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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 01:56:00 -0000
Three Saturdays,
Learn about the indigenous cultures of the Northeast through lectures,
performances, and films. Journey through "Native New York" with Evan
T. Pritchard, founder of the Center for Algonquin Culture, and learn
how Broadway used to be the Mohican Trail. Enjoy the Mohawk Singers
and Dancers, and take a look down the "Pow Wow Highway" with actor
Gary Farmer, and much more.
For details,
visit
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 02:21:54 -0000
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Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 11:57:03 -0700
From Nov. 26, 2004 through Jan. 30, 2005, the Peabody Essex Museum
hosts Our Land: Contemporary Art from the Arctic, the first major
museum exhibition of contemporary art from Canada's newest territory,
Nunavut. The exhibition includes more than 50 artworks-from
sculpture, prints, and textile art to photography, video, and sound
installations-all created in the last half-century, a time of
burgeoning artistic and cultural awareness and pride among Canada's
Inuit. Our Land is a collaborative project of the Peabody Essex
Museum, the Government of Canada, and the Government of Nunavut.
Newspaper coverage
Our Land: Contemporary Art from the Arctic , has received financial
support from the Government of Nunavut's Department of Culture,
Language, Elders and Youth, the Government of Canada, the Constance
Killam Trust, and the Elizabeth Killam Rodgers Trust.
Visit the online exhibition Subject: Tlingit Whale House Series
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:02:28 -0700
From: George Lessard
Nine years ago, brilliantly carved Tlingit artifacts linking the
Chilkat people with their ancestors were sold and removed from the
village of Klukwan. Since then, families, neighbors and lawyers have
fought bitterly over ownership. No one sees them now.
By Marilee Enge
Whale House Series
Series At A Glance
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 16:54:45 -0000
DAGGETT - A break-in discovered Christmas Day has robbed the museum in
this Mojave Desert town of its most prized
possessions, including antique dolls and American Indian artifacts on
loan from local families.
The thieves methodically cleared out glass display cases in the
Daggett Museum, said curator Beryl Bell, who discovered the
burglary when she went to feed her goldfish over the holiday.
"It's really heartbreaking for a small museum," Bell said Wednesday.
The stolen Native American artifacts include a basket appraised at
$3,500, a Navajo sash and two large clay Acoma pots that
had never been appraised but are very valuable, said Leslie Lloyd, the
president of the Daggett Historical Society, which
runs the museum.
The thieves also took antique dolls, model trains and other toys,
farming implements and examples of rocks from the area,
Lloyd said.
The thieves ignored the computers and copy machine in the office of a
local government agency that shares the low-slung
modular building with the museum, but they stole $2 in coins from
Lloyd's desk and a museum donation jar that contained
about $10, she said.
Despite the theft of the change, Lloyd believes the burglars were
experienced, as they left no fingerprints and took steps
to disable the alarm system -- even though it wasn't operational at
the time of the break-in.
"This appeared to be a very neat operation and it appeared they had a
shopping list," she said.
The historical society has notified the Antique Tribal Art Dealers
Association, which plans to post news of the break-in on
its Web site and will inform its 250 members.
The historical society is offering a $500 reward to anyone who can
provide information leading to the arrest and conviction.
Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand 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.
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].
Indian band seeks to regain its birthright
Wintu Indians Corn Dance - Cherokee
(selu', "corn.") This is also the proper name of the mistress of corn,
known
as Corn Woman.
The male singer at one side of the circle has a gourd rattle but no
drum.
The men sing antiphonic responses to the leader. The woman behind the
leader
wears turtle leg-rattles.
First movement---While advancing with a shuffling trot behind the
leader,
the men and women circle counterclockwise around the mortar in the
center of
the circle, making motions with their hands as though dipping and
pouring
corn or meal into a basket or bowl held in
the other hand.
Second movement---At a change in the song the women separate from the
line,
led by the woman with turtle leg-rattles. They circle the mortar and
dance
sideways, facing outward, surrounded by the men's line. The men face
the
women and, moving sideways, dance around the mortar for two or three
turns.
All continue the hand motions.
Third movement---The men and women change places and, continuing the
hand
motions, make two or three circuits.
Fourth movement---The lines of men and women mingle again and repeat
the
first movement.
In pouring corn from a bowl or "basket of plenty," the dancers express
supplication and thanks for abundant corn crops. At one of these dances
Will
Pheasant took off his hat and, holding it in his left hand, motioned as
though ladling corn into it with his other hand. He was one of the rare
younger persons who participated in the dances in a creative way.
The Corn Dance is reserved for performance until toward morning in the
night
series, and is also a part of the night performances during the green
corn
ceremony in August. It follows the Friendship Dance. It can be
celebrated at
any time, but it was formerly customary to rehearse it in early spring
on
the night before planting-the occasion they (the community) are going
to
plant corn.
http://groups.msn.com/KeeperofStories Cornhusk dolls - Mohawk
There was a time when all corn husk dolls had faces. They were sent by the Creator to be the playmate of the children. One day when they were in the woods, the cornhusk doll discovered a pond. Looking into the pond she saw her reflection. She knelt down and began to admire herself and forgot about the children. Soon the children were in danger and the corn husk doll was no where to be found...The Creator saw her and told her, 'You were given a job to protect the children and you forgot your instructions!'. As punishment he took away her face and said 'from now on, corn husk dolls will have no face'. The lesson to be learned is that we should not be too preoccupied with our looks. It is more important to develop our minds and have a good heart. From that point on corn husk dolls were made without faces.
http://groups.msn.com/KeeperofStories
From: "ghwelker"
Subject: Living in America: The American Indian Experience
The American Museum of Natural History
presents
Living in America: The American Indian Experience
January 15, 22 and 29
1:00-5:30 p.m.
Kaufmann Theater, first floor
or
call 212-769-5315.
From: borreror@amnh.org
From: "ghwelker"
Subject: ~LEONARD PELTIER’s Magnificent ‘Political Platform’
Have You Thought
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From: George Lessard
Subject: Our Land - Contemporary Art from the Arctic
Our Land - Contemporary Art from the Arctic
THROUGH JANUARY 30, 2005
Peabody Essex Museum [excerpt]
GEORGE LESSARD
Information & Media Specialist
Part 1 : The sale of the Whale House legacy.
Part 2 : Carving the masterworks.
Modern-day carvers and anthropologists follow the trail of a Tlingit
artist of profound skill and vision
Part 3 : A Tlingit buyer of Tlingit artifacts.
Tlingit nobleman Louis Shotridge, so of a keeper of the Whale House,
becomes a scholar of his people - and a controversial collector
Part 4 :A dealer's passion for the Whale House.
A Seattle art dealer's decade of obsession ends in bitterness and in
court.
Part 5 :Epic sage becomes litigation.
A tangle of bloodlines and birthrights is now a court's to unravel.
From: "ghwelker"
Subject: Museum loses Indian artifacts to burglary
Museum loses Indian artifacts to burglary
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Glenn Welker
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Indigenous Peoples Literature
Early tribal artifacts put in spotlight
Little-known items focus of exhibit in Chicago
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At War Against Dam, Tribe Turns to Old Ways
Petition in Support of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe
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From Blue Panther Keeper of Stories.
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From Blue Panther Keeper of Stories.
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