Annette Arkeketa is a writer, poet, and playwright, and a member of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Oklahoma. She has conducted professional workshops in these fields, in addition to the creative process, script consulting, and documentary film making. She directed Native American film studies at
Comanche Nation College
Comanche Nation College was a two-year, open admissions, American Indian tribal college. It was located in Lawton, Oklahoma, the capital of the Comanche Nation. The school was chartered in 2002 by the Comanche Nation Business Committee.
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Career
Arkeketa also has
Muscogee Creek
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy ( in the Muscogee language; English: ), are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands
Plays
Arkeketa's play ''Hokti'' has been produced by the Tulsa Indian Actors' Workshop (1997),
Tulsa, Oklahoma
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and The Thunderbird Theatre (1998),
Haskell Indian Nations University
Haskell Indian Nations University (Haskell or HINU) is a public tribal land-grant university in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Founded in 1884 as a residential boarding school for Native American children, the school has developed into a univ ...
,
Lawrence, Kansas
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''Hokti'' is published in ''Stories of Our Way: An Anthology of American Indian Plays'', UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 1999.
Her play ''Ghost Dance'' has been performed at public readings at the Gilcrease Museum (2001) in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Tulsa University (2002) and American Indian Community House (2003), New York, New York. It has been performed with acting workshops in Lawton, Oklahoma. In spring 2004 the full-length drama was produced by the
Institute of American Indian Arts
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, Drama Department. ''Ghost Dance'' is published in ''Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women's Theater'', UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 2003.
Documentaries
More recently Arkeketa has worked as a documentary producer and has formed the production company Hokte Productions. Hokte means 'woman' in the
Muscogee
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy ( in the Muscogee language; English: ), are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands Here they waged war again ...
language.
Her first documentary production was about Jimmy Pena, a visual artist from Corpus Christi: it is titled ''Intrinsic Spirit: The Artway of Jimmy Pena'' (2002, approximately 24 minutes). Pena's work is shown through his pieces as visual artist and muralist.
Her next work was ''Muh-Du Kee: Put Them Back'' (2004), a 1-hour documentary that follows Jimmy Arterberry,
Comanche
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Nation
NAGPRA
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The Act includes three major sets of provisions. The "re ...
coordinator, through the consultation process with Colorado state and federal institutions to repatriate the remains of his people. This documentary explores Arterberry's views about the NAGPRA process, archaeologists, policies, and solutions to a controversial human rights issues for Native Americans.
''Pahdopony: See how deep the water is'' (2005) is a 21-minute film about the life of Juanita Pahdopony (
Comanche
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), an artist, educator and activist.
''Chief George'' (2009) examines Rev. George Akeen (
Cheyenne
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/ Wichita) and his peacekeeping mission to the Middle East.
Awards
* In 2000, Arkeketa was named Mentor of the Year by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers.
* She was awarded the Writer of the Year for Playwriting in 1998 for her play ''Hokti'' by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers.
in ''Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women's Theater'', UCLA American Indian Studies Center.
* ''Hokti'', in ', Hanay Geiogamah and Jaye T. Darby (Editors), UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 1999.
Poetry
* ''The Terms of a Sister'', self-published.
Anthologies
* ''American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays'', Anne Waters (editor), Blackwell Pub.
* ''Gatherings, Volume X, A Retrospective of the First Decade'', Greg Young-Ing & Florene Belmore (editors), Penticton: Theytus Books
* ''Windward Review'', edited by Patricia Wimberly, Texas A & M University, 1998.
* ''Gatherings, Volume VIII: Shaking the Belly, Releasing the Sacred Clown'', Edited by Joyce B. Joe and Susan M. Beaver, Penticton: Theytus Books
* The Indian Summer issue of ''phati'tude Literary Magazine''
* ''Gatherings, Volume VII, Standing Ground: Strength and Solidarity Amidst Dissolving Boundaries'', co-edited by Kateri Akiwenzie Damm and Jeannette Armstrong, Penticton: Theytus Books
* ''Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival'', Sun Tracks Books, No 29), University of Arizona Press.
* ''Indian Market Magazine'', Santa Fe, NM, 1994.
* ''Durable Breath: Contemporary Native American Poetry'', John E. Smelcer, D. L. Birchfield (editors), Salmon Run Pub.
* ''Plains Native American Literature'', Simon and Schuster, 1993.
* ''That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry and Fiction by Native American Women'', Rayna Green (editor), Indiana University Press.
* ''Oklahoma Indian Markings'', edited by Francine Ringold, Nimrod, Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, 1989.
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