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November 2005
 Larry
Littlebird (Laguna and Santo Domingo) is a poet, director,
actor, and storyteller who leads educational workshops teaching
well-being through Pueblo traditions. He has been featured as
a storyteller in the KUNM-TV ¡Colores! series. His
book of poetry and short stories, Hunting Sacred, Everything
Listens, was published in 2001. Littlebird is the founder
of the performing arts troupe Coyote Gathers His People, which
toured nationally with Naa Kahidi Theater in 1996 and 1997. He
is the director of I'd Rather Be Powwowing (1983), an all-Native
production produced by WNET-TV for the PBS series Matters of
Life and Death. In the 1970s, he directed one and co-directed
two television programs for The Real People Series, produced
by KSPS-TV, while working as a filmmaker-in-residence at the Institute
for American Indian Arts. The Real People Series was one
of the earliest television documentary projects made by Native
American directors and crew. In 1972 Littlebird was cast as Abel,
the lead role in the motion picture House Made of Dawn,
based upon N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer prize-winning novel of
the same name. Littlebird grew up in Laguna and Santo Domingo
Pueblos and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Screened by NMAI
Image credits: Larry
Littlebird - photograph by Peter Morse © 1970
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