Fifty Years in America

Born in Rabat, Morocco, Helene E. Hagan

received her earlier education in Morocco

and at Bordeaux University, France, where

she received a Masters Degree in British and

American Studies. She also holds two Masters

Degrees from Stanford University, California,

one in French and Education, and the other

in Cultural and Psychological Anthropology.

After conducting fi eldwork among the Oglala Lakota people of Pine

Ridge Indian Reservation, she worked as Associate Professor at the JFK

University Graduate School of Psychology in Orinda, California, and

owned an American Indian art gallery in Marin County. She has served

as President of the non-profi t educational organization, Tazzla Institute

for Cultural Diversity, since 1993. She has written numerous newspaper

and magazine articles, three anthropological books on Berber (Amazigh)

culture and fi lmed, edited and produced over fi fty community service

television programs on a variety of topics related to American Indian and

Berber culture, arts, and human right issues, through Amazigh

Video Productions.

Helene Hagan is a lifetime Associate Curator of the Paul Radin Collection

at Marquette University Special Archives. In 2007, Helene was a guest Professor

for the First Berber Institute held at the University of Oregon, Corvallis. In

2008, 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 of

Ancient Egyptian Civilization (2000)

Tuareg Jewelry: Traditional Patterns and Symbols (2006)

Tazzunt: Ecology, Ritual and Social Order in the Tessawt Valley of the

High Atlas of Morocco (2011)