John Barbry (far left), director of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe’s Language & Culture Revitalization Program, leads his team in final selection of photographs for the soon-to-be-published update of The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe: It’s Culture & People. Working on the project are (from left) LCRP Lifeways instructors Donna Pierite and Elisabeth Pierite Mora and project editor Brian Klopotek, an associate professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. 

   The project will update the 1987 book and is expected to be published and available to the general public in November -- a somewhat belated observance of the tribe’s 35th anniversary of federal recognition, which was granted on Sept. 25, 1981. {Photo by Raymond L. Daye}