Contemporary Culture - Equity and Access in the Arts for Native American

The goal is not to completely discredit citizen born and raised there, and I am the son the work of archaeologists and anthropologists of Wayne Newell, one of the first members of but instead to show what that primarily white the American Indian Program when it began at gaze has left out of the story. [...] because we carry forward the stories, the The idea is not to segregate Indigenous teachings, the songs, the voices, the history, the writers from the rest of poets or the writing land traditions. [...] On the Front Lines 15 On the Front Lines Tim Keenan Burgess (Paiute/Shoshone) of Wisdom of the Elders INTERVIEW BY VICTORIA HUTTER All photos by Tim Keenan Burgess, Wisdom of the Elders A nyone who has been shocked about the importance of looking to Native cultures by the enormous wild fires in for an understanding of how to address climate the West, fierce tornados in the change and live harmonio. [...] One of the questions we’d always ask is, "What’s more important to you, for the people? Is it the land, is it the language, is it the songs, the dancing, is it the art?" All of those things and the foods, the way of life. [...] We got to see what it was like to really be on the road and to feel what it was like to be at the mercy of the audience—if the audience is even going to show up or if they’re going to like you and if you’re going to be able to sustain the road trips financially.