Fifty Years in America

Born in Rabat, Morocco, Helene E. Haganreceived her earlier education in Moroccoand at Bordeaux University, France, whereshe received a Masters Degree in British andAmerican Studies. She also holds two MastersDegrees from Stanford University, California,one in French and Education, and the otherin Cultural and Psychological Anthropology. After conducting fi eldwork among the Oglala Lakota people of PineRidge Indian Reservation, she worked as Associate Professor at the JFKUniversity Graduate School of Psychology in Orinda, California, andowned an American Indian art gallery in Marin County. She has servedas President of the non-profi t educational organization, Tazzla Institutefor Cultural Diversity, since 1993. She has written numerous newspaperand magazine articles, three anthropological books on Berber (Amazigh)culture and fi lmed, edited and produced over fi fty community servicetelevision programs on a variety of topics related to American Indian andBerber culture, arts, and human right issues, through AmazighVideo Productions. Helene Hagan is a lifetime Associate Curator of the Paul Radin Collectionat Marquette University Special Archives. In 2007, Helene was a guest Professorfor the First Berber Institute held at the University of Oregon, Corvallis. In2008, she created the Los Angeles Amazigh Film Festival. Other books by this author published by Xlibris:The Shining Ones: Etymological Essay on the Amazigh Roots ofAncient Egyptian Civilization (2000)Tuareg Jewelry: Traditional Patterns and Symbols (2006)Tazzunt: Ecology, Ritual and Social Order in the Tessawt Valley of theHigh Atlas of Morocco (2011)