Project HOOP

Project HOOP (Honoring Our Origins and People through Native Theater, Education, and Community Development), as its name suggests, is a collaborative, multidisciplinary initiative to develop academic and artistic programs in the field of Native theater. The principal investigator is Professor Hanay Geiogamah. The purpose of Project HOOP is to establish Native theater as an integrated subject of study and creative development in tribal colleges, Native communities, and all other interested institutions, based on Native perspectives, traditions, views of spirituality, histories, cultures, languages, communities, and lands. Project HOOP's primary goals are to advance Native theater, one of the most neglected of tradition-based twentieth-century Native art forms, and develop the next generation of artists. The program, with generous start-up funds from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, was launched at the UCLA American Indian Studies Center in 1997, in collaboration with Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. The project is now funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). Project HOOP welcomes participation of other institutions, organizations, and community centers.

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