Voices from the Past, Education for the Future
Sixth Annual Sequoyah Research Center Symposium
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
October 19-21, 2006

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Speakers, Moderators, and Discussion Leaders

Arthur Amiotte (Lakota) was born in 1942 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and is a descendant of the Minniconjou Sioux chief Standing Bear.  Amiotte earned a Bachelor of Science degree in art education and a Master’s of Interdisciplinary Studies in Anthropology, Religion, and Art. He has also received three honorary doctorates. As an educator, he has taught all aspects of Native traditional and contemporary studio fine arts. As a scholar, he has numerous publications on Native art and culture and has lectured throughout the United States and Europe. He was appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council for the Performing Arts at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. by President Jimmy Carter, 1979-1981.  He has earned numerous awards including an Arts International Lila Wallace Readers Digest Artists at Giverny Fellowship, a Getty Foundation Grant, a Bush Leadership Fellowship, the South Dakota Governor’s Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the Arts, and the Lifetime Achievement Award as Artist and Scholar from the Native American Art Studies Association. As a Lakota traditionalist, he was mentored by his grandmother Christina Standing Bear and respected Oglala spiritual leader, Pete Catches, Sr. in artistic techniques and sacred ceremonies.

Arthur Amiotte is a founding member of the Plains Indian Museum Advisory Board, which guided the design and first exhibitions of the Museum opened in 1979. In 2000 as a member of the Advisory Board, he again was involved in the planning and creation of the reinterpretation of the Plains Indian Museum. The Lakota log house in the Adversity and Renewal Gallery is based on Amiotte’s in-depth research of such reservation houses, in particular the home of his great-grandfather Standing Bear. The house represents continuity, adaptation, and innovation that occurred in the lives of Lakota people during the early reservation period of 1880 to 1930. As Amiotte describes in his Artist’s Statement, his recent collage work has focused on this period of great change for Lakota people as they struggled to preserve their cultural identity in the new environment of the reservation.

Elizabeth Archuleta (Yaqui/Chicana) received a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, and she has worked as an assistant professor of English at the University of New Mexico since 2002 where she specializes in contemporary American Indian literatures and serves as the pre-law advisor.  In 2004 she received an Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, and she currently mentors two Native American students who are McNair Scholars.  She has current and forthcoming articles and reference entries in Wicazo Sa Review, American Indian Quarterly, UCLA Indigenous Peoples' Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance, American History Through Literature, 1870-1920, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century American Nature Poets, Encyclopedia of Native American Literature.

Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Anishinaabe) is a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she teaches Creative Writing, Native American Literature, and American Nature Writing. An enrolled member of the
Minnesota Chippewa Tribe who grew up on the White Earth Reservation, Blaeser is the author of Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition, a critical study, and two collections of poetry: Trailing You, winner of the first book award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, and Absentee Indians and Other Poems. She is the editor of Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose and the forthcoming Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry. Blaeser's poetry, short fiction, essays, and critical works have been widely anthologized in national and international collections such as Earth Song, Sky Spirit, Reinventing the Enemy's Language, Narrative Chance, Women on Hunting, The Colour of Resistance, This Giving Birth, Dreaming History, As We Are Now, Returning the Gift, Talking on the Page, Other Sisterhoods, Unsettling America, Skins, Sister Nations, Nothing But the Truth, After Confession, Here First, Imaginary (Re-) Locations, and Blue Dawn, Red Earth.  A recent long essay, "Cannons and Canonization: Native Poetics through Autonomy, Colonization, Nationalism, and Decolonization" is included in the forthcoming Columbia History of Native American Literature of the United States. Blaeser lives with her husband and two young children in the woods and wetlands of rural Lyons Township in Wisconsin and is at work on a verbal and material collage tentatively titled Tinctures of a Family Tree.

Roy Boney, Jr. (Cherokee) is an illustrator, graphic novelist, and animator.  He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Oklahoma State University.  He is currently attending UALR as a Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation research fellow with the Sequoyah Research Center and is working towards a Master degree in Art.  A member of the Cherokee tribe, Roy worked as Visiting Artist for the American Indian Resource Center, Inc. and animator for Blackgum Mountain Productions.  During his time there, he worked as an animation instructor working with Creek students on animated shorts based on Creek legends.  In addition to the Creek student films, he also worked on two animated feature productions Messenger and Song of Moon Pony as an art director, animator, and story artist.  Additionally, he developed interactive CD-ROMs for Cherokee language learning programs.  He continues working on bringing Native American culture to popular media.

Serle Chapman (Cheyenne) author of six successful titles, received a 1996 Book of the Year accolade in Europe for his first book, The Trail Of Many Spirits, and his second Of Earth and Elders: Visions and Voices from Native America, achieved outstanding international reviews. Chapman’s work has been highlighted on national TV and radio, and one of the world’s premiere arts complexes, London’s Barbican Centre, described him in their “Written America” series as “a critically acclaimed writer and one of the world’s leading photographers.” His photography is on permanent display at various museums and visitor’s centers in North and Central America, including the Biosphere Center in Mexico. Chapman’s work as author and photographer has appeared in numerous national and international publications, including The Times (London), The Navajo Times, Indian Country Today, The Lakota Times, Aboriginal Voices (Canada) and various city and statewide newspapers. His work for the Inter-Tribal Bison Cooperative was featured in Audubon, and he has been recognized in both the Washington Post and Le Monde. His first US royalties from The Trail Of many Spirits were donated to the Head Start program located in Martin, near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and his author royalty from Of Earth and Elders was committed to the American Indian College Fund. Following the publication of Of Earth and Elders, in recognition of his philanthropic activities in Native America, Chapman received a letter of commendation from President Nelson Mandela. We, The People, Volume 2 of his Of Earth and Elders sequence, is described as “a stunning visual and literary portrait of indigenous existence, past and present.” Chapman’s portraiture in We, The People was described as a contemporary equivalent to the work of Edward S Curtis. Former President of the United States Bill Clinton contributed the foreword remarks to We, The People. Chapman has undertaken extensive public speaking engagements in the US and Europe, being invited to lecture at both Oxford University and Cambridge University. His antecedents include the legendary frontier scout, Amos Chapman, the husband of Long Neck Woman, a granddaughter of Chief Black Kettle. Chapman is a son of respected Cheyenne educator, Dr. Henrietta Mann, and his tribal heritage also includes lineage to the ancient Kalderas.

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Huron/Eastern Tsalagi) grew up in North Carolina, Canada, and on the Great Plains. She holds an AFA from the Institute for American Indian Arts, an MFA from Vermont College, and a professional performing arts certificate from Estelle Harmon's.

Allison's comparison review on Luci Tapahonso and Adrian Louis was printed in Looking at the Words of 0ur People. She edited From the Fields, an anthology of writing by migrant and rural children in California, under a Lannan Grant for California Poets In The Schools, Coming to Life, poems for peace in response to 9-11 from students in the Sioux Falls School District, and They Wanted Children, an anthology of Native American, Sudanese, Latino, Asian, African American and European descent students' stories and poems of adversity and strife untold in the mainstream high school they attend. She also co-edited Voices of Thunder and It's Not Quiet Anymore for the Institute for American Indian Arts. She is currently editing two new anthologies: Working Clans, a collection of writing representing Native work ethic and contemporary labors, and Radio Wave Mama, a collection of work from writers whose parents suffer mental illness. She directed the Writer's Voice at the Sioux Falls YMCA and co-directed the American Indian Registry for the Performing Arts, is Visiting Distinguished Professor for Hartwick College (2004) and MFA faculty at Northern Michigan University (writing and Native literatures).

Allison performs readings, workshops, seminars, talks, motivational presentations, and lectures and performs in-services on enhancing writing skills, NAS and Youth-at-Risk education. She created and organized an online mentorship project in literary arts for incarcerated youth in South Dakota through ArtsCorr (LAMYISD@yahoo.com). Many members of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers as well as other writers in the area are helping in this program. Allison was named the Mentor of the Year in 2001 by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers for this important work. She created and hosted the first-ever all-Indian WPBA sanctioned event, the Northern Plains Intertribal Poetry Bout -- Joe Hipp Championship Tribute, High Plains Bookfest, summer 2004. Henry Real Bird contended with Luke Warm Water. Kim Blaeser, Diane Glancy, Mardell Plain Feather, Cassandra Walks Over Ice, Barney Old Coyote, Phoenicia Bauerle and the Night Hawk Singers participated in making this event a Gazette front page and public radio hit in Billings.

Paul DeMain (Oneida) a member of the Wisconsin Oneida Nation, is a well-known newspaperman, CEO of Indian Country Communications, Inc., and managing editor of News From Indian Country, an award winning national newspaper with news about Native Americans published and sold throughout the United States, Canada, and 17 other countries. In 2002 his fellow journalists presented him with the Wassaja Award, the highest award for journalism excellence given by the Native American Journalists Association.                                                     

Joseph Erb (Cherokee) is an Artist and Storyteller who works in digital media.  He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Oklahoma City University.  He received his Masters Degree at the University of Pennsylvania.  Erb’s art started leading in the direction of animated stories.  He created the first animated Cherokee story in the Cherokee language, and after completing this digital Cherokee story, he returned home to Oklahoma from Pennsylvania to begin making more stories in Cherokee Language and to train others.  He started working with the American Indian Resource Center on grant programs training Native American students to create animated Cherokee and Creek stories.   Joseph Erb and his students' work have been shown in many museums including the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian in NYC, and Contemporary Art Museum of Santa Fe to name a few.  The stories have been shown in over six countries and numerous film festivals.  The work is becoming a new art form that is being created in Oklahoma, and in the process is developing its own unique style.  Joseph Erb has taught in dozens of schools across the Cherokee and Muscogee Creek Nation’s linguistic programs in five universities use the work as examples of linguistic achievement.  He has been invited to speak at universities, community centers, tribal council meetings and film festivals.  He is on the board for the Cherokee Nation Film Festival, and the Native American Advisory Board for the Museum of Natural History at the University of Oklahoma.  He continues to make more work that will help to spread the Cherokee language and stories through his art.

Heid E. Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), the author of Fishing for Myth poems from New Rivers Press and co-editor of Sister Nations anthology from the Minnesota Historical Society Press, has won awards from The Loft Literary Center, Minnesota State Arts Board, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, and the Archibald Bush Foundation. She founded Birchbark Books Press with her sister, author Louise Erdrich. Her degrees are from Dartmouth College and Johns Hopkins University. A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibway, she was raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota where her parents taught at the Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school. She teaches at The University of St. Thomas.  Heid identifies herself as an Ojibwe feminist poet, a mother, a teacher, a sister, and a daughter who loves to perform her work and is engaged in the recuperation and recovery of the Ojibwe language. Because actively learning Ojibwe is important to her, Heid incorporates many Ojibwe words and phrases into her work. Her dog's name, Boozhoo, for instance, means "hello" in Ojibwe. Learning the Ojibwe language has become a vital challenge for her. This dedication strengthens her connection to her heritage and to a language in danger of being lost.

Joy Harjo  (Muskogee) A member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation in Oklahoma, Joy Harjo is an internationally known poet, performer, writer and musician.  She has published seven books of acclaimed poetry, including such well known titles as She Had Some Horses, In Mad Love and War, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky and her most recent How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems from W.W. Norton.  In Harjo’s first music CD, Letter from the End of the 20^th Century she is featured as poet and saxophone player.  Her recently released second CD of original songs, Native Joy for Real crosses over many genres and has been praised for its daring brilliance.  She has won numerous awards for her poetry and writing, including the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award, Oklahoma Book Awards; the 2000 Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award,: 1998 Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award:  the 1997 New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts;  the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas; the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Eagle Spirit Achievement Award for overall contributions in the arts, awarded by the American Indian Film Festival. Harjo has performed internationally, from the Riddu Riddu Festival held north of Arctic Circle in Norway to Def Poetry Jam on HBO, Madras, India to the Ford Theater in Los Angeles.  She is currently the Joseph M. Russo endowed professor at UNM in creative writing where she will be in residence every fall through 2007. When not teaching and performing she lives in Honolulu, Hawaii where she belongs to the Hui Nalu Canoe Club.

Elgin Jumper (Seminole) a member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida as well as a member of the Otter Clan, is a poet, a short story writer, an essayist and an artist.  He is the author of Nightfall, a chapbook of poetry.  He is currently involved in creative writing and other artist workshops at the Broward Community College (South Campus) in Pembroke Pines, Florida, Where he is contributor to Pan Ku,’ a BCC publication and publishes his poetry and essays regularly in The Seminole Tribune, a tribal publication.

Sandra Littletree (Navajo/Shoshone) is an MSIS student in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin.

Spencer G. Lone Tree(Ho-Chunk) is an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin.  He is a descendent of the renowned Thunder Clan chiefs, Winneshiek, Decorah, and Yellow Thunder.  He is also a scion of Chief Tohee, Bear Clan chief of the Iowa Tribe in Oklahoma.  His maternal grandmother was a member of the Deer Clan of the Mdewakanton Dakotas in Red Wing, Minnesota.  Mr. Lone Tree was born in Tomah, Wisconsin; graduated from Wisconsin Dells High School; has a degree in Business Administration from Globe College of Business in St. Paul, Minnesota; and also studied Psycho-social Psychology at the University of Minnesota.  He has served as administrator for various organizations throughout the Twin Cities providing social, educational, and health needs for urban minorities and the developmentally challenged.  He serves locally, nationally, and statewide on commissions and boards as an advocate for disadvantaged people.  He helped in establishing the Ho-Chunk Nation’s Flagship Casino at Ho-chunk as well as its innovative Wellness Center Healthcare Facility in Wisconsin Dells.

Mr. Lone Tree is retired, lives in Postville, Iowa, and has begun his second career as an author, illustrator, and lecturer.  His first novel, Night Sun and the Seven Directions, became available in November, 2004.  The follow-up, Night Sun and the Black Eagle, is scheduled for completion in August, 2006.  It is the second of a five part series chronicling the Ho-Chunk Nation’s five forced removals from 1840-1863.  Night Sun is the central character throughout the series.

Denise Low (Lenape/Cherokee) is chair of the English Department at Haskell Indian Nations University, where she also teaches creative writing and American Indian Studies courses.  Her book, Words of a Prairie Alchemist, a collection of essays, was published by Ice Cube Press (2006).  A poem collection, Thailand Journal, was named a notable book of 2003 by the Kansas City Star, and her book, New & Selected Poems, 1980-1999, was published by Penthe Press.  She also edited Wakarusa Wetlands in Word & Image for the Lawrence Arts Center’s Imagination & Place Committee (2005).

Low was guest co-editor of Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, a special issue of American Indian Culture and Research Journal, UCLA, 28.1 (2004). Her articles, essays, and reviews of American Indian literature appear in Studies in American Indian Literature, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, American Indian Quarterly, Midwest Quarterly, Kansas City Star, and others.

She is a 5th generation Kansan of mixed German, Scots, Lenape (Delaware), English, French, and Cherokee heritage. She is a member of the Prairie Writers Circle of The Land Institute.

Warren Petoskey (Waganaskising Odawa) writes about himself: “My great great grandfather's name was Biidaasige which means ‘One Who Brings the Light.’ He was born in 1797 and walked on in 1894. In 1954 his granddaughter, my Great Auntie asked me to carry the name. This is not uncommon in traditional ways. My grandfather, Cyrellius Petoskey, was a product of Carlisle Industrial School and my father, Warren, was a product of Mt. Pleasant Boarding School, and the residuals my grandfather passed down because of his experience.I am 60 years of age. My wife's name is Barbara, who was born in Desloge, Missouri. Her relatives came to Arkansas from Indian Territory. Together we have seven children and thirteen grandchildren. We will soon celebrate our 38th year together. My wife is Choctaw and Cherokee. I am Waganakising Odawa of the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians. Presently, I am employed by our tribe as the coordinator for the Elders Program. I am a published free lance writer, Odawa historian, and considered a ‘traditional.’”         

Richie Plass (Menominee/ Stockbridge-Munsee) is from northern Wisconsin. He is a contributing writer to several tribal newspapers across the country. He is a published poet, actor, educator, activist, and musician. He taught Native American Studies at Kent State University and continues to make speeches and presentations at various universities. He co-hosts a weekly two-hour radio program in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on which contemporary and traditional Native American music is the featured line. He is a traditional dancer and an emcee and has been arena director at various powwows.

Myrelene Ranville (Canadian Anishinaabe), born August 19, 1947 into the Henderson family of Sagkeeng, her first language was Anishnabay and she was raised on the Fort Alexander Indian Reserve. (The Anishnabay name of the community is Sagkeeng.) Continuing the law-making tradition of the Henderson family, Myrelene and her husband successfully challenged Canadian laws that discriminated against Anishnabay women and children. The Ranville Case, a Supreme Court of Canada ruling, now protects women and children. Myrelene was reinstated as a member of the tribe after the decisive Ranville Case.

As a child, Myrelene attended her favorite "little red schoolhouse" with teacher, Mrs. Nora Asham. Briefly during third grade, Myrelene attended a residential school. Belonging to a nurturing family, Myrelene and three siblings refused to return to the residential school. She returned to the one-room/one-teacher school in Sagkeeng. Myrelene graduated from the prestigious Collegiate, University of Winnipeg and earned her adult education credentials from St. Francis Xavier University. After a lengthy civil service career, Myrelene now concentrates her life in the literary world. She is most adamantly pursuing the writing and publication of Anishnabay language tools and books. She continues to give book readings and conducts Anishnabay language workshops in continental North America and Europe. She is also a juror for the 2006 Manitoba Writers' Guild literary awards.

Loriene Roy (White Earth Anishinabe) is current president of the American Library Association.  She is Professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, where she joined the faculty in 1987.  Roy received a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MLS from the University of Arizona. She co-edited Library and Information Studies Education in the United States (London, Mansell, 1998) and Getting Libraries the Credit They Deserve: A Festschrift in Honor of Marvin H. Scilken (Lanham, MD, Scarecrow, 2003) and published over 100 articles, chapters, documents, and short stories.  She has given over 250 formal presentations in the United States and internationally and currently serves on the advisory boards for the International Children's Digital Library, Web Junction, the Sequoyah Research Center, the Knowledge River Center for the Study of Hispanic and American Indian Library and Information Resources, the Joint Conference for Librarians of Color 2006, and the second national conference on tribal libraries, museums, and archives.  She is the Director and Founder of "If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything," a national reading club for Native Children.  Dr. Roy is Anishinabe (Ojibwe) and an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation (Pembina Band). She is Principal Investigator for Honoring Generations, a scholarship program for Native students specializing in tribal librarianship, funded through the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services. In March 2005 Roy was selected by Library Journal as a "Mover & Shaker" and recognized as a `rebel' in the field of librarianship.

John Sanchez (Yaqui/Apache) was formerly with the American University, in Washington, DC, where he taught reporting public affairs, broadcast journalism, and mass media in the graduate school. Later he served as the academic director of the American Indian Leadership Program at American University and taught American Indian leadership and politics. He worked in Washington, DC, and in Indian Country as a consultant in education and mass communications programs such as the national science foundation and NASA’s Model in Excellence Program.  His research interests lie primarily at the intersection of contemporary American Indian cultures and the American news media.  Now an associate professor at Penn State University, he teaches in the Department of Journalism where he specializes in News Media Ethics and serves as Director of the American Indian Speaker Series and the Coordinator of the American Indian Powwow at Penn State.  Professor Sanchez publishes his research in American Indian journals, teacher education journals, and communication studies journals. He has written several book chapters on American Indians and the press and is currently working on a book about American Indian identity in the 21^st Century.

Tom Strawman teaches courses at Middle Tennessee State University in Introduction to English studies, the Romantic Movement, European literature, Native American literature, in the Honors Program.  He is the Associate Chair of the English Department and its advisor-in-chief.  He won Middle Tennessee State University’s Outstanding Teacher Award in 1994.

Dustin Tahmahkera (Comanche) is a graduate student in American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University, where he is in the early stages of his dissertation on cultural appropriation of Indigenous Peoples through the academy, music, television, and mascots. At BGSU, he serves as the Graduate Student Advisor of the Native American Unity Council, a student-based group that holds its annual Speakers’ Forum and Pow-wow in November. He also has a strong interest in Indigenous language revitalization, especially of the Numu tekwapu. With a B.A. and M.A. in English from Midwestern State University, he has five years of college teaching experience in rhetoric, literature, and cultural studies courses, including a new Web-based, interdisciplinary class for summer 2005 entitled “American Indian Voices.”

Elias Tzoc (Maya-K’iche’) is an MSIS student in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin.

Mary Jo Watson (Seminole) holds a B.F.A. in Art History, an M.L.S. in Seminole Aesthetics and Art Forms, and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary-Native American Art History from the University of Oklahoma. She developed the Native American Art History program at the University of Oklahoma, which now includes seven classes. She is the Curator of Native American Art for the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma and has overseen a variety of exhibitions, including topics on Inuit Art (Spring 2001) and Oklahoma Indian Art (Fall 2000), and one on Doc Tate Nevaquaya (Summer 1999). She has also served as a curator, juror, and lecturer for numerous art exhibits around the state of Oklahoma. She holds faculty positions in other departments at the University of Oklahoma, including the Native American Studies program, the Women's Studies program, the College of Liberal Studies, and the International Studies program.  Her research interests include the development of theory and aesthetic understanding of Native American art. She promotes understanding of the older as well as more contemporary work of the Native artists of the Americas.

Frederick White (Haida) is from the Eagle Clan of the Haida Nation, Massett Band.  He currently teaches composition, linguistics, and literature in the English department at Slippery Rock University, PA.  His poetry has appeared in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, The West Wind: A Literary Magazine, and Haida Laas.  His play, entitled Higher Education, has been published as part of an Azusa Pacific University collection on diversity entitled, In Search of Unity.  His research interests are vast, but they focus on literary, linguistic, and cultural issues, especially those related to the Haida.  These issues include Haida culture, history, language revitalization, literature, education, and contact narratives.

Bill Wiggins is a member of the Emeritus faculty at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, was formerly a member of the chemistry faculty and dean of the College of Science and Mathematics.  For the past twenty-five years, he has been a collector of contemporary Native American art, with a primary interest in the Fine Arts Movement in contemporary Native art. Wiggins is a member of the Native American Art Studies Association.  He most recently donated his personal collection of American Indian art to the Sequoyah Research Center at UALR and is presenting the first public viewing of the collection during the SRC 2006 symposium.

Mary Young (Prairie Band Potawatomi) writes about herself, “My parents are both Prairie Band.  My mother was born and raised in Mayetta, Kansas, and my father in Arpin, Wisconsin (Skunk Hill).  I have been living in Kansas since 1999. My education includes a Bachelors of Art (BA) in Mass Communication/Journalism sequence and a minor in Philosophy; a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS); and a Title II-B Fellow from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.  My library experience includes working in an academic, public, and special library setting.  Currently I am a co-editor for the Prairie Band Potawatomi News in Mayetta, Kansas and a certified drug and alcohol counselor from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. Membership includes the Native American Journalist Association (NAJA), the Kansas Association of Addiction Professionals (KAAP), the PBPN group of the NE Kansas Methamphetamine Prevention Coalition, and the Red Ribbon Committee.  Former memberships include the National Congress of the American Indian (NCAI), ALA, AILA, Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), New Mexico Library Association, the Santa Fe Librarian’s Consortium and the Means and Ways Committee for the Santa Barbara Urban American Indian Health Board, and the Prairie Band’s American Legion Auxiliary Unit 410.”  Mary Young is a member of the Advisory Board of the Sequoyah Research Center.

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