We also want to hear from anyone interested in performing, like Hawaiian dancers or native American hoop dancers. We want to bring people together in this community so that we can be a community as one. I think education and knowledge can help us to do that.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round . . . The sky is round and I have heard the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind in its greatest power whirls, birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. Our teepees were round like the nests of birds. And they were always set in a circle, the nation’s hoop.

The enthusiasm of the vendors has been very contagious throughout the room.

This is probably the most diverse community in Arizona. There is a tremendous number of different languages spoken here and just by seeing the different types of people on the streets we know there are many cultures here, but we don't know a lot about each other.

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.