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Issue No. 6, Spring 2015 Click here to purchase a digital copy for $7 from Issuu. To purchase a print copy, select your location: Locations US, New Mexico $9.74 USD US, other than New Mexico $8.99 USD Canada $9.99 USD International $16.99 USD Features Dancing with Fire: The Majestic and Dangerous Work of Grupo Sotz’il, by Heidi McKinnon, 16–23 The Musical Instruments, by Heidi McKinnon, 23 Storming Canada: Carl Ray, Indigenous Representation, and the Sacred Legends, by Matthew Ryan Smith, PhD, 24–29 Tarahumara People and Their Art: When the Ordinary Becomes Unique, by Cathy Short (Citizen Potawatomi), 30–39 Through the Sacred…

ROSEMARY DIAZ (Santa Clara Tewa) is a freelance feature writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the author of an original online series, Native Foodways: New Seasons, for Indian Country Today Media Network, and is engaged in the writing of her study/memoir on historic trauma, The Diaries of Sunshine YellowStar: Entries from Zarzamine. RoseMary studied literature and its respective arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Naropa University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. LinkedIn | ICTNM | email Works Published in FAAM “Gerald Lomaventema,” No. 18, Spring 2018: 64–69. “Healing Through the Creative Process: Art Therapy in Indian Country,”…

By Neebinnaukzhik Southall OSAGE GRAPHIC DESIGNER Ryan Red Corn’s accomplishments are many and varied. He co-founded the design and marketing company Buffalo Nickel Creative, whose clients include Nike and NMAI; operates Red Corn Native Foods; shoots videos and performs for the Native comedy group, the 1491s; launched Demockratees, a successful line of edgy political t-shirts; and serves as the co-executive director of NVision, a Native youth media arts group. Recently, I had a chance to speak with Ryan and hear his perspectives as a designer working with Native communities. Having Access Ryan Red Corn’s creative foundations began early. With a…

By America Meredith I DON’T THINK Cherokees had much of a beading tradition,” I blurted out to my sister at the 2005 opening of the Oklahoma History Center’s Native American gallery. The museum curator overheard and asked if he could show me something. That something was a 1840s Cherokee beadwork sampler of a vine with stylized flowers and strange blue growths, outlined in white. It was psychedelic. That was my first taste of Southeastern Woodlands beadwork, and I was hooked. Martha Berry (Cherokee Nation), a leading advocate for the revival of Southeastern Woodlands beadwork, beaded a bandolier bag called, Hidden in…

From Issue No. 0, Spring 2013: 52–53 2500-1000 BCE: Independence I people from Canada settle in north Greenland 2500-800 BCE: Saqqaq people from Siberia settle in southeast and west Greenland 700-80 BCE: Independence II people (Early Dorset) settle in north and northeast, near Independence Fjord 500 BCE–1500 CE: Tuniit or Dorset culture from Canada settle in northwest 982: Eric the Red, a Norseman banished from Iceland for murder, arrives in Greenland 986: Eric founds Norse colonies in southern Greenland 1200: Thule Inuit from Canada settle throughout Greenland 1261: Norse Parliament in Greenland votes for rule by Norwegian king 1408: A…