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Woodcarver David Draper (Diné) draws from a rich tapestry of influences, from Michelangelo to the late, legendary sculptor Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache). But his most powerful ideas come from his home in the Chuska Mountains on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.

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Benjamin Harjo, Jr. (Shawnee/Seminole) has an infectious sense of mirth and creative energy, which he pours into his award-winning paintings, both large and small. Photo courtesy Ackerman McQueen.

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Kiva Fine Art
Works by Navajo painter David K. John and Hopi painter Dan V. Lomahaftewa are prominently featured in the gallery through October, while other Native painters, sculptors, potters, jewelers, basket weavers and wood workers also consistently maintain a strong presence.

NavajoLand
A Native Son Shares His Legacy

Text and photography by LeRoy DeJolie (Navajo); foreword by Tony Hillerman; Arizona Highways Books; Phoenix, AZ; 2005; 80 pages; $12.95 paperbound

Reviewed by Debra Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen)

For many Native artisans, it was the memory of a grandmother’s deftly moving fingers, or a grandfather’s quiet words, that stirred up a powerful desire to learn and carry on an ancient skill perhaps in danger of being lost to the modern world. In some cases, the effort of a single artist—who taught someone else, who then taught someone else—has revived and preserved important ancient Native crafts.

Larry Price—originally from Sheep Springs, New Mexico and a member of the Navajo Nation—has a passion for creating photographic images. Price didn't get serious about photography until January 2002 when he came across an article in Photographic Magazine about a photographer from Flagstaff, Arizona. The imagery in those pages moved him.

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This spectacular dancer, Susan Armijo (Mexica), a member of the Aztec-styled dance and music troupe America Indigena, led by flautist Xavier Quijas Yxayotl, enthralled audiences last March at the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market and will return for this year’s event.

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Some of the earliest Native expressions of prayer, self-identity, adornment and beauty were created in three-dimensional form from materials freely provided by the earth. Walrus ivory figures carried by hunters in the Arctic north, amulets carved in bone or wood or shaped from clay, totems reaching skyward-over the centuries, experienced hands have passed on their understanding and tools to younger hands.

Brothers in Arms: Windtalkers
Freedom is not free. The sacrifices made by countless soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines secured our freedom in the United States. Many of these warriors were Native Americans who fought and died in America’s wars. Windtalkers reveals these truths in an awe-inspiring movie whose story should have been told decades ago.

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Three-year-old Ariana Selina and eight-year-old Philana Selina of the Hopi Tewa Senom Dancers, here seen sprinkled with corn pollen, have charmed guests at the annual Heard Museum Fair in Phoenix. Join us in a preview of this year's 44th fair in March, one of the premier gatherings of Native artists in the world.

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Dan Namingha: Visual Poet Builds Artistic Bridges
"I see myself as a bridge between worlds, trying to find that center line of balance." Armed with paintbrush, welder or electric guitar, Hopi/Tewa artist Dan Namingha thrives in the realms of dualities and passages—night and day, darkness and light, the divine and the human, life and death, positive and negative.

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Seated at a loom or silhouetted by a panoramic Monument Valley landscape, our most enduring impressions of Navajo women are frozen in time on postcard nostalgia and in coffeetable books. In this modernized representation of Navajo women—seen through the lens of Diné photographer LeRoy DeJolie—the resulting portraits reveal the evolution of traditional apparel that sings the stories of land, history and progress.

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Standing on the site of the forthcoming National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. are (left to right) John Colonghi (Aleut), campaign director, and W. Richard West (Southern Cheyenne), founding director.

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The talented sculptor Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo) poses with one of her expressive female clay creations, a work titled "The Occasion." Photo by Craig Smith, courtesy of the Heard Museum.

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A Photo Safari in Dinetah
The Four Corners Region of the American Southwest is a photographer's Mecca, as seen in this photo-snapping excursion in Monument Valley led by noted Navajo artist LeRoy DeJolie. By Hilary Wallace. Photos by LeRoy DeJolie Navajo.

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Painter Steven Yazzie (Navajo), whose Heard Museum mural, “Fear of a Red Planet: Relocation and Removal 2000,” narrates the horror and hope of Arizona’s First Peoples.

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Rulan Tangen (Metis) is one of the stable of high-energy, talented and ambitious young Native contemporary dancers taking the world’s stages by storm. Fashions by Marama—Kingi Davis and Tracey Lloydd (Ngapuhi Tribe, Aotearoa). Photo by Richard Bluecloud Castaneda Salt River Pima.

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Singer, songwriter, musician and performer Joanne Shenandoah (Oneida) possesses a golden voice, a charming demeanor and a determined work ethic—characteristics that have carried her to the top of the Native music realm.

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Walela
Cherokee hummingbirds Rita Coolidge (left), Laura Satterfield and Priscilla Coolidge (right) form the trio Walela, one of the finest sets of voices in music today. Photo by Jill Jarrett.

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Native American fashion sheds its modest garments in favor of a dazzling wardrobe of novel apparel, such as this dress in bias-cut silk by Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo). It features Zuni Pueblo dragonfly designs that illustrate how the insect brought rain to the Earth, with the short top representing rain clouds and the tie the falling rain.

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Northwest Meets Southwest
Southwestern Native artists travel to the Pacific Northwest homelands of the Haida people, and a group of Haida artists travels to the Southwest, to trade new methods of creating art, forging bonds of friendship and discovering their common natures.

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Welcome Home!
The beautiful new National Museum of the American Indian opens in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 21, presenting the world with an in-depth look at the history and ongoing culture, arts and lifeways of the Native peoples of the Americas. Gracing our cover is a bronze sculpture—"Reverie"—by Allan Houser, 1981, included in an opening exhibition (©Anna Marie Houser/photo by Ernest Amoroso)

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Cornelia Bowannie, leader of the Zuni Olla Maidens, of Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico proudly displays two of her people's world-famous cultural attributes: their beautiful handmade pottery and their stunning turquoise jewelry. The Maidens, ages 13 to 59, travel the U.S and Canada performing traditional Zuni songs and dances.

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Arresting creations like the coiled, Best of Show piece woven by Joyce Ann Saufkie (Hopi), have generated a buzz of interest from collectors and galleries. Seven-month old Elaina Garcia, daughter of Blue Rain Gallery owner Leroy Garcia, demonstrates her own interest in basket collecting. Photo by Lynn Lockwood.

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Ron His Horse Is Thunder (Hunkpapa Lakota), the great great grandson of Sitting Bull, is filling a major position in today’s battlelines involving the future of Native culture and life as president of Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, N.D. on the Standing Rock Resevation.

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Pulitzer Prize­winning author and artist N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) cuts a wide swath through American culture with his brilliantly conceived and executed novels, poetry, plays and nonfiction works.

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Astronaut John Herrington (Chickasaw)
The first Native American tribal member in space blasts off November 10. And a look at the national organization that has played a pivotal role in their careers—the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. Photo courtesy NASA.

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