Video: My NMAI Project

The story of my journey as a participant in the NMAI Artist Leadership Program 2012-2013. Video produced by my talented mama, Lynda Kay Sawyer of RockHaven Productions:

Chahta Siah!

Book Fun Magazine: Be Proud

Choctaw Color Guard at a powwow in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, 2013. Photo by Lynda Kay Sawyer

In the May Issue of the digital publication, Book Fun Magazine, you'll find our Choctaw Spirit column with a special story in honor of Mother's Day. It's a flash fiction I wrote based on a time in my mama's life when she wasn't proud to be indian: Choctaw Spirit: Be Proud

Chahta Siah,

Sarah Elisabeth

P.S. For back issue columns, see Choctaw Spirit in Book Fun Magazine

NMAI Artist Leadership Program Part 6: First Plane Ride, and The River Inn

We hadn't flown in nearly twenty years when we boarded the tiny jet at DFW for the nonstop flight to D.C. Only a few nerves at take off, and then we enjoyed the Google Earth style view behind the wing.

Now you see it...

NMAI Artist Leadership Program Part 5: MSC National Anthropological Archives

In the National Anthropological Archives, we photographed hundreds of original documents from the time period of our study focus, the Choctaw Removal, otherwise known as the Trail of Tears.

What treasures are in here? Sarah Elisabeth opening yet another box of the dozens we examined and photographed at the NAA

Book Fun Magazine: Yelling in the Library of Congress

Mother and daughter team, Lynda Kay and Sarah Elisabeth

In the April Issue of the digital publication, Book Fun Magazine, you'll find our Choctaw Spirit column with more details of our trip to Washington, D.C.. It includes the story of when I yelled in the Library of Congress on our last day of research: Choctaw Spirit: Yelling in the Library of Congress

Chahta Siah,

Sarah Elisabeth

P.S. For back issue columns, see Choctaw Spirit in Book Fun Magazine