Native Playwrights Alpha Listing

Adair, J. W.

Decoration Day

A memory play in two acts this play begins in a modern setting with flashbacks to

the mid-1800s. Casting: 27+ characters (double and triple casting possible)

Submitted to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum: Playwriting Contest, Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Alfred, Gerald

Allen, Jeanette

Anderson, Elaine (Creek)

Death of the Holly Leaf

A history play set in 1824 the focus is on the Muskogee Nation and the Creek leader Oboithleya Hola. 1978 Enrichment Bonus winner at the Five Civilized Tribes Museum: Playwriting Contest;

Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Arkeketa, Annette (Otoe-Missouria, Muscogee Creek)

I know your feelings

--because I am your sister

you have taught me these things

--Captured Images

Hokti

Hokti is the Muscogee Creek word for woman. Hokti articulates the contemporary multi-dimensional existence of our lives as Indian women using poetry, music, scenes, slides photos, and dance.

First presented by The Tulsa Indian Actors Workshop at the Gilcrease Museum,

Tulsa, Oklahoma, on August 1, 1997. Director: Bill Krapohl.

Then preformed by the Thunderbird Theatre at Haskell Indian Nations University located

in Lawrence, Kansas in April 1998. Director: Jennifer Attocknie.

Ghost Dance

Subject of the play concerns the repatriation of Native American remains, cultural

Patrimony and how it affects Native people.

Baker, Louise

Apples and Lemons

One act play set in a college campus dormitory room and T.V. studio.

1974 submission to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum: Playwriting Contest:

Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Baker, Marie Annharte (Anishinabe)

Albeit Aboriginal

Baker, Michal K.

Once A Great Day

A four act play set in present day White House and Oklahoma. Casting: 13 characters including

A mythical President of the U.S.A., Vice-President, reporter and American Indian Council.

1976 submission to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum: Playwriting Contest, Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Barnett, Pat

Talk of the Black Crow

History play which takes place pre-contact. 3 Chapters. Casting: 8 characters.

Submission to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum: Playwriting Contest: Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Begay, Jason (Dine)

How The Gods Kill

Drama placed in current time. Casting: 2 W 2 M.

The play reveals the conflict between traditional ways and the influence of Christianity. The characters struggle with identity in the face of cultural loss.

Play is included in Gathering Our Own: New Work from the Institute of American Indian Arts.

First published IAIA drama anthology. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Benson, Diane (Tlingit)

Bigjim, Fred (Inupiaq)

The Last Native

Mr. Bigjim is professor at the University of Alaska/Fairbanks.

Blackstone, Tsianina Redfeather (Creek)

Blue Spruce, Paula

Katsina

A play in 2 acts which takes place in current time and time remembered. It takes place in the

Pueblo village of Oraibi on Black Mesa of the Hopi Reservation, Northern Arizona.

Idea for the play was inspired by the book Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian.

Ed. Leo W. Simmons, Yale University Press. 1942.

Bobb, Columpa

Jumping Mouse

Co-written with Marion de Vries.

Bonnin, Gertude Simmons aka Zitkala-Sa (Yankton Sioux)

The Sun Dance

Co-written with William Hanson in 1914 this opera was selected by the New York Light Opera Guild as

Opera of the Year 1937. It was presented and preformed on Broadway.

Borden, William (Metis)

Turtle Island Blues

First presented by the Listening Winds Theatre Company.

I Want to Be an Indian

Borst, Murielle (Kuna/Rappahannock)

More Than Feathers and Beads

A one-woman show in 4 scenes. Feeling an obligation to show the varying lives of Native women

Murielle Borst created this production to show that a Native womans life is more than feathers

And beads.

Medea: A Native Tragedy

Brown, Vee (Dine)

Navajo Childrens Coyote Plays

A collection of five plays using 3 10 players. Included are Coyote and Skunk, Coyote and the Fawns Star, Coyote and Raven, Coyote and Horned Toad, Coyote and Rabbit

Stories written and Retold by playwright.

Pushing Up The Sky: Seven Native American Plays for Children, published by Dial Press includes: Gluskabe and Old Man Winter, Star Sisters, Possums Tail, Wihios Duck Dance, Pushing Up the Sky, The Cannibal Monster, The Strongest One.

Campbell, Maria (Metis)

Jessica

Published by Coach House. Toronto, 1989. A drama in one act. Casting: six characters.

Cardinal, Benjamin Walter

Generic Warrior

Performed at the Blyth Festival, Ontario 1993.

Charles, Monica

Yanowis

One act play published in Indian History Journal. Fall 1971 vol. 4, no. 3.

Ianius

Mowitch

Cheechoo, Shirley (Cree)

Bear Woman

Emergency

Listen to the Elders

Preformed at the West Bay Childrens Theatre, West Bay, Ontario.

Feather Leaves

Preformed at Cambrian Foundation Center, Sudbury, Ontario.

Nothing Personal

Drama Two acts. 2W 4M (doubling possible)

With Alanis King performed by the De-Ba-Jeh-Mu-Jig Theatre Group, Manitoulin Island.

Nanabush of the 80s

With Alanis King, Ken Charlotte, De-Ba-Jeh-Mu-Jig Theatre Group, West Bay, Ontario.

Ocamow

Preformed at the University of California/Davis

Path With No Moccasins

Dramatic monolog in four acts. This gripping one-woman show is gripping revelation of her personal experiences in residential schools, and reveals some astounding truths about realities and abuse suffered by too many native children in their formative years. First produced by PAS Cultural Exchange.

Respect the Voice of a Child

With Bill Merasty; preformed by De-Ba-Jeh-Mu-Jig Theatre Group, Manitoulin Island.

Shadow People

Drama in two acts. Casting: 2W 4M. Faced with alcoholic parents, but helped by an aunt who is an aspiring singer, one brother commits suicide and one brother learns to fight for himself. First produced by the De-Ba-Jeh-Mu-Jig Theatre Group, Manitoulin Island 1984.

Tangled Sheets

Preformed by West Bay Action for the Arts. West Bay, Ontario.

Your Dreams Was Mine

Drama in one act. Casting: 2W 1M. Two friends on their way to ones wedding are in a car accident While walking along the highway they have time to reflect on their lives.

Clements, Marie Humber (Metis)

Dirty Dog River

One act. An educational play for young audiences on AIDS.

The Age of Iron

Three acts. Casting: 7W, 7M, Chorus 4M/W. Published in Taking the Stage:

Selections from Plays by Canadian Women, Ed. Cynthia Zimmerman. 1994. Toronto:

Playwrights Canada Press, 1995. 225-227.

Now Look What You Made Me Do

One act drama. Casting: 4W, 2M. Poetically suggests the responses of women to their sexuality within the context of domestic violence. First produced by the Maenad Theatre, Calgary, Alberta.

The Girl Who Swam Forever

One act. Casting: 2W 2M

Urban Tattoo

One Act. Casting: 1W. First produced: Native Voice in New York City, August 1996; Women in View Festival, Vancouver, BC, February 1998.

Coker, Jorene

The Maturing of Hailey Powell

ã1984, Jorene Coker

Colorado, Hortensia and Elvira (Chichimec/Otomi)

Our theater work consists of personal stories coming from our oral traditions, which not only entertain, but educate and heal once we voice these stories, the process of healing begins, healing ourselves, our community, the people that come to see and hear our theatre. Our work has to do with the power that we have within ourselves. Theyre survival stories.

¾ Elvira Colorado

The Colorado Sisters combine spirituality, history, myth, and culture in their performances.

Seasoned storytellers, the sisters are committed to issues that concern all women. Their dynamic repertoire confronts language barriers, stereotyping, violence, and ethnocentrism.

Coyolxauhquli: Women Without Borders

First performed in 1990

1992 Blood Speaks

Do not forget to tell your children, that they may tell the children of their children of their children, with proper respect. Tell them how it was how it will be how we will rise again how to gain strength and how our culture will fulfill its great destiny on our beloved Mother Earth.

First produced as part of Indian Summer 1992 Festival at the American Indian Community House in New York City, NY this play was written to commemorate the Columbus anniversary in 1992.

The play deals with the role religion played in the genocide of Native peoples.

Included within the anthology, Contemporary Plays by Women of Color: Ed. Kathy A. Perkins and Roberto Uno. London: Routledge, 1996. 82-89.

A Traditional Kind of Woman: Too Much, Not Nuff!!

First performed in 1994.

Through music, song and larger than life props, sisters Elvira and Hortensia Colorado communicate the heartbreak, absurdity, pain, humor, and power of womens healing and empowering stories. (Program notes from Womens History Month Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY. March 3-4, 2000.)

Huipil

First performed in 1993

Open Wounds on Tlalteucili

16 scenes. 30 pages. Casting: 2 W.

Performance piece which examines the relationship between the abuse of women and the abuse of the earth ¾ physical, spiritual, cultural, and ecological.

La Llorona: The Wailing Woman

Walks of Indian Women: Aztlan to Anahuac

First performed in 1989

Tlatilco: The Place Where Things Are Hidden

First performed in 1989

Contact Information: Coatlicue Theatre Company. 85 Kenmare Street.

New York, NY 10012. 212-431-1666.

Condry, Dorothea

Firebird of Unlimited Happiness: A Pageant

A memory/history play from current time (1970) to the past. 3 acts. Casting: 30+ characters.

Submitted to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum: Playwriting Contest, Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Conley, Robert J. (Cherokee)

Mountain Windsong

Music and Lyrics by Linder Chlarson. 2 act musical.

Based on the novel by Robert J. Conley, Mountain Windsong tells the story of Oconeechee and Waguli, lovers separated by the Trail of Tears and were eventually reunited.

Premiered September 23, 1995 at the Tsa-ta-gi Amphitheater, Tallequah, Oklahoma.

Cook, Krystal (Kwakwakawakw)

Cooper, Baba

The Gathering

Submission to the Red Path Theater, Chicago, IL.

Cruz, Petrona de la Cruz

Cultee, Roger

Killing the Straying Earth

Staged reading 1999 by Wakiknabe Theatre, Albuquerque, NM.

Dandurand, Joseph A. (Kwantlen-Xalatsep)

I met a man once who wouldnt look me in the eyes. Hed always be wanting something from me and he would come right up to my door and hed ask for it without ever looking me in the eyes and Id tell him no every time and hed walk away all mad but he would come back and he would ask me for something else and I would look him right in the eyes and I knew that I would give him whatever it was he was asking for if he would just have the respect to look me in the eyes when he asked for it, but he never did and he hated me. That man hated me because I asked for respect.

¾ Please Do Not Touch The Indians

A Childs Church

Chili and His Days of Glory

Crackers and Soup

No Totem For My Story

1 W 2 M. Staged reading at the 1994 Native Voices Festival, Illinois State University.

Please Do Not Touch The Indians

Staged reading 1995 at, Native Voices/Back to Normal. Illinois State University. Second annual Festival of Native Plays

Scowlitz: Where Two Rivers Meet

Tsonoqua: The Hungry Feast Dish

Touches

Wishing Stones

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks (Tlingit)

Raven Loses His Nose

Collection of Raven plays along with Tlingit stories by the playwright can be found in Life Woven With Song: Sun Tracks, V. 41. , Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.

Daugherty, Lena Lockhart

Night Brings Out The Stars

History play covering 1880-1907. Subject: the Creek history concerning Sequoyah convention

Promoting a separate statehood.

1976 Submission to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum: Playwriting Contest, Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Deloria, Ella Cara (Yankton Dakota)

Led a twenty-year career in historical pageantry 1920-1940.

Dennis, Darrell

The Trickster of Third Avenue East

Produced by Native Earth Performing Arts at the Poor Alex Toronto.

Dietz, Steven

The Remember

First performed in1993

Dudoward, Valerie

Teach Me The Ways of the Sacred Circle

Three acts. Casting: 3 W 3 M. Explores Indian cultural values and philosophies, and examines them in

urban setting which sometimes obscures or challenges the ancient teachings.

Playwrights note: The youth are our future, and our hope, Indian youth, all youth. This play is written

in celebration of them, and in tribute to our grandmothers and grandfathers, moms and dads.

Durham, Jimmie (Cherokee)

DuVal, Carol

Katsina

Echo-Hawk, Bunky Jr. (Pawnee/Yakama)

The Essence

A half-Pawnee, half white teenage girl struggles to find her cultural identity as she encounters two New Agers and her estranged father.

Presented at the Institute of American Indian Arts, First Annual Playwriting Festival,April 13-16, 1994. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Edmo, Ed

Through Coyotes Eyes

Endres, Robin

Ghost Dance

Published in Women and Words: Anthology/Les Femmes et les Mots: Anthologie. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1984. 140-143.

Espinoza, Isabel Juarez

Farmer, Patrice

Three Souls of a Puerto Rican

Favel, Floyd (Cree)

All My Relations

Presented at the Winnipeg Gas Station Theatre, Spring 1990.

Flather, Patti

Sixty Below

Drama in 2 acts. Casting: 7 W 5 M. Co-written with Eric Linklater this play explores issues of identity, substance abuse, racism, and spirituality through the story of a young man recently released from jail, and his relationships with his girlfriend and his buddies. The ghost of a loved one who has died haunts the play.

Weesagachak Comes to Dance

Produced by Native Earth Performing Arts, Fall 1995.

Francis, Marvin

The Sniffer

Published in Beyond the Pale: Dramatic Writing From First Nations Writers and Writers of Colour Eds. Yvette Nolan, Betty Quan, and George Bwanika Seremba. Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 1996.

160-163.

Frawley, Henry, Maria

Frayser, Robert Clark (Cherokee)

The Panther and the Swan

Co-written with George Phelps. 1976 Submission to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum: Playwriting Contest: Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Freeman, Minnie Aodla

Survival in the South

1971

Fry, Maggie Culver

Democracy and John Harjo

Two act, 8 scene history play set in Oklahoma, 1941. Taken from Moonys Myths of Oklahoma.

Received 1974 Honorable Mention in the Five Civilized Tribes Museum: Playwriting Contest, Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Clouds Over Echota

Drama based on the Cherokee Removal. Casting: 14 characters, 100 pages.

Submitted 1974 to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum: Playwriting Contest, Muskogee, Oklahoma.

The Pride of Dowala

Drama based on the Cherokee Removal. Casting: 17 characters.

Submitted 1976 to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum: Playwriting Contest: Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Gieogamah, Hanay (Kiowa/Delaware)

The American Indian theater has before it the challenge of helping Indian people to better know who they are and how their lives are being affected by all the changes occurring at the end of the twentieth century.As artists , they must establish a strong identity base in their work to help confront and clarify the endless confusions resulting from non-Indians beliefs and misperceptions of Indian life. They must work to untangle the mass of confusions that stereotyping, assimilation, and acculturation have created in the minds of Indians themselves. And they must develop courage and strength to handle failure, ignorance, envy, and even success.

¾Hanay Geiogamah

American Indian Theater in Performance: A Reader

Body Indian

1972

Foghorn

1973

1975

Body Indian, Foghorn and 49 are published as New Native American Drama: Three Plays. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.

Coon Cons Coyote

Grandma

Grandpa

Foghorn, Coon Cons Coyote, 49, Grandma, Grandpa are published in Stories of Our Way:

An anthology of American Indian Plays Ed. Hanay Geiogomah and Jaye T. Darby. Los Angeles:

UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 1999.

War Dancer

1977

Land Sale

1978

Glancy, Diane (Cherokee)

American Gypsy

Casting: 3 W 6 M plus. The play is about the transient wave of our lives across the land. Its about hurt, loss, friendship, love and the mystery of Peris sisters bizarre birth and life. It also deals with Christianity and Indian religion.

Bull Star

Halfact

One act. Casting: 1 W 1 M plus narrator

Jump Kiss

Playwrights notes: Jump Kiss rides upon plates like the earths crust. I suppose the seven moveable plates could be read in different order. Jump Kiss is a search for definition of self, fragmented by the act of memory, buckling events, pushing one under another. Disordering the landscape in other words. Acrylic and mixed media. A title I saw on a painting. I want to do that with writing. A new genre-tive blend of the fictive and non-fictive. Jump Kiss is the explanation ceremony. A recovery of events and experiences and relationships for the purpose of understanding what has passed.

The Lesser Wars

Explores the risk of relationship with the other, the risk of knowing self, and the risk of relationship with the structure of writing.

Produced during the Sky Woman Festival by Voice and Vision Theater in conjunction with Red Road Productions at the Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY.

November 18-21, 1999. Directed by Renee Phillippi.

Mother of Mosquitos

Segwohi

Stick Horse

The Truth Teller

One act. Casting: 1 W 1 M. Setting: circa 1800.

Published in Stories of Our Way: An Anthology of American Indian Plays. Ed. Hanay Geiogomah and Jaye T. Darby. Los Angeles: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 1999. 339-354.

The Best Fancy Dancer The Pushmataha Pow Wows Ever Seen

Two acts. Casting: 1 W 1 M plus two characters in deer and bear masks.

The Women Who Loved House Trailers

Casting: 1 W 2 M

The Woman Who Was A Red Deer Dressed For The Deer Dance

Playwrights note: In this I try, well, I try. To combine the overlapping realities of myth, imagination and memory with spaces for the silences. To make a story. The voice speaking in different agencies. Well, I try to move on with the voice in its guises. A young woman and her grandmother in a series of scenelets. Divided by a line of flooring. Shifting between dialog and monologue. Not with the linear construct of conflict/resolution, but with story moving like rain on a windshield. Between differing and unreliable experiences.

Produced by Sage Theater at Raw Space in New York City, November 7, 1998.

Weebjob

Produced at the Performing Arts Center in Tulsa Oklahoma by the American Indian Theater Company, April 8-11, 1987. Director: Ken Spence.

Published in Contemporary Plays By Women Of Color: An Anthology. Ed. Kathy A. Perkins and Roberto Uno. London: Routhledge, 1996. 170-190.

Included in: Great Scenes from Minority Playwrights: Seventy-four Scenes of Cultural Diversity.

Ed. Marsh Cassady. Colorado Springs: Meriwether, 1997. 59-92.

Inquiries: Jim Perlman, Holy Cow! Press, P.O. Box 3170. Mount Royal Station, Duluth, Minnesota.

Gomez, Terry (Comanche)

Love for your family, knowledge of your religion, ceremonies, history, dances and song, love of the earth, your tribe and knowing your language (if you are fortunate) is tradition. Tradition is in your soul.

¾ Terry Gomez

Inter-Tribal

Drama. Casting: 3 W 4 M. This play tells the story of two young women, one tied to traditional ways, the other with no ties to the past, who attempt to redefine the cultural legacy of Native American women.

Published in Contemporary Plays by Women of Color: An Anthology. Ed. Kathy A. Perkins and Roberto Uno. London: Routledge, 1996. 201-214.

Reunion

Drama. Casting 3 W 6 M. Reunion is a play about family, greed, violence and some of the actions and consequences involved in leaving your home and/or reservation. This play takes place now, as our people struggle with the issues of homelands, economic disadvantage, and living daily within two societies: our own Nations and mainstream American.

Published in Gathering Our Own: A Collection of IAIA Student Playwrights. Eds. Dana Dickerson, Broan Lusk, Ti Stalnaker. Santa Fe: Institute of American Indian Arts, 1996. 91-144.

Gordon, Roxy (Choctaw)

Big Pow Wow

Co-written with LeAnne Howe. Three acts. Casting 2 W 2 M.

Indian Radio Days

Co-written with LeAnne Howe. Theatrical radio show w/o break, aprox. Time 1 hour 30 min.

Griffiths, Linda

Jessica

Co-written with Maria Campbell

A drama in two acts. Casting: six characters.

Published: The Book of Jessica: A Theatrical Transformation. Toronto: Coach House, 1989.

Gurley, George

Indian Givers

Ó 1978 George Gurley, 4540 Holly, Kansas City, MO.

Hail, Raven Awo-Go-la-nv (Cherokee)

Follow the Rainbow

One act. American Indian tales and songs around the campfire

The Raven and the Redbird: Sam Houston and His Cherokee Wife.

Three acts covering 1812-1839.

Published by Raven Hail Books: Mesa, AZ. 1965.

Hamson, Leslie

Land(e)scapes

Produced by the Nakai Theatre Ensemble, Whitehorse, Yukon. The play tells about the Mission school trauma, violence and elders becoming displaced.

Hanley, Anne W.

Shotridge

Henson, Lance (Southern Cheyenne)

Coyote Road

Co-written with Jeff Hooper

Higheagle, Anthony (Nez Perce)

Highway, Tomson (Cree)

Annie and the Old One

Performed at Centaur Theatre, Montreal, 1989.

Directed by: Jerry Franken

Aria

Performed by the Native Earth Performing Arts, Native Canadian Centre, Totonto,1988.

Directed by: Larry Lewis.

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing

Seven Wasy men and the game of hockey. Fast paced story of tragedy, comedy and hope. Were on the Rez, a Manitoulin Island Indian Reserve. The men band together to protest the formation of an all-girl hockey team, which confronts their already tenuous sense of identity.

Two acts. Comedy/Drama, Casting: 1 W 7 M.

First produced by Native Earth Performing Arts, Native Canadian Centre, Toronto, 1989.

New SongNew Dance

Preformed by Native Earth Performing Arts, Native Canadian Centre, Toronto, 1988.

The Sage, The Dancer and the Fool

Performed by Native Earth Performing Arts, Native Canadian Centre, Toronto, 1989.

Directed by: Rene Highway and Tomson Highway.

Published by: Fifth House. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 1989.

The Rez Sisters

Portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the odds by playing bingo. Not just any bingo, but the biggest bingo in the world and a chance to win a way out of a tortured life.

Two act comedy. Casting: 7 W 1 M.

First presented by the Act IV Theatre Company and Native Earth Performing Arts Inc., at the Native Center of Toronto, on November 26, 1986. Director: Larry Lewis.

First produced by Act IV Theatre Company and Native Earth Performing Arts, Native Canadian

Centre, Toronto, 1986.

Rose (The Musical)

Presented on November 19, 1995 for Native Voices: Back to Normal 1995.At the Second Annual Festival of Native Plays. Sponsored by Illinois State University College of Fine Arts·Department of Theatre, Normal Illinois.

Hocking, Frances C.

Twinkle

1978 Submission to the Five Civilized Tribes Museum: Playwriting Contest, Muskogee,

Oklahoma.

Hogan, Linda (Chickasaw)

A Piece of the Moon

1980 Prize winner at the Five Civilized Tribes Museum: Playwriting Contest, Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Produced: Fall 1981, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Hooper, Jeff

Coyote Road

Co-written with Lance Henson.

Hooser, Phillip (Choctaw)

Animalway of Turtle Island

Adaptation for the stage of Native American mythology. Casting: 2 actors play all characters.

Howe, LeAnne (Choctaw)

Big Pow Wow

Co-written with Roxy Gordon. Three acts. Casting: 2 W 2 M.

Indian Radio Days

Co-written with Roxy Gordon. Theatrical radio show w/o break, approx. time 1 hour 30 min.

Ione, Carole (Lenape/African/French)

Njinga the Queen King (Njinga-Muchino a Muhaito):

Return of the Warrior

This is a play with music and pageantry tracing the impact of a legendary 17^th century African regent upon a modern African American woman. Communication takes place by way of dreams, past life memories and ancestral spirits ultimately leading to an empowerment that moves beyond the personal to the global.

Two acts. Casting 10 W 4 M, 1 G 1 B, dancers and musicians.

Contact: Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box 1956. Kingston, NY 12401-0900.

Jackson, Ken Grey Eagle (Anishinabe)

Ken Grey Eagle Jackson is a founding member of Red Eagle Soaring Theatre Group and

Sacred Circle Storytellers, Seattle, Washington.

Story Circle

One act play for middle school to adult audiences. Casting: 2 W 2 M plus 1 Elder.

Performance time: 50 min.

1995 Presented with the Gordon Ekvall Tracie Memorial Award given to an ethnic performing artist who has made

significant contributions to the development and presentation of the traditional arts in the Pacific Northwest.

Presented at the Ethnic Heritage Council Annual Reception and Meeting.

Jensen, Lorre

Coming Around

Pen Pals

The Mercy Quilt

Shaman of Woz

Loosely follows the story of the Wizard of OZ

Joe, Joyce B

Ravens

Jones, Matthew (Kiowa/Otoe-Missouri)

Mr. Jones is a traditional Storyteller and founding member of Thunderbird Theatre in 1975 at Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kansas.

Sayndays People

A collection of the Kiowa trickster tales told with traditional music and dance. Served as the prelude to the Thunderbird Theatre touring production of Songs of Life which has been a part of the Thunderbird

Theatre Repertoire since 1975.

Jones, Rosalie (Blackfeet/Pembina-Chippewa)

No Home But The Heart

Premiered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Junaluska, Arthur S. (Cherokee)

Arthur S. Junaluska is a playwright/director; choreographer/actor and founder of

The American Indian Society of Creative Arts.

The Medicine Woman

Hell-cat of the Plains

Grand Council of Indian Circle

The Spirit of Wallowa

Spectre in the Forest

Kane, Margo

Moon Lodge

Kauffman, John (Nez Perce)

Co-founder Red Earth Performing Arts Company. Seattle, Washington in 1974.

According to Coyote

Commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in 1987.

Keams, Geraldine (Dine)

The Flight of the Army Worm

Published in The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature.

Ed. Geary Hobson. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1981. 320-333.

Na-Haaz Zaan

Co-written with Robert Shorty (Dine) The retelling of the Navajo creation story. (1972)

Keeshig-Tobias, Lenore

Quest for Fire: How the Trickster Brought Fire to the People

Published in the Canadian Theatre Review 68 (Fall 1991): 86-87. Excerpts.

Quest for Kindling

King, Bruce (Hodenausaunee/Oneida)

Dustoff

Evening at the Warbonnet

Fire-Life

Legends

Maid of the Mists

Treaty

Whispers From the Other Side

First produced as the winner of Haskell Indian Junior College: Centennial Playwriting Contest

by Thunderbird Theatre, Lawrence, Kansas.

King-Odjig, Alanis

The Manitoulin Incident

The Tommy Prince Story

Historical drama focusing on the life of World War Twos most decorated veteran.

Kneubuhl, Victoria Nalani (Native Hawaiian)

Just So Sotries

Tofa Samoa

Emmalehua

Ola Na lwi

Conversion of Kaahumanu

Kaiulani

Paniolo Spurs

Trial of a Queen

The Story of Susanna

A story about women, violence, and healing. Susanna is a victim who finds help and healing at a half-way house in the company of some extraordinary women.

Published: Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays. Ed. Mimi Gisolfi DAponte. New York: Theater Communications Group, 1999.

Annexation Debate

Ka Wai Ola

Fanny and Belle

Koostachin, Jules Arita (Cree)

Asivaks Creation Story