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Drums: Heartbeat of Mother Earth
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 A smattering of the rich history of drums among the Native cultures of North America. By Harlan McKosato (Sac & Fox).
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2006 July/August History
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 Early Indian Prisoners of “The Rock”
Few people are aware that Alcatraz Island, famous for its criminal
prisoners, actually began as a military prison. Among its early
inhabitants were scores of Indians, including a group of Hopis interned
in 1895.
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Sarah Winnemucca: Paiute Activist & Spokesperson
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 Sarah Winnemucca
Paiute Activist & Spokesperson
Sarah Winnemucca (1844–1891) was one of the most influential and charismatic Native American women in American history. Born near the Humboldt River Sink in Nevada to a legendary family of Paiute leaders at a time when the Paiutes’ homeland and way of life were increasingly threatened by the influx of Anglo settlers, Sarah later wrote that the white men “came like a lion, yes, like a roaring lion, and have continued so ever since.”
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2006 May/June Events
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 Visit one of the world’s most stunning prehistoric archeological sites, Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado, which hosts a wide range of exciting special events this year marking the park’s centennial. Plus details on other special events of Native interest across North America.
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Petroforms
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Throughout the ages, mankind has created relationships with the stars. Cultures wove their beliefs and traditions into stories told around campfires or inside their homes. While modern man typically considers this sharing process to have been mostly an oral tradition, perhaps some enterprising ancient North Americans also put their cosmology into a more permanent record. Instead of paper, they used the ground; instead of pens and pencils, they used colored stones.
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Book Review: Ishi's Brain
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 Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian
By Orin Starn; W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.; New York, NY; 2004; 320 pages; $25.95 clothbound Reviewed by Debra Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen)
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Viewpoint July/August 2005
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 A People Remembers
The Diné and the Bosque Redondo Memorial
Recently, my family and I visited Fort Sumner, New Mexico. We came in anticipation of the official establishment of a memorial to the Diné’s Long Walk and their Bosque Redondo experiences, which will take place in June 2005 (see “Happening,” May/June 2005). As we drove the two and half hours from Albuquerque, we were often silent, left with our own thoughts, imagining the trek on foot.
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Lloyd Kiva New
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 Lloyd Kiva New’s artistic vision and pragmatic approach set the course for many renowned cultural institutions, including the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, the Heard Museum of Phoenix, the Plains Indian Museum of the Buffalo Bill Historic Center in Cody, Wyoming, and the soon-to-be-opened National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
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The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
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 Organized exploration by the Spanish Crown northward from Mexico into the well-established culture of the Pueblo Indians, in what is now New Mexico, began in A.D. 1540. Life with their Spanish neighbors began with mutual suspicion, but also with the civil exchange of food, medicine and other goods. But by 1680, the Pueblo people had decided to revolt against the abusive policies of the Spanish
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Alcatraz: Taking Back "The Rock"
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 Alcatraz:
Thirty years ago this fall American Indians took back "The Rock," and along with it control of their future.
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