Celebrated and prolific United Keetoowah scholar and theologian ᏌᎳᎻ ᏛᏃᏪᎳᏂ (known more commonly by his legal name, Cody C. Robinson) grew up in the small Cherokee community of Shady Grove, west of Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

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Cody currently serves the Church Universal and the United Methodist Church as Senior Pastor at D. D. Etchieson Memorial Indian (United) Methodist Church, the Advisory Board of Directors for the NSU Wesley Foundation, Chairperson of the Cookson Hills Indigenous Center, and Member of the Oklahoma Indian Methodist Conference’s Board of Campus Ministry.  He is an MDiv. Candidate at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma.