Conversations with remarkable Native Americans / edited by Joëlle Rostkowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rostkowski, Joëlle, Author.

Contributor:

Rostkowski, Joëlle.

Series:

Native traces.

SUNY series, native traces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Biography.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Civil rights.

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Indians of North America--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Entertaining and enlightening interviews with some of today's most important Native Americans.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781461907312

1461907314

9781438441764

1438441762

OCLC:

794778794