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Kayenta, Arizona: Into the valley
Kayenta is a wide spot on the highway through north east Arizona. There's not much there worth reporting: a Wal-Mart, a small and somewhat pitiful town which shimmers in the dry heat, and a few motels.
Kayenta -- between not far from Four Corners where Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico meet -- offers no reason to stop, unless you are...
> travelstories/519/kayenta-arizona-into-the-valley/
Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Big Ones Get Away (1992)
There are three distinct but overlapping public faces of Native American singer/songwriter Sainte-Marie: the woman who wrote and sang Universal Soldier and the theme to the film Soldier Blue in the Sixties; the permanent cast member of Sesame Street between '76 and '81; and a lifelong activist in the Native American movement.
But there was...
> fromthevaults/2812/buffy-sainte-marie-the-big-ones-get-away-1992/
JOHN TRUDELL, NATIVE AMERICAN ACTIVIST/POET/SINGER INTERVIEWED (1992): Living in the Elvis age
While diplomats and ambassadors exchanged platitudes and gifts in August 1992 to acknowledge the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ first voyage to the New World, others found little to celebrate at all.
John Trudell, a Santee Sioux who was spokesman for the Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz in 1970 and was for six years from...
> writingelsewhere/1892/john-trudell-native-american-activist-poet-singer-interviewed-1992-living-in-the-elvis-age/
Jim Pepper: Comin' And Goin' (1983)
It is a rare jazz musician who can score a rock-radio hit -- but saxophonist Jim Pepper was a very rare jazz musician indeed.
Of Kaw and Creek descent, Pepper was born in Oregon in 1941 and described himself as an "urban Indian". He spent much of his early life between family homes in Oregon and Oklahoma and although he grew up...
> essentialelsewhere/1673/jim-pepper-comin-and-goin-1983/
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