Conversations with remarkable Native Americans / edited by Joëlle Rostkowski.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rostkowski, Joëlle
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2012], ©2012.
Series:Native traces.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Biography.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Civil rights.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Government relations.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Ethnic identity.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Intellectual life.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:li, 143 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm .
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Tragic wisdom and survivance / Deborah L. Madsen
  • From the forgotten American to indigenous rights / Joëlle Rostkowski
  • Conversation with series editor Gerald Vizenor
  • Scott Momaday, poet, novelist, painter, and UNESCO artist for peace
  • Suzan Harjo, policy advocate, journalist, and poet
  • Richard West, lawyer and founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian
  • Emil Her Many Horses, curator, National Museum of the American Indian
  • Sven Haakanson, director of the Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, Alaska
  • Veronical Tiller, historian, consultant, and writer
  • Erma Vizenor, tribal chair, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota
  • Louisita Warren, elder of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico
  • Tony Abeyta, painter and sculptor
  • David Bradley, painter and sculptor
  • Darren Vigil Gray, painter and musician
  • Jill Momaday, actress, model, and chief of protocol, State of New Mexico
  • Rulen Tangen, dancer and choreographer
  • Robert Tim Coulter, laywer, founder and director of the Indian Law Resource Center
  • Kenneth Deer, journalist, educator, and UN indigenous representative
  • Text from U.N. document: Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.