Kinorea Dickman

"Two Feather"

	Kinorea Dickman is a real Renaissance woman with impressive credentials, an intriguing background, and a proven track record as a teacher/living historian. In addition to being a certified chef, truck driver, cargo ship pilot, landscape architect, graphic artist, writer, and captain in the U.S. Navy, Kinorea also has a Ph. D. in Child Psychology, a masters in Adolescent Psychology, and an associates degree in Liberal Studies from the Native American College of Arts in Tulsa, Oklahoma where she studied Native American history and languages. She won an award for her Ph. D. dissertation (a study on identical twins), and her research on lung pathology was published in the prestigious Journal of American Medicine. She is a very bright, creative woman whose achievements include serving as Native interpreter for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics (2003) and, as a Psychological Intervention Officer during “Desert Storm” (1990-93), she created a successful Animal-Intervention Program to help children adjust to the absence of their military parents.
With Native American ancestry on both sides of her family (Cherokee, Creek, and Lakota Sioux), “Two Feather,” a Cherokee medicine woman, has been actively involved throughout the country teaching Native culture, history, and art -- focusing on both Western and Eastern Indians. As a Native American folk artist, she brings a wide range of knowledge and experience to her teaching (speaking 12 Native languages and 7 foreign languages), and anyone who has watched her work with children can attest to her magnificent ability to bring history alive. Now a resident of Beaver County, Kinorea spends most of her time developing educational projects (e.g. “Windows Through History”), running workshops, teaching art classes, speaking at schools & community organizations, and working with Executive Director Brenda Applegate at the Beaver County Research and Landmarks Foundation. She has also been invited by the Smithsonian Institution to help develop their new North American Indian Museum. Kinorea will be visiting schools and Indian reservations throughout the country, teaching and collecting research for the Smithsonian. She is also involved in an important oral history research study with the Three Rivers Steel Center, but one of her most intriguing ongoing projects, a true labor of love for Kinorea is translating and publishing all of the journals given to her by her Cherokee grandmother before she died. Two Feather’s presentation topics include the following:
~ The Native Lenapi Woman ~ Native American Medicine ~ Native American Storytelling ~ History/Culture/Art of Beading ~ How to Make a Wampum Belt ~ Symbols and Syllables * * Symbols and Syllables is a hands-on workshop on red clay pottery making & Native forms of communication where students create pieces of Indian pottery, then, using Native symbols, paint a story on their “artifacts.”

Contact Information Phone: 724-544-3384 E-mail: k.dickman@comcast.net