Personal background
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Professional career
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Academic
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Apodaca is an associate professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Chapman University and a visiting professor at 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
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Apodaca was a selector for the NMAI Native American Film and Video Festival.[8] He has also been a member of the Native California Network, and a board member for the California Council for the Humanities.[9] He has been employed by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the California Arts Council, and the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department.
Apodaca was a consultant on Indian culture and imagery to Knott's Berry Farm and the Walt Disney Company.[10] He was a technical advisor on the television mini-series, 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 Cypress College and Jon Erikson of the 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
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Apodaca is a contributing editor to News from Native California.[15] He has edited the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology and has been an adviser for Pearson Scott Foresman publishers.[2] Apodaca serves on the editorial board of Malki Museum Press.[16]
Performing artist
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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
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Selected bibliography
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- 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
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- ^ Heritage Tustin Area Historical Society newsletter vol 32:2 April/May 2007. Retrieved 2016-12-24.
- ^ a b Paul Apodaca Lapahie website
- ^ Archives Daily Bruin website.
- ^ Paul Apodaca UCLA winter 1999.
- ^ Southwest Museum Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine Autry National center website.
- ^ Keynote speaker Archived 2012-12-12 at archive.today AIRP website.
- ^ Cahuilla OAC website.
- ^ Paul Apodaca Native Networks website 1997.
- ^ Alumni Archived 2008-08-20 at the Wayback Machine American Indian Studies UCLA.
- ^ Paul Apodaca Lapahie website.
- ^ Lonesome Dove Internet Movie Data Base.
- ^ Planes: Fire and Rescue Stitch Kingdom website.
- ^ Winging it with Wes Studi Archived 2015-06-03 at the Wayback Machine Indian Country Today website July 14, 2014.
- ^ California prehistoric artefact Netstate website.
- ^ Paul Apodaca Archived 2008-12-05 at the Wayback Machine Heyday Books website.
- ^ Board and staff Malki Museum website.
- ^ Time Out Archived 2012-12-12 at archive.today University of the Pacific.
- ^ Knowing DVD magazine website.
- ^ Awards Chapman University website October 14, 2008.
- ^ broken rainbow IMDB.
- ^ Award winners Archived 2009-09-01 at the Wayback Machine Orange county government website
- ^ The People's Path Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine Native Americas Journal 2001
- ^ Honorary Host Committee for the 40th Year Archived 2012-08-04 at archive.today Ethnic Studies, UCLA.
- ^ Apodaca P. and Angelo G. "Gabrielino/Tongva culture" (video) Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc./Vision Maker Video, Lincoln, Nebraska 1991.
- ^ Apodaca P. "Permanent sandpainting as an art form" in Heth C. (Ed.) Sharing a Heritage: American Indian Arts UCLA AISC Press 1991.
- ^ Apodaca P. "Sharing information: the Cahuilla tribe and the Bowers Museum" in News from Native California 5(2) February–April 1991.
- ^ Apodaca P. "California Indian shamanism and California Indian nights" in News from Native California 7(2): 24-26 1994.
- ^ Apodaca P. and Labbe A. J. "Images of power: masterworks of the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art" University of Washington Press, 1995.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Testaments of hope" Chronicle of Higher Education February 20, 1998.
- ^ Apodaca P. "Powerful images: portrayals of Native America" in American Anthropologist 101(4): 818 1998.
- ^ Apodaca P. and Madrigal L. "Cahuilla bird songs" in California Chronicles 2(2): 4–8 November 1999.
- ^ Kozak and Lopez, "Devil sickness and devil songs: Tohono O'odham poetics" in American Ethnologist 28(2): 496-497 2001.
- ^ "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
- ^ "Hollywood Tragicomedy" Indian Country Today, November 30, 2007.
- ^ "Under West's wing, NMAI made history" Indian Country Today, January 18, 2008.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Apodaca P. "Native American Art" in Beal T.(Ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts Oxford University Press, NY 2015.
- ^ "Wikikmal: the birdsong tradition of the Cahuilla Indians" American Indian Studies Center, UCLA.
External links
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- Chapman University faculty webpage
- Smithsonian Institution Native Networks page
- Webpage from Navajo Internet site
- Paul Apodaca at IMDb
- OC Weekly profile (2002)
- Orange Plaza Review Profile (2011)