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Contributing Writers
GLORIA BELL (Métis) is the web editor at Aboriginal
Curatorial Collective and an independent researcher and
blogger at Métis Ramblings. She earned her Master’s
Degree in Art History from Carleton University. She has
served as: an intern at the School of Advanced Research, a
research assistant for the Great Lakes Research Alliance for
the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Culture, gallery assistant
at Gallery 101 in Ottawa, facilitator at the Royal Ontario
Museum, intern at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre,
programs assistant for the McMichael Canadian Art
Collections, and gallery assistant at the Union Gallery in
Kingston. Bell has heritage ties to the Métis at Red River
Settlement and Cree in James Bay.

ROY BONEY JR. (Cherokee Nation) is a full-blood

Cherokee and an award-winning filmmaker, artist,
and writer. Boney has written, directed, and produced
several short animated films. As a graphic novelist, Boney
contributed to Dead Eyes Open and the Eisner Award
nominated anthology Trickster: Native American Tales. He
works for the Language Technology Program for the
Cherokee Nation Education Services Group in Tahlequah,
Oklahoma.

CORINNE CAIN (German-Anglo-Irish-American) was

first trained as an art appraiser in 1975, after having earned
a BFA in Painting and Drawing (1974). She also earned an
MBA in Finance and an MFA in Arts Administration (both
1976). Cain has been a gallery director four times, is an art
critic, a marketing developer for Sotheby’s New York, an
exhibiting artist, and an art appraiser. She began collecting
art at the age of 16, focusing on American Indian
paintings, sculpture, jewelry, pottery, and textiles; as well
as contemporary photography, Fabergé, Ming pottery,
pictorial American Indian baskets, artists’ books, and over
300 Japanese woodblock prints of the Meiji era.

ROSEMARY DIAZ (Santa Clara Pueblo) studied

literature and its respective arts at the Institute of
American Indian Arts, the Naropa Institute, and the
University of California, Santa Cruz. Her feature articles
have appeared in Beadwork Magazine, The Collector’s Guide,
Native Peoples, New Mexico Magazine, and the Santa Fean.
She is also an award-winning and anthologized poet. She
often works behind the scenes, writing text for greeting
card companies, commercial brochures, museum exhibits,
and artists’ websites. Diaz presently lives in Santa Fe with
her fiancé and their tiny black and white dog, Gemini.
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JOKAY DOWELL (Quapaw-Cherokee-Eastern

Shawnee-Peoria) is a journalist, poet, writer,
photographer, beadwork artist, and activist living in
Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She earned her Bachelor of Arts
in Mass Communication and Journalism with a Spanish
minor from Northeastern State University. Dowell has
organized number conferences on treaty rights and other
Indigenous issues. She founded the Eagle Condor Alliance
Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance, a North and South American
Indigenous rights organization.

LARA M. EVANS (Cherokee Nation) earned a PhD
in Art History, with emphasis on contemporary Native
American art, at the University of New Mexico in
2005. She is also a practicing artist, primarily working
in painting and drawing. Evans is a Full Professor of Art
History and Studio Art at Evergreen State College in
Olympia, Washington. Evergreen State has provided a
leave of absence in order to share Evans with the Institute
of American Indian Arts 2012–14. She co-edited Art in
Our Lives: Native Women Artists in Dialogue. Evans also
wrote a chapter in Action and Agency: Advancing the
Dialogue on Native Performance Art and brief essays in
Manifestations: New Native Art Criticism.
TERI GREEVES (Kiowa-Comanche) is a bead ݽɬ)