ICT - Living - Entertainment http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment RSS Feed for ICT - Living - Entertainment en-us Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT Videographer: A portrait of Nathan Young IV http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/88575152.html I absolutely love my job and feel like I’m one of the luckiest people in the world,” said Pawnee filmmaker, Nathan Young IV. “But honestly, and I know this may sound cheesy, I’ve always wanted to serve my culture and it seems that this is the best way for me to try and do that.” Young began his filmmaking career while teaching at Fort Gibson Public Schools in Oklahoma. A conversation with Cherokee filmmaker Steven Heape http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/88566427.html Award-Winning Cherokee filmmaker Steven Heape is the president and executive producer of Rich-Heape films. Producing his first film “Location to Recovery” in 1981, Heape has since established himself and his company as the premier source of American Indian films and documentaries. A work in progress http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/85494832.html LAS VEGAS – Cans filled with vibrant colors of red, blue, yellow, orange and green paint lined the stage to kick off the Reservation Economic Summit 2010. Southeast Native Alaska radio station to launch http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/84785262.html JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – A new online radio station will give voice to the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures in southeast Alaska. Exhibit honors the horse nations http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/82402372.html NEW YORK – Christopher Columbus was a disaster for indigenous people, but he did do one thing they derived considerable benefit from. In 1493, he reintroduced the horse to the North American continent. Now, a wide-ranging exhibit showing the many ways horses have affected Native people, and the strong bond they still share, is on display at the National Museum of the American Indian. Museum continues bold commitment to American Indian fine arts http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/82401187.html KANSAS CITY, Mo. – American Indian art took its place among the great art of the world in 2009. American Indian masterpieces debut at the Cleveland Museum of Art http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/79658187.html CLEVELAND – “Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection,” a major traveling exhibition developed by the Fenimore Art Museum and debuting at the Cleveland Museum of Art in March 2010, explores Native North American art from the Eastern Woodlands to the Northwest through more than 140 masterpieces spanning 2,000 years. Story of Americans with Native and black ancestry stirs deep emotions http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/artsandentertainment/66570997.html WASHINGTON – An exhibition opening this fall at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian explores the identity of people whose ancestry is both African American and Native American.