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Valerie Red-Horse (Cherokee and Sioux) is an award-winning filmmaker, entrepreneur and investment banker. In her new documentary film Choctaw Code Talkers, Red-Horse reveals the origins of how Choctaw Native American soldiers used their Native language to aid the Allied Forces in the transmission of secret, tactical messages during World War I.  In this month's Producer Profile, Red-Horse talks about the film and her various careers.

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Bill Miller is a member of the Mohican tribe and he grew up in Wisconsin on the Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation. Miller started playing guitar as a young boy but didn't see it as a way to become famous. He actually had dreams of becoming a visual artist. He studied art in college and played locally in Milwaukee. Since then, Bill has won prestigious awards from the Native American Music Association and three Grammy Awards.
 
AIROS' Tobias Grant recently spoke with Bill Miller about his music, as well as performing a symphonic piece about the Battle of Little Big Horn and an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live from the red carpet at the Grammy Awards.

Chase Monchamp a.k.a. Chase Manhattan (Muscogee Creek/Oglala Sioux/Anishinabe Leech Lake) is an up-and-coming star on the Native Hip Hop/Rap music scene.

Chase attended the Institute of American Indian Art and attributes his flavor and style to his American Indian influences and the Great Leech Lake Nation--of which he is a proud member. For more information about Chase, booking or to buy CD's visit myspace.com/59chasemanhattan

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Sterlin Harjo (Seminole/Creek) is the director of the award-winning film Barking Water.  The film is about Frankie (played by Richard Ray Whitman) and Irene (played by Casey Camp-Horinek), “an older couple who’s relationship has been on-and-off again for the past 40 years or so,” explains Harjo, and she comes back to him one last time to take him home to see his family after she is made aware of his terminal illness, after he becomes hospitalized. A road film, Barking Water follows the couple as they drive through Oklahoma visiting family and friends, all the while looking back on their tumultuous relationship together.

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