Ms. Bettega is of Littlelake and Yuki descent. She started growing and painting gourds as part of the Job Alliance, a welfare to work program that creates marketable crafts. She traces designs on carbon paper, using artwork and symbology from various tribes, keeping one tribe's set of symbology separate from one another in each project, and paints them upon gourd bowls and cups. She was inspired to explore her own creativity by her mother, who is a quilter and embroiderer.

Mr. Freeman is a native of the Round Valley Reservation in California. His tribal affiliation is Wintun/Nomalacki. His formal artistic education includes two years of commercial art at Los Angeles Trade Technical College. Mr. Freeman worked for four years at South West Regional Laboratory, doing line art layouts, designs and paste-up for educational research materials. He also worked for four years in Sacramento at State Printing as a graphic design artist.

About his art, Mr. Freeman said, "I don't create, I only bring out what is already put there by nature. They are not reproductions of an object, but more the spirit within it. To follow the outlines of nature, rather than superimpose ones own design, creates a pleasing freedom."

All of his carvings are one of a kind.

"I am a Wylacki Indian, born and raised on the Round Valley Indian Reservation.

I attended the Reservation School until the 8th grade, then at that time all students were moved to town to attend the public school system.

I graduated in 1957, got married and started raising my family. I am a mother of three children, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

At the age of 12, I was injured in an accident. Due to the injury, my physical activities were limited. I started beading and making headbands for the Ukiah Unified School District Spirit Team. After that project, I continued beading and making new types of crafts. I enjoy beading, making belts, earrings, bracelets, key chains, necklaces and barrettes. Most of all, I enjoy making buckskin dresses for my family."

"My name is Jan (Davis) Scribner. I am of Wylacki descent. I was born in Willits, California and have lived in Round Valley all of my life. I attended first and second grade at the Reservation school, and was moved to the elementary school in town for third grade. I graduated from high school in 1968. I have two children (a son and a daughter), one grandchild, and another on the way in December, 2002. My husband and I have been together for 30 years, but actually married for 12. Although sometimes I wish I had had the opportunity to further my education, to this day I would not change anything. I started to work for the Round Valley Indian Health Center December 21, 1971. I just celebrated 30 years of employment, from the first Medical Receptionist to the Contract Health Service Officer and Deputy Director.

I have always appreciated and admired the beautiful beadwork of others, and wished that I had the talent and patience to do such beautiful work, too. I tried one day, and guess what?! Although I have been asked many times to show my beadwork and sell it, it was never my intent. Beading is relaxing for me. I can bead for hours; at other times I don't bead for months. I hope that my children will learn from me. I have learned from many and I thank them for passing down their knowledge to me."

Miss Cambria Whipple is of Wylacki and Nomalacki descent. She started making baskets at age nine, inspired by her grandmother. She completes the whole process of making each basket, from identifying and collecting the willow and other materials, to stripping the bark, soaking the willow and otherwise preparing the materials for basket weaving, to the basket weaving and decorating the finished basket. She makes baskets, rattles, medallions and barrettes. Of the baskets, there are burden baskets, and baby baskets which may be carried on one's back with a strap across one's forehead. Miss Whipple uses dyes made from a combination of coffee, black walnuts, rusty nails, and fireplace ashes. These dyes can be dark blue or brown. Designs used on baskets include points and zigzags, and many have symbolic meanings such as four points representing a family with four children. She meets with other Native American basket makers from surrounding areas such as Ukiah, Potter Valley, Red Bluff, and upper Lake County at festivals and yearly crafts programs. Many basket weavers have traditional songs that accompany the basket weaving process.

"I am a Nomalacki, Wylacki Indian born and raised on the Round Valley Indian Reservation here in Covelo, California.

In 1974, I started to work for the Tribal Cultural Project. Elsie Allan from Ukiah was hired to teach Pomo Baskets to us. We learned where to gather materials, how to clean, strip, and wrap to dry the Creek Dog, White Willow, and Sage root for coil baskets. We also learned how to work with Red Bud and Grey Willow.

My interest in making baskets never was far from my heart. In 1978, our home burned up and so did all of my baskets I had made. Through the years I had always gathered basket material. I also had started several, never finishing any, until one day I decided if anything happened to me, no one here on the reservation would know anything about making baskets. So, I started to gather materials in abundance and took a class in Redwood Valley. After one class I decided to share my basket skills with the Scotts Valley Pomo Band, the Redwood Valley Rancheria and my own reservation."

Ms. Wright is of Wylacki, Nomalacki and Concow descent. She started beading about 35 years ago, when her kids started school and needed regalia for their Native American dance group. She is self-taught, though she draws information from books and her peers. She uses graph paper to form a pattern for her loom beading, drawing from patterns in books and used by others, and changed to fit her style.