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ON THE COVER
Q’orianka Kilcher (Quechua/Huachipaeri, of Peruvian heritage) portrays the young Pocahontas in the film The New World, about the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia colony in 1607. Photo by Merie Wallace, SMPSP/New Line Productions.

FEATURES
The Art of Basketry: Weaving New Life into Ancient Forms
Four living basket weavers—Terrol Dew Johnson (Tohono O’odham), Theresa Secord (Penobscot), Peggy Sanders Brennan (Cherokee) and Annie Antone (Tohono O’odham)—draw inspiration from the past to create both traditional and novel new forms of baskets, infusing the age-old medium with new life. By Deborah Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen).

Going HOME Again
Tour the new permanent exhibition of the Heard Museum of Phoenix, HOME: Native People in the Southwest, which features a wonderful array of art, informative videos, a movie, interactive kiosks, audio recordings and other materials to provide visitors with clear insights into the realm of the region’s Native cultures. By Rebecca Tsosie (Yaqui).

Jacob Koopee: Hopi Potter Hotter and Hotter
Last year Hopi potter Jacob Koopee took home not one but both major annual awards in the Indian art world: the Best of Show ribbons at the Santa Fe Indian Market and the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. By Patty Talahongva (Hopi).

Top of Their Class 2005
A look at the lives and work of three Best of Class winners at the 2005 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market: jeweler Raymond C. Yazzie (Navajo), weaver TahNibaa Naataanii (Navajo) and wood carver Othniel “Art” Oomittuk (Inupiaq). Plus details on the upcoming March 2006 event. By Gussie Fauntleroy.

Brave New World: Pocahontas Revisited
The enduring legend of Pocahontas, who befriended Captain John Smith and the English colonists at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, is rewoven in the film The New World. Plus details for visitors on Virginia’s surviving Indian tribes and their public events, cultural centers and other attractions. By Deborah Boehm.


DEPARTMENTS

Letters
We hear from several readers about the Sept./Oct. issue’s article on Indian identity, and from several others about the story on contemporary Native dancers.

On the Wind
Native professionals form the Native Media & Technology Network to produce programming for mainstream television and theatrical releases, plus details on other recent Native-oriented movies. Also, other important news in the arts, education, the environment, business, politics, sports, health and other realms of life in Indian Country. By Daniel Gibson.

Happening
Arizona is the place to be in chilly January as the Indian Artists of America Show sets up its booths, and and we take a brief look at the National Aboriginal Achievement Awards of Canada. Plus details on other special events of Native interest across North America. By Daniel Gibson.

Spirit of the Harvest
Red snapper, as the Ciboney people of Cuba prepare it, is on the menu this issue, along with a tasty avocado sauce and cassava/yucca bread. By Beverly Cox and Martin Jacobs.

History: The Great Chiefs
We launch a new, occasional series of profiles on the great chiefs of the Americas, focusing this issue on Cochise, the famed Chiricahua Apache leader. By Gregory McNamee.

Galleries
We drop into Sorrel Sky Gallery in Durango, Colorado to chat with owner/manager Shanan Campbell Wells (Northern Cheyenne), daughter of the renowned jeweler and former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Also, brief looks at other Native-oriented galleries throughout the continent. By Russ Tall Chief Osage.

Museums
The historic and eye-dazzling works of the Maori people of New Zealand and art by contemporary Maori artists based on these traditions is presented in Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread, now showing at the Burke Museum in Seattle. Also, notes on other museum exhibitions coast to coast. By Wendy Weston (Diné).

Books
A fascinating and tragically true tale of devotion, deception, assassination and love is chronicled in America’s Trail of Tears by Dean Arnold, which focuses on the removal of the Cherokee people from the Southeast to Oklahoma in the 1930s. And, a look at Indians, Missionaries and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontier by Kent Lightfoot. Plus other recently published titles of interest. By Deborah Utacia Krol Salinan/Esselen.

Music
We visit with one of America’s finest songwriters, Keith Secola (Anishinaabe), on the heels of his latest release, Native Americana: A Coup Stick. Also, brief reviews of Intonation by Alex Smith and Cheevers Toppah; so is love, by Rita Coolidge; and Sacred Mountains: Meditation Songs from the Diné by Louie Gonnie. By j poet.

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