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Training at Museum of Civilization
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Canadian Museum of Civilization Aboriginal Training Programme in
Museum Practices
DEADLINE MARCH 15, 2005
Gatineau, Quebec, February 14, 2005 - The Canadian Museum of
Civilization is now accepting applications for its Aboriginal Training
Programme in Museum Practices (ATPMP). This eight-month programme
offers vocational and technical training in museum practices to
Aboriginal workers and students from across Canada. The deadline for
applications is March 15, 2005.
All training is under the supervision of the Museum's professional
staff in a variety of fields, including conservation, archaeology,
documentation of artifacts, archives, collections, ethnology, history
and administration. In return, the interns share their knowledge with
Museum personnel and play an important role in maintaining
communication between their communities and the CMCC. Training is
available in both official languages. This is the twelfth consecutive
year for the Aboriginal Training Programme in Museum Practices. The
Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation (CMCC) established the
ATPMP in September 1993 in response to recommendations contained in
the 1992 Task Force Report on Museums and First Peoples.
Since its inception, the CMCC Training Programme has enabled 60
Aboriginal trainees to further upgrade their knowledge of museum
practices, including the current group. To learn more about the
programme, please contact Jolene Saulis at (819) 776-8270; by e-mail
jolene.saulis@civilization.ca ; or consult the Web at
http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/at/attoceng.html
Media Information: Chief, Media Relations Canadian Museum of
Civilization
Tel.: (819) 776-7167
Media Relations Officer Canadian Museum of Civilization
Tel.: (819) 776-7169
Fax: (819) 776-7187
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From: "ghwelker"
Dear Members of the Native American Community:
Please be advised that House Bill 179 relating to artifacts recovered
from Native American burial sites, has been assigned to the House
Committee on Culture, Recreation, and Tourism. Write or fax your letter
of support and request the scheduling for public hearings to the
following House Representative;
House Representative Harvey Hilderbran
Chairman, House Committee on Culture, Recreation, and Tourism
P.O. Box 2910
Austin, Texas 78768
PHONE: (512) 463-0536
FAX: (512) 463-1449
Thank you for your coiuntinued support and help in this matter. You can
also contact the governors office at the following
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, Texas 78711-2428
http://www.governor.state.tx.us/contact/contact_email.htm
TOLL FREE: 1 (800) 252-9600
FAX: (512) 463-1849
This is open to all; ask everyone you know, including your friends,
community leaders, community organizations, school, newspaper, radio,
political groups, church, or any other Native American groups. Again,
the Native American community awaits for the best of our intentions.
Peace,
Daniel Castro Romero, Jr., M.A., M. S. W.
General Council Chairman
Lipan Apache Band of Texas, Inc.
H.B. No. 179
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to artifacts recovered from
Native
American burial sites. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 191, Natural Resources Code, is
amended by adding Section 191.099 to read as follows: Sec. 191.099.
CATALOGUE OF ARTIFACTS FROM BURIAL SITES; RULES. (a) The committee
shall
catalogue any artifacts and related cultural items recovered from
prehistoric and historical American Indian or aboriginal burial sites
in
this state. (b) The committee may adopt rules to implement this
section.
SECTION 2. Not later than March 1, 2006, the Texas Historical
Commission
shall develop a system necessary to catalogue artifacts and related
cultural items under Section 191.099, Natural Resources Code, as added
by this Act. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it
receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act
does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act
takes
From: "ghwelker"
Presention by Dr. Tom Porter, sponsored by Lotus Music and Dance
featuring the native traditional Areitos of the Iroquois Confederation
of the Northeastern USA and Canadian frontier.
From: George Lessard
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0816522782/104-4144017-1587941?v=glance&st=*
Palmer, Gus, Jr. Telling Stories the Kiowa Way. Tucson: University
of Arizona Press, 2003. 170 pp. ISBN 0816522782, $17.95.
Reviewed for the Anthropology & Education Quarterly by
David Samuels
University of Massachusetts
© 2004 American Anthropological Association. This review will appear
on the web site
The Anthropology & Education Quarterly publishes reviews of current
books in the anthropology of education and related fields. The Book
Review Editor identifies the books to be reviewed and solicits each
review from an appropriate scholar. The Book Review Editor may also
consider reviews submitted voluntarily at his or her discretion, but
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From: "ghwelker"
CALL FOR STUDENT WRITING
The 28th Annual California Conference on American Indian Education is
approaching quickly and, once again, we wish to showcase the writings
of American Indian students from our state in a small booklet
(chapbook) available to each participant who attends the
conference. We are requesting poetry, short stories, and photography
from all K-12 American Indian youths who reside in California. This is
the fourth year we have requested photographs. If possible we would
prefer black and white photographs but will accept color.
All submissions should address the conference theme "Educating
Tomorrows Leaders." Photographs and writings that demonstrate the power
of intergenerational education, whether formal or cultural, are
especially welcome.
Please inform your youths about this opportunity to have their work
published and encourage them to submit their writings to:
American Indian Education Program
Copyright will remain with the authors. Works submitted for publication
will not be returned, so please send copies only. Each youth who is
published will receive two free chapbooks from the Conference Planning
Committee. All works should be submitted for
review by Monday, March 7, 2005. Along with each submission, please
include the following information:
We are looking forward to publishing the writings and photographs of
our California Native American youths. If you have any questions,
please contact James Graham at (530)749-6196.
Thank you,
The 28th Annual California Conference on American Indian Education
Subject: Sundance Institute's commitment to supporting Native Cinema
From: George Lessard
The Sundance Institute's commitment to supporting Native Cinema is
woven throughout the 23-year history of the Institute along with its
support for the artistic vitality of American Cinema. Rooted in the
recognition of a rich tradition of story telling and artistic
expression by Native Peoples, the Institute established a Native
Program as a means of supporting the development of Native filmmakers
and the exhibition of their work. The Sundance Institute has
supported nearly 45 Native writers and directors over the past 23
years, and showcased nearly 100 films by Native filmmakers. The
Sundance Film Festival's Native Forum is a gathering of Indigenous
filmmakers from around the world, and offers opportunities for them
to share their expertise and knowledge with each other and the
independent film community through workshops, panels, networking
events, and special screenings.
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" 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 Coyote and Curlew - Nez Perce
Coyote [itsaya' ya] was going along up the valley. There, as he crossed
over
a bridge, he reconnoitered and saw a man hopping back and forth across
the
ravine. The man had cut off one of his legs and carried it on his back.
"How
wonderful!" Coyote exclaimed. "Very interesting. I should do this too,
and
they will watch me and marvel at me at the meeting of the shamans." He
went
off to the side with this thought, "Now I, too, will do it." He cut off
one
leg and began to jump back and forth across the ravine.
At this point he whose function it was to jump across stumbled and
fell.
"Now why did I stumble and fall like this?" he said to himself. He set
his
leg into place and climbed the slope of the ravine. From there he saw
Coyote. "This is why I have stumbled and fallen; someone over here is
imitating me." Now he caused Coyote to stumble to his death. He went up
to
him. "It was Coyote. That is why he imitated me." He dragged him to the
river and I threw his body into the stream.
Coyote floated downstream one and a half bends of the river, and there
he
floated I ashore. The magpie [a' k' ax] came dashing along up the
valley
crying, "Law, law, law" Ah! something has killed Coyote; perchance my
friend
has brow-fat." He began pecking at his brow ['pok' a' t, pok'a' t, pok'
a't"] when suddenly the pecking awakened Coyote. "What are you doing
here
flying about you-you Magpie? You have awakened me by your pecking just
as I
was carrying the head of the valley's daughter across the river,"
Coyote
stormed at Magpie.
"How could you be carrying the head of the valley's daughter across the
river? Above here a powerful killer killed you," replied the Magpie as
he
flew away.
Now Coyote struck himself on the hip with his fist, and his children
ran
out. They began to fight one another when Coyote said to them, "Hurry,
come
inside!" They ran inside again, but Coyote cut off the entry of the
youngest
one and said to him, "Inform me!"
He replied, "You always cause others to become chilled in the water!
Above
here a powerful one killed you, a very powerful one. You must go
upstream
and avenge yourself; you will kill him."
"Yes," Coyote said to him. "That is what I thought already and, by the
way,
you might hop back inside, for you have already delayed me."
From there he went up the valley again and reconnoitered at the
crossing-over place as he had before. He saw the same one jumping back
and
forth across the ravine and packing one leg. From one side there Coyote
caused him to stumble and fall to his death. "It was he! This one
should not
try to be dangerous."
Again now, Coyote went along up the valley. He crossed over another
ridge
and suddenly saw a man. "What, now, is he doing?" He saw a man lying on
his
back taking his eye and throwing it upward to cause it to disappear.
Then he
would say, "My eye fit!" and the eye would suddenly fall precisely into
its
socket, "Oh how wonderful! I should be able to do this, too. I should
do
this at the meeting o the shamans to cause them to marvel at me and to
wonder. Then I, too, now will do this." He went back over the ridge and
cut
out his eye. He tossed it up and said, "My eye fit!" Immediately his
eye
fell -- to fit. "Very remarkable! Surely they will marvel at me at the
meeting of the shamans." Coyote now reveled in this trick. He threw up
his
eye again and again, and each time it fell true.
He who had been doing this now threw his eye into the air only to have
it
wilt and miss "It is because someone is imitating me." He picked up his
eye,
set it into place, and crossed over the ridge. There he saw someone
throwing
his eye about. Then he caused Coyote's eye to be lost.
Coyote kept repeating, "My eye fit! My eye fit!" But nothing happened.
"What
now! My eye has gone astray. Perhaps it awaits the other one; perhaps
it
thinks, 'Let Coyote send other one to find me.' " Now he cut out his
other
eye and tossed it up saying "My eye fit! My eye fit!" But from one side
the
man caused his other eye to be lost. "My eye fit! My eye fit!" Coyote
kept
saying. "Perhaps it thinks, 'Let him plead himself to tears.' "Now he
wept;
he wept, "My eye fit! Oh, my eye fit!" But nothing at all happened.
There he
lay. his back unable to go anywhere. He had caused himself suddenly to
be in
compete darkness. He tried to go this way and that, but he only crashed
into
the brush. Then he thirsted, but nowhere could he find water. Nowhere
was he
able to travel.
From there the Curlew [awi' xnon] addressed him, "Awi' x! awi' x!
Bloody
eyes! Bloody eyes'" and then proceeded to berate him unmercifully.
Coyote only wept, just wept. "Never will I arrive at the meeting of the
shamans. You have talked me into a mood of loneliness; you have talked
me
into a mood of loneliness. It is just as if I were at the meeting of
the
shamans. Come still closer to speak to me." Curlew came closer to
Coyote.
"Greatly, very greatly, you have talked me into a mood of loneliness.
It is
just as if I were at the meeting of the shamans. Come still closer to
me."
The Curlew came still closer to him. At that moment Coyote seized him.
"You
should berate me! Pitiful and blind as I am, yet you talked to me like
that!"
Coyote now took out the Curlew's eyes and set them into his own eye
sockets;
there he gained for himself the Curlew's eyes. Then he made eyes of
serviceberries for the bird. "This one should be talking so
unmercifully to
me!" The Curlew could now see but dimly, while Coyote had for himself
the
eyes of a bird. Coyote now left him and went along up the valley again.
Taken from Tales of the Nez Perce by Donald M. Hines, Ye Galleon Press;
Fairfield, Washington, 1999 [gathered from other source books dated
between
1912 and 1949]
From Blue Panther Keeper of Stories
http://groups.msn.com/KeeperofStories
Subject: Training at Museum of Civilization
February 23, 2005, Issue 147
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Subject: House Bill 179 relating to artifacts recovered from Native
American burial sites
Subject: Mohawk Creation Legends of the Iroquois (online movie clip)
streaming video
Mohawk Creation Legends of the Iroquois
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Subject: AEQ Book Review of Telling Stories the Kiowa Way
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Marysville, CA 95901
Phone: (530) 749-6196 Fax: (530) 741-7840
email: jgraham@mjusd.k12.ca.us
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http://festival.sundance.org/2005/?=native&107
Early tribal artifacts put in spotlight
Little-known items focus of exhibit in Chicago
Chinle, Arizona (Canyon DeChelly)-
Seminars and workshops have limited capacity and usually require enrollment months in advance.
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