Thurs., Dec. 30, 2004

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Art is in residence at unique B & Bs
Cambridge Chronicle - Somerville,MA,USA
... wealthy trader, Bent was killed in the Taos Native American and Hispanic ... 1947 began acquiring a magnificent collection of American Indian arts and crafts ...

Arlington High School guidance notes
Arlington Advocate - Lexington,MA,USA
... Scholarship categories in which to compete (arts, environmental responsibility ... American, Asian American, Hispanic American and Native American backgrounds. ...

Weekly Exhibitions
TheDay - New London,CT,USA
... Gallery, Pequot Museum, Mashantucket; 18 Native American artists fuse ... prints and photographs by American artists, runs ... Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, 84 Lyme St ...

Leisure Time Suggestions
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
... Impressive exhibits include Native American artifacts, the Monarch ... reptiles, geology and a native plant garden. ... Arts and crafts, puppet theater and special ...

Weekly Entertainment Planner for December 30, 2004
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth,MN,USA
... Native American Basket Weaving, a class for kids, 9 am ... "DANCE FOR A CURE," presented by American National Ballet ... Louis County Heritage and Arts Center, 506 W ...

Still Going
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... "Continuum -- A Look at Native American Life -- Past and Present" at Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, 2880 Mountain Road, through Jan. 8. 359-8893. ...

Museum's revamped star show features native legends
Ann Arbor News - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
... a well-known Grand River Odawa storyteller, is one of three native American narrators. ... A grant from the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs paid ...

Kids can find drama, dance outlet in series
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... be introduced to a Native American traditional story about how the rattlesnake got its rattles. The classes will be held in the Nelson Fine Arts Center on the ...
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Chandler Multicultural Festival on Jan. 15, 2005
EVLiving - USA
... signature event for the City and offers a quality arts experience in ... traditional dances from Africa, Assyria, Ireland, Mexico and Native American Indian tribes ...

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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.

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Navajo artist Teddy Draper Workshops
Chinle, Arizona (Canyon DeChelly)- Seminars and workshops have limited capacity and usually require enrollment months in advance.

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.

Contact Teddy Draper at
dechelly2000@yahoo.com

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Web Sites:
Indigenous Peoples Literature
Wisdom of the Old People

Literacy in Indigenous Communities by L. David van Broekhuizen, Ph.D. (2000)
HTML Format (70K)
PDF Format(117K)
Literacy in first languages in indigenous communities is a complex topic that generates lively discussion. This research synthesis explores the notions of national, mother-tongue, multiple, and biliteracies. It presents important information pertaining to threatened languages, language shift, and language loss. Examples of culturally relevant uses of literacy in indigenous communities and issues related to first-language literacy instruction are also provided.

Essay on the Zuni World View
Excerpt (Complete article is available in PDF)

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].

Indian band seeks to regain its birthright
By David Whitney

Wintu Indians
At War Against Dam, Tribe Turns to Old Ways
Petition in Support of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe

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Notices:

Registration for the 31st Annual 2005 Bilingual Multicultural Education and Equity Conference is now
available online
Teaching and Learning
Through a Cultural Eye
February 9-11, 2005
Sheraton Anchorage Hotel, Anchorage, Alaska
Sponsored by
Alaska Association for Bilingual Education
Native Educators' Association
Alaska State Department of Education and Early Development
For more information contact:
The Coordinators, Inc.
329 F Street, Suite 208, Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: 907/646-9000 * Fax: 907/646-9001

Haidu Language Project

Currently, only seven Kasaan Haidas speak the Kasaan Haida dialect with varying degrees of fluency--all elders over the age of 75. 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
Memo area on your check 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).

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Clever Frog - Klamath

One day Coyote went out hunting and had good luck. In the morning he shot a squirrel. At midday he caught only a mouse. But in the afternoon he shot a fine plump rabbit for his dinner. He had been hungry for days, and so, as he trotted home through the woods with the rabbit slung on his back. Coyote was pleased with himself.

Suddenly, where the path led out from under the trees and into the tall grass he spied a frog hopping along ahead of him.

"Ho!" cried Coyote, and he pounced, pinning poor Frog to the ground.

"What luck!" said Coyote. "Here is a nice juicy morsel to do me until I reach home and roast my dinner."

But as Coyote's teeth came close. Frog cried out in a great bullfrog voice. "Hold, Brother Coyote!"

Coyote stared at the little green fellow under his foot. "Why should I?" said he.

"Hai!" Frog thought quickly. "I meant to say, 'Don't eat me today." For then you would miss tomorrow's race."

"Race?" Coyote's ears pricked up, for he loved races. "What race? I have heard of no race."

"That is because I did not think of it before," said Frog. "You and I shall run a race. Brother Coyote, and if you win, you shall eat me on the spot."

"Agreed!" said Coyote, who could never turn down a dare or pass up a bet. For of course he would win, and Frog would taste as good-or better-tomorrow.

When it was agreed where and when they should meet. Coyote went on his way. Frog hopped down to the stream in the meadow to find his friends.

"I must run a race with Coyote tomorrow," said he to his friends. "At noon we will run from the spring to the alder tree at the bottom of the meadow and back. And if Coyote wins, he will eat me."

The other frogs threw up their hand? and laughed at his foolishness. "Hai, Coyote will win! How can he lose?"

Frog grinned a wide grin. "He will not win if I have the help of my friends," said he. "Not if one of you goes early to hide by the alder tree. Not if--when the others signal that Coyote is coming through the tall grass you give three jumps to make him think that I have been ahead of him from the start. I will hide near the spring, and when I see him coming I will jump over the finish line just before him."

Frog's friends agreed.

Late the next morning when Coyote arrived at the spring. Frog was there before him, hopping up and down as if he were eager to race. When the noonday sun was overhead, they started. Coyote dashed off as fast as he could go. Frog made three hops into the deep grass and sat down to wait.

Coyote raced on, but seeing no Frog at his heels or ahead, was sure he had left him far behind. Then, as he spied the alder tree before him, to his great surprise he saw the frog making his first hop into the turn around the tree.

"Now this is very strange," thought Coyote, and he ran faster still. "I did not see him pass me." On the frog's third hop Coyote shot past and called over his shoulder, "Fast, but not fast enough! I will wait for you at the finish line."

Coyote ran as fast as ever he had, but when he came in sight of the finish line there was Frog, making his last three hops.

"Fast, but not fast enough," said Frog as Coyote came panting up.

Coyote went home in disgust.

California
Back in the Beforetime: Tales of the California Indians [the Klamath River region in the north to the inland desert mountains and the southern coastlands] Retold by Jane Louise Curry, 1987
Submitted by Wolf Walker
From Blue Panther Keeper of Stories.