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ON THE COVER
Potter Jody Naranjo (Santa Clara Pueblo) of New Mexico displays one of her remarkable works created using age-old traditional materials and techniques, but finished in her own, unique style. She will be among the featured artists demonstrating their work for visitors in the initial Santa Fe Detours “Roads to Yesterday” tour this coming September (see story p. 42). Photo by Kitty Leaken.


FEATURES

Special Section: Native Law

Crimes and Punishments: Native Justice in Ancient America
Far from being lawless, American Indian societies were governed by complex and extensive systems of laws and codes of conduct prior to the arrival of Europeans. We explore this little-known topic and reveal some of these processes that became staples of the U.S. governmental system, touching upon practices of the Iroquois, Apache, Cherokee, Aztecs, Duwamish, Inuit, Chickasaw, Cheyenne, Omaha and other tribes. By Bruce E. Johansen. With illustrations by John B. Thomas (Mohawk) and John Fadden

Native Law Professionals: A Who’s Who
10 brief profiles on leading American Indian law and legal professionals, including lawyers, judges, federal appointees and professors: Shenan Atcitty, Raymond Cross, Angelique Eagle Woman, John Echohawk, Steve Emery, Thomas Fredericks, Steven J.W. Heeley, David Iglesias, Rennard J. Strickland and Christine Zuni Cruz. By Thomas Bird Bear (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara).

Native Law Resources
University Native law programs, law centers, special events and more.

Little Windows on the World: Classic Native American Postcards
At the turn of the 20th century, postcards were a huge worldwide fad. Now, these once-transitory cards have become valuable and fascinating collectibles, as we see in this overview of the collection of Erich Erdoes. With cards portraying Ute, Osage, Musquakie, Apache (Geronimo), Kiowa, Maricopa and Hopi people. By Daniel Gibson.

Chumash Brave the Pacific Ocean Again
The Chumash people of southern California have recently created the first examples in decades of the once mighty tomols they used to make ocean passages, as seen on a journey recorded here. Story and photos by Chuck Graham.


DEPARTMENTS

On The Wind
The Native Star Dance Team entertains the troops in the Middle East, writer Drew Hayden Taylor marches on, Molly Parker weaves award-winning baskets, the Native American Film & Video Festival wraps up, and the Native American Bank steps up. 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
We motor over to the West Coast to catch California’s largest Indian gathering, the annual Cal State Pow Wow in Long Beach. Plus details on other special events of Native interest across North America. By Daniel Gibson.

Spirit of the Harvest
The Erdrich clan of the upper Midwest (including famed author Louise) shares a traditional family recipe for wild rice salad with wild-gathered dandelion greens and balsamic-maple vinaigrette. By Beverly Cox and Martin Jacobs.

Pathways
Detours: Once Upon a Time in the Southwest
In the 1920s and ’30s, the Fred Harvey Company essentially launched the modern Native-oriented tourism trade in the Southwest with its Indian Detours program. Now, a Santa Fe company is reviving the concept with its “Roads to Yesterday” tours. By Daniel Gibson. Photos by Kitty Leaken, and one historic image by T. Harmon Parkhurst.

History
In 1587, a group of 112 or so English colonists was left on an island off North Carolina to found the first English colony in North America, but within a few years all had vanished. What became of the so-called “Lost Colony of Roanoke,” and does it involve the Lumbee people? By Ryan Whirty. Historic engravings by Theodor de Bry after original watercolors by John White.

Galleries
In addition to “bricks and mortar” galleries across America featuring outstanding Native art, over the past decade a new venue for Native art sales has arisen: the online “virtual” gallery. Join us as we profile a handful of leading Indian art Web sites. Also, brief looks at other Native-oriented galleries throughout the continent. By Russ Tall Chief (Osage).

Museums
Last fall, the Denver Art Museum unveiled its greatly expanded and stunning new facilities to universal acclaim, and showed off several new major exhibitions, including some with strong Native themes and content. Also, notes on other museum exhibitions coast to coast. By Wendy Weston (Diné).

Books
The largely overlooked but notable prose and poetry of painter T.C. Cannon (Kiowa/Caddo/Choctaw) are explored in My Determined Eye: Writings of T.C. Cannon by his sister Joyce Cannon Yi. We also take a peek at the groundbreaking Art of the Cherokee: Prehistory to the Present by Susan C. Power. Plus other recently published titles of interest. By Deborah Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen).

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