An Academic Resource
for the Study of First Peoples

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Headwaters
Insights on Native Ethnography
and Cultural Communication


 

Faculty Contributors
Forrest Inslee
Suzan Kobashigawa
Lisa Commander
Joe Saggio
Editor Gary Gillespie

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2009 Issue
to come

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2008 Issue
Report on 2008 Course

Masks: for Revealing, not Hiding, by Calin Daniel Enache
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     2007 Issue
Report on 2007 Course


NORTHWEST NATIVE CANOEING,
By David Myers


Northwest Coast Architecture: Traditional Lines Point to the Future,
by Patricia Hall
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2006 Issue
Report on 2006 Course

Stories of the Totem Pole
By Kate Agnew


Coast Salish Spindle Whorl By Kristin Wood

The Story of Laughing Flower by Lisa Commander
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2005 Issue
Report on Fall 2005 Course

Keepers of the Flame,
by Gideon Copple


Masks: The Changing Face
of Native Art,
by Tiffany Zulkosk
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Field Study COMM 3843This course explores contemporary Native American groups of the Pacific Northwest, paying particular attention to the ways that expressive forms serve as a “lenses” into multiple dimensions of culture. The course relies heavily on fieldwork, including observation of cultural art and artifacts. In particular, the course is oriented around these issues: How do native peoples communicate essential components of their cultures-- to themselves and to people outside their culture group – through traditional and contemporary expressive forms? How does art reflect, reify, and re-create worldview, and how is this significant in our globalizing, postmodern cultural context?

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A Creative Project Promoting
Intercultural Understanding
Sponsored by the Communication Department

        
Kirkland, WA

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Spring break 2010


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Photo From First People: American Eagle

Art thanks to  Blaine Billman

 


 

 
National Native
American Month

My Mom Away from Mom
by Charly Nicholai
A Commemorative Speech


Congratulations Tiffany

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Spring break 2010

Academic Panel on Native American Communication Issues this April at NU's Faith in the Humanities Conference:
More to come