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WINTER 2018 VOL. 19 NO. 4


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INDIAN +


NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WINTER 2018


GAINING HIGHER GROUND


CHITIMACHA RELOCATE AS GULF WATERS RISE


DISNEY WORLD GOING TO WORKS TO THE STARS


NAVAJO FUSION FROM THE SKUNK


2 AMERICAN INDIAN WINTER 2018 ON THE COVER


This skateboard painted by Douglas Miles Sr. (San Carlos Apache/Akimel O’odham), founder of Apache Skateboards in San Carlos Ariz., is featured in the new Walt Disney World Epcot Center exhibition, Creating Tradition. The exhibit title appropriately describes several of our articles, describing how new circumstances renew traditions, or old memories shed light on and inspire the present.


Douglas Miles Sr. (San Carlos Apache/Akimel O’odham). Apache Skateboards. Apache Classic skateboard, 2018. San Carlos, Ariz. Seven-ply maple wood, acrylic paint.


Photo courtesy of Walt Disney World and Douglas Miles Sr. Apache Skateboards, San Carlos, Ariz.


Follow Apache Skateboards on Instagram: @instapache1 and @dmiles1_apache


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NAVAJO FUSION: DDAT CROSSES GENRES AND GENERATIONS After jamming together at the Survival of First Voices festival, the jazz group the Delbert Anderson Trio and the hip-hop performer Def-i are touring as DDAT, in a new musical style.


SHE REACHED FOR THE STARS A new U.S. $1 coin is paying tribute to the life of Mary Golda Ross (Cherokee), who took the tribal education fostered by her great-great-grandfather Chief John Ross, to new heights as the first Native woman aerospace engineer and a pioneer of the Space Program.


GAINING HIGHER GROUND The Isle de Jean Charles Band of the Biloxi- Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe is leaving ancestral land threatened by subsidence and rising water and revitalizing its traditional culture on the way.


PHOTO BY KENT PHILLIPS


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