Showing posts with label RES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RES. Show all posts
April 08, 2011
March 18, 2011
Pix of RES 2011
Pix of my trip to RES 2011 in Las Vegas via Temecula:
RES 2011--March 17, 2011
RES 2011--March 16, 2011
Home of the Sad Dog--March 15, 2011
For more on the subject, see Entertainment Panel at RES 2011 and Off to Res 2011.
RES 2011--March 17, 2011
RES 2011--March 16, 2011
Home of the Sad Dog--March 15, 2011
For more on the subject, see Entertainment Panel at RES 2011 and Off to Res 2011.
March 17, 2011
Hanging out at RES 2011
Not much to report on our last day at RES 2011 in Las Vegas. Manned the Pechanga.net booth for four hours. Got Indian Country Today to post my Frybread Queen article. (They hinted at big new media plans.) Met Facebook friend Karen Allen and heard her pitch for Convertem Mobile Marketing. Apache actor Ruben Chato stopped by and agreed with me and Sonny Skyhawk about Johnny Depp's playing Tonto. And that was about it before we headed home.
For more on the subject, see Entertainment Panel at RES 2011.
Below: The lunch buffet and the Cherokee Nation Businesses area.
For more on the subject, see Entertainment Panel at RES 2011.
Below: The lunch buffet and the Cherokee Nation Businesses area.
March 16, 2011
Entertainment panel at RES 2011
My pal Victor and I arrived in Las Vegas Tuesday around dinner time. We got some sleep and had a leisurely Wednesday morning--mainly because the RES 2011 trade floor didn't open until the odd hour of 5 pm.
In the afternoon we went over to the Las Vegas Hilton and set up the Pechanga.net booth. On the way out we saw something happening in a side room and went in to see what it was. It turned out to be RES 2011's "entertainment as a business" panel.
On the stage were Chris Eyre, Georgina Lightning, Michelle Shining Elk, Gyasi Ross, and Sonny Skyhawk--all of whom I've mentioned before. Moderating was the ubiquitous Litefoot. The panelists said the usual things: Hollywood doesn't want to tell Native stories, so Natives have to tell their own.
After a kerfluffle about whether Eyre was supposed to be there, we retired to the Hilton's Tempo bar (minus Gyasi Ross, plus Randy Bardwell, president of Native Threads). I had my first real conservation with Skyhawk, who said he reads Newspaper Rock and agrees with 99% of it. In particular, he agreed that Johnny Depp shouldn't play Tonto and claimed Depp isn't part Cherokee. He also recalled disparaging blog comments by Kiowa writer Russell Bates and praised me for being a neutral and fair-minded voice in Indian country.
Anyway, we schmoozed for an hour, then Victor headed back to our hotel while I manned the booth from 5 pm to 7 pm. Then I returned to the hotel, where Victor and I were summoned to a cocktail party in Skyhawk's hotel suite. The whole bar group was there along with music entrepreneur Ben-Alex Dupris and erstwhile Native Voice publisher Frank King.
I was surprised to hear that Dupris and Chris Eyre are regular Newspaper Rock readers also. Eyre praised me for tackling subjects that nobody in Indian country wants to touch. That's easy to do because I'm an outsider with nothing to lose. But their kind words were flattering--worth remembering the next time somebody slams me for not being an Indian.
Even more flattering was Dupris's guess that I'm around 40 years old. Nice try, dude, but you missed by at least a decade. In fact, I was the oldest person there except for Skyhawk and his wife. Respect your elders, Indians!
For more on the Native movie business, see:
Red Man Films heads to Italy
2010 Oscar nominations are lily-white
Any change since Dances with Wolves?
"Bottom line" argument is racist
Audiences more openminded than Hollywood
In the afternoon we went over to the Las Vegas Hilton and set up the Pechanga.net booth. On the way out we saw something happening in a side room and went in to see what it was. It turned out to be RES 2011's "entertainment as a business" panel.
On the stage were Chris Eyre, Georgina Lightning, Michelle Shining Elk, Gyasi Ross, and Sonny Skyhawk--all of whom I've mentioned before. Moderating was the ubiquitous Litefoot. The panelists said the usual things: Hollywood doesn't want to tell Native stories, so Natives have to tell their own.
After a kerfluffle about whether Eyre was supposed to be there, we retired to the Hilton's Tempo bar (minus Gyasi Ross, plus Randy Bardwell, president of Native Threads). I had my first real conservation with Skyhawk, who said he reads Newspaper Rock and agrees with 99% of it. In particular, he agreed that Johnny Depp shouldn't play Tonto and claimed Depp isn't part Cherokee. He also recalled disparaging blog comments by Kiowa writer Russell Bates and praised me for being a neutral and fair-minded voice in Indian country.
Anyway, we schmoozed for an hour, then Victor headed back to our hotel while I manned the booth from 5 pm to 7 pm. Then I returned to the hotel, where Victor and I were summoned to a cocktail party in Skyhawk's hotel suite. The whole bar group was there along with music entrepreneur Ben-Alex Dupris and erstwhile Native Voice publisher Frank King.
I was surprised to hear that Dupris and Chris Eyre are regular Newspaper Rock readers also. Eyre praised me for tackling subjects that nobody in Indian country wants to touch. That's easy to do because I'm an outsider with nothing to lose. But their kind words were flattering--worth remembering the next time somebody slams me for not being an Indian.
Even more flattering was Dupris's guess that I'm around 40 years old. Nice try, dude, but you missed by at least a decade. In fact, I was the oldest person there except for Skyhawk and his wife. Respect your elders, Indians!
For more on the Native movie business, see:
Red Man Films heads to Italy
2010 Oscar nominations are lily-white
Any change since Dances with Wolves?
"Bottom line" argument is racist
Audiences more openminded than Hollywood
March 15, 2011
Off to RES 2011
I'm off to Las Vegas for RES 2011, the leading business conference for Native Americans. I'll be manning the Pechanga.net booth, meeting people, and taking pictures, as usual. Stay tuned for my report.
25th Annual Reservation Economic Summit (RES 2011) & American Indian Business Trade FairRES is the premier American Indian economic and business development conference in the nation. Attendees include American Indian and Indigenous entrepreneurs, tribal economic and business development decision-makers, tribal leaders, government and corporate Executives and Buyers seeking Indian suppliers and contractors.
RES is structured as two days of business information and training delivered through sixteen 90-minute sessions that is geared specifically for native entrepreneurs, tribal enterprises, and organizations wishing to do business with American Indian Businesses. On day 3, the trade fair provides opportunities for American Indian suppliers to meet corporate and government buyers to market their organizations and companies, network, and negotiate potential contracts. Comment: For more on Native conferences, see Pix of NIGA 2010 and Pix of NIGA 2009.
25th Annual Reservation Economic Summit (RES 2011) & American Indian Business Trade Fair
RES is structured as two days of business information and training delivered through sixteen 90-minute sessions that is geared specifically for native entrepreneurs, tribal enterprises, and organizations wishing to do business with American Indian Businesses. On day 3, the trade fair provides opportunities for American Indian suppliers to meet corporate and government buyers to market their organizations and companies, network, and negotiate potential contracts.
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