October 1997
Paul Apodaca (Navajo and Mexican)
is a Professor at Chapman University, Orange, California. He is
a board member of the California Council for the Humanities and
a member of the NMAI Regional Advisor program. As part of a team
that won the 1985 Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary (Broken
Rainbow), Paul wrote and performed the musical score for that
film. He has served as a consultant for Sundance Film Institute,
Universal Family Entertainment, Walt Disney Imagineering, and
is the Book Review Editor for News from Native California. For
17 years he was a curator at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif.,
and has recently been concentrating his efforts on a doctoral
program in folklore and mythology at UCLA, where he was named
the Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year.
Image credit:
Paul Apodaca - Photograph by Katherine Fogden, NMAI
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