One of the most popular ways to participate in Native American culture today is to attend a powwow.  I live in Austin, Texas, which yearly hosts one of the largest free, one-day powwow in the United States. 50,000 people gather to dance or watch the dancers, shop at vendors of clothing, jewelry, and other cultural [...]

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One of my long held dreams has been to spend more than ten days on the islands of Hawaii. Thanks to the kind invitation of Dr. Andrew Wertheimer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s library school, I am here to teach a short summer session class on indigenous librarianship. One of my colleagues, a [...]

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This past week found me in Choctaw, Mississippi, for the first time, attending the Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations (ECHO) 2008 Culture and Change Symposium. I’ve learned that ECHO is administered through the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) with funding from the No Child Left Behind legislation.
The six ECHO [...]

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When we ask what defines us most as Indian people, I expect that many of us would say our connection to the land.
The September 2008 issue of the National Museum of the American Indian newsletter describes their Indigenous Geography website, a multi-lingual website providing images, videos, education plans for grades 4-12 for thematic exploration of [...]

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