First American Art Magazine No. 2, Spring 2014 | Page 8

Contributing Writers
JEANINE BELGODÈRE (French) is an Associate Professor

of English at the University of Le Havre, France. She has studied
and lectured extensively about dance, Allan Houser, and Phillip
and Bob Haozous. In 2005, she was a visiting professor at the
IAIA. In 2009 and 2010, Belgodère was a visiting professor at
the University of New Mexico. Her published works include:
“Tradition et évolution dans l’art du Powwow contemporain,” “An
Apache Artist and the Santa Fe School of Traditional Indian
Painting: Allan Houser’s Alternative Vision,” and articles on Allan
Houser as well as on the Sun Dance (Dictionnaire Larousse).

GLORIA BELL (Métis) is a writer and researcher based in

Vancouver, British Columbia. She earned her Master’s Degree
in Art History from Carleton University. She has served most
recently as the web editor for the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective
and as an intern at the School of Advanced Research. Her research
interests include First Nations and Aboriginal histories and art
practices, as well as debates surrounding the term “Indigeneity “
within the global art world. Bell has heritage ties to the Métis at
Red River Settlement and Cree in James Bay.

KELLY CHURCH (Grand Traverse Odawa-Ojibwe) is a fifth-

at the University of Oregon, she completed an arts management
internship at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts on the Umatilla
Reservation and then went to work for SWAIA’s Santa Fe
Indian Market and, later, the IAIA. She has served as a public
art program and grant panelist and as a freelance arts and public
relations consultant. Currently, she is the Associate Director for
the International Folk Art Market–Santa Fe, as well as a freelance
writer and an artist.

REID GÓMEZ, PhD (Navajo Nation), is the Mellon Visiting

Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Kalamazoo College. She is
currently working on The Navajo Slave Project and finishing her
fourth novel. Her work addresses extermination and slavery in the
borderlands and bloodlands and language revitalization.

TERI GREEVES (Kiowa-Comanche) is a beadwork artist

who grew up on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.
Currently, she lives in Santa Fe with her husband and two sons.
Greeves graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz,
with a degree in American Studies. Her work‚ which is in the
British Museum, Museum of Art and Design, and other major
collections, combines Kiowa oral history with her personal and
family experiences.

EMILY HAOZOUS, PhD, RN (Chiricahua Fort Sill Apache),

generation black ash basket weaver from Michigan. Her cousin
John Pigeon and her father Bill Church taught her how to harvest,
process, and weave black ash. She collaborates with her daughter
Cherish Parrish in weaving, birch bark biting, and textile arts.
Church earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of
Michigan. She is an outspoken activist and educator about saving
the black ash tree from the emerald art borer.

is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico College
of Nursing. She received her nursing training and doctoral degree
at Yale University. Passionate about American Indian health, she
links indigenous methodologies to intervention research in an
effort to improve cancer outcomes in Native people. Haozous is
the granddaughter of Allan Houser, one of the most celebrated
American Indian artists of the 20th century, and daughter of Bob
Haozous, a renowned sculptor.

ROSEMARY DIAZ (Santa Clara Pueblo) is a freelance feature

ANNA HOOVER (Unangan) earned her Master of

writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her book in progress,
entitled The Diaries of Sunshine YellowStar, is an exacting and epic
tale of historical trauma, unraveled through the daily entries of
its title character. Diaz studied literature and its respective arts at
the IAIA, the Naropa Institute, and the University of California,
Santa Cruz. Her feature articles have appeared in numerous
publications. She is also an award-winning and anthologized poet
and holds the copyright to the Mylar Tipi, the Indi’n Housewarming
Kit series, and the Native Foodways: New Seasons food series.

SUZANNE FRICKE, PhD (Ashkenazi-American), completed
her Doctorate in Art History, with an emphasis on 20th-century
Native American pottery, at the University of New Mexico
in 2003. For the past 20 years, she has taught art history