Publications
Native American Voices: Chickasaw Scholar is Editor and WriterNative American Voices: A Reader, 3rd Edition, published by Pearson-Prentice Hall, is now available through the publisher and on Amazon. Traci L Morris, a Chickasaw scholar and educator, is one of three editors on this edition, including Susan Lobo and Steve Talbot. Morris is also an author of numerous entries in the reader. If you would like more information, please contact Traci L. Morris. The book can be ordered from Pearson-Prentice Hall and Amazon. Please contact the publisher for desk copies.
New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
In Native America, broadband penetration on Indian lands is estimated at less than ten percent. Native Americans live in communities where broadband often is unavailable or unaffordable. Compounding this situation is a lack of data on Native broadband adoption, availability and connectivity. Written by Traci L. Morris (for Native Public Media ) and Sascha D. Meinrath (New America Foundation ), this study wasthe first step in bringing national awareness to the deplorable state of broadband in Native American communities. It is cited in the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan.
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Traci L. Morris, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, has a PhD in American Indian Studies and is the owner of Homahota Consulting. Her background includes National and State level policy analysis; specializing in telecom and communications policy. Morris has worked with tribal communities in Arizona and was part of the Napolitano Administration in the Arizona Governor’s Office at the Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs. Additionally, she has done community outreach, resource development, planning, training and technical assistance, coalition building,grant writing, grant management, database management, analysis and interpretation of data, and report writing.
An expert in new media and telecommunications issues in Indian Country. Currently, Morris is serving a 2-year appointment to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC), representing Tribal interests. Additionally, she represents Native perspectives as a board member of the Media and Democracy Coalition in Washington DC. Morris’s background includes National and State level policy analysis. Dr. Morris has an Affiliated Faculty Appointment with the Donald McGannon Center for Communication Studies at Fordham University in New York and has 10 years of undergraduate teaching experience at various colleges and Universities, including the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and East Central Oklahoma UniversityShe has 10 years of undergraduate teaching experience at various colleges and Universities, including the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and East Central Oklahoma University. Morris is a co‐editor along with Susan Lobo and Steve Talbot on the popular college textbook Native American Voices: A Reader , which was released in October of 2009. Also in 2009, she co-authored the critically received New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country study along with Sascha Meinrath of the New America Foundation for Native Public Media. Morris is also a media blogger for for Native Public Media, NABI Foundation and the National Alliance for Media Art and Culture (NAMAC). Currently, Dr. Morris serves as the Director of Operations for Native Public Media. For the NABI Foundation, Homahota Consulting provides social media marketing services. Some of our past clients include the American Indian Policy Institute at Arizona State University and the Arizona Native Assets Coalition.Traci’s professional work experience in is not limited to education and community services, as she has also worked in the arts, in several museums and galleries, including internships at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian at the George Gustav Heye Center in lower Manhattan and the Arizona State Museum. She worked for Tucson’s oldest Native American Art Gallery, Bahti Indian Arts, as manager and buyer at Bahti Indian Arts. Publications, Presentations, and and Public Appearances PUBLICATIONS
2011 Bigger, Better, Faster: Broadband and Tribal Libraries (and Museums), Association of Tribal Archives, Museums, and Libraries, Honolulu, HI. 2011 Truth to Power: Tribal Sovereignty is Nation Building in Action, National Rural Assembly, Minneapolis, MN.
2011 Host, Moderator, Presenter on New Horizons Community Engagement Study, Native Media Summit, San Francisco, CA. 2011 Policy Perspectives Concerning Radio, NFCB Community Radio Conference, San Francisco, CA. 2011 Dynamic Women Conference, Chickasaw Nation, Ada, OK. 2010 Tribal Perspectives on Telecom. Facing Race 2010, Center For Media Justice, Chicago, IL. 2010 Knowledge Exchange on Universal Service Reform and Broadband: Tribal Perspectives on Telecom. Consumers Union and the Center for Media Justice; Washington DC. 2010 (Featured Speaker) New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country, National Congress of American Indians Tribal Leader Scholar Forum, Rapid City, SD
2010 (Featured Speaker) New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country,Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ 2010 Dynamic Women Conference, Chickasaw Nation, Ada, OK.
2010 (Featured Speaker) New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country, American Indian Studies Association Annual Meeting, Tempe, AZ 2010 (Featured Speaker) Intellectual Property Rights and New Media,National Alliance for Media, Art and Culture Annual Conference, Boston, MA 2009 (Featured Speaker) New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country, New America Foundation ,Washington D.C 2009 (Featured Speaker) Native American Journalists Association, Albuquerque, NM 2009 Dynamic Women Conference, Chickasaw Nation, Ada, OK.
2009 (Invited Lecturer) American Indians “101” Phoenix Social Security Office Training, Phoenix, AZ 2008 (Invited Lecturer) Social Practice in Art: The Work of Cherokee Artist Kade Twist, East Central Oklahoma University, Ada, Oklahoma 2008 (Invited Lecturer) Art as Social Practice, Meredith Humanities Conference, Chickasha, Oklahoma 2008 (Invited Lecturer) Postindian Social Practice in Art, Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, AZ 2007 (Featured Speaker) History of Cultural Oppression and Violence Against Indigenous Women, Amnesty International, State of Arizona Meeting on the Status of Indigenous Women 2007 (Invited Lecturer) Urban Indian Centers: Native American Connections, ASU, Dept. of American Indian Studies: Urban Indians Class, Tempe, AZ 2007 (Invited Lecturer) Native American Stereotypes, Phoenix Child Protective Services, Phoenix, AZ 2007 (Invited Lecturer) Native American Stereotypes, Phoenix Shanti, Phoenix, AZ 2007 (Invited Lecturer) Native American Issues, Phoenix Indian Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ 2007 (Invited Presenter) “Trickster in Contemporary American Indian Art and Thought: The Indigenous Cultural Language of Bob Haozous” Arizona State University: 8th Annual American Indian Studies Conference 2005 (Session Chair and presenter) “Trickster as Social Practice in Native Art” Native American Art Studies Association, Scottsdale, AZ 2005 (Invited speaker/presenter) “Indian Art As Dialogue: The Tricky Transgressions of Bob Haozous” Southwest/ Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM  Our LogoOur logo and the cover of the Native American Voices book were both created by Hopi-Cherokee Artist Gerald Dawavendewa. This design was especially created to reflect Chickasaw design history. His work can be found at Fourth World Design. |
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Homahota Consulting is a woman and Native Owned and operated business!
Dr. Traci L. Morris, founder of Homahota Consulting is a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma.