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A Spirit of Sovereignty

April 21, 2008

The following groups perform on the video:

The Choctaw Nation Dancers (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Native American Dance Group (United Tribes Technical College of Bismarck, N.D.)
The Samala Signers (Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians)
Yaaw Tei Yi (Tlingit dancers, Juneau, Alaska)
Acoma Intercultural Dancers (Pueblo of Acoma)
Southern California Intertribal Bird Singers

Steven A. Chin is reznet's managing editor. A former new media specialist at the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and former reporter at the San Francisco Examiner, Chin is principal of MKmedia, a web development consulting firm.

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