Background
Luna was born in Orange, California in 1950 and grew up in Orange County.
Luna was born in Orange, California in 1950 and grew up in Orange County.
He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of California, Irvine and a Master of Science degree in counseling at San Diego State University.
He moved to the Louisiana Jolla Indian Reservation in 1975 and lives there today. Luna has taught art at the University of California, San Diego. Currently, he is a full-time academic counselor at Palomar College in San Marcos, California.
I truly live in two worlds.
This "two world" concept once posed too much ambiguity for me, as I felt torn as to whom I was. In maturity I have come to find it the source of my power, as I can easily move between these two places and not feel that I have to be one or the other, that I am an Indian in this modern society.
Of the performance "Take a Picture With a Real Indian": Standing at a podium wearing an outfit, I announce: “Take a picture with a real Indian. Take a picture here, in Washington, District of Columbia on this beautiful Monday morning, on this holiday called Columbus Day.
America loves to say ‘her Indians.’ America loves to see us dance for them.
America likes our arts and crafts. America likes to name cars and trucks after our tribes. Take a picture with a real Indian.
Take a picture here today, on this sunny day here in Washington, District of Columbia” And then I just stand there.
Eventually, one person will pose with medical After that they just start lining up.
I’ll do that for a while until I get mad enough or humiliated enough.
Quotations:
I truly live in two worlds. This "two world" concept once posed too much ambiguity for me, as I felt torn as to whom I was. In maturity I have come to find it the source of my power, as I can easily move between these two places and not feel that I have to be one or the other, that I am an Indian in this modern society.
Of the performance "Take a Picture With a Real Indian":
Standing at a podium wearing an outfit, I announce: “Take a picture with a real Indian.
Take a picture here, in Washington, District of Columbia on this beautiful Monday morning, on this holiday called Columbus Day.
America loves to say ‘her Indians.’ America loves to see us dance for them. America likes our arts and crafts.
America likes to name cars and trucks after our tribes. Take a picture with a real Indian.
Take a picture here today, on this sunny day here in Washington, District of Columbia” And then I just stand there.
Eventually, one person will pose with medical After that they just start lining up. I’ll do that for a while until I get mad enough or humiliated enough.