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Published: March 1999.

M. Sam Cronk

Michael Sam Cronk is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology (scheduled defense Winter 1999) at the University of Michigan where he is a Lecturer and Project Manager for CHICO. He received his Master degree in Museum Studies and Communication from the University of Toronto. He worked as a curator for several years in Canadian museums and as special exhibit curator at the Woodland Cultural Center (Six Nations, Ont.).

He has done intensive research with ethnology collections (specifically Native North American/First Nations material culture from the Northeast) in museums throughout North American. He is currently engaged in collaborative digital iniatives to develop community-oriented online resources with K-12 educators and others. He wrote and edited several works including SOUND OF THE DRUM (interviews with Native musicians) for the Woodland Cultural Center, Brantford: 1991; Visions of Sound (co-written with Beverley Diamond and Franziska von Rosen, U Chicago Press: 1994), and video productions including SHARED VISION, with powwow dancers at the Champion of Champions powwow, 1992.

M. Sam presented On Repatriation and Representations of First Nations Cultures in a Digital Environment.