WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1989.

INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE CULTURE AND ARTS DEVELOPMENT

WITNESSES

WILLIAM STEWART JOHNSON, CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES

ALFRED H. QOYAWAYMA (HOPI), VICE CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF TRUSTEES EDITH COLVARD CRUTCHER, MEMBER, BOARD OF TRUSTEES

LLOYD KIVA NEW (CHEROKEE), INTERIM PRESIDENT AND EX OFFICIO MEMBER, BOARD OF TRUSTEES

MARGARET SHANNON (OSAGE), STUDENT AT THE INSTITUTE, PRESIDENT OF THE STUDENT COUNCIL, AND EX OFFICIO MEMBER, BOARD OF TRUSTEES

CHARLES A. KING (OKLAHOMA CHOCTAW/SAN ILDEFONSO), DEAN OF STUDENT SERVICES

Mr. ATKINS. The hearing will come to order.

This afternoon we will hear-for the first time as a new, independent agency-from the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development. We welcome you in your capacity.

We will be hearing first from William Stewart Johnson, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, then Alfred Qoyawayma, a Hopi. I lived for three months in Old Oraibi, so I have fond regard for the Hopi as I do for all of the Native American groups. Next, we have Edith Colvard Crutcher, a Member of the Board of Trustees; Lloyd Kiva New, the Interim President and Ex Officio Member of the Board of Trustees; Margaret Shannon, who is in the Osage Tribe, a student at the Institute and President of the Student Council, and Ex Officio Member of the Board of Trustees; Charles A. King from Oklahoma Choctaw/San Ildefonso, Dean of Student Services; and Dan Namingha, Tewa/Hopi, an alumnus of the Institute and artist.

Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. Namingha is unable to attend because of a death in his family.

Mr. ATKINS. Sorry to hear that.

We have biographies for all of the witnesses that will be entered into the record.

Mr. Johnson, we have your statement, which will be entered into the record in full.

[The biographies and prepared statement of Mr. Johnson follow:]

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

OF

WILLIAM STEWART JOHNSON

William Stewart Johnson is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Mr. Johnson is currently on a faculty loan to the Institute from IBM Corporation devoting his full time to the transition of the Institute from a program of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to private, nonprofit status.

Mr. Johnson is a native of Michigan and received his B.A. degree from Michigan State University. He joined IBM in 1957 and has served in a series of progressively responsible positions including Director of Personnel for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at IBM's offices in Paris, and Director of Personnel Development at IBM's Corporate Headquarters in Armonk, New York. From 1978 to 1988 he was IBM's Director of Government Programs in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Johnson's community and professional activities include serving as a member of the National Board of Directors and founder and first president of the International Chapter of the American Society for Personnel Administration; a delegate to the World Federation of Personnel Administration; a member of the National Urban Coalition's Employment Committee; Chair of the Advisory Board of Visitors of Mary Baldwin College; and a past Board Member and member of the Executive Committee of the National Spinal Cord Injury Foundation.

He is also a director of the William and Luanna Johnson Fund of the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, New Mexico

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

OF

ALFRED H. QOYAWAYMA

Alfred H. Qoyawayma, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, is an artist and potter in the tradition of his Hopi culture. His pottery is known and collected throughout the United States and is in the permanent collections of several museums. His is a principal investigator for the Smithsonian Institution on ancient Hopi ceramics.

Mr. Qoyawayma was a co-founder (1977) and first chairman of The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a recipient of AISES'S Ely S. Parker Award for engineering achievement and service to the American Indian community.

Mr. Qoyawayma is by profession an engineer. He is currently Manager of the Environmental Services Department at Salt River Project (SRP). a power and water utility company serving Phoenix, Arizona. where he is responsible for managing and planning corporate environmental activities. policy and research. He joined SRP in 1971.

Mr. Qoyawayma was born in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from California State Polytechnic College with a B. S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1961 and received an M. S. degree in Mechanical/Control Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1986. In 1986. Mr. Qoyawayma received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Regents of the University of Colorado. Boulder.

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BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

OF

EDITH COLVARD CRUTCHER

Edith Colvard Crutcher is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, also known as the Institute of American Indian Arts, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

For the past ten years, Ms. Crutcher has devoted her energy to issues concerning the Native American community and to the arts. She is a Commissioner of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Ms. Crutcher is also a Member of the Board of Director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts and serves as the Chair of its National Advisory Board.

Ms. Crutcher is a specialist in fund raising and promotion for the arts. Among the institutions for which she has organized major fund raising events are wolf Trap Associates, The Washington Opera, the San Diego Symphony, and the Atlanta Opera Board.

In addition to her many activities in the arts, Ms. Crutcher has had a career in public relations efforts for social work programs. As a field representative for the Navy Relief Society, she directed activities at 55 Navy and Marine Corps installations throughout the world.

At Longview State Hospital in Ohio, Ms. Crutcher formed and directed the first halfway house for discharged patients.

Ms. Crutcher is a native of North Carolina. She received her B.A. in Journalism from the University of North Carolina where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is an honors graduate of Lees-McRae College and has studied at Xavier University in Ohio and at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon.