Story & Photos By Sandra Hale Schulman
Thousand Oaks, California (NFIC)
Nestled in the lush hills above Malibu, the Chumash Interpretive Center held a Native American Blues Festival that was more message than music.
You can’t put Winona LaDuke and John Trudell and actress Irene Bedard on a bill and not expect some hard-hitting words to roar off the stage. Prominent author and environmental activist Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg and is the mother of three children.
Thousand Oaks, California (NFIC)
Nestled in the lush hills above Malibu, the Chumash Interpretive Center held a Native American Blues Festival that was more message than music.
You can’t put Winona LaDuke and John Trudell and actress Irene Bedard on a bill and not expect some hard-hitting words to roar off the stage. Prominent author and environmental activist Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of Anishinaabeg and is the mother of three children.