Dovie Thomason
Availability:
Year Round
Home base:
Pennsylvania/Maryland
Curricular Connections:
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Dovie Thomason Native American Storyteller
Funding:
MSAC AiE Visiting Performer & Residency funds may be available
The wise, boisterous teaching tales of her Lakota and Plains Apache relatives come alive in listeners' imaginations as Dovie Thomason shares her culture with understanding, sly humor and astonishing vocal transformations. Told with elegance, wit and passion, her stories inspire delight in the spoken word and teach respect for values passed on through generations. When Dovie tells stories from her own life and from her people's experience, the result is a contemporary vision of the rich cultures of the First Nations of North America. A former teacher, Dovie is an NEA and Arts International recipient, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers' Traditional Storyteller of the Year and was honored with the National Storytelling Network's 2007 Circle of Excellence Award.
“Powerful Native American storytelling…”
THE WASHINGTON POST
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For over two decades, my work has been exclusively in the preservation and continuation of Native cultural arts, utilizing the art form of traditional Native storytelling. I have developed a wide variety of traditional storytelling programs for all ages, with the intent of sharing an indigenous perspective on Native cultures, stories and concerns, based in my own Lakota/Kiowa Apache tradition and including experience working with culture-bearers of Iroquois, Algonquian and other Native nations.
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Traditional stories about animals and hero/tricksters, and the values and cultures of the diverse First Nations of North America.
This program offers a sampling of stories from the diverse Native cultures from different regions of the country.
Trickster stories are part of all Native cultures.
This program offers an intertribal sampling of the animal stories.
Here are stories of monsters and the brave men, women and children who overcame them.
This program takes a more serious look at problems which can affect our families and communities.
This original 90 minute story explores a tragic chapter in our nation's history.
