I guess when I first began I was pretty pleased to find out that our little community here had such a council because in Seattle I was involved in the performing arts with the little dance group that I created through my job. We did a talent show there and a lot of Indian people in the community came out and participated. I knew that back at home we have several talented people that could do all kinds of different things that I wanted to help expose.

I did do some type of talent show in 1991 at Lewiston high school. It was a real fun night. People came out, they sang, they danced, and did all kinds of different little talents. We have so much talent here in this small little community and I just think it is so amazing. Some of the talents people have come from their culture. Their talents in their weaving, their drumming, their singing and their dancing all comes from our traditional culture. Some of the talents they have maybe kind of turned a little more contemporary but it is what they were born with.

To come back here and see that there was an arts council gave me the opportunity to work on different projects to help expose other people who are artists who have talents, to expose their talents to the community. What it did for me is it helped expose some of what I am working on, my talents, it helped me create myself better as an artist, as a writer, as an actor and so I have been able to do that with playwriting.