Company History
Frank & Jackalene Crow Hiendlmayr
Nativestyles
is the web page of Native American Styles, a company that evolved
from Celebrations of American Indians (CAI). CAI was founded in 1989
as a
Native American touring theater company whose purpose was to teach and share
with non-native people more positive images of Native Americans. The company
was founded by Frank Hiendlmayr and Jackalene Crow-Hiendlmayr.
Frank is the
Web Master and technical director/sound engineer of the company.
He is a graduate of Griswold Technical Institute with an Associate of Science
degree in Electronic Engineering. He is a Master Electrician and
a licensed
contractor in several Florida counties. He has spent the last ten years developing
a
public address system that is uniquely designed for the special sound of the
Native
American pow-wow drum. He also records, mixes, and produces all of the Legend
recordings of his wife Jackalene.
Jackalene
is of Cherokee/Creek descent and is enrolled in the Langley Band
of Cherokee in Alabama. For more than ten years she has shared
the ancient legends of the native people of the Americas in live
performances and in her collection of four
volumes of stories and music. She is a graduate of the University of South
Florida with degrees in Journalism and Public Administration.
She is a Florida Division of
Cultural Affairs Artist Resident and is a member of Atlatl and the Florida
Story Tellers
Guild. In 1991 , a Cherokee elder, honored her with the title of "Legend Keeper".
Since then she has worked with the touring theater company, Celebrations of American Indians, a not-for-profit, charitable organization founded in 1989 to help Native Americans share their unique cultures. The company has performed at theaters and schools, festivals and fairs, for audiences ranging in size from 50 to 5000 and in ages from infancy to elderly. She was also honored with invitations to perform at Native American gatherings throughout the United States and Canada where she was often gifted with legends from other tribes.
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Some
of their appearances include
Tunica
- Biloxi Casino Pow-wow Story Telling & Sound, 1997-98-99-2000-01-02-03-04-05
Story
Teller - Raconteuse, Honoring Indigenous People, Canadian National
Government,Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Odawa
Pow-Wow, Nepean Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Kitchiban
Algonquin Total Immersion School, Manewake, Quebec, Canada Guest
Lecturer - "Cherokee Trail of Tears"
Akwesasne
St. Regis-Mohawk Reserve, New York
Otsiningo
Pow-wow - Story Telling & Sound 1994 - 2000
Iroquois
Studies Association, Waterman Center, NY, Southern Tier Librarians
Workshop - "The Business of Native American Story Telling"
Southern
Tier Environmental Association Workshop, Chenango River State Park,
NY, "Reverence For Our Mother Earth"
University
of Southern Maine, 1996 & 1997 Masters in Rehabilitation Therapy
Workshop - "Telling Native American Legends"
Native
American Writers Conference, University of Oklahoma, Workshop -"FutureWrite"
Suncoast
Writers Conference, University of South Florida, Workshop - "FutureWrite"
Suncoast
Writers Conference, University of South Florida, Workshop - "Opportunities
in Ethnic Writing "
BAMA
Theater, Tuscaloosa, AL, Story Telling & Sound
Young
Audiences, New Orleans, LA (19 schools) Story Telling & Sound
Imagination
Celebration, Binghamton, NY
Authors
of "The Florida Bicycle Book" Publisher, Pineapple Press, Sarasota,
FL
Authors
of "ComputerEase" Publisher HLM, St. Petersburg, FL
Special
Feature Writer, St. Petersburg Times
Jones
County Junior College, Ellisville. Mississippi
U.S.
Army, Ft. McClellan, Anniston, AL, Honoring Native American week
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November 10, 2007