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melissa

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About Me

i have the art itch. really bad. i want to be a printmaker again. damn grad school is getting in the way. fuckin' fuck. blkabldkoadineadoindncvero!I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Music:

my favorite song right now is "thirteen" by ben kweller.

Movies:

Whale Rider, Frida, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Business of Fancydancing, Shopgirl, Little Miss Sunshine, The Science of Sleep

Books:

Almanac of the Dead, The Toughest Indian in the World, God is Red, Discourse on Colonialism, Things Fall Apart, Mean Spirit, The Healing Land, Haboo, Love Medicine, the book Angel Bocock wrote for me in second grade

Heroes:

Vi Hilbert, Kay WalkingStick, Joe Feddersen, Mary Ellen Hillaire, Vine Deloria, Jr., Joe Delacruz

My Blog

Navajo Elvis

this is funny.  ch-ch-check it out. Navajo Elvis salutes the King http://www.gallupindependent.com/2007/jan/010807jch_navajoel vis.html...
Posted by MELISSA on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:46:00 PST

Nez Perce woman first Native woman to serve in Washington State Legislature

Claudia Kauffman, a member of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho, won election to the Washington State Senate. http://www.indianz.com/News/2006/016967.asp...
Posted by MELISSA on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:30:00 PST

Potlatch Economics: A Lummi Perspective (by Larry Kinley)

Hello. Here is a speech you should read if you wanna know about Lummi stuff.  I came across this while doing some research for one of my papers.  Enjoy! http://www.cwis.org/fwj/22/potlatch....
Posted by MELISSA on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:59:00 PST

Longhouse Education & Cultural Center, The Evergreen State College

hey dudes, this is where i'll be working.  i'll be doing native art administration, which is right up my alley.  i'm pretty excited about it.  check it out in this link: http://www.ever...
Posted by MELISSA on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:25:00 PST

contemporary native art--podcasts

Here, my friends, is a contemporary native art history lesson.  These are the podcasts from the 2005 Eiteljorg Native American Fellowship Symposium.  I've listened to these a few times and I...
Posted by MELISSA on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:39:00 PST

i like....

Paul Chaat Smith... He is a curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and a writer I recently found I enjoy.  I discovered his writing in a lovely snippet of a...
Posted by MELISSA on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:27:00 PST

Lushootseed Website

hey party people, here is a link to the lushootseed website my teacher zalmai zahir created.  if you want, which i know you do, to take a lushootseed class there is information on this site. ...
Posted by MELISSA on Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:44:00 PST