Roy Boney Jr. is a full blood citizen of the Cherokee Nation and lives in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Boney is an award winning filmmaker, artist and writer. His work has been displayed across the country and internationally.

Boney received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design from Oklahoma State University and a Master of Fine Arts in studio art from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. Boney is the writer, director, producer and animator of several short, animated films spoken in the Cherokee and Muscogee languages including On a Spring Day and Incident at Rock Roe. Boney has worked on several documentary films, including an illustrator role on the National Park Service’s production of the Trail of Tears.

Boney is a graphic novelist and a contributing author in the book American Indians and the Mass Media. He has contributed art and articles to First American Art magazine, Native Peoples and Indian Country Today. Currently, Boney works in the language program for the Cherokee Nation Education Services in Talequah, where collaboration with companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft have taken place to ensure the Cherokee language is compatible with their products.