https://firstliterature.org/mission-and-engagement daily 0.75 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8a67eee9c26400534d82d/1628699536027-A3YU34FMJ0I199Z9Q186/Orient+Burial.jpg Mission and Engagement - The First Literature Project aims to support the preservation and MAINTENANCE of Indigenous Story + to engage and educate the wider public in these traditions through partnership with tribal establishments, governments, art institutions and educational centers that facilitate immersive experiences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8a67eee9c26400534d82d/1628793709102-NVQJYEI33MPZ9QINTTLW/Chee+Chee.png Mission and Engagement https://firstliterature.org/team daily 0.75 2025-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8a67eee9c26400534d82d/4fff1f77-c735-4cdd-a555-e6bb263dc7ce/Christian+Scheider+-+Elisebeth+Walker+Portrait.jpg Team - Christian Scheider Christian Scheider is an independent filmmaker and theatermaker living between NYC and the East End of Long Island. In addition to his original film and theater work, Scheider heads video production for The Sunny Center in Ireland, the world’s only post-exoneration residential community, and produces films for the Bard Prison Initiative, his alma mater. As a theatermaker, Scheider co-adapted, produced, and directed Ray Bradbury’s short story The Murderer and Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Galápagos into fully staged productions, and premiered with his collaborators an original slapstick comedy The Summit. For film, Scheider has produced and directed the documentary ‘Sunny’ about two married death row exonerees, and co-produced and directed the documentary ‘The Tree Prophet’ about a self-identified climate prophet, which won the Audience Award at the San Francisco Independent Film Festival. Scheider is in perpetual pre-production on the quixotic feature comedy film Animal Party about human-animal rituals all over the world, the original screenplay for which was honored by the Redford Center as part of their 2016 grants program. Scheider is currently writing and producing a limited series ‘Pullman’ about the eponymous railroad baron and the epochal national labor uprising of 1894. More at christianscheider.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60f8a67eee9c26400534d82d/1628706712263-4276N920YTYU0YGBGMSJ/Wunetu+Tarrant+Headshot.jpeg Team - Wunetu Wequai Tarrant Wunetu Wequai Tarrant is a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, located on the East End of Long Island, NY. She grew up with her family on the Shinnecock reservation peninsula. Wunetu has been inspired by her grandmother and matriarch of the ThunderBird clan, Elizabeth ‘Chee Chee’ ThunderBird Haile, to promote cultural preservation and education. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Alfred University in 2011, attended the NAMA, Masters of Native American Linguistics and Languages 2018-2019, and is currently a Linguistics Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona focusing on the reconstruction and revitalization of the Shinnecock dialect of Southern New England Algonquian. Wunetu has worked closely with the Algonquian Language Revitalization Project on designing curriculum and activities for teaching Shinnecock and related dialects and continues to research best practices in language research and production of materials that will be accessible to community members and teachers regardless of linguistic education experience. She has continued to advocate for Indigenous students as the Julia & Bernard Bloch fellow (2019-2022) and special interest groups through the Linguistic Society of America. Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. 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