North Atlantic Books
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North Atlantic Books
The Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences was incorporated in 1980. At that time, its primary goals were to encourage and disseminate non-Western and new-paradigm arts and sciences. It also provided an organizational framework for two publishing enterprises:
Io, an interdisciplinary journal founded in 1964 by Richard Grossinger and Lindy Hough (while college students), and North Atlantic Books, a literary publishing company derived from Io in 1974.
In their early stages,
Io and North Atlantic Books were grant-based, with most of the funding coming from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Now, a more mature SSNAAS is pursuing outside funding anew to match its own revenues and to enable it to expand its services and contribution to local and global communities.