Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004
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Native
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Greenville
Daily Reflector - Greenville,NC,USA
... University or
Pitt Community College and the completion of a Native American
village at ... ECU Low Brass Choir at 7 pm Saturday at the Ayden
Arts and Recreation ...
DC
Museums
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
...
This tiny concern has been operating inside the department since 1938,
and it still offers a diverse selection of Native American
arts and crafts. ...
Art
openings
Cape Codder - Orleans,MA,USA
...
Annual Christmas and Native American Craft Show, Dec. ...
5. Higgins Art Gallery Tilden Arts Center, Cape Cod Community College,
Route 132, West Barnstable. ...
Shop
in DC without the hassles
Richmond
Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... The John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts. ... Smithsonian-related
products include books such as "Native American Photography
at the Smithsonian" ($40 ...
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Moderator
Can I please post this message.
Thank you..
Greetings every body.
My name is Gabriel Yaiva. I'm Dine'/Hopi from Arizona of the Arrow and Eagle clans. I am a hip hop artist and local activist for positive change and work alot with the youth in my area. I make hip hop music for everyone to enjoy. Much of the subject matter is of Indigenous Issues such as In My Blood, Lost Souls etc...
I want to invite you to download some free music, in particular our new radio single called "Down 4 A Struggle" The remix features Angel Deluna and you can hear it other songs on my soundclick page.
Click on the link below or copy and paste the link into your browser.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/9/yaivamusic.htm
Feel free to download it and burn it.
It'll be up until Wednesday, so act fast.
The song premierd on KUYI 88.1 FM Sunday November 14th during our on air live interview.
There are several other free downloads on our soundclick site, feel free to download those also if you ain't got them. There is also a new blazing track featuring Yaiva on a dancehall track by Shatta I called "Beg Dem Listen".
We also have a yahoo group at http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/4went/ You are all welcomed to join. Or you can visit our main website at www.4went.com
Thanks for you time.
You can listen to the complete albums at www.4natives.com Just look up Yaiva, plus there is also tons of other great native music on that site that can be downloaded.
Respect
Yaiva
(Yaiva is Hopi and means to rise gracefully)
e-mail - yaiva@4...
4th World Entertainment - It is prophecy....
Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand
Early tribal artifacts put in spotlight
Little-known items focus of exhibit in Chicago
CHICAGO - A translucent, larger-than-life hand with long, tapering fingers lends an air of mystery to a new exhibit of ancient and little-known tribal art at the Art Institute of Chicago.
"Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand" opened Nov. 20 and runs through Jan. 30, 2005. It is scheduled to be shown at The St. Louis Art Museum from March 4 to May 30, 2005, and at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History from early July to late September.
Indian band seeks to regain its birthright
By David Whitney
Members of the Winnemem band of Wintu Indians from left, Arron Sisk
and James Ward, both 17; Caleen Sisk-Franco, the tribe's spiritual
leader; and her daughter Waimen, 12 are downcast after discovering
that a memorial plaque for a local angler had been placed at the foot
of Children's Rock, one of their sacred sites.
Photo
Wintu Indians
At War Against Dam, Tribe Turns to Old Ways
Peter DaSilva for The New York Times
Warriors of the Winnemem Wintu Indians performing a ceremonial dance
in which the tribe had not engaged for more than a century.
Petition in Support of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe
Indigenous Peoples Literature: Book of the Month
Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth
by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Editorial Reviews
In this powerful and essential work, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn confronts the politics and policies of genocide that continue to destroy the land, livelihood, and culture of Native Americans. Anti-Indianism in Modern America tells the other side of stories of historical massacres and modern-day hate crimes, events that are dismissed or glossed over by historians, journalists, and courts alike. Cook-Lynn exposes the colonialism that works both overtly and covertly to silence and diminish Native Americans, supported by a rhetoric of reconciliation, assimilation, and multiculturalism. Comparing anti-Indianism to anti-Semitism, she sets the American history of broken treaties, stolen lands, mass murder, cultural dispossession, and Indian hating in an international context of ethnic cleansing, "ecocide" (environmental destruction), and colonial oppression.
Cook-Lynn also discusses the role Native American studies should take in reasserting tribal literatures, traditions, and politics and shows how the discipline has been sidelined by anthropology, sociology, postcolonial studies, and ethnic studies. Asserting the importance of a "native conscience"--a knowledge of the mythologies, mores, and experiences of tribal society--among American Indian writers, she calls for the __expression in American Indian art and literature of a tribal consciousness that acts to assure a tribal-nation people of its future.
Passionate, eloquent, and uncompromising, Anti-Indianism in Modern America concludes that there are no real solutions for Indians as long as they remain colonized peoples. Native Americans must be able to tell their own stories and, most important, regain their land, the source of religion, morality, rights, and nationhood. As long as public silence accompanies the outlaw maneuvers that undermine tribal autonomy, the racist strategies that affect all Americans will continue.
It is difficult, Cook-Lynn concedes, to work toward the development of legal mechanisms against hate crimes, in Indian Country and elsewhere in the world. But it is not too late.
Blessings
Brenda
Subject: HAIL Book Reviews
Honoring Alaska's Indigenous Literature
The following book reviews are being submitted to the HAIL website:
The book reviews are a result of students enrolling in special topics
course Ed 493 Examining Alaska Children's Literature taught by
Esther A. Ilutsik in the Spring of 2004.
The book reviews are written by the students and are a reflection of
their own analysis of the books and have not been altered in any
way. The reviewers have given permission to share the book reviews on
the HAIL website.
Navajo artist Teddy Draper Workshops
Workshop information for 2005
March 15-19, instructor Elmer Yazzie, "cut yucca brush" watercolor technique.
May 16-20, instructor Teddy Draper, Jr., pastel techniques, insights into art, culture, and connecting to nature.
June 7-11, Indian Jewelry Basics (class limited to 4 students).
June 7-11, instructor Teddy Draper, Jr., pastel techniques, insights into art, culture, and connecting to nature.
Web Sites: Literacy in Indigenous Communities by L. David van Broekhuizen, Ph.D. (2000) Essay on the Zuni World View
Cushing also cited an
incidence where he showed a pole that accompanies a theodolite to an old Zuni
man and asked him what he thought the name of it was. In response the old man inquired as to the
use
of the
item. After briefly describing the
implementation of the device the old man provided a rather lengthy
sentence-word that Cushing translated as “heights of the world progressively
measuring stick”. The next day Cushing
took the pole to the extreme corner of the pueblo and began “to flourish it
around” until a middle-aged man relented to curiosity and asked what it
was. Cushing then provided the Zuni
name he had learned the day before and the man promptly requested, “Can they
actually tell how far up and down journeying the world is?”
[105].
Notices:
URGENT: THOUSANDS OF WILD HORSES TO BE SLAUGHTERED!
Hello everyone! Please take a minute and forward to as widely as you
can.
We desperately need your help to get the word out about a Rider on an
Appropriations Bill that is sneaking its way thru Congress and a vote
is
expected on
Monday.
This Rider would give the Bureau of Land Management the authority to
begin
the slaughter of 23,000 wild horses on public lands throughout the
Western
states.
Any horse that is 10 years old and older will be sent immediately to
slaughter, and any horse that is younger than 10 who has been sent to
auction 3 times
and not been sold will be sent to slaughter. And the BLM would not
have
to do
any advertising to open up adoption of the horses.
We must get the word out about this -- wild horses are essential to
the
ecosystem of the West, along with the Buffalo, the prairie dog, and
the
endangered
blackfooted ferret.
They are also essential to the spiritual and cultural survival of the
Native
Peoples there.
Though the ostensible reason for the horses being slaughtered is
"overgrazing," no such mass slaughter of cattle is proposed.
This Administration is
well-known for its "embedding" with major corporations. The cattle
industry is a
powerful lobby and is likely behind this legislation, as it is behind
Montana
Department of Livestock's yearly slaughter of the last remaining herd
of
genetically pure wild Buffalo on public lands in Yellowstone National
Park.
(Interesting that the Senator who introduced this Rider is also from
Montana.)
Thank you for your work and for taking action,
Amanda Holmes
14,000 WILD HORSES TO BE SLAUGHTERED
PRESS RELEASE: Lantry, SD- Surreptitiously, over the Thanksgiving Day Holiday, a
rider
(#142)
introduced by Senator Mark Burns of Montana in the omnibus federal
Appropriation Bill literally guts the built in protections in the 1971
Wild
Horse and Burro Act and will allow for thousands of wild horses to be
shipped
to slaughter.
"Honor Your Spirit, Protect The Children" If you wish to make a difference and help children and elders through the harsh winter
months in Montana, please take the time to read our
request. On behalf of reliable Northern Cheyenne contacts from Lame Deer, we are once
again collecting donations for those in need on the Northern
Cheyenne reservation. Haidu Language Project
Achaanwaapush - Cree
I don't know how the other communities call it but here in Whapmagoostui, we
call this legend Achaanwaapush (Cannibal Rabbit). He was a cannibalistic
creature. He was a person with the features of a rabbit and he habitually
slaughtered people.
There was a family of Lynx people camped out on the land. One day, the Lynx
adults were getting ready to set off for a beaver hunt. As they left, they
said to their young Lynx children, "Achaanwaapush will reach our camp
today." The young Lynx were forewarned what would happen. The adult Lynx
said, "When Achaanwaapush enters our teepee, he'll want the place warm and
he'll want to be scratched and soothed. But make sure that you don't use
your claws so Achaanwaapush will become frustrated and will want to be
scratched more vigorously. After he tells you to scratch him more
forcefully, rip him open along his ribs." The Lynx men left with their wives
to hunt for beaver. Only the children were left at the camp.
During the day, the old Cannibal Rabbit reached the camp of the Lynx and
entered the teepee. As he opened the door flap and saw the young Lynx
children sitting around inside the teepee, he said, "Grandchildren, put some
wood in the fire and I'll warm up and you'll scratch my back." The Lynx
children agreed. They fed the fire and the place was nice and toasty.
Achaanwaapush got undressed and told the Lynx children to scratch his back.
The children began rubbing Achaanwaapush's back using only their paws. The
old Cannibal Rabbit stopped them and asked, "What's going on? How come
you're not scratching me? Let me check your claws. I told you to scratch my
back. Do it with more force." The Lynx children agreed.
The old Cannibal Rabbit laid down again. The young Lynx children put their
paws along his spine and stuck out their claws and pulled down along his
ribs. They ripped the Cannibal Rabbit's skin and teared him open. The Lynx
children killed Achaanwaapush. As they joyfully butchered him, they said,
"Our parents will eat the abdomen meat."
After hunting beaver, the Lynx adults said, "Let's go home. Achaanwaapush
must have reached our children." On their way back, they saw the Cannibal
Rabbit's trail leading to their camp. Just seeing his trail frightened them.
The Lynx men told their wives to walk far behind. The Lynx men snuck up to
their teepee as they got near. One Lynx man jumped in the entrance and the
other pounced for the smoke hole of their teepee to attack Achaanwaapush.
They believed that the Cannibal Rabbit had slaughtered their children but
the startled Lynx children said, "What are you doing? We've killed
Achaanwaapush." The Lynx men were glad and said, "It's a good thing you did
that." When the wives of the Lynx arrived, the rest of the camp was already
rejoicing and happily cooking a feast of the Cannibal Rabbit. This is the
legend that I heard.
Two Old Women reviewed by Jennie McLean
Winter Camp reviewed by Jennie McLean
Bird Gird reviewed by Jennie McLean
Frog Girl review by Margie Krasti
The Lamp. The Ice and The Boat Called Fish review by Martha Stackhouse
Caribou Girl review by Martha Stackhouse
Mama, Do You Love Me? Review by Martha Stackhouse
Storm Boy review by Margie Krasti
Anna's Athabascan Summer review by Cheryl Jerabek
The Way of Our People review by Cheryl Jerabek
Alice Meets Inupiat Girl review by Cheryl Jerabek
Goodbye, My Island review by Cheryl Jerabek
Winter Watch review by Cheryl Jerabek
Neeluk: An Eskimo Boy in the Days of the Whaling Ships review by Margie Krasti
Whale Snow review by Martha Stackhouse
Eye of the Needle review by Margie Krasti
Children of the Midnight Sun review by Vivian Martindale
Raven: A Trickster Tale from the People of the Pacific Northwest
review by Vivian Martindale
The Hungry Giant of the Tundra review by Margie Krasti
Julie of the Wolves review by Martha Stackhouse
The Education of Little Tree review by Vivian Martindale
The Year of Miss Agnes review by Jennie McLean
Toughboy and Sister review by Jennie McLean
The Button Blanket by Vivian Martindale
Alaska Native Knowledge Network
Please send your contributions for the ANKN Listserv to Alaska Native
Knowledge Network
CASTING CALL for NATIVE AMERICANS
For background extras and featured extras
CASTING CALL FOR TNT/DREAMWORKS
"INTO THE WEST"
STARRING MICHAEL SPEARS, GRAHAM GREENE, RUSSELL MEANS, IRENE BEDARD,
DAVE BALDEAGLE
a 3 movie series filming outside Santa Fe from Jan 10-Feb 20; and
elsewhere in NM from March-May this series follows 2 multi-
generational American and Native American families, IN THE LATE
1800's, with each telling the dramatic stories of the development of
the West from their distinct points of view.
CASTING IN ALBUQUERQUE
SUN DEC 5 10:30 am - 4:00 pm
SHERATON OLD TOWN
800 Rio Grande Blvd. NW Potters Room
CASTING IN SANTA FE
SAT DEC 11 10:30 am- 4:00 pm
RADISSON 750 N. St. Francis Dr.
WE NEED THE FOLLOWING:
MALE BAREBACK RIDERS - age 18-50
Female Horseback Riders - all ages
Male Horseback Riders - all ages
Men & Women - all ages
Families - ALL AGES infant to 80's
Men & Women Elders
(**LONG HAIR IS PREFERED for all)
NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY/ PHOTOS WELCOME
PLEASE LOOK FOR OUR ADS & RADIO FOR LATER CASTING
If anyone has questions, please call or email me directly at
tasinabanks@mindspring.com / 505-280-3989.
Please spread the word to your friends and families who might be
interested in being in a movie. We are seeking Anglos, Irish-
Americans, African-Americans and Chinese people as well.
Thank you.
--
Tashina Banks Moore
505-280-3989
tasinabanks@mindspring.com
Chinle, Arizona (Canyon DeChelly)-
Seminars and workshops have limited capacity and usually require enrollment months in advance.
dechelly2000@yahoo.com
Indigenous Peoples Literature
HTML Format (70K)
PDF Format(117K)
Excerpt (Complete article is available in PDF)
International Society for the
Protection of Mustangs and Burros
CONTACT: Karen A. Sussman 605-964-6866 or 605-365-6991
Winter & Christmas 2004 - Request for Donations
http://www.geocities.com/honoryourspirit/home.html
There is a large need especially for new and good quality used warm items, as well as
toys.
List of useful donations :
- warm clothing such as knitted items for children of all ages from babies to
teenagers, and for elders
- jeans and T-shirts, all sizes
- socks, gloves, boots, hats and scarves
- blankets
- toys for Christmas
Donations should be sent to the following address:
Honor Your Spirit - Protect the Children
% Sue Buck
PO Box 901
Great Falls, MT 59403-0901 (USA)
Please contact suemontana@mcn.net for mailing information other than regular
US Mail service. (Also please include your name and address if you would like for us to
acknowledge/confirm receipt of your donations.)
The toys will be distributed during the Christmas give away but the warm clothes and
blankets will be distributed right away. During Montana
winters, the temperature can drop to 30 or 40 degrees below zero so warm winter clothing
and blankets can be lifesaving.
Other items that would also be appreciated: grooming supplies like toothpaste, tooth
brushes,soaps and shampoos, combs, hair brushes, hair
barrettes, rubber bands or other types of hair or pony tail holders. Last but not least :
pampers diapers or pull-ups.
Thank you for being a part of this project and supporting it."
Respectfully,
Manuel Redwoman,
Northern Cheyenne/Lakota/Arapaho
Our heartfelt thanks to everyone for your support !
Currently, only seven Kasaan Haidas speak the Kasaan Haida dialect with
varying degrees of fluency--all elders over the age of 75. I know this because
my dad grew up in Kasaan, 25 miles from my birthplace of Ketchikan, Alaska.
We belong to the Haida tribe. This summer, I urged the Kasaan Haida
Heritage Foundation (KHHF) to allow me to utilize the foundation's nonprofit
status to seek funding and conduct projects that preserve our elders'
knowledge.
In September, we created the position of Media Specialist in which I intend
to raise money and interview our elders, especially in regards to the Haida
language. I will produce, direct, and coordinate a video documentary to raise
awareness and archive the language. I plan to make the results available in
digital formats on the KHHF website.
Donations received from now until December 31, 2004 will earn the donor
a Grassroots Founder designation. I ask for a relatively small gift of 25 to 100
dollars. Donor's names will appear in the KHHF newsletter and donations
will be eligible for a tax deduction for this year. Grassroots Founders get
special on-screen mention in the documentary.
Please send checks (payable to "KHHF") to:
Kasaan Haida Heritage Foundation
600 University Street, Suite 3010
Seattle, WA 98101-1129
Write in the memo area on your check or include a note designating funds for
"Media Specialist/Projects".
Sincerely,
Frederick Olsen, Jr.
For more information, email me or go to
http://kavilco.com/pages/
aboutkhhf.html
KHHF is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN 92-0169568).
Told by John Petagumskum-
Whapmagoostui
From Blue Panther Keeper of Stories.
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