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Paul Apodaca (born in

American Studies at Chapman University
.

Personal background

Apodaca was born in

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

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

City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
.

Apodaca was a consultant on Indian culture and imagery to

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

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.

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

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

  1. ^ Heritage Tustin Area Historical Society newsletter vol 32:2 April/May 2007. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
  2. ^ a b Paul Apodaca Lapahie website
  3. ^ Archives Daily Bruin website.
  4. ^ Paul Apodaca UCLA winter 1999.
  5. ^ Southwest Museum Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine Autry National center website.
  6. ^ Keynote speaker Archived 2012-12-12 at archive.today AIRP website.
  7. ^ Cahuilla OAC website.
  8. ^ Paul Apodaca Native Networks website 1997.
  9. ^ Alumni Archived 2008-08-20 at the Wayback Machine American Indian Studies UCLA.
  10. ^ Paul Apodaca Lapahie website.
  11. ^ Lonesome Dove Internet Movie Data Base.
  12. ^ Planes: Fire and Rescue Stitch Kingdom website.
  13. ^ Winging it with Wes Studi Archived 2015-06-03 at the Wayback Machine Indian Country Today website July 14, 2014.
  14. ^ California prehistoric artefact Netstate website.
  15. ^ Paul Apodaca Archived 2008-12-05 at the Wayback Machine Heyday Books website.
  16. ^ Board and staff Malki Museum website.
  17. ^ Time Out Archived 2012-12-12 at archive.today University of the Pacific.
  18. ^ Knowing DVD magazine website.
  19. ^ Awards Chapman University website October 14, 2008.
  20. ^ broken rainbow IMDB.
  21. ^ Award winners Archived 2009-09-01 at the Wayback Machine Orange county government website
  22. ^ The People's Path Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine Native Americas Journal 2001
  23. ^ Honorary Host Committee for the 40th Year Archived 2012-08-04 at archive.today Ethnic Studies, UCLA.
  24. ^ Apodaca P. and Angelo G. "Gabrielino/Tongva culture" (video) Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc./Vision Maker Video, Lincoln, Nebraska 1991.
  25. ^ Apodaca P. "Permanent sandpainting as an art form" in Heth C. (Ed.) Sharing a Heritage: American Indian Arts UCLA AISC Press 1991.
  26. ^ Apodaca P. "Sharing information: the Cahuilla tribe and the Bowers Museum" in News from Native California 5(2) February–April 1991.
  27. ^ Apodaca P. "California Indian shamanism and California Indian nights" in News from Native California 7(2): 24-26 1994.
  28. ^ Apodaca P. and Labbe A. J. "Images of power: masterworks of the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art" University of Washington Press, 1995.
  29. ^ 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.
  30. ^ "Testaments of hope" Chronicle of Higher Education February 20, 1998.
  31. ^ Apodaca P. "Powerful images: portrayals of Native America" in American Anthropologist 101(4): 818 1998.
  32. ^ Apodaca P. and Madrigal L. "Cahuilla bird songs" in California Chronicles 2(2): 4–8 November 1999.
  33. ^ Kozak and Lopez, "Devil sickness and devil songs: Tohono O'odham poetics" in American Ethnologist 28(2): 496-497 2001.
  34. ^ "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
  35. ^ "Hollywood Tragicomedy" Indian Country Today, November 30, 2007.
  36. ^ "Under West's wing, NMAI made history" Indian Country Today, January 18, 2008.
  37. ^ 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.
  38. ^ Apodaca P. "Native American Art" in Beal T.(Ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts Oxford University Press, NY 2015.
  39. ^ "Wikikmal: the birdsong tradition of the Cahuilla Indians" American Indian Studies Center, UCLA.

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