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Interview with Radmilla Cody on Talkingfeather Radio

Recently Radmilla Cody spent some time talking with Penny Gamble-Williams and her husband Thunder on their show Talking Feather Radio on BlogTalkRadio.com. Listen to this wonderful interview where she talks about her experiences as being a biracial girl growing up on the Navajo Reservation and later being chosen as the first biracial Miss Navajo Nation. She was selected as one of NPR's Great Voices and will be performing at the Eiteljorg Museum on March 19. In addition, the museum will screen a documentary by Angela Webb called "Hearing Radmilla" and they will both lead a talk about the film following the screening.

Interview with Penny Gamble Williams

Storytelling with Sue: Stagecoach Mary

Storyteller Sue Thompson tells us the story of Stagecoach Mary.

Dr. Modupe Labode - Jim Crow in the Mile High City

In this recording from Feb. 10, 2010, Dr. Labode, Assistant Professor History and Museum Studies at IUPUI, discusses her background in African American History as well as highlighting several key points that will be shared during her upcoming lecture entitled, Jim Crow in the Mile High City.

Conversation with Rebecca Martin, director of The Calico Apron

On this episode we talk with the director of the Dec. 13 performance of The Calico Apron to be performed here at the museum. She goes through the history of the play and the events that led up to the writing of this piece. It is a fictional story based on the Cherokee grandmother's experience on the Trail of Tears.

Richard Gabriel, artist in residence

This episde we talk with Richard Gabriel, who lives in the Sandia Mountains of central New Mexico. He is an artisan who works in the style of the early tin workers of the 1800’s. New Mexico has been known for tin artwork for nearly two centuries when the art came from Mexico with the opening of the Santa Fe Trail.

Artist-in-Residence John Well-Off-Man (Ojibwe/Cree)

John Well-Off-Man was born and raised in Havre, Montana, and on the Rocky Boy Reservation. After receiving his diploma in photography from Ohio Visual Art Institute, he studied printmaking at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. John worked as a photographer/film developer for Instructional Media Services at the University of Montana. During this time he also produced exhibits for the Missoula Historical Society and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library of the University of Montana. He produced the visual exhibit “Their Eyes Tell Everything,” a photo-history for the Montana Chippewa-Cree. The exhibit is now in the permanent collection of the Montana Museum of Art & Culture.