Nora Naranjo-Morse, a Tewa Pueblo Indian from Santa Clara Pueblo, is a sculptor, writer and video producer of films that look at the continuing social changes within Pueblo culture. Her video What Was Taken . . . was screened in the 1997 Native American Film and Video Festival at the National Museum of the American Indian. In conjunction with this festival, her video, I've Been Bingo-ed by My Baby, was screened at the American Indian Community House.

Nora incorporates the various media she works in to make social comment on the lives of contemporary Native women. She is best known for her work in clay. This medium holds special significance not only because of its place within the history of Santa Clara Pueblo art, but also because of the traditional processing it requires. While her forms convey an aesthetic that is non-traditional, the content of her work is always rooted in issues that concern her community. Her work, in fact, often reflects on the tensions of producing art for a Western art market that often praises its innovative approach while, at the same, marginalizes it as "native" art . . .

Duane Niatum was born and still lives in Seattle, Washington. He has published poems, stories, and essays in over a hundred magazines and newspapers in the United States and Europe. Recently he published his fifth volume of poetry, Drawings of the Song Animals: New and Selected Poems (Holy Cow Press, Duluth, Minnesota, I99 I ). He has a collection of stories and essays now making the rounds of the publishers. He is an enrolled member of the Klallam tribe (Jamestown band) of Washington State.

1921-2008. Mildred "Millie" Noble was an American writer and Native American activist. Noble helped to found the Boston Indian Council, which is now known as the North American Indian Center of Boston.  Noble was the author of Sweet Grass: Lives of Contemporary Native Women, which was published in 1997. Mildred Noble was born in northern Ontario, Canada in 1921. Her parents, Edward Paibomasai and Mary Moore, were members of the Ojibwe Nation. Paibomasai was from the Whitefish River Band of Ojibwe while Moore was from the Hudson Bay region Ojibwe. Noble was raised by her parents in a log cabin. Her parents made a living by fishing and hunting . . .

Jim Northrup's stories have been featured in such anthologies as Touchwood: An Anthology of Ojibway Prose, Stillers Pond, and North Writers. His poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines and his book of poems and fiction, Walking the Rez Road, was published by Voyageur Press in 1993. He writes a syndicated column called "The Fond du Lac Follies" and works as a roster artist for the COMPAS Writer-in-theSchools Program. Northrup, his wife Patricia, and their family live the traditional life of the Chippewa on the Fond du Lac Reservation in northern Minnesota.

Boozhooo,
My real name in Ojibwe is Chibenashi. I haven't worked at Compas for over four years. I was in the Marine Corps for nine days, five years. Got a new book out called The Rez Road Follies, Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets... it is a collection of non-fiction from Kodansha. Miigwech - Jim Northrup email received 11/22/97

nila northSun is a poet, photographer, social worker, tribal historian, community activist, eclectic artist, and grant writer. northSun was born in 1951 in Schurz, Nevada, to a Shoshone mother and Chippewa father. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she returned to her reservation in Fallon, Nevada, to raise her family.
 
northSun attended California State University at both Hayward and Humboldt, majored in psychology, and met her first husband, writer Kirk Robertson. They collaborated on the publication of a small press literary magazine called Scree, which included work by Charles Bukowski, a seminal writer of the late twentieth century . . .