Curriculum Vitae
TRACE A. DEMEYER
AUTHOR
Honor Restored, Jim Thorpe's Olympic Medals (Chapter 2, pages 38-50) OLYMPICS AT THE MILLENNIUM: POWER, POLITICS AND THE GAMES 2000, Edited by Kay Shaffer and Sidonie Smith, Rutgers Press, 2000, ISBN:0-8135-2819-4
SPLIT FEATHER: Adoption didn’t kill our spirit (2006)
Memoir with adoption and Native American history (seeking publisher)
PAPERS
Austrian Association for American Studies 2006 Conference Native Americans and First Nations, A Transnational Challenge, Transnational Resurrection of Freedom after Forced Transculturation, Articulating Freedom in Prose and Color, co-author with Dr. Raeschelle Potter-Deimel, University of Vienna, Austria, November 2006
26th American Indian Workshop THE NEW BUFFALO, “Power, Politics and the Pequot: The world’s richest Indians,” Amerika Haus, Munich, Germany, April 2005
First Contact, Native American Slavery 1400-1900
• Presented at the Native American Journalists Association conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, June 2000
• Presented at the Boise State University First Nations Conference, "Indigenous Visions: Honoring Visions, Creating Futures" Boise, Idaho, March 2002
JOURNALIST
Publications Manager: Pequot Times and Foxwoods Spirit, monthly; Copy Editor of MPTN November annual report, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Public Relations, 1999-2004
Editor: Ojibwe Akiing, monthly newspaper (founded in 1996 with Paul DeMain) and
Staff writer: News From Indian Country, Indian Country Communications, Hayward, Wisconsin, 1996-1999
EDUCATION
BFA Theatre, University of Wisconsin-Superior, June 1978
MEMBERSHIPS
Native American Journalists Association
National Museum of the American Indian
Native American Music Association
Vice President, Chancellor’s Council of Advisors, University of Wisconsin – Superior (three year appointment) 1998-1999
Cable Hayward Area Arts Council, Board member/editor, 1997
International Women's Writing Guild
PUBLICATIONS - ARTICLE & DATE
TALKING STICK: American Indian Community House publication in New York City
Split Feather: Adoption didn’t kill our spirit, excerpt from memoir, (fall 2006)
Wiping the Tears: Generation after Generation, We are Coming Home (2005)
TAWACIN: Native American history and news in Poland
Wiping the Tears: Generation after Generation, We are Coming Home (2006)
The World’s Richest Indians: Power, Politics and the Pequot (2005)
NEWS FROM INDIAN COUNTRY: Wisconsin independent Native newspaper
Malian’s Song by Abenaki scholar Marge Bruchac, Book Review (2006)
Generation after Generation, We are Coming Home – Indian Adoption (2006)
Museum of Art and Design’s exhibit: Changing Hands (2006)
University of Massachusetts-Amherst Powwow (2006)
Blackfoot Rock Band (2006)
Who Owns History (2005)
Thoughts on un-recognition of tribes; Keep the Fire Burning (May 2005)
Celia Little Elk Martin needs our help, Adopt an Elder (Nov. 2004)
Lakota artist Dee Whitcomb (April 2004)
Narragansett Author John C. Hopkins (2003)
25th Anniversary of Wounded Knee, series of interviews (Pine Ridge, 1999)
Leonard Peltier, Political Prisoner (1998, 1999)
Actor Joe Runningfox (1998)
Musician Bill Miller (1998)
Native Journalist Patty Loew (1997)
Musician Joanne Shenandoah (1998)
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark (1997)
500 Nations, 500 Years: A Forum of Tribal Sovereignty (1997)
Actor Floyd Red Crow Westerman (1996)
PEQUOT TIMES: Connecticut tribal newspaper, circulation 30,000
Schaghticoke Elder Trudi Lamb-Richmond (2004)
Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation's Chairman (2004, 2003, 2002)
Chappaquiddick Indian Penny Gamble-Williams (2003)
Wiping of Tears Ceremony (2002)
NAMMY awards in Milwaukee (2002)
America Stands United after 9-11 (2001)
Postmark Paradise (interview w/film producer and actress) (2001)
Sculpture 2000/artist Charlene Teeters (2000)
Actor-musician-activist John Trudell (2000)
Alaskan filmmaker Sean Morris, Kusah Hakwaan (2000)
Passamaquoddy Tribal Court Judge Jill Shibles (2000)
Amistad (2000)
OJIBWE AKIING: regional Ojibwe newspaper
Ojibwe Storyteller Simon Otto (1998)
Artist Camille Lacapa (1998)
Bandolier Bands returns to Lac du Flambeau (1997)
Ojibwe Author Anne Dunn (1997)
TURTLE MOUNTAIN TIMES: North Dakota newspaperThree Activists Found Executed in Venezuela (1999)
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES COUNCILON BIOCOLONIALISM (website)
Blood For Money (review of film Leech and the Earthworm) (posted in 2003)
NATIVE PEOPLE'S MAGAZINE: quarterly national magazine in New Mexico
Jim Thorpe
INDIAN LIFE: newspaper in Winnipeg, Canada
Jim Thorpe
NEWS FROM NATIVE CALIFORNIA: quarterly magazine in California
Jim Thorpe
The writing of Trace A. DeMeyer (Cherokee) is being archived by the Native American Press Archives at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. Her work is also published and available on the Ethnic Newswatch archives in private and public libraries.
