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ON THE COVER
Ten years have elapsed for Beverly Takala and her son Kevin between their portraits on the cover of our first issue and the current issue. Photo by Jerry Jacka. Related story page 28.

FEATURES
(reprints of articles previously run in the magazine)

Naming Beverly’s Baby (from Issue 1, 1987)
Age-old rituals regarding a child’s name are enacted to greet the newborn of Beverly Takala in the village of Shungopavi on the Hopi Reservation, Arizona. By Maggie Wilson. Photos by Jerry Jacka.

Coyote Goes Hollywood   (from 1989)
For most people, Native Americans were who they saw in the movies. A critique of Hollywood’s portrayal of Indians. By Rennard Strickland. Illustrated with movie posters, film still images and set shots.

In the Presence of the Sun: A Gathering of Shields (from 1992)
Traditional stories about Plains Indian shields and drawings to accompany them. Story and drawings by N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa), winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Rain (from 1993)
An element essential to life as seen by six different peoples, from the Heard Museum exhibit curated by Ann Marshall. By Ann Marshall. Photos by Senator Barry Goldwater, Jerry Jacka, Kevin Harris and Owen Seumptewa (Hopi).

Gwich’in: We Are the People (from 1993)
A look into the current lives and history of the Gwich’in people of northern Alaska, who still maintain their traditional hunting and gathering lifestyle—particularly their close relationship to caribou. Story and photos by Robert C. Gildart.

The Long Road Home (from 1995)
The return of more than 2,000 Mayans who fled their Guatemalan homeland a decade ago due to civil war is chronicled. By Joel Simon. Photos by Mark Downey.

A Bridge Across the Pacific (from 1996)
The Tlingit people of Alaska donate two massive Sitka spruce trees to Native Hawaiians for construction of the first traditional all-wood sailing canoes to be built in centuries; now they return home in an emotional ceremony and celebration. By Karin Williams. Photos by Kathryn Bender.

Our Youth Speak
Brief comments by and photos of notable Native youth: Nicolette Curley (White Mt. Apache/Navajo), John Hunter (Winnebago/Ojibwe), Vanessa Young (Hidatsa/Lakota), Wahlesah Saqweniga Dick (Cherokee), Sterling Reed (Three Affiliated Tribes) and Heather Crow (Arapaho/Cheyenne).

DEPARTMENTS

Viewpoint
The founding and evolution of the “journey in learning” that is Native Peoples are outlined at its 10th anniversary by its founding publisher and editor, Gary Avey.

Spirit of the Harvest
Mesquite trees have provided many gifts to Native peoples over the eons, including a rich flour ground from its seeds and pods, and its honey, as explained in this story and recipes for a Southwest cheesecake and prickly pear glaze. By Beverly Cox and Martin Jacobs.

Collection Corner
The implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has complicated, but more importantly enriched, the role of museums holding Native objects. By Bruce Bernstein, National Museum of the American Indian.

Essay by Janine Pease Pretty On Top
A first-time grandmother looks back at the challenges her people have faced over the past few centuries and looks forward, with both apprehension and hope, to the life her grandchild may have. By Janine Pease Pretty On Top (Crow), president, Little Big Horn College.

Still Here!
Poetry and photos of Howard Rainer (Taos Pueblo).

Essay by Jack Weatherford
Despite terrible atrocities in the 19th century and desperate times in the 20th, Indian nations are beginning to experience a renaissance of sorts. By Jack Weatherford.

Essay by Richard West
The founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian is happy to report on a string of successful exhibitions at the Heye Center in New York, construction of the Resource Center in Maryland and plans for the museum’s Washington, D.C. opening in 2002. By Richard West (Southern Cheyenne).

NMAI Report
News on the development of the National Museum of the American Indian—Kresge Challenge Grant.

Book Reviews
Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry, by Sarah Hill. And, a list of “Other Books of Interest” recently released. By Alan Tack.

Audio/Video Reviews
Urban Indians, by the Redhouse Family on Canyon Records; Here at Black Mesa by Lunar Drive; and Lakota Piano by Brulé. By David Claudio Iglesias (Kuna).

Artists in Profile
A look at Joanna Bigfeather (Cherokee), artist and curator of the American Indian Community House Gallery in New York City. By Linda Martin (Diné).

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