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EDUCATION
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Candidate for
M.A./Ph.D., Department of History. August 2000-present.
Major
fields: Native American History and Southern History, including issues of race,
economics, gender, migration, identity and Federal policy. Secondary interests:
Anthropology, Oral History and Film History. M.A. thesis: ’ÄúPeople and Place:
Croatan Indian Migration to Bulloch County, Georgia, 1890-1920,’Äù completion
expected March 2002. Advisor: Dr. Theda Perdue.
Stanford University. M.A. Documentary Film and Video
Production, 1997.
Harvard University. A.B. History and Literature, cum laude, 1995.
Senior honors thesis: ’ÄúViolence and the Racial Boundary: Fact and Fiction in the Swamps of Robeson County, 1831-1871,’Äù awarded magna cum laude. Advisor: Dr. Fred Dalzell.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
Co-Producer, In the Light of Reverence - Video, 73 minutes (2001)
A
feature-length documentary concerning threats to Native American sacred sites by
recreational and industrial interests in the Northern Plains, the Southwest,
and northern California. PBS broadcast premiere August 14, 2001, seen by 3
million viewers. Distributed by Bullfrog Films.
Producer/Director/Editor, Sounds of Faith - Video, 14 minutes (1997)
A portrait of a Lumbee
Indian family of singers and how their unique brand of traditional gospel music
steers them through the modern world. Screenings include the 1998 Sundance Film
Festival and the American Indian Film Festival, and numerous conferences and
classrooms.
Producer/Director/Editor, Real Indian - 16mm, 7 minutes (1996)
A personal film examining Native American
racial stereotypes and their effect on my cultural identity. Distributed by
Women Make Movies, New York, NY. Screenings include the 1997 Sundance Film
Festival. Recipient of Best Short Documentary Award at the 1997 South by
Southwest Film Festival, and the Best Indian-Produced Short Documentary Award
at the 1997 Red Earth Film Festival.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Adjunct
Faculty, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University. January 2002-present.
Religion 196S, ’ÄúNative American Places,’Äù an interdisciplinary junior-senior seminar focusing on the creation and use of sacred places within Native American communities and for Americans as a whole. Readings included texts from anthropology, history, religious studies, cultural studies and folklore. Students were required to conduct a fieldwork project among the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, NC. Team-taught with Dr. Charles D. Thompson.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, August 2001-present.
Organize and lead discussion sections and grade for History 72A, ’ÄúEastern Native Americans,’Äù taught by Dr. Michael Green; History 22, ’ÄúU.S. History, 1865-present,’Äù taught by Dr. Jerma Jackson.
Producer/Developer/Co-Writer,
Sounds
of Faith: an educational CD-ROM (1999)
Wrote, researched, designed and produced a multimedia CD-ROM and website
concerning Lumbee Indian political, religious and musical history. Includes
maps, photos, text, audio, video and a comprehensive bibliography.
Lecturer,
American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University- San Francisco,
CA
Researched, designed and taught AIS 235, a general education course concerning
popular images of Native Americans. January 1997-December 1998.
Consultant,
The Learning Company - Fremont, CA
Consulted with project producers about ethical and historical issues on a
children's CD-ROM game with Native American themes. July 1997.
Intern,
National Museum of the American Indian, Film and Video Center, Smithsonian Institution
-
New
York, NY
Produced a special installation for the Museum's initiatives in acquiring
Native-produced radio. Researched and catalogued recent video acquisitions.
June-August 1996.
Research
Assistant, Midnight Films - Cambridge, MA
Examined primary documents, photographs, etc. for a documentary film on the
Wampanoag Indians, directed by Paul Stekler. November 1992-June 1993.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
’ÄúMaking Christianity Sing: The Origins and Experience of
Lumbee Indian and African-American Church Music,’Äù in Confounding the Color Line:
Indian-Black Relations in a Multidisciplinary Perspective, edited by James
Brooks (University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2002).
’ÄúIndians Got Rhythm, Too: Lumbee Indian and African-American
Church Music,’Äù North Dakota Quarterly, special issue edited by Peter
Nabokov (Winter 2001).
’ÄúThe Cowboys Always Win: The
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934,’Äù in History in Dispute, Vol. I, edited by Robert
Allison (Manly, Inc., 2000).
"Sara
Bates: Honoring the Earth" - published in Aboriginal
Voices, Jan./Feb. 1998
Portrait of Cherokee artist Sara Bates.
"Borderline" - published in Aboriginal
Voices, Oct./Nov./Dec. 1996
Essay on Lumbee identity and history.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
’ÄúPeople and Place: Croatan Indian Migration to Bulloch County, Georgia, 1890-1920,’Äù November, 2002.
Southern Historical
Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD.
’ÄúOral History in the Classroom: Using Documentary to
explore North Carolina History,’Äù May 2002.
’ÄúRediscovering the Collective Strength of the Circle,’Äù
sponsored by First American Teacher Education Association, University of North
Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC.
’ÄúPeople and Place:
Croatan Indian Migration to Bulloch
County, Georgia, 1890-1920,’Äù February 2002.
Consortium on Georgia History’Äôs 2002 Symposium,
Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA.
’ÄúNative
American and African-American Religious Experiences,’Äù October 2000. Symposium
in conjunction with To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically
Black Colleges and Universities,
North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC.
’ÄúNative American
and African-American Racial Stereotyping,’Äù invited lecture and film screening, ’ÄúEating Out of
the Same Pot:’Äù Relating Black and Indian (Hi)stories, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, NH, April 2000.
’ÄúBeyond Cowboys and
Indians: Contemporary Native American Filmmaking,’Äù invited lecture, Pam Hanitchak
Lecture Series, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, November 1999.
’Äú’ÄòOne People, Under
God:’Äô Crossing Boundaries Between Native American and African American
Identities,’Äù
invited lecture and film screening, Broadening the Circle: Cultural Connections
Between Native Americans and African Americans in the Southeast, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., November 1999.
’Äú’ÄòI Will Sing With
the Understanding Also:’Äô Lumbee Indian and African American Gospel Music,’Äù invited lecture, African
Americans and Native Americans: Explorations in Narrative, Identity and Place,
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History,
Atlanta, GA, June 1999.
’ÄúReligious Freedom
for Northern California’Äôs Native American Communities,’Äù panelist, California Indian
Museum Lecture Series, San Francisco, CA, April 1999.
’ÄúMedia of the
Moment: Documenting Communities in Action,’Äù panelist, Women in the Director’Äôs Chair Film
Festival, Chicago, IL, March 1998.
’ÄúPersonal
Documentary and Indigenous Diaspora Identities,’Äù plenary speaker, Native
American Art Studies Association, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, October 1997.
AWARDS/HONORS
Southern Research Circle Summer Stipend,
May 2001
Rockefeller
Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship, 2001-2002
Royster Society of Fellows Scholarship, UNC-CH, 2000-2005
Corporation for Public
Broadcasting Multicultural Producer Scholarship, 1998-1999
Sundance Institute
Native Initiative Fellow, 1998
North Carolina Arts
Council Folklife Documentary Grant, 1997
Best Indian-Produced
Short Documentary, 1997 Red Earth Film Festival
Best Short
Documentary, 1997 South by Southwest Film Festival
National Endowment for
the Humanities Younger Scholar, 1994
Smithsonian
Institution Research Fellowship, 1993
Community Service
Coordinator, Lumbee River Fund for the Preservation of Lumbee
History and Culture, August 2000-present.
Responsibilities
include consulting with an advisory board to create program initiatives to
preserve the history and culture of Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina,
as well as fundraising, staff management, community outreach and supervising
research in oral history and photography preservation.
Member,
First Nations Graduate Circle, UNC-Chapel Hill, August 2000-present.
Selection
Committee, Brower Youth Awards, July 2001.
The Brower Youth Awards were
created in honor of environmental leader David Brower to reward young
environmental activists, ages 13-22.
Board
Member, Working
Films, May 2001-present.
Serve as Board Secretary on the Executive Committee.
Working Films is a national non-profit organization based in North Carolina
that creates partnerships between documentary film projects and social change
groups.
Volunteer,
Oral History Association Conference, October, 2000.
Maintained registration desk and book table for
four-day conference in Durham, NC.
Steering Committee, Indian Leadership Initiative, October 2000-May 2001.
Responsibilities included proposal writing for a pilot project begun by UNC Chapel Hill’Äôs American Studies department in collaboration with the North Carolina Commission on Indian Affairs to enhance leadership skills among North Carolina’Äôs Indian population.
Diversity
and Environmental Justice Committees, Earth Island Institute, May 1999-August
2000.
Member of committees that
evaluate and direct Earth Island Institute’Äôs effectiveness in these areas of
service to both the organization and the environmental movement as a whole.
Lecturer on
American Indian and documentary film topics for classes, student groups, and
the general public, 1997-present.
Institutions served include
Centennial Campus Middle School (Raleigh, NC), Jeffries Middle School (Raleigh,
NC), Robeson County’Äôs Youth Opportunity Program (Red Springs, NC), Triangle
Native American Society (Raleigh, NC), North Carolina Society of Ethical
Culture (Carrboro, NC), Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church (Chapel Hill, NC),
Duke University, Elon College, North Carolina State University, University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Stanford University, University of California at
Berkeley, the California Indian Museum, Swarthmore College, University of New
Mexico, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and Cornell University.
Volunteer, Annual Stanford Powwow, 1996-1997.
Duties
ranged from videography to registration and clean-up.
Juror,
National Educational Media Network, March 1996.
Judged
and awarded prizes to films submitted to the Native American culture category
of the National Educational Media Network Festival.