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America

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About Me

Ride a bike and don't have a Cherokee spokecard yet? Check out: www.ahalenia.com/cherokee
Upcoming Art Events:
• June 4-30: Point Arena, CA
Speaking from the Earth at Think Visual, 215 Main Street. 707.882.4042. Opening receptions will be Friday, June 6th and Saturday, June 7th. Link
• July 3-31: San Francisco, CA
From the Four Directions at SOMARTS Gallery, 934 Brannan. Opening reception July 3, closing reception July 31, 6pm.
• August 21-24: Santa Fe, NM
My Way at the Humble, 1572 Center Street #C. Reception on Thursday, August 21, Music by Calico, DJs Miss Ginger the Werewulf Micah. Link .
• August 22 & 23: Santa Fe, NM
SWAIA Indian Market at the Plaza. Booth 506-PAL.
• August 30 - September 1: Park Hill, OK The Cherokee Spokespeople Project at the Ho-Chee-Nee Chapel at the Cherokee National Museum. Thanks to the First Families of the Cherokee Nation program.
• October 11 & 12: Catoosa, OK 3rd Annual Cherokee Nation Intertribal Art Market at Cherokee Casino and Resort, 777 W. Cherokee Street
• December: Fort Lauderdale, FL
The Unconquered Imagination: Native Art and Resistance at Okalee Contemporary Art Gallery, 5710 Seminole Way. 954.797.5570.
• January-February 2009: Durango, CO
From the Woodlands at Fort Lewis College Art Gallery with Sallyann Milam Paschall.
• May 2009: San Francisco, CA
Speaking for Ourselves, installation celebrating Native American self-representation in literature and visual art at Bound Together Books, 1369 Haight Street. Public talk about Pre-20th Century Cherokee painting and book signing on Thursday, May, 21st, 7-9pm.

My Interests

American Indian art for American Indians, Magritte the kitten, remaining eternally vigilant against the Canadian invasion, Native American language preservation, curating art shows, reinventing society, sustainable agriculture and native plant restoration (for that magical day I actually have a yard), egg tempera and acrylic painting, medieval manuscript illumination, bad puns--the more arcane and obsolete the better.

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Music:

Any combination of bluegrass and punk, some industrial noise, Bad Livers, Front Porch Swinging Liquor Pigs, Family Scott, Los Cerveceros, Hank Williams III, Woody Guthrie, La Plebe, Tina Age 13, Real McKenzies, Mensclub, Laibach, Flogging Molly. My dream is to create "Agricultural Noise."

Movies:

Braveheart, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Pow Wow Highway, Lord of the Rings, Milagro Beanfield War, Masterpiece Theatre's version of Pride and Prejudice.

Television:

Simpsons, Daily Show, Spaced, Black Books, Good Times... If they could combine Black Books with Good Times TV would truly rule!

Books:

- "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda" by Philip Gourevitch
- "The Basque History of the World" by Mark Kurlansky
- "The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan after the Taliban" by Sarah Chayes
- "Contrary Farmer" by Gene Logsden
- "New American Blues: A Journey through Poverty to Democracy" by Earl Shorris
- anything and everything by Jack and Anna Gritts Kilpatrick
- "Color: A Natural History of the Pallette" by Victoria Finlay
- anything by my dad, especially "Dancing on Common Ground: Tribal Cultures and Alliances on the Southern Plains."
- "Little Women" and everything else by Louisa May Alcott

Heroes:

My folks, Will Rogers, Dr. Mary Jo Watson, Ben and Barbara Harjo, Parrish Williams, Durbin Feeling, Lawrence Hart, T.C. Cannon, Gene Logsden, Eli Nofire, Dennis Sixkiller, Randlett Edmonds, Suzan Shown Harjo, Kelly Church, Carol Swindell, Muhammad Yunus, Janeen Antoine, Archie Sam, John Ketcher, Judith Lowry -- huh, maybe I am easily impressed.

My Blog

Indian Market / Cherokee Homecoming

Indian Market! More photos on my Flickr SiteThis year was my best Indian Market yet but I did the least extracurricular activities. It's frustrating when the town is filled with folks I want to see an...
Posted by America on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:34:00 PST

An Open Letter to the Canadians on Thanksgiving, 8th Year

Dear Evil Canadian Overlords,After eight long years haven't you figured out the obvious reality that this invasion is unwinnable and that your invasion of America is the Canadian Vietnam? We will resi...
Posted by America on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:43:00 PST

6 Things Blog for Samonia and Kristie Saloli

Okay, that isn't my mood; I just like the bug eyes.Once you have been tagged, you are to write a blog including 6 things you do that are weird, habitual, and/or an interesting fact about yourself. In...
Posted by America on Tue, 09 May 2006 09:25:00 PST

To Our Evil Canadian Overlords, Year 7

The 7th Year; In the Skookum House. Québécois on the Bloc! > As your armies of Canadian Geese are poised to shower the world with Eh-vian bird flu, your Bigfoot, aka Skookum, terrorizes the peopl...
Posted by America on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 04:10:00 PST

An Open Letter to the Canadians on Thanksgiving - 6th year

Dear Evil Overlords, As the 6th year of your occupation of our once humble and peaceful country, the US of Eh, continues, our moral is low, but we are not yet crushed. We beseech to take back your...
Posted by America on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST