Program 107: Tribute to Native Artists

Audio and Transcripts Elder Wisdom: Barbara Roberts features world-renowned Wasco mask maker and artist, Lillian Pitt. She shares how her art reflects her cultural heritage as a Wasco, offers additional background on the inspiration behind some of her masks,...

Program 108: Native Relationships

Audio and Transcripts Elder Wisdom: Nationally prominent storyteller, Vi Hilbert tells of the bonds of friendship between Samish people from the San Juan Islands with their neighbors. She shares stories in both English and her traditional language regarding...

Volunteer Appreciation

Anne Morin is WISDOM Volunteer of the Month for January 2009! We would like to express appreciation to Anne for all the media support she has stepped up to provide this past month: She developed 2 posters for the storytelling retreat and “An Afternoon of Tribal...

About Wisdom of the Elders

Our Mission Committed to Native American cultural sustainability, multimedia education and race reconciliation, Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. (Wisdom) records and preserves the oral history, cultural arts, language concepts, and traditional ecological knowledge of...

Mary Louise Defender Wilson

The black dog often found at Mary Louise Defender Wilson’s side is her Hokshina. That’s the dog’s name, and also the word for dog in Defender’s Dakotah language. Hokshina chases cows in the gumbo hills of North Dakota and makes Defender...