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    Jean Bedell    

Reference #003

Contact: The Oklahoma Badlands
Margie Small
P. O. Box 153
Decatur, TX 76234
Phone
theoklahomabadlands_2002@yahoo.com



  PERSONAL INFORMATION  
Height: 5'4"

Weight: 140

Hair: Long/waist dark brown

Eyes: Brown
  Experience  
FILM, Custer, SD December 2003 - December 2003
Actress
"Hidalgo"
Extra- Native American (Lakota)
Touchstone Pictures
     
Oklahoma Badlands Inc., Kyle, SD September 2004 - September 2004
Casting Photographer
Photographer for Oklahoma Badlands (Margie Small) Actress search- for middle school
     
Maskode Arts, kyle, SD January 2001 - March 2005
Documentary Film Director.Producer
Title of Documentary- Taditional Parenting- Hoksi Unpapi- The Cradle

Documentary about traditional learning and experience of natural ways of being and the Native perspective of being Anishinabeg

     
Tucker Publications INC., Lisle, IL March 2005 - March 2006
Review Board Member
Review two manuscripts per year for the "Journal of Cultural Diversity"
     
Oglala Lakota College, Kyle, SD August 2003 - May 2005
Full time Psychology Instructor
Instructor in Psychology- Teach various psychology courses. Currently teaching Gen Psy, Participatory Action Research, Family Violence.

Other courses taught-Introduction to Alcohol and General Psychology. I also taught Methods of Interviewing and Counseling (PSY233, 2003), Introduction to Human Services, Crisis Intervention, Restoritive Justice

Other projects- also assisted in teaching a AP highschool on-line/pictel class through a highschool at Wall, S.D.
     
Anishinabeg Mashkode Arts, Martin, SD June 2001 - Present
Instructor/Program Developer
Researcher, Instructor, Writer for development of education and traditional Native education. Project created for Native people to learn culture and Traditional Arts. Video presentation and production for documentary and teaching.

Other skills include oil and arcrylic painting. Native design and photography. Some work exhibited in galleries and owned by private businesses.
  Education  
Capella University, Minneapolis, MN
PhD - Educational Psychology
I am a third year student and will start my comprehensive examination in winter 2005 and then will immediately start my dissertation.
     
Oglala Lakota College, Kyle, SD
Master of Arts - Lakota Leadership and Management, June 2001
Master of Arts in Lakota Leadership and Management. Other Master courses towards M.A. in Educational Administration
     
Oglala Lakota College, Kyle, SD
Bachelor of Science - Human Services, June 1997
Human Services
     
St. Leo University, St. Leo, FL
Bachelor of Arts - Criminology, June 1985
Criminology

Associates of Arts in Liberal Arts (A.A.)
June, 1985
     
South gate High School, Southgate, MI
High School - General High School Diploma, June 1975
     
Ricardo Dance Studio, Wyandotte, MI
Other - Dance and acrobatic dance
Dance training for 12 years

Instructor and performer for 7 years
  Skills  
Have qualitative, quantitative research methods knowledge. Can run SPSS and NCSS software for data analysis.

Can operate digital video equipment with digital editing software

Can use APA style of writing

GIS/GPS equipment and mapping

Still Photographer

Acrylic Painter

Traditional Native Artist and Crafter
Traditional Clothier Maker

Languages- Anishinabeg.Lakota

Management skills- can handle large groups of people
presenter/instructor

Musical-Piano, vocal traditional native singer

Athletic-Dancer, ex-marathon runner, traditional Native American dancer, ex-gymnast
  Patents and Publications  
Ethics and Morals of the 21st Century (2001)-published, Oglala Lakota College, Native American Journal by the Human Services Department.

Thesis- The Development of Traditional Indian Education for Classes, Workshops, and Research.

Poetry- published in: "Native Voice" newspaper, Rapid City, S.D. (August, 16,2002) and the Weed and Seed publication, Martin, S.D. " The Voice" 2003. "The Little Girl Who Could Fly" short story.

Short Stories- published in local papers-" Akicita inajin miye waste wicasa". "Miye Ptesanwin". (translation- 1. stand up my good warrior man.. 2. my little buffalo girl)
An Anishinabeg Easter, Weed and Seed "The Voice" 2003 newspaper.

Submission- The Native American Treaty and Law Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO), March 2003. "Leblanc vs. The People": A fishing Rights landmark case in the state of Michigan.

Submission- South Carolina's 5th annual Film Festival 2003: Hoksi Unpapi/takinagan workshop documentary (video)on cradle board making and use.


Submission- Native American Anthology- Sherman Alexie- "The Little Girl Who Could Fly"

Submission- The Tribal Law and Policy Institute For "Native Women Surviving Violence", April, 2004, poetry

Movie extra- for the Disney movie "Hidalgo", December, 2002.


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