Paul Apodaca
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Paul Apodaca (born in Los Angeles, California ) is an associate professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Chapman University .
Personal background
Apodaca was born in Los Angeles and raised in Tustin, California . [1] His father's family were from the eastern side of the Navajo Reservation, of the Ma'ii deeshgiishinii Clan (Jemez Clan), and his mother's family are Mixton . [2] Apodaca received his masters' of arts degree in American Indian studies and his doctorate degree in Folklore and Mythology from University of California, Los Angeles . He was the Outstanding Graduate Student of 1996. [3] Apodaca lives in Orange, California . [4]
Professional career
Academic
Apodaca is an associate professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Chapman University and a visiting professor at UCLA . He has worked as a regional advisor to the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian (representing the California-Nevada-Utah region).
Apodaca was a curator at the Bowers Museum in Orange County over a period of seventeen years.
In 2008, Apodaca was the Lecturer in Residence at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, a part of Autry National Center , where he made presentations entitled The Mayan end of the World? , Unravelling the mystery of cogged stones used in early California , and Imagery and reality: the role of American Indians in film and television . [5]
In 2008, Apodaca was a keynote speaker at the University of California Native American Professional Development Conference. [6]
Apodaca recovered and restored once-lost recordings of traditional Agua Caliente tribal leader Joe Patencio, Alvino Siva, and others singing bird songs of Cahuilla oral literature. [7] The collection is archived at the Agua Caliente Cultural Museum in Palm Springs .
Cultural advisor
Apodaca was a selector for the NMAI Native American Film and Video Festival . [8] He has also been a member of the Native California Network, and a board member for the California Council for the Humanities. [9] He has been employed by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting , the California Arts Council , and the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department .
Apodaca was a consultant on Indian culture and imagery to Knott's Berry Farm and the Walt Disney Corporation . [10] He was a technical advisor on the television mini-series, Lonesome Dove (1989). [11]
He was a creative consultant for the Disney film, Planes: Fire and Rescue 2004, for which he helped develop the character Windlifter, a heavy-lift helicopter who is portrayed as an American Indian and voiced by actor Wes Studi . [12] Apodaca assisted with design elements on Windlifter’s image, and in a script element in which Windlifter recounts an American Indian folktale of how Coyote was renewed by fire. [13]
Apodaca, Henry Koerper of Cypress College and Jon Erikson of the University of California Irvine , promoted California state legislation that added an 8,000 year old carving of a bear to the list of California state symbols as the official California State Prehistoric Artifact. [14]
Editorial advisor
Apodaca is a contributing editor to News from Native California . [15] He has edited the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology and has been an adviser for Pearson Scott Foresman publishers. [2] Apodaca serves on the editorial board of Malki Museum Press. [16]
Performing artist
Apodaca sat in as a spoken word performer with The Dave Brubeck Quartet during the 2009 Brubeck Festival, a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Brubeck's legendary album, Time Out . [17]
Apodaca also appeared in a special feature segment of the DVD release of the Nicolas Cage film, Knowing (2009) where he discussed the cultural significance of apocalypse myths. [18]
Apodaca performed music for the Academy Award winning film, Broken Rainbow (1986), a documentary film that helped to stop the relocation of twelve thousand Navajos in northern Arizona. [19] [20]
List of awards
- Orange County Human Rights Award 1971 [21]
- Native American Journalists Association award 1997 ( California tongues: language revival as basis for cultural renaissance in Native Americas Journal , Cornell University , American Indian Program). [22]
- Mary Smith Lockwood National Medal for Education 1999 (from the Daughters of the American Revolution )
- Little Eagle Free Foundation Man of the Year 2007 (sponsored by the family of Walter Knott )
- Honorary Host Committee member (UCLA 40 Years of Ethnic Studies celebration). [23]
- Smithsonian Institution Museum Professional Award.
Selected bibliography
- Apodaca P. and Angelo G. "Gabrielino/Tongva culture" (1991) video. [24]
- Apodaca P. "Permanent sandpainting as an art form" (1991) [25]
- Apodaca P. "Sharing information: the Cahuilla tribe and the Bowers Museum" (1991) [26]
- Apodaca P. "California Indian shamanism and California Indian nights" (1994) [27]
- Apodaca P. and Labbe A. J. "Images of power: masterworks of the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art" (1995) [28]
- Apodaca et al "Archaeological, ethnohistoric, and historic notes regarding ORA-58 and other sites along the Lower Santa Ana River drainage, Costa Mesa" (1996) [29]
- Apodaca P. "Testaments of hope" (1998) [30]
- Apodaca P. "Powerful images: portrayals of Native America" (1998) [31]
- Apodaca P. "Tradition, myth, and performance of Cahuilla bird songs" (1999), doctoral thesis, UCLA.
- Apodaca P. and Madrigal L. "Cahuilla bird songs" (1999) [32]
- Kozak and Lopez "Devil sickness and devil songs: Tohono O'odham poetics" (2001) Review. [33]
- Apodaca P. "Cactus stones: symbolism and representation in Southern California and Seri indigenous folk art and artifacts" (2001) [34]
- Apodaca P. "Hollywood Tragicomedy" (2007) [35]
- Apodaca P. "Under West's wing, NMAI made history" (2008) [36]
- Apodaca P. and Saubel K. S. "Founding a tribal museum: the Malki Museum" (2008) [37]
- Apodaca P. "Native American Art" (2015) [38]
- Apodaca P. "Wikikmal: the birdsong tradition of the Cahuilla Indians" (forthcoming) [39]
References
- ↑ Heritage Tustin Area Historical Society newsletter vol 32:2 April/May 2007. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- 1 2 Paul Apodaca Lapahie website
- ↑ Archives Daily Bruin website.
- ↑ Paul Apodaca UCLA winter 1999.
- ↑ Southwest Museum Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine Autry National center website.
- ↑ Keynote speaker Archived 2012-12-12 at archive.today AIRP website.
- ↑ Cahuilla OAC website.
- ↑ Paul Apodaca Native Networks website 1997.
- ↑ Alumni Archived 2008-08-20 at the Wayback Machine American Indian Studies UCLA.
- ↑ Paul Apodaca Lapahie website.
- ↑ Lonesome Dove Internet Movie Data Base.
- ↑ Planes: Fire and Rescue Stitch Kingdom website.
- ↑ Winging it with Wes Studi Archived 2015-06-03 at the Wayback Machine Indian Country Today website July 14, 2014.
- ↑ California prehistoric artefact Netstate website.
- ↑ Paul Apodaca Archived 2008-12-05 at the Wayback Machine Heyday Books website.
- ↑ Board and staff Malki Museum website.
- ↑ Time Out Archived 2012-12-12 at archive.today University of the Pacific.
- ↑ Knowing DVD magazine website.
- ↑ Awards Chapman University website October 14, 2008.
- ↑ broken rainbow IMDB.
- ↑ Award winners Archived 2009-09-01 at the Wayback Machine Orange county government website
- ↑ The People's Path Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine Native Americas Journal 2001
- ↑ Honorary Host Committee for the 40th Year Archived 2012-08-04 at archive.today Ethnic Studies, UCLA.
- ↑ Apodaca P. and Angelo G. "Gabrielino/Tongva culture" (video) Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc./Vision Maker Video, Lincoln, Nebraska 1991.
- ↑ Apodaca P. "Permanent sandpainting as an art form" in Heth C. (Ed.) Sharing a Heritage: American Indian Arts UCLA AISC Press 1991.
- ↑ Apodaca P. "Sharing information: the Cahuilla tribe and the Bowers Museum" in News from Native California 5(2) February–April 1991.
- ↑ Apodaca P. "California Indian shamanism and California Indian nights" in News from Native California 7(2): 24-26 1994.
- ↑ Apodaca P. and Labbe A. J. "Images of power: masterworks of the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art" University of Washington Press, 1995.
- ↑ Apodaca P. et al "Archaeological, ethnohistoric, and historic notes regarding ORA-58 and other sites along the Lower Santa Ana River drainage, Costa Mesa" in Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 32(1):1–36 1996.
- ↑ "Testaments of hope" Chronicle of Higher Education February 20, 1998.
- ↑ Apodaca P. "Powerful images: portrayals of Native America" in American Anthropologist 101(4): 818 1998.
- ↑ Apodaca P. and Madrigal L. "Cahuilla bird songs" in California Chronicles 2(2): 4–8 November 1999.
- ↑ Kozak and Lopez, "Devil sickness and devil songs: Tohono O'odham poetics" in American Ethnologist 28(2): 496-497 2001.
- ↑ "Cactus stones: symbolism and representation in Southern California and Seri indigenous folk art and artifacts" Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 23(2):215-228 2001
- ↑ "Hollywood Tragicomedy" Indian Country Today , November 30, 2007.
- ↑ "Under West's wing, NMAI made history" Indian Country Today , January 18, 2008.
- ↑ Apodaca P. and Saubel K. S. "Founding a tribal museum: the Malki Museum" in Kennedy F.(Ed.) American Indian places: a guide to American Indian landmarks Houghton Mifflin, New York 2008.
- ↑ Apodaca P. "Native American Art" in Beal T.(Ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts Oxford University Press, NY 2015.
- ↑ "Wikikmal: the birdsong tradition of the Cahuilla Indians" American Indian Studies Center, UCLA.
External links
- Chapman University faculty webpage
- Smithsonian Institution Native Networks page
- Webpage from Navajo Internet site
- Paul Apodaca at IMDb
- OC Weekly profile (2002)
- Orange Plaza Review Profile (2011)
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