Volume 18 Summer 2007 Issue No. 4
In This Issue:
Health & Healing
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
Changing the Face of Research
Tribal colleges address community well-being
By Dorreen Yellow Bird (Sahnish/Dakota/Lakota)
Cankdeska Cikana Community College and Turtle Mountain Community College collaborate with their communities on vital health research and education curriculum.
Sweat Equity
House of good living promotes exercise, fitness
By Louis Montclair( Fort Peck Sioux)
Increased utilization of Fort Peck Community College’s wellness centers exceeds the college president’s vision for improved community health and fitness.
Healing Artist: Napie documents family’s suicides through photography
By Velencia Tso-Yazzie (Diné)
An IAIA senior draws attention to the Native American suicide epidemic by documenting the lives of family members he’s lost.
DEPARTMENTS
Storymakers
Letters to the Editor
Editor’s Essay: Community Health and Wellness Start With Our Individual Commitment
By Tina Deschenie (Diné /Hopi)
Profile: Lupe Jackson
By Patty Talahongva (Hopi/Tewa)
Talking Circle
By Dr. Denise Low-Weso
Resource Guide
By Edna Francisco
Media Reviews
By Michael Thompson, Tina Deschenie, and Jonathan Holden
Voices
By Cheryl Crazy Bull (Sicangu Lakota)
ON THE COVER: "American Indian Gothic, Sitting Bull & Wife," by David Bradley (Minnesota Chippewa) painter, printmaker, sculptor, jeweler, ceramicist, activist and aspiring jazz musician. Bradley received an A.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM. As an internationally exhibited artist; his art has been included in dozens of museum exhibitions around the world and has been honored with 4 separate one-man museum exhibitions. He works in a wide range of materials and techniques, from the figurative to the conceptual. His artwork has been featured on numerous book and magazine covers.
Bradley served the Peace Corps in Guatemala, the Dominican Republic/Haitian border area, and Costa Rica. Many of the artistic and cultural experiences he encountered abroad would influence him later in his art career. After his Peace Corps tour, he graduated first in his IAIA class of 1979 and was awarded the College Student of the Year Award from the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. He received his B.A. in Fine Arts at the College of Santa Fe.
In 1981, he began exhibiting his art work at the prestigious Elaine Horwitch Galleries. He was one of the first artists to receive an artist fellowship from the Southwestern Association on Indian Affairs (SWAIA), which sponsors the annual Santa Fe Indian Market.
In the mid eighties, Bradley helped organize an Indian/Chicano coalition to demand inclusion in the contemporary exhibition opportunities at the NM Museum of Fine Arts. He then co-founded the Native American Artists Association, (NAAA) which was organized to raise the issue of pseudo-Indian profiteering and wide spread fraud in the Indian arts and crafts business. The work of the widely-supported NAAA resulted in the passage of state Indian art fraud laws and the passage of the federal Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990.
From 1990-92, Bradley was invited to teach both painting and sculpture, as visiting professor/artist-in-residence, at his alma mater, IAIA. In 1996, he was awarded the City of Santa Fe Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 2004, David Bradley received an Artist Fellowship/ Residency at the School of American Research in Santa Fe.
Bradley lives with his wife Arlene Loretto (Jemez Pueblo) and son Diego, near Santa Fe, NM. He simply states his work this way: “To be an artist is to seek truth.” Bradley can be reached at P.O. Box 5692, Santa Fe, N.M. 87502 or by email at dadsf123@aol.com.