Credits

Ti Locke, Writer/Editor
Ti Locke works with Learning Services and Outreach at KCTS/Seattle (PBS affiliate). She has background as classroom teacher, producer and script/curriculum writer and editor. Her portfolio includes teaching and/or writing projects with Seattle City Light, Group Health, the Pacific Science Center, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Giant Campus. Recent curriculum and writing projects connected to broadcast (all airing on PBS): Affluenza, Escape from Affluenza, Subdivide and Conquer, Conscience and the Constitution. Current and recent outreach projects (some with broadcast components): Local News (broadcasts start 10/9) KCTS Connects (airing 9/27): "Talk Back to Tobacco Advertising". --(outreach connected to "NOVA: Search for a Safe Cigarette", airing 10/2) Reel "Grrls": year-long media literacy project by and for young women, in collaboration with 911 Media Arts. New Voices: showcasing the work of new producers, also in collaboration with 911 Media Arts.
www.kcts.org

Rustin Thompson, Writer-Director
Rustin Thompson is an independent film and video director, writer, editor, and director of photography. He has 20 years of broadcast experience as a cameraman, producer and editor with CBS, PBS, ABC, NBC, ESPN, CNN, the Learning Channel and several local stations. Rus has shot and co-produced documentaries in locations ranging from Haiti to Bangladesh to Moscow and has won nine Emmys and a host of other awards for his work, which also includes educational mini-docs, video news releases and fundraising videos for non-profit organizations. Rus also writes a column for MovieMaker magazine, and is a programmer and film critic for KBCS radio. He graduated from the University of Washington.
www.whitenoiseproductions.com

E. Richard Hart, Historian
E. Richard Hart currently heads Hart West & Associates (HWA), which provides historical, ethno historical, and environmental historical services and expert testimony. He was Executive Director of the Institute of the North American West and its predecessor the Institute of the American West from 1977 to 1996. Between 1978 and 1984 he directed a series of influential projects and conferences on critical issues in the West. He also acted as director of the Northern Rockies Folk Festival between 1979 and 1983. Richard is the author or editor of six books, the most recent of which is the award-winning Zuni and the Courts: A Struggle for Sovereign Land Rights. Between 1973 and 1999 he has published more than fifty articles and essays and has presented more than fifty professional papers.

Kristi Laguzza-Boosman, Outreach Director
Kristi Laguzza-Boosman is a public communications consultant and the former Community Outreach Coordinator for PBS station KCTS in Seattle. Her areas of expertise are the creation of large-scale public awareness and community outreach campaigns for documentary producers and non-profits. She has worked on a variety of successful outreach campaigns including The Foster Care Project, Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home, Morrie: Lessons on Living, Affluenza and Escape from Affluenza. Ms. Laguzza-Boosman is on the board of the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival (www.hazelfilm.org) and associated with the international sustainability group, Atkisson & Asssoicates (www.atkisson.com). She gives workshops for documentary producers on how to create successful outreach around their film and video projects and currently has several national and regional PBS projects in development with KCTS and with independent producers in the Pacific Northwest.
www.klbcommunityconsulting.com

Desautel Hege Communications - Jim Desautel, Media Relations
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Jim graduated from Eastern Washington University with a Master of Science Degree in Communication. He also completed work at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism on a Ford Foundation Scholarship. Jim worked as an award-winning photographer and journalist at KREM television in Spokane, and KOMO and KING TV in Seattle before starting his own public relations agency. He also served in the USDA at the federal level for over a decade as Washington State Public Affairs Manager. Jim is accredited through the Public Relations Society of America.
www.desautelhege.com

Medicine Wheel Website Design, Web site and Guide, Development and Design
Jeff Hardy is the CEO of Medicine Wheel Website Design, Inc. which has been developing websites for businesses and community groups since 1995. Jeff holds a degree in Environmental Education from Huxley College and worked for many years in the forests and hills of Washington and British Columbia. His work includes projects for the Washington State Convention Center, Attachmate Corporation, Abide International and the Washington Forest Law Center. He now lives and works in the Methow Valley of North Central Washington.
www.medicinewheeldesign.com

Tribal photos courtesy of The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Reservation

Stills provided by: North Central Washington Museum, Wenatchee, Washington Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, Washington Chelan County Historical Society, Cashmere, Washington