Lois Yellowthunder - Author, Anthropologist, and Policy Maker

Lois Yellowthunder (B.A. UCLA, M.A. University of Chicago, Ph.D. University of Minnesota) has worked in many settings, academic and non-academic.  For ten years Lois worked in museums as assistant to the Curator of Anthropology (Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History), helping to establish a Department of Interpretation at the Museum of Man in San Diego, coordinating the first city-wide Native American Festival at the Field Museum in Chicago, and working for the Education Department at the Science Museum of Minnesota designing museum tours and coordinating the museum volunteers.  During this time Lois taught Introduction to Anthropology at San Diego Mesa College and  University of Chicago Extension.  Lois worked for three years at the University of Minnesota in the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Programming as Research Coordinator and Grants Manager.  She taught two graduate seminars in the Anthropology Department at the University of Minnesota on Community Studies and Alcohol and Drug Research.  Lois transitioned to government employment working as Principal Planner for Washington and Hennepin Counties for Human Services and Public Health.  She worked for Anoka, Dakota, and Ramsey Counties on county government restructuring.  Later she served as the assistant to Ramsey County Commissioner Ruby Hunt.  Currently she is working on a book on local government decision-making.

Reuse of two audio excerpts from a news report titled "Bosnian Town, Residents Examined Up Close" by Sylvia Poggioli, as originally broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered on August 14, 1992, made possible by a generous consent agreement with National Public Radio (NPR).

Music generously donated by bensound.com

Additional original music composed by Mark Martinez