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma, 2005 recipient of the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development’s Indian Business Owner of the Year award, the 2004 recipient of the National Indian Business Association’s Outstanding National Native American Woman‐Owned Business award and many other honors, and has been featured in http://www.workingwomen.com and “Smart Women Take Risks,” a book by Helene Learner.

As a strong competitor in “Corporate America”, she encourages Native American entrepreneurs to pursue their dreams, and counsels’ tribal leaders to create government and legal environments that will enable Indian businesses to thrive.