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February 26th, 2007

Jhane Myers

Presently Jhane (Comanche Nation) is the editor-in-chief of the Oklahoma Casinos & Entertainment magazine and founder of Jhane Myers & Associates a private PR firm that handles tribal and community public relations and events. Recently, Jhane worked as a secondary publicist to Mel Gibson on his release of his latest film Apocalypto and organized screening for the Native American community and the premiere. She has also handled events such as the Rock the Native Vote Concert and has worked for North America’s Biggest Powwow the Gathering of Nations. Currently, Jhane serves as a community cultural consultant for the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. with and exhibit opening in March of 2007. She serves as a consultant for a Broadway musical chronicling the life of Quanah Parker, Comanche, with Larry Gatlin. Recently, she has established Native Provisions, a TERO and minority supplier certified food brokerage. She has planned a conversation with the artist series for the OKC Metropolitan Downtown Library and she is also a contributing writer for the Whispering Wind magazine. Recently, Jhane was the guest speaker the National 4-H conference on cultural diversity and has joined the First Nations Composers Initiative board funded by the Ford Foundation. Jhane has worked on organizing many private Native American art shows across the nation.

Jhane is serving her second term as Chair of the American Indian Chamber of Commerce, Lupus foundation of America, Oklahoma Chapter board member, Oklahoma City Chapter, a board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation 2005-2006, Chair of the fundraising committee for the Native American Heritage Celebration at the Capitol sponsored by the DHS civil rights division, Oklahoma Federation of Indian Women Organization and the National Indian Women’s Association. She was also the recipient of the 2004 Woman of Distinction award sponsored by the Girl Scout Redlands Council. Jhane is the two year Chair of the’ Student of Excellence Awards’ sponsored by the American Indian Chamber of Commerce-OKC Chapter. She has also served as a mentor for Native American students for the Bill Gates Millennium Scholarship.

Former positions include the Director of American Indian Projects for the Oklahoma Centennial Commission, Festival Director of the Red Earth Festival and an Account Executive for the New York based Ralph Lauren Fragrance division.

February 26th, 2007

Emil Her Many Horses

Associate Curator
National Museum of the American Indian

Emil Her Many Horses is an associate curator in the office of Museum Programs at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Oglala Lakota nation of South Dakota and is an expert on Northern and Southern Plains cultures. Her Many Horses is an accomplished beadwork artist and was the winner of the “2001 Best of Show” category at the Northern Plains Tribal Art Show in Sioux Falls, SD for his tribute to the Lakota Sioux Vietnam Veterans.

Her Many Horses, served as the lead curator for the inaugural permanent exhibition at the NMAI on the National Mall, “Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World.” This exhibition focuses on indigenous cosmologies—worldviews and philosophies related to the creation and the order of the universe—and the spiritual relationship between humankind and the natural world.

Established in 1989, through an Act of Congress, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian is an institution of living cultures dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding of the life, languages, literature, history and arts of the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere. The museum includes the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall, the George Gustav Heye Center, a permanent exhibition and education facility in New York City and the Cultural Resources Center, a research and collections facility in Suitland, Md. For more information about the museum, visit www.AmericanIndian.si.edu.

October 3rd, 2006