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Welcome to the web home of AMERINDA, American
Indian Artists Inc. We invite you to find out more about The Reawakening,
our feature film; Genocide of the Mind and Sovereign Bones, our collection of new Native American
non-fiction; explore our quarterly publication Talking Stick; the new
Native American Artist Roster; or our expanded links page and much more
to further your journey. Whatever path you take, may it be one of beauty!
A Ho!
4 New York City Native Artists Receive Fellowships in the Visual and Media Arts
$6,000 Awarded in the Third Cycle from the Urban Artist Initiative/NYC to Native American artists
(New York, NY – March 3, 2010) The Urban Artist Initiative/NYC (UAI/NYC), a consortium effort to strengthen the infrastructure and support for artists of color in New York City, announced the 34 New York artists who received UAI/NYC Fellowships this year. With this third grants cycle of the Initiative, 4 Native American artists in four disciplines have received direct support from this program.
The UAI/NYC consortium includes Amerinda, Inc., the Asian American Arts Alliance, Harlem Arts Alliance, the Latino Artists Initiative sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Queens Council on the Arts, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, working in partnership with the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Bronx Council on the Arts, the project’s general sponsor.
Director of AMERINDA, Inc, UAI Consortium member, Diane Fraher said, “It is with great pleasure that we facilitate the award of artists fellowships in acknowledging and recognizing the merit of contemporary Native American arts in New York City. We congratulate the winners and thank all the talented artists who applied.”
News & Events
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The Reawakening
AMERINDA's THE REAWAKENING, a cinamatic milestone,
is the first independent feature film written, directed and
produced by Native people. Click here to find out more about the film,
awards, actors, and the story and to view production photographs.
NEW! Sovereign Bones
AMERINDA’s new creative non-fiction compilation of Native 
American writing entitled, Sovereign Bones was edited by Eric Gansworth (Eel Clan-Onondaga). Oren Lyons (Wolf Clan-Onondaga), Faithkeeper and world spokesperson for the rights of indigenous peoples wrote the forward. The book is the second volume published by Nation Books and supported in part with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Genocide of the Mind
Find out more about Genocide of the Mind, AMERINDA's non-
fiction anthology of new American Indian writing edited by
MariJo Moore (Cherokee), with a foreward by the late distinguished elder and author,
Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux). Now in its 2nd Printing! Published
by Nation Books and supported in part with funds from the New York State
Council on the Arts.
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Tafoya (Dine)
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