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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!
New York City and Area Events of Interest »
AMERINDA in the NY Times!!! »
We are sad to announce that Rolando Reyes owner of The Common Ground Gallery Inc. passed
away June 3, 2008. Reyes has been a generous supporter of the American Indian Community
and it is an honor to have known him. Our deepest sympathies go out to his family.
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Writer, poet, American Indian scholar Puala Gunn Allen (Laguna Pueblo-Metis, Lebanese) passed away
May 29, 2008 at her home in Ft Bragg, CA after a long battle with cancer. Born Paula Marie Francis, 1939 in Cubero,
New Mexico, the daughter of former Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico Elias Lee Francis and Ethel Francis.
She recieved her Ph.D from the University of New Mexico and spent many years teaching
at colleges and universities in the southwest and California as a leader in Native American Studies and
Writing. Allen was awarded post doctorial fellowships from The Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lannan
Foundation. She has been recognized with a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her book Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur,
Diplomat, an American Book Award for Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and
Contemporary Writing, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas.
Paula Gunn Allen has published six volumes of her poetry and numerous anthologies including Studies
in American Indian Literature: Critical Essays and Course Designs which laid the foundation
for studies in Native American Literature.
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NEWS
Smoke a staged reading of a new play by Vickie Ramirez. Directed by Steve Elm. At The Public Theater, Cast... More »
This past December The Public Theatre brought Native theatre professionals from around the U.S. and Canada for a series of readings and discussions to New York City as part of its Native Theater Festival. The audience was introduced... More »
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.
Credits
Website Design: Patrick
Tafoya (Dine)
Opening Flash Music: Southern Thunder
Web Hosting: Hostcentric
Special Thanks: American Friends Service Commitee
This website is made possible in part with public
funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and
the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Gifts-in-Kind: Adobe Systems Inc.
