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ON THE COVER
Jana, the Lumbee sensation, leads off our annual Native music issue. Photo by Carter M. James. Digital imaging by Yukari Toshinomiya. Jewelry by David Saity.

FEATURES

Special Music Section
Our annual tribute to the diverse range of Native musicians, bands and recording companies ushering in a sonic boom from traditional to cutting-edge music of the First Americans.

Jana: Powerful Pop with a Native Soul
An insightful portrait of this powerful young Lumbee performer, Jana Sampson, whose brief career already includes a Billboard Magazine Single of the Week, a Grammy co-nomination and a Nammy for Best Pop Artist. By RoseMary Diaz (Santa Clara Pueblo).

Indigenous: Incendiary Blues, Nakota-Style
Open up your bleeding ears to the fiery passions of this bad, bad band from South Dakota and its guitar wizard, Mato Nanji—perhaps the next Stevie Ray Vaughan. By Bruce Hucko. Photography by Dan Coogan.

Brulé: The Long Road Home
Explore the long and winding path that has taken Paul LaRoche (Brule Sioux) from a bar band to a leading position within the Native music realm, with numerous hit CDs. By j. poet. Photography by Kathy Summers LaRoche.

Canyon Strikes Gold with Native Recordings
A look backward and forward with this groundbreaking Arizona-based recording company that has played such a prominent role in the rising crescendo of Native music. By Andrew Means.

Vignettes: 11 Leading Bands and Musicians
Brief profiles on prominent Native musicians and bands, from traditional powwow groups to avant-garde sonic experimenters: Black Lodge Singers, Chester Knight & the Wind, Bill Miller, Robert Mirabal, R. Carlos Nakai, Redbone, Robbie Robertson, Keith Secola, Joanne Shenandoah, John Trudell and Ulali. Written by an illustrious group of Native and non-Native authors immersed in the music scene.

Who’s Who in Native Music
A provocative list of our other favorite Native groups and musicians, with notes on each one, from the obscure to the well-known, reggae to rap, country-western to jazz. By Daniel Gibson.

Eiteljorg Museum Section

Connecting Cultures: The Eiteljorg Museum Bridges Native America and the West
An in-depth tour of this extraordinary Indianapolis institution, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. By Julie Pratt McQuiston.

The Sky’s the Limit: Keeping Culture Alive at the Eiteljorg’s Indian Market
Join us for an armchair excursion to the 10th annual Indian Market at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis, which includes the largest juried show of Native arts in the Midwest. By Julie Pratt McQuiston.

Woodlands Cultures
Get to know a bit about the history and cultural wealth of some of the many Woodlands peoples, who once inhabited, in great force, the nation’s heartland in and around Indiana. By Rita Kohn.

DEPARTMENTS

On The Wind
Native lands are returning to Native hands through a unique program; a major new Indian culture center rises in Oklahoma City. Plus, other important news in the art world, public service, education, politics and other realms of life—and death—in Indian Country. By Daniel Gibson.

Happening
Head on out to Oklahoma City for the annual gathering of artists, powwow dancers and others at the Red Earth Festival in early June. Also, details on many other special events of Native importance across North America. By Daniel Gibson.

Spirit of the Harvest
Take a peek into the color, customs and food traditions of Carnival, as celebrated in Bolivia. By Beverly Cox and Martin Jacobs.

Pathways
Come along on a tour of the Native cultural and historic sites, museums and events associated with the proud heritage of the Native cultures of the greater Ohio River Valley region, including Indiana and parts of Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois and Michigan. By Kathleen Schuckel.

Focus on Education
Training the next generation of leaders in Indian Country is a priority in the nation’s Indian colleges. By Suzette Brewer (Cherokee).

Museums
New York City’s prestigious American Craft Museum lays to rest—hopefully forever—the question “Is it art?” regarding Native creative works with a huge exhibition of work by some 90 Southwestern Native artists titled Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation. Also, previews of other exhibitions opening at museums coast to coast. By Wendy Weston (Navajo).

Galleries
Go West to immerse yourself in the art of the Arctic at Images of the North gallery in San Francisco. Also, brief looks at other openings and ongoing exhibitions at leading Native-oriented galleries throughout the nation. By Russ Tall Chief (Osage).

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