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The individuals mentioned on this page influenced my work and thinking in art, life, and career. They are teachers, mentors, supporters, and friends.

David Foster

Professor and Department Head, University of Oregon, School of Architecture and Allied Arts. Educational/Career Advisor.

Kenneth O’Connell

Professor, University of Oregon, Art Department. Advisor.

Lazslo Moholy Nagy

Artist, Professor, Founder, The New Bauhaus, The Institute of Design, Chicago.

Katherine McCoy

Professor, IIT Institute of Design, Chicago. Head of the Design Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art. On air presenter, “The Meaning of Small Things,” Digital Journey, Public Television Series.

Robert Kostka

Artist, Professor, University of Oregon, School of Architecture and Allied Arts. Advisor.

Juliette Anthony

Philanthropist, Environmental supporter, Research Librarian, Harvard, Grantor, The Rose Foundation, Supporter “Who Are My People?” film by Robert Lundahl. Advisor, Collaborator. Various Shorts

Beatrice Charles and

Adeline Smith (Klallam)

Native American Leaders/Elders, Linguists. Subjects, Storytellers, “Unconquering the Last Frontier.” Subjects, Storytellers, “The Village of Tse–Whit-Zen.”

Frank Waters

Author. Mystic, Ethnologist. Recipient, New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Referral from Bob Kostka.

Linda Marie Wiechman (Klallam)

Legacy Forest: Sadie Creek “Unconquering The Last Frontier” Screening Introduction.

Carol Van Strum

Environmental Activist, Author, Producing Partner, Student Film, “The Burden of Proof.”

Bonnie Hill

Nurse, Teacher, Activist. Subject, Student Film, “The Burden of Proof.”

Roshi Joan Halifax

Anthropologist, Roshi, Author, Teacher, Personal Inspiration.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Architect, Inventor, Visionary. Author, Teacher, Personal Inspiration. Colleague of David Foster. Mention: “Rethinking the Automobile”

Alfredo Acosta Figueroa (Yaqui,

Chemehuevi)

Cultural Monitor, Activist, Author. Subject of Film, “Who Are My People?”, Various Shorts, litigation

Matthew Leivas, Sr. (Chemehuevi)

Tribal Leader, Environmentalist. Colleague, Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE Episodes. Book: Paiute Lands; Democracy in the Early Americas., “Puha,” “The BIA Made a White Man Out of Me. “ “Underground River.”

“Water in the West,” Primetime Launch, KPFK. “Experiencing Sherman Institute and Sherman Indian High School,” Others.

Clifford Humphrey

Recycler, Founder Ecology Action. Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE Episode/Book: “A True Source of Wonderment.”

Hai Ning Luan

Buddhist Monk, Former Nanjing TV host, Producer Calligrapher. Mandarin Translator.

“East Meets West, The Development of the Internet in China”

Walter Munk

Oceanographer, Geoscientist. Subject, “I Met Dr. Munk,”‍ ‍“A Dream of Seiche.”

Michael E. Boyd

Physicist, Anthropologist. Subject of Film, “PayDirt.”

Lowell John Bean

Anthropologist. Subject of Film, “Who Are My People?”, “Anthropology in California,” “Why the Native Nations Have Been so Successful,” “From Termination to Casinos,” “On the Contemporary Use of a Sacred Site for a Medical Pupose.”

Dorece Sam (Paiute)

Tribal Member, Activist. Subject of Film, “Resistance and Redemption,” CreativeFRONTLINE Episodes. Book: “Resistance and Redemption: Indigenous Environmentalism in the Age of Extraction.” “PeeHee Muhu Rotten Moon.” “SLAPP Suits and Dirty Deals at Thacker Pass.” ‘Lithium in America.” “Incident at Ft. McDermitt.”

Marie Harrison

Community Organizer, Activist. Subject of Film, “PayDirt.”

Thomas Banyacya (Hopi)

Visionary, Historian, Spiritual TeacherMessenger. Colleague of Joan Halifax, Alfredo Acosta Figueroa.

Kenji Ekuan

Industrial Designer, Buddhist Monk. Subject, “The Meaning of Small Things,” Digital Journey, Public Television Series.

Tim King

Investigative Journalist. Colleague, Producing Partner, Subject, “:PayDirt.”

Louis Sahagún

Former Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, Pulitzer Prize Recipient. Advisor CreativeFRONTLINE.

Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff (Unangan)

Founder, Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways. Advisor, Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE. Subject, “Climate Change is Here: The Movie,”

Shelly Vendiola (Swinomish)

Peacemaker Community Alliance & Peacemaking Project. Advisor, Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE. Subject, “Climate Change is Here: The Movie,”

Yael Zeligman Merculieff

Partner, Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways, Founder, Wombs for Peace. Advisor, CreativeFRONTLINE.

Denis Hayes

Environmental Advocate, Coordinator for the First Earth Day. Advisor,CreativeFRONTLINE.

Stephen Qacung Blanchett (Yupik)

Culture Bearer, Musician, Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE.

Lisa Maywood

Stained Glass Artist. Subject, “Sacred G.lass” Film

Shelley Harjo (Paiute)

Fort McDermill Pai-Sho Tribe Council Member, Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE, PRESS, Salem-News.com

Dr. Willie Ratliff

ContracTor, Publisher, Journalist, San Francisco Bay View. Subject, “PayDirt.”

E. F. Schumacher

Statistician, Economist. Defined decentralised industrialization, Buddhist Economics. Personal Inspiration. “Digital Journey: Stories From a Networked Planet.”

Dr. Ben Potter

Archaeollogical Anthropologist,.Subject, CreativeFRONTLINE Episode. Book: “Gathering Fire: Peopling the Americas.”

Boyd Jack aka John Boyd (Klallam)

Principal Storyteller, “Song On The Water.” Writer, Associate Producer,“Who Are My People?”

Chief Johnny Bobb (Shoshone)

Creative FRONTLINE, “What’s Really Going On.”

Preston Arrow-weed (Kamya,

Quechan)

“The Land You Know has Been Given to You,” “Lithium in America,” “Resistance and Redemption,” Film

“Who Are My People?” “Resistance and Redemption” Book, “What Do We Mean By Environmental Justice?” (Mention w. Bradley Angel). “Riding with Geronimo” (Fiction/Screenplay).“The Black Canyon,” (Fiction/Screenplay)

Reverend Ron Van Fleet

“Solar Gold” “Who Are My People?” Film, litigation