Native American Resources
This is by no means an all-inclusive list of artisans, professionals, cultural presenters, assistance groups, news media and other resources. If you are looking for something that does not appear on this list, please feel free to contact us and we will do our best to help you find what you need.
Actors
If you are looking for Native American actors, speakers, extras or other on-screen performers, please email Redbird directly at redbirds_vision@hotmail.com with your needs. We are in touch with people from many nations and all age groups. We will do our best to match your request with appropriate talent.
Artisans
Native American Jewelry-Fetishes-Pottery. My Weahkee family of fetish carvers include Lena Boone,Peter & Dinah Gasper, Debra Gasper and potter Lynelle Besselente all from the Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. Eleanor Lefthand
www.agalleryofnations.com
http://www.neshkinukat.org
California Native Artists Network
Contains extensive list of Native American artisans including many of Redbird’s friends and supporters
http://www.lefthandstudio.net
Nathan Lefthand, Navajo Silversmith and contemporary jewelry artisan
Spiritual, cultural and environmental jewelry
Pat Seymour, Award-winning Native American Crafts
(562) 544-2525
Assistance Groups
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www.uaii.org
United American Indian Involvement
Providing a variety of services to the Native American community of Los Angeles since 1974, including diabetes treatment and prevention, child and family services, health services, alcohol and drug rehabilitation and counseling
www.indiancenter.org
Southern California Indian Center
Helping the Native American community of Los Angeles with employment, child care and elder care. Hosts the annual SCIC powwow, currently held at the Autry National Center in Griffith Park
http://www.walkingshield.org
Walking Shield American Indian Society
Assistance group to improve the quality of life on Native American reservations through housing and donation of food and supplies to needy families and communities
Native American Family Center
(New Change for Positive Alternatives)
Offering a variety of services to the Native American community including temporary residential facilities
Phone (909) 890-0445
Fax (909) 890-0448
Books
www.heydaybooks.com
Publisher of books on California history, art, poetry, literary
anthologies, natural history, California Indians, and regional guides, as well
as the quarterly magazine News from Native California
News from Native California
Quarterly print magazine by, for, and about the
California Indian world. Searchable site; subscription, back issues and
submission information
www.heydaybooks.com/news
Books - Recommended
Reading
Food
Security and Sustainability for the Times Ahead
(a thoughtful, well composed, easy to read book that covers everything from
how to evaluate your location, how to increase your food security and
sustainability on any budget, how the wisdom of Native American elders relates
to today and how we affect the local and global economy with our shopping
habits. 144 pages, remarkably well referenced including many links to
additional resources, by native author Harvest McCampbell whose other works
include Sacred Smoke, Life is a Gift,
Women’s Health Begins with the Moon and Finding
Your Way with Herbs).
Harvest McCampbell, BioDiverse Press, available on www.Amazon.com or direct from
www.BioDiversePress.com
It Will
Live Forever – Traditional
Yosemite
Acorn
Preparation
(Blending the history of California Indian people with the preparation of
their primary food source, It Will Live
Forever illustrates not only how the art of making acorn has survived but
also why it is done in a certain manner, how that has changed in recent years
and what the last century has held for native people preserving their cultural
ways. It is an insider’s view into the
little known and little understood life of
California
’s native people in the face of
civilization, faithfully retold by Beverly Ortiz from the words and memories of
Julia Parker).
Beverly R. Ortiz as told by Julia F. Parker
www.heydaybooks.com
The
Red-Black Connection
Contemporary
Urban African-Native Americans and Their Stories of Dual Identity
(In the first year of its publication this book has been the topic of
television interviews and is available for sale at the
Smithsonian
National
Museum
of the American
Indian. Richly illustrated and narrated
by those who the author has captured on film, The Red-Black Connection is the
story of today’s Black Indians in their own words. You will likely recognize at least some of
the subjects of this work, a decade in the making. 97 fully illustrated pages
including a rich collection of resources, famous and infamous quotes, historical
figures and references for further information).
Valena Broussard Dismukes
Grace Enterprises,
3800
Stocker Street, Suite 1
,
Los Angeles
,
CA
90008
Available on www.Amazon.com or email Dismukes at vdismukes@netzero.net
Three Cups
of Tea – One Man’s
Mission
to Promote Peace…
One
School
at a Time
(Winner of the Kiriyama Prize for Literature, this is not a Native American
book, but one of the most inspiring, educational, honest and thought-provoking
books you will ever read, with a great deal of hard-won knowledge and understanding about tribal life in other regions.
It is the story of how a mountaineer became one of the single most influential
activists for social change in
Pakistan
and
Afghanistan
.
From the book’s back cover: In 1993 a mountaineer named Greg Mortenson
drifted into an impoverished village in the Karakoram mountains after a failed attempt to climb
K2
. Moved by
the inhabitants’ kindness, he promised to return and build a school. Three Cups of Tea is the story of that
promise and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools
–especially for girls – in the forbidding terrain that gave birth to the
Taliban. His story is at once a riveting
adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirit. “Here (in Pakistan and Afghanistan), we
drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the
second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our
family we are prepared to do anything – even die.” Haji Ali,
Korphe
Village
Chief,
Karakoram Mountains
,
Pakistan
)
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, Penguin Books
Available on www.Amazon.com
For more information visit www.threecupsoftea.com
or write Central Asia Institute,
P.O. Box 7209
,
Bozeman
,
MT
59771
or visit www.ikat.org
Craftspersons – Word, Visual and Web Design
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http://www.harvestmccampbell.com
Harvest McCampbell
Author of “Sacred Smoke”, Poet, Journalist, Freelance Writer
http://www.sondra.net/al/
Sondra Ball
Autumn Leaves poetry ezine featuring Native American and other poets, published online bi-monthly
Judi Armbruster, Poet, Karuk Nation
armbruster@sisqtel.net
Corina Roberts, Author, Poet, Writer, Photographer, Redbird’s founder
redbirds_vision@hotmail.com
Craft Supplies
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http://www.ocbtp.com
OCB Trading Post
Located in Glendora, California. Extensive inventory of craft supplies and books relating to Native Americans. Fringe, beads, leather and more
http://www.sbearstradingpost.com/webrings.html
Standing Bear’s Trading Post
Located in Reseda, California. Independently owned leathercraft and supplies store including leatherwork classes and supplies for Boy Scout activities. Authorized dealer for Tandy Leather
http://www.crazycrow.com
Crazy crow Trading Post
Native American craft supplies/buckskinner craft supplies
Extensive line of products from beads to tipis, mail order and internet order available
Cultural Organizations
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http://www.goldenstategourdsociety.com/index.htm
Golden State Gourd Society
Information on the Society’s activities as well as upcoming gatherings and information about the Gourd Dance
http://brokenrope.org
Uniting the Ventura County and Southern California native community with an informative website that features a regularly updated calendar. Caretakers of a portion of the collection of the late Ed Tepper; sponsor film previews and cultural events
http://www.satwiwa.org
Native American Indian Culture Center located in Newbury Park area of southern California. Cultural presentations, hikes, numerous exhibits and workshops by native artisans
http://www.wishtoyo.org
Wishtoyo Foundation
Chumash cultural group and environmental preservation organization active in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties; network with non profit and public organizations and individuals to preserve and protect cultural heritage and environmental resources
http://www.haramokngna.org
Haramokngna Culture Center
Cultural Center located in Angeles National Forest at the gathering place of five California nations. Workshops, opportunities for artists/counselors/cultural presenters to do group retreats. Active in a number of issues including cultural preservation, teaching the native philosophy toward relationships with all life, diabetes prevention and native youth.
http://www.nnaba.org
Northwest Native American Basket Weavers Association
http://www.ciba.org/links.html
California Indian Basket Weavers Association
Cultural Presenters, Musicians, Performers and Speakers
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http://wildhorsesingersanddancers.org/
Wild Horse Northern Drum and Native American Association;
Jorge Lechuga, lead singer
Presentations, host powwow drum, ceremonies, educational venues
Website is under development; if you are unable to access the site email Jorge at wildhorsesingers@yahoo.com or contact Redbird via email and your message will be forwarded
www.elkwhistle.com
Bill Neal, Cherokee Nation, traditional flute player and cultural presenter
Website under development; you can email Bill at elkwhistle@verizon.net or send an email to Redbird and your message will be forwarded
http://www.greygrass.org
Robert Greygrass, Native American Storyteller, performer counselor and workshop leader
http://alansalazar.tripod.com
Alan Salazar, Chumash Storyteller, Elder and Cultural Presenter
Cultural Presenter, Speaker, Master of Ceremonies
Lifestyle Coach for the Diabetes Prevention Program at UAII and Drug and Alcohol Counselor
Michael A. Reifel, San Carlos Apache
happyjoyousfreeindian@yahoo.com
Cultural Presenter, Hoop Dancer (world renowned)
Thirza Defoe, Ojibwe/Oneida Nation; contact through Redbird
redbirds_vision@hotmail.com
Cultural Presenter, Northern Traditional Dancer, Actor
Sam Bear Paw, Apache Nation; contact through Redbird
redbirds_vision@hotmail.com
Gary Pickett, Flintknapper
Teacher/educator and producer of custom traditional and contemporary knapped stone tools; one of Redbird’s most loyal and generous supporters
air-o-head@webtv.net
www.carlosreynosa.com
Carlos Reynosa
Native American Flute player, professional photographer
Media and Educational Resources
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CSULB American Indian Studies
www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/ais
CSULB American Indian Student Services
www.csulb.edu/aiss
CSULB AISC
www.csulb.edu/org/cultural/aisc
www.csulb.edu
American Indian Airwaves, email list, please contact CSULB Alumn, Larry Smith. (Lumbee), burnt.swamp@verizon.net
Keep updated with Krystyn Media, from CSULB Alumna, Christine Yazzie, (Dine’), www.krystynmedia.blogspot.com
Post your event/announcement on www.nativeoutlook.com, Native Outlook, with CSULB Alumn, Jerry Kee (Dine’).
View American Indian Cable Network, CSULB Alumn, Chuck Marshall, (Muskogee Creek-http://members.aol.com/timerivr/aicn/aboutus.html, Check out American Indian Cable Network, all over the world, on the internet, http://members.aol.com/timerivr/aicn/index.html
Support our local Golden State Gourd Dance Society, www.goldenstategourdsociety.com/powwowlistings.htm
www.indiancountry.com
Indian Country Today
The world’s largest American Indian news source
www.indiancountrynews.com
News from Indian Country
Bi-monthly newsletter covering Native American news and issues across the western hemisphere
www.nativeweb.org
Over 5,000 resources for indigenous communities, groups, events, news
http://www.thenativepress.com
Native American news source
http://www.heydaybooks.com
Heyday Institute, Heyday Books, News from Native California
Press dedicated to Native American books, news, and native authors. Extensive collection of books and literature of the highest quality
www.Manataka.org
Monthly newsletter and non profit organization promoting understanding of Native American culture and environmental issues
http://www.rez-biz.com
RezBiz magazine
Devoted to the promotion of Native American entrepreneurs and reservation-based businesses, economic independence and self-sufficiency
(Southern California Indian Center’s website lists a large number of educational and media resources, as well as government assistance programs and programs specific to the Native American community. www.indiancenter.org )
Powwows
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www.powwows.com
Powwow listings, group forums, educational articles, photos, chat, teacher resources and more. The premier source for listing and locating powwows throughout the western hemisphere
Spiritual Advisors
There are a number of native people who practice their traditional healing and ceremonial ways. If you would like to contact someone to discuss a matter of a spiritual or healing nature, please contact Redbird directly, and we will try to find someone appropriate to work with you. Send an email to redbirds_vision@hotmail.com
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