"Dovie Thomason-Sickles is a Lakota/Kiowa Apache storyteller and cultural educator. She has been guest artist at the North American Native Writers Conference at the University of Oklahoma and took part in a project sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Utah Arts Council to develop Native American cultural education. Dovie has been a trainer and lecturer at Yale University and the American Museum of Natural History. She has also been named Master Teaching Artist of a traditional cultural art by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts." --Yellow Moon Press "For more than fifteen years, Dovie has shared the time-honored traditions and stories of the Native Americans she represents. The Kiowa Apache and Lakota tales she heard as a young child were 'lessons intended to teach proper behavior without punishment or confrontation,' as the characters faced the same choices in their lives as she did in her own. Passing on these 'blueprints' for establishing values and making choices comes naturally for Dovie as she gently dispels false images of the First Nations People of North America and replaces them with traditional stories to which all cultures can relate." — Timpanogos Storytelling Festival "The Call of Story" is a production of KBYU Television in association with Osric Productions, funding was provided by the Ashton Family Foundation.  To learn more about telling your story visit www.callofstory.org. (The preceeding biographical information was taken from the "Call of Story" website.)