Cherokee movie star Wes Studi is no stranger to standing up against an invasion on the big screen. In James Cameron’s new 3-D, sci-fi blockbuster “Avatar,” Studi lends his voice and face to a computer-generated character whose planet is being invaded by a private army bent on exploiting its resources. As one of the human [...]
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PEOPLE: Mary G. Ross blazed a trail in the sky as a woman engineer in the space race
Her bequest will propel the museum’s future educational journeys
Read the rest of this entry »MUSIC: Roots of the blues go deep into shared Native and African American history
Jimi Hendrix meteorically rose to rock-and-roll fame playing, smashing and burning guitars, yet he never stopped talking about his Cherokee grandmother.
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Ten years ago Kim Cournoyer answered an ad seeking a music teacher at the high school on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in Fort Yates, N.D. An urban Indian, Cournoyer was raised in the Chicago suburbs, far from the rural reservation of her forbears, which straddles the border of North and South Dakota. But the [...]
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