Friday, Oct. 22, 2004

Native American high school students sought for exhibit ...
Ashland Daily Press - Ashland,WI,USA
... showcases outstanding artwork created by Native American 9th- through ... The American Indian Art Scholarship Exhibit runs ... Holden Fine and Applied Arts Center at UW ...

Museum plans 'Totems to Turquoise' exhibit
Big News Network.com - Australia
Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest is scheduled to run from Oct. 30 through July 10. ...
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Out & About
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
... A NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE CONCERT presents "The Story of the Redtail Hawk" featuring Mac Lopez ... doors open 6 pm, Poway Center for the Performing Arts, 1598 Espola ...

AMERICAN MOSAIC
Voice of America - Washington,DC,USA
... Sedona is also famous for its growing arts community and Native American history. Hundreds of years ago, Native American Indians considered the Red Rocks holy. ...

Events calendar
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
... Also: nature trails, miniature golf, Wildlife and Native American Exhibit. ... event offers activities with a Far East theme including martial arts, Chinese folk ...

Get Out Guide
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,United States
... indoor exhibit areas that include "By Hand Through Memory," a permanent exhibit of Native American artistry by Doris Swayze Bounds; visual-arts displays; and ...

Tribal activist criticizes mascots
Daily Lobo (subscription) - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa ... Pueblo shares Teters' sentiments on American-Indian stereotypes ... more of a stereotype for Native Americans the ...

What's Going On Calendar
San Francisco Bay View - San Francisco,CA,USA
... educate and support Black/New Afrikan, Xicano/Latino and Native American youth in ... Buriel Clay Theater, African American Arts & Culture Complex, 762 Fulton at ...

EcoVoce Celebrates Birdsong
Mount Vernon Gazette - VA,USA
24, EcoVoce, an Alexandria-based performing arts organization, will bring to ... music for soprano, piano, flute, viola, and native American flute," Freeland said ...

Art Openings, Events and Museums
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,United States
... Alberta Arts Pavilion: 2315 NE Alberta St. ... permanent exhibitions including work by Loie Fuller, Sam Hill and Auguste Rodin, and Native American tribal artifacts ...
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Native American high school students sought for exhibit, scholarship
The Ashland Daily Press Fri, 22 Oct 2004 7:54 AM PDT
SUPERIOR — The Center for First Nations Studies and the Office of Multicultural Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Superior are seeking American Indian high school students to exhibit their artwork at UW-Superior's 6th annual American Indian Art Scholarship Exhibit.
Curtis Grippe
The Arizona Republic Fri, 22 Oct 2004 6:59 AM PDT
Litchfield Park hosts its 34th annual Festival of the Arts on Nov. 6 and 7. The festival features the work of more than 250 award-winning Native American and Southwestern artists and craftsmen.

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Subject: Movement to protect a sacred Native American site Greetings from Wahkon, Minnesota USA. I am spearheading an international movement to protect a sacred Native American site. This sacred site is a river in Minnesota, the Rum River. This river is considered sacred to the Mdewahkonton Dakota Indians. But white men in the late 1700s desecrated this scared river by taking its ancient and sacred Mdewakanton Dakota name Wakan, translated Sacred or Spirit, and then, by way of a "punning translation", mis-translated the sacred Mdewakanton Dakota name (Wakan) to mean an alcohol spirit, the alcohol spirit rum. They then, unfortunately, named this river Rum. By doing so, both the Mdewakanton Dakota name for their sacred river as well as the river itself were desecrated. And because the Dakota word wakan is derived from the Dakota name for their Great Spirit (Wakan-Tonka) , the Rum River name indirectly desecrates the Dakota name for the Great Spirit. And what makes the white men's naming this river Rum even worse is the fact that...at the time when this river was named Rum, Rum was "bringing misery and ruin to many of the Indians". According to the book Minnesota Geographic Names, written by Upham and published by the Minnesota Historical Society, the Rum River received its current name by way of a "punning translation" that "perverted the ancient Sioux name Wakan." Therefore, because the white man's name for this river desecrates this sacred Mdewakanton Dakota site (or sacred body of water) I established a movement to revert this river's profane name back to its sacred Mdewakanton Dakota name Wakan. And did so in order to both show due respect for the Mdewakanton Dakota Indians as well as to deliver their sacred river from its current sacrilegious name. And this movement of mine quickly developed into an international movement. More information about the Rum River name-change movement can be found at: http://www.towahkon.org. A number of American Indian organization's have an article about this issue published on their web pages. This article can be found at: http://www.nativenationsnet.net/ It's titled River Name Change Movement. I would be grateful if IPL would both publish my River Name Change Movement article as well as include my web site on your list of sites you support. Thank you for your time. Thomas Dahlheimer Director of Rum River Name Change Organization, Inc. Mailing address: P.O. Box 24 - Wahkon, Minnesota 56386 E-mail: Wahkon@scicable.com Web site: http://www.towahkon.org Phone number: 320-495-3874

Hensci (hello),
I am sending this e-mail on behalf of the Hvsosv Tallvhassee Ceremonial Grounds in Atmore, AL. we are part of the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation but separate from them at the same time.
Hvsosv Tallvhassee Ceremonial Grounds is the traditional stomp dance grounds at the reservation. We pay for the upkeep of the ceremonial grounds by traveling around the country performing stomp dance (traditional dance and traditions) demonstrations.
We are looking for web sites whom might pass our contact information out to the public for those people, events, school, etc. who are looking for traditional Muskogee creek people to perform at their native events.
All monies made by our performances are used for the upkeep of the Ceremonial grounds. The ceremonial ground does not receive monies from the tribe to keep the grounds. For further information you may contact me at (251)862-5316 or at shellshaker@frontiernet.net
Sincerely,
Mrs. Angela Frye
Historian, Hvsosv Tallvhassee Ceremonial Grounds

Cherokee Story of Creation
At first there was darkness and cold, vast and endless, stretching out in all directions. Beneath the great stone arch of the sky there was a dizzying drop. One by one tiny creatures began to awake and one by one they realized that they were cold, thirsty and very crowded. The first creature to awake said, "I smell water, I am a water beetle," and with that it jumped from the great stone arch of the sky. Much later there was a splash. The next creature to awake, said, "I can spin silk, I am a spider." And so it went as each creature awoke and realized what he or she was. Not long after, a voice was heard from far beneath the great stone arch of the sky. It was the water beetle, who said, "Underneath the water there is something soft, yet strong enough to hold us, with room enough for everyone." "Throw down some rope, so that we might fetch it," another creature on the great stone arch of the sky said, so the spider began to make some very strong ropes. The ropes were thrown down and the water beetle took them and swam beneath the waters. She then fastened them to the four corners of the great slab of mud that rested beneath the waters. When she surfaced, she told the other creatures who had remained on the great stone arch of the sky what she had done. They began to pull and haul at the ropes until the great slab of mud rose from beneath the waters. When they had finished, all the creatures began to scramble down the ropes to get to this new place which had room for everyone. When they reached the bottom, they drank their fill. Some creatures, realizing that they were fish, swam away, others flew away, and still others, realizing that they were frogs sank happily into the mud. There the land hung and there it hangs to this very day, until the day that will come when the ropes will break and the land will sink once more beneath the waters. From Blue Panther Keeper of Stories.