Founding Members of the Guardians of Culture Membership Group
Institutions and Affiliated Organizations
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Alaska Native Language Archive Alcatraz Cruises Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Inc. ASU American Indian Policy Institute Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives, UBC Museum of Anthropology Barona Cultural Center & Museum Caddo Heritage Museum Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma Chickasaw Nation Cultural Center Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Dine College Dr. Fernando Escalante Community Library & Resource Center Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria George W. Brown Jr. Ojibwe Museum and Cultural Center Hopi Tutuquyki Sikisve Huna Heritage Foundation International Buddhist Ethics Committee & Buddhist Tribunal on Human Rights Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma John G. Neihardt State Historic Site KCS Solutions, Inc. Maitreya Buddhist University Midwest Art Conservation Center Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Museo + Archivio, Inc. Museum Association of Arizona National Museum of the American Indian Newberry Library Noksi Press Osage Tribal Museum Papahana Kuaola Pawnee Nation College Pechanga Cultural Resources Department Poarch Creek Indians Quatrefoil Associates Chippewas of Rama First Nation Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute Speaking Place Tantaquidgeon Museum The Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University The Autry National Center of the American West The Heard Musuem The Museum of Casa Grande WOLF Consulting
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Founding Members of the Guardians of Culture Membership Group
Individual Members
Terry Abrams, Tonawanda Reservation Historical Society, Basom, NY Melissa Adams, Union of BC Indian Chiefs Library & Archives, Vancouver, BC Velma Alaniz, Hochunk Renaissance, Winnebago, NE Samantha Alderson, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY Laisee Allery, Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, ND
Bernadette Alvanna-Stimpfle, Kawerak, Inc., Nome, AK
Anne Amati, University of Denver Museum of Anthropology, Denver, CO Jane Anderson, New York University, NYC, NY
Lisa Anderson, Silver Spring, MD
Kimberly Arthur, Denali National Park and Preserve, Denali National Park, AK
Sarah Asper-Smith, ExhibitAK, Juneau, AK
Jonalee Avalos-Tapia, Poeh Cultural Center & Museum, Santa Fe, NM Christopher Azbell, Muscogee (Creek) Nation Cultural Center & Archives, Okmulgee, OK Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA
Mary Alice Ball, Silver Spring, MD
Sharon Ballew, Tenkiller Elementary School, Welling, OK Nita Battise, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, Livingston, TX Terry Baxter, Multnomah County Archives, Portland, OR Melissa Bechhoefer, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO Kristi Beckwith Dane, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Vina Begay, Dine College, Tsaile, AZ
Tedra Begay, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI), Albuquerque, NM Julian Behill, Owens Valley Career Development Center Nuumu Yadoha Language Program, Fresno, CA Danny Bell, UNC American Indian & Indigenous Studies, Chapel Hill, NC Roberta Bennett, Kamehameha Schools Hawaii High School, Keaau, HI Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI Rita Berg, Midwest Art Conservation Center, Minneapolis, MN Tim Bernardis, Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency, MT Bruce Bernstein, Ralph T. Coe Foundation and Pueblo of Pojoaque, Santa Fe, NM Ernestine Berry, UKB John Hair Cultural Center & Museum, Tahlequah, OK Vann Bighorse, Wah Zha Zhi Cultural Center, Pawhuska, OK Pattie Billings, Quapaw Tribal Library, Quapaw, OK Bettye Black, Langston University, Langston, OK Kate Blair, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, MD Eric Blanton, Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum, Ignacio, CO LaTrisha Blunt, East Baton Rouge Parish Library System - Outreach Services, Carville, LA Robin Boast, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Cheri Boisvert Janz, Kuskokwim Consortium Library, Bethel, AK
Sheree Bonaparte, Akwesasne, ON
Roy Boney, Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, OK Cecilia Bordarampe, The Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, CA Quinn Bradley, Garde Robe LLC., Astoria, NY Jeanne Brako, Center of SW Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO Jameson Brant, Canadian Museum of History and Canadian War Museum, Gatineau, QC Joy Bridwell, Stone Child College Library, Box Elder, MT Melissa Brodt, Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, Oklahoma City, OK
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Founding Members of the Guardians of Culture Membership Group
Catherine Brooks, University of Alaska Fairbanks/Dept.of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Developmet, Fairbanks, AK Patricia Brown, Haines Borough Public Library, Haines, AK
Mary Brown, Osage Nation, Hominy, OK
David Brownell, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Sequim, WA Margaret Bruchac, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Hannah Buckland, Leech Lake Tribal College, Cass Lake, MN Kurtis Bullchild, Nisqually Tribal Library, Olympia, WA M Pamela Bumsted, Anthropology Now & Then, Kodiak, AK Alan Burdette, The Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Michael Burgess, Pawnee Nation College, Pawnee, OK Christina Burke, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK Elizabeth Burr, Arizona State Museum, Tucson, AZ Elizabeth Buschor, Midwest Art Conservation Center, Minneapolis, MN
Carol Buswell, National Archives, Omak, WA
Samonia Byford, Noksi Press, Oklahoma City, OK Carla Bywaters, San Jose State University, Las Vegas, NV Reggie Cadotte, Red Cliff Early Childhood Center, Bayfield, WI Abigail Cahill, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies, Madison, WI Christina Cain, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, CO Trisha Calabaza, Reno-Sparks Indian Colony, Reno, NV Naomi Caldwell, Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL Camille Callison, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB Melissa Calvert, Muckleshoot Wildlife, Preservation, and General Services Departments, Auburn, WA Tessa Campbell, Hibulb Cultural Center & Natural History Preserve, Tulalip, WA Sharon Cannon, Cannon Museum Group, Columbia, MD Jeffrey Cannon, Cannon Museum Group, Columbia, MD Tallas Cantsee, Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum, Ignacio, CO Patricia Capone, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Venessa Carel, Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum, Ignacio, CO Alyssa Carlon, Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, El Reno, OK Amber Carter, Chickasaw Nation, Sulphur, OK Janet Ceja, Simmons College, Boston, MA Mechael Charbonneau, Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, IN Tracey Charlie, Acoma Learning Center, San Fidel, NM Cynthia Chavez, Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, El Paso, TX Lillian Chavez, Mescalero Community Library, Mescalero, NM Cynthia Chavez Lamar, National Museum of the American Indian, Suitland, MD Shobhana Chelliah, University of North Texas, Denton, TX Alissa Cherry, Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC Abbie Chessler, Quatrefoil Associates, Laurel, MD Nemah Choubaquak, Nisqually Indian Tribe, Olympia, WA Kim Christen Withey, Western State University - Mukurtu, Pullman, WA Therese Chung, Barona Cultural Center & Museum, Lakeside, CA Megan Clarke, Bay Mills Community College Library, Brimley, MI Helen Clements, Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater, OK Dianna Clise, Midwest Art Conservation Center, Minneapolis, MN Shirley Cloud-Lane, Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum, Ignacio, CO Jennifer Cohen, Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology, Arizona State University, Kathy Cole, The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Grand Ronde, OR Chantel Comardelle, Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi Chitimacha Choctaw Tribe, Houma, LA
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Founding Members of the Guardians of Culture Membership Group
Karen Condon, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Nespelem, WA Michelle Cooke, The Chickasaw Nation, Ada, OK Karen Corbett, KCS Solutions, Inc., Brentwood Dr., CA Vibrina Coronado, Arts Cultures Works, Pembroke, NC 28723
Prudy Correa, Los Lunas, NM
April Counceller, Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository, Kodiak, AK
Chester Cowen, Norman, OK J. Wendel Cox, Tucson, AZ
Beverly Cox, Chisasibi Heritage & Cultural Centre, Chisasibi, Quebec Patricia Croad, Bay Mills Community College Library, Brimley, MI Stephen Curley, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Archives, Mashpee, MA Rose Marie Cutropia, Museo + Archivio, Inc., Santa Fe, NM Dora Dallwitz, Ara Irititja, Marleston, South Australia John Dallwitz, Ara Irititja, Marleston, South Australia Michael Darow, Fort Sill Apache Tribe, Apache, OK Faye Davis, Bacone College, Muskogee, OK Carla Davis-Castro, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Faith Damon Davison, The Mohegan Tribe, Uncasville, CT
Hannah Davison, Adam Matthew Digital, Chicago, IL Elinda Deans, Library of Congress/FEDLINK, Alexandria, VA Rosemarie DeBungie, Red Cliff Early Childhood Center, Bayfield, WI Deidra Dees, Poarch Creek Indians, Atmore, AL Jonathan Deiss, Citizen Archivist Project, Washington, DC
Charley Dejolie, 1965, Tucson, AZ Jennifer Dekker, Ottawa, ON
Mary Deleary, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM Heather Devine-Hardy, American Indian Library Association, San Jose, CA Jeanne Devlin, The RoadRunner Press, Oklahoma City, OK
Briana Diaz, NSDAR, Alexandria, VA
Rose Diaz, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
Lisa Dirks, Anchorage, AK
Patricia Dixon, American Indian Studies, Pauma Valley, CA
Allison Dixon, SI - NMAI, Suitland, MD
Kathleen Dougherty, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
Crystal Douglas, Kaw Nation, Kaw City, OK
Mary Downs, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC Ann Doyle, Xwi7xwa Library, Vancouver, BC Gary DuBois, Pechanga Cultural Resources Department, Temecula, CA Stacy Dufresne, Tantaquidgeon Museum, Uncasville, CT Katy Duperry, Barona Cultural Center & Museum, Lakeside, CA Tonya DuRoche, White Cloud Ind Two Inc, Askov, MN Sarah Dybdahl, Huna Heritage Foundation, Juneau, AK Laurie Egan-Hedley, Barona Cultural Center & Museum, Lakeside, CA Rebecca Elder, Rebecca Elder Cultural Heritage Preservation, Austin, TX Laura Elliff, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Megan Emery, Midwest Art Conservation Center, Minneapolis, MN Natalie Enright, San Jose State University in Master of Library & Information Science Program, San Francisco, CA
Linda Epps, Linda Epps, Merritt, BC Jeanian Espinoza
Cheri Falkenstien-Doyle, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM
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Founding Members of the Guardians of Culture Membership Group
Anna Fariello, Curatorial InSight, Cullowhee, NC Erin Fehr, Sequoyah National Research Center, Little Rock, AR Marva Felchlin, The Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, CA Rebecca Fell, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Clewiston, FL Susan Feller, Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, Oklahoma City, OK
Ed Ferguson, Portland, OR
Natalia Fernandez, Oregon Multicultural Archives, Corvallis, OR Michael Fetters, Quatrefoil Associates, Laurel, MD Miguel Figueroa, American Library Association, Chicago, IL
Kathleen Fine-Dare, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
Margaret Fireman, Chisasibi Heritage and Cultural Centre, Chisasibi, Quebec, Canada Jane Fisher, School of Information, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA Jerry Flanary, University of Arizona Library Sue Folsom, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Durant, OK Megan Forbes, CollectionSpace, Louisville, KY Monique Fragua, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
Lisa Frankel, Grass Valley, California
David Freeburg, The Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut, Uncasville, CT
Alison Freese, Portland, OR
Diana Gabler, National Museum of the American Indians, Washington, DC Betty Gaedtke, Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, Quapaw, OK Patricia Garcia, Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Palm Springs, CA Susan Gehr, Karuk Tribe, Blue Lake, CA
Kylista Geiger, Ypsilanti, MI
Mallory Genauer, Barona Cultural Center & Museum, Lakeside, CA Jane Gentry, The National Cultural Center of the Native Americans, Tustin, CA Emmalani George, Hula Preservation Society, Kaneohe, HI Heather George, Ohsweken, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Hamilton, ON, Canada John George, Smithsonian Institution-National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY Linda Georgekish, Cree Nation of Wemindji, Wemindji, Quebec Taylor Gibson, Deyohahá:ge: Indigenous Knowledge Centre, Ohsweken, ON, Canada Libia Gil, US Department if Education, Arlington, VA Justin Giles, Muscogee (Creek) Nation Cultural Center & Archives, Okmulgee, OK
Kimberlie Gilliland, Bacone College, Muskogee, OK
Marian Gilmore, Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum, Ignacio, CO
LeChele Gishi, Salt Lake City, UT
Sarah Glass, National Park Service, Washington, DC Jolande Goldberg, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Louis Goldich, San Diego, CA
Larry Gooden, Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum, Ignacio, CO Lauren Goodley, The Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX Jill Gotthelf, Walter Sedovic Architects, Irvington, NY Nicole Grabow, Midwest Art Conservation Center, Minneapolis, MN Vernelda Grant, San Carlos Apache Tribe, San Carlos, AZ Julia Gray, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME Judith Gray, American Folklife Center, Washington, DC Erin Griffin, Sisseton Wahpeton College, P.O. 689, SD
Kirsten Grunberg, New York, NY
Brenda Gutierrez, Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, El Paso, TX Sunshine Guzman, PPS Title VII Indian Education, Portland, OR
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Founding Members of the Guardians of Culture Membership Group
Sara Guzman, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
M Faye Hadley, MJIL/MJEL University of Tulsa College of Law, Pecos, NM Faith Hagenhofer, Nisqually Tribal Library, Olympia, WA Leslie Halfmoon, American Indian Cultural Center and Museums, Oklahoma City, OK Della Hall, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections and Archives, Fairbanks, AK Susan Hanks, California State Library, Sacramento, CA Andrea Hanley, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM Mary Anne Hansen, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Adrienne Harling, Forks of Salmon, CA Kylie Harris, Portola Valley, CA
Audrey Harrison, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ John Haworth, National Museum of the American Indian-New York, Brooklyn, NY Susan Heald, National Museum of the American Indian, Suitland, MD Ricardo Hernandez, Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, El Paso, TX Nancy Herod, University of North Texas Library & Information Sciences, Denton, TX Karen Hildreth, Quapaw Tribal Museum, Quapaw, OK Tanis Hill, Deyohahá:ge: Indigenous Knowledge Centre, Ohsweken, ON, Canada
Lisa Hillman, Karuk Tribe, Orleans, CA Leaf Hillman, Karuk Tribe, Orleans, CA
Jennifer Himmelreich, San Jose State University, Shiprock, NM Cheryl Hinton, Barona Cultural Center & Museum, La Mesa, CA Nancy Hisa, Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo, El Paso, TX Donna Hogerhuis, Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Auburn, WA T. Rose Holdcraft, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology-Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Julie Holder, Kumeyaay Nation, Valley Center, CA Deborah Hollis, University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, Boulder, CO Gary Holton, Alaska Native Language Archive, Fairbanks, AK
Cordelia Hooee, Zuni, NM
Brenda Hooper, Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe, Fallon, NV Josh Horowitz, Dominican University of California/San Francisco State University, Novato, CA Joe Horse Capture, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN Jones (Jr.) Hotch, Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center, Klukwan, AK Lani Hotch, Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center, Haines, AK Reuben Howard, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Tucson, AZ Amanda Hudson, The Chickasaw Nation, Sulphur, OK Elaine Hughes, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ Marti Hunter, Owens Valley Career Development Center, Bishop, California Laura Ives-Price, Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, Kingston, WA Kristy Jeffcoat, Midwest Art Conservation Center, Minneapolis, MN Leanne Jenkins, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Sequim, WA Jennifer Jenkins, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Elizabeth Joffrion, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA Matthew Johnson, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, Rohnert Park, CA Gail Joice, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC Kat Jolie, Calvert Library, St Leonard, MD Miriam Jorgensen, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development & University of AZ Native Nations Institute, St Louis, MO Marian Kaminitz, Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of the American Indian, Suitland, MD Roxana Kashatok, Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, Inc., Anchorage, AK Jamie Katzeek, Klukwan Community and School Library, Haines, AK Debra Keats, Yerington Paiute Tribe, Yerington, NV
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Founding Members of the Guardians of Culture Membership Group
Mike Kelly, Amherst College, Easthampton, MA Kathy Kentta, Siletz Tribal Arts and Heritage, Logsden, OR Robert Kentta, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, Siletz, OR Catherine Hiebert Kerst, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Silver Spring, MD Annaick Keruzec, Smithsonian NMAI, Suitland, MD Arlene Kinart, NM Dept. of Game & Fish, Santa Fe, NM Valarie Kingsland, Seward Community Library & Museum, Seward, AK Karen Kitchen, Portland Public Schools, Portland, OR Irene Klaver, University of North Texas, Denton, TX Janice Klein, Museum Association of Arizona, Tempe, AZ
Mario Klimiades, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ Shannon Kopelva, Seattle, WA Michelle Krasowski, San Francisco, CA
Margaret Kruesi, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, DC Amy Kucera, John G. Neihardt State Historic Site, Bancroft, NE Elizabeth Kunibe, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Juneau, AK Jean Ann Lambert, Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, Quapaw, OK Michelle Lamere, HoChunk Renaissance, Winnebago, NE Felicia Landa, Owens Valley Career Development, Bishop, CA Lora Largo, South Mountain Community College, Phoenix, AZ Mary Larson, Oklahoma State University Library, Stillwater, OK
Erica Laughlin
Sarah Laws, Barona Cultural Center & Museum, Lakeside, CA Gerry Lawson, Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives, UBC Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC Vicki Lazaro, University of Arizona: iSchool, Tucson, AZ
Josephine Lee, Ho-Chunk Nation, Tomah, WI
Marian Leong, Papahana Kuaola, Kaneohe, HI Nancy Levenson, Kanu o ka 'Aina Learning 'Ohana, Kamuela, HI Ben Levine, Speaking Place, Rockland, ME La Lena Lewark, The Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, CA Mary Linn, Smithsonian Institution, Kensington, MD