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Guide: Boston Museums & Attractions, Part 2
juiceenewsdaily - Jasper,AL,USA
... This
landmark exhibition highlights the superb arts of the Thai Kingdom
of ... The repository of the only remaining Native American
objects acquired by the Corps ...
Museums
& Galleries
Long Beach Press-Telegram
- Long Beach,CA,USA
... metalwork, textiles and works
on paper showcasing the arts and crafts ... The museum's
permanent collection includes artifacts of the Native American
tribes of the ...
Powwow
highlights native ways
Daytona
Beach News-Journal - Daytona,FL,USA
... There were plenty
of arts and crafts vendors for shoppers to browse. ... Recently
he was honored to attend the opening of the Native American
Museum in Washington ...
First
Friday Gallery Hop
Tallahassee.com
- Tallahassee,FL,USA
... Twenty acrylic paintings by
Dean Quigley depicting Native American scenes in the Florida
... Immi'ges Fine Arts and Crafts Gallery: "Visions
of Blossoms and Beach ...
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OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
...
indoor exhibit areas that include "By Hand Through Memory,"
a permanent exhibit of Native American artistry by Doris
Swayze Bounds; visual-arts displays; and ...
Prominent
paintings, sculptures arrive at local museum
Bulletin (subscription) - Spokane,WA,USA
The Northwest
Museum of Arts and Culture in Browne's Addition has a ...
The Native American exhibit features handmade items and
photographs from the Plateau region ...
Artwork
blanketed in metaphor
OregonLive.com
- Portland,OR,USA
... A blanket can be a loaded image
in Native American history, but it's one that ...
from Yale, and has also studied at the Institute of American Indian
Arts. ...
Hand-painted
mural portrays explorers in a different light
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
...
"All four artists are Native American, and the intent
is for them to give the native perspective of ... The Montana
Arts Council provided a $1,000 grant, and the ...
Special
Events
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
...
DramaRama Junior, arts fest for children with storytelling, dance,
puppetry ... Cannes Brulee Native American Village
Louisiana Wildlife Museum, 303 Williams Blvd. ...
Keeping
Time: History depicted by actors of all ages
Groton Landmark - Groton,MA,USA
... There
are three non-natives in the group who play native American
roles, including ... of "keeping Time" at the Groton
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From: George Lessard -media@web.net
Subject: 2004 Nunavut Literary Prize winning stories published
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:23:17 -0700 (MST)
From: Government of Nunavut Press Release
IQALUIT, Nunavut (March 1, 2005) ñ Honourable Louis Tapardjuk,
Minister of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth is pleased to release
Taimanit: Short stories written about life on the land. The book
features the two winning entries from the 2004 Nunavut Literary
Prize. The publication was a joint effort between the Department and
the Nunavut Literacy Council.
"Taimanit is an important step towards creating new and exciting
literature in Inuktitut," said Minister Tapardjuk. "The Nunavut
Literary Prize is a great initiative, and I am very hopeful that this
publication will lead to the growth of Inuit literature."
The Department launched the Nunavut Literary Prize to encourage the
writing and publishing of new Inuit literature. A $6,000 first prize
and a $4,000 second prize are awarded each year for the best stories.
Morty Alooloo was the first prize winner in the 2004 Nunavut Literary
Prize. She wrote about the changing way of Inuit life and the
importance of traditional advice to strengthen the culture. Paul
Issakiark received the second prize for his story about a father
going out on the land with his son and teaching him traditional
hunting knowledge. The book features a forward by the Commissioner of
Nunavut, Peter Irniq and illustrations by Andrea Noveya Duffy of
Rankin Inlet.
"There is very little published reading material that is written by
Inuit for adult readers of Inuktitut. Stories in print are necessary
for the development of strong reading and writing skills. They play
an important role in the preservation of language and culture," said
Kim Crockatt, Executive Director of the Nunavut Literacy Council.
"The publishing of Taimanit is a great addition to writing by Inuit.
Continuous efforts need to be made to support the writing and
publication of literature, stories and poetry by Inuit authors in
Inuktitut and Inuinnaqtun."
Judging of the 2005 Nunavut Literary Prize is currently underway.
Over the coming months, Nunavummiut will be asked to pick the winners
from three finalists. The top three stories will appear in the
northern newspapers and readers will be asked to decide the $6,000
first prize and $4,000 second prize recipients.
For more information, contact:
Penny Rumbolt
Kim Crockatt
From: "ghwelker"
Navajo Filmmaker Shonie de la Rosa
Sheephead Films Presents: "G" Methamphetamine on the Navajo Nation
Best Public Service Award at the 29th Annual American Indian Film
Festival
Methamphetamine has reached epidemic status on the Navajo Nation
within the past two years. Up close and personal interviews with Navajo
methamphetamine addicts and recovering addicts allow the viewer to see
and hear the painful stories these people have to tell about their
addiction to the drug. Additional interviews with Tuba City Senior
Criminal Investigator Greg Adair, Indian Health Service Doctor Thomas
J. Drewhard, and Navajo Nation Vice President Frank Dayish, Jr., bring
a more in-depth view of how methamphetamine is affecting the
communities, families, and people of the Navajo Nation.
The film "G" Methamphetamine on the Navajo Nation is available for
download at http://www.sheepheadfilms.com
The film was directed by award winning Navajo film makers, Shonie and
Andee De La Rosa from the Navajo Nation in Kayenta, Arizona.
From: "ghwelker"
Contact: George Hardeen, Communications Director
President calls the term ˜Indian' a misnomer from the past
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., told
conference participants in Phoenix last week that he is not an Indian
and has never been one.
I don't consider myself an Indian, the President told about 100
participants attending the National Urban Indian Family Coalition
summit at the Heard Museum Feb. 3. I don't believe I've ever been an
Indian.
The President said his sentiments were personal but that he would like
to see Native people nationwide adjust their perception of themselves
and identify more closely with their own tribal affiliation or clan
rather than an inaccurate, historical label.
It's a personal thing, of course, President Shirley told the group.
I've never considered myself an Indian. I try to talk to my young ones
back home and tell them the truth of the matter is that we are not
Indians. As far as we're concerned, we're Dine' people, Navajo people.
The President said it was a disoriented foreigner to North America who
labeled the first native people he came upon as Indians because that
is whom he was seeking.
He got lost or his telescope didn't work or he lost his map, the
President said, referring to Christopher Columbus. And the first
natives that he saw he thought were Indians.
But this is where Dine' people lived, the five-fingered, intelligent
Earth-dwelling Dine' people, President Shirley continued. We weren't
calling ourselves Indians. We never have.
The President also said he rejected the term reservation for Native
lands because it denotes something akin to a wildlife preserve rather
than a people's homeland. While the historical record indicates that
Indian reservations are land that Native people reserved for their
exclusive use, in most instances they were given little choice by the
Federal government, the President said.
When the foreigner came across, he saw us in our breechcloths and our
moccasins and said, ˜These people are savages, barbaric, uncivilized,
lower than the four-legged beasts,' President Shirley said. ˜So let's
drive them off this land here and have all this timber and all this
water. There's probably gold, silver ore and uranium. Let's give them
this piece of ground over there in the desert because they're
wildlife.'
But President Shirley said the people ultimately prevailed, despite
historical atrocities, and this is what Dine' and other Native
children should be told today.
I don't want to refer to myself as wildlife or as an Indian because
those are not truths, the President said. They tried to drive us off
of our land back then and they weren't successful. The land that
Navajo people lived on has always been Dine' land, it's always been
Navajoland. We were put there by the deities, and we're still there
today.
The President said the closest he can get to using the foreigner's
language to describe himself is as a Native person or Native American.
One of the things we need to do is make appearances before state
governments, county governments, Congress, and, in my own way, go
about re-educating some of my people, especially my young, relative to
being a Native person.
From: NativeVillage500@aol.com
From: "ghwelker"
Dear Friendsr,
I am looking for any historic information concerning an eighteenth
century beaded sash of the Choctaw/Muskogean tribe. The sash is
thought to be a possession of the Chief, Priest, or Medicine-man of
the tribe. The sash is worn about the neck and shoulders, is about
three to five feet in length, and is adorned with an articulated
beaded symbol akin to the formal shape of a violin instrument sound
hole. The formality of the symbol em-beaded on the sash is viewed as
expressing connective "branches" with reciprocating volutes or
scrolling articulated at opposite ends of the symbol - similar to the
violin hole articulation. The "branches" of the sash symbol, however,
are defined in a linear (straight) fashion, as in the straightness of
a ruler's edge.
The violin articulation appears in the fourteenth century Europe, and
is traceable to earlier eastern periods. The pre-American Mayan/Aztec
cultures exhibit similar traits of articulation, and could have easily
been conveyed through ancient migration.
I would be most interested in knowing if the Choctaw sash symbolism
is a pre-American cultural origination, or expressing of a later
European influence.
Can you reflect or direct me with regards to the sash example, or
symbolism articulated thereon?
Sincerely,
Edward Pascoe; AAS
109 Union Ave SE - Renton, WA 98059
From: "ghwelker"
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
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"
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,
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
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in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. Coyote and his Mother-in-law - Yana
[Obtained in December, 1907, just north of and across the Sacramento
river
from Redding, Shasta County. The informant was Sam Bat'wi, one of the
four
or five Indians still left that have a speaking knowledge of this
dialect
and probably the only one that is at all acquainted with the mythology.
His
original dialect was the now extinct Southern Yana, spoken south of
Battle
creek, but having early in life moved north to the Cow creek country in
the
neighborhood of the present hamlet of Millville, he learned to use the
Central dialect by the Northern Yana of Montgomery creek and Round
Mountain)
and seems now unable to make fluent use of his former dialect.]
Crow said, "I shall hunt deer." The people camped out to hunt, all the
women
camped out. They went out till they settled down to camp at Luwa'iha;
[An
Indian village on Old Cow creek about twenty-five miles east of
Millville.]
the men were out hunting deer. Coyote was married to Mountain-Quail
Woman, a
young woman. Coyote said, "I do not want to have you camping out with
me. It
shall be my mother-in-law who will camp out with me. You stay home!"
said
Coyote. "I do not wish to camp out with my son-in-law," said old
Mountain-Quail Woman. "All the old women have gone camping out. Go
camping
out! Go camping out! Camp out with him!" said the young woman to her
mother.
The people did so, camping out to hunt deer. The old woman started to
camp
out, to camp out with Coyote, while Coyote's wife stayed right at home.
The
women built camping-out houses, built at Luwa'iha with ma'du grass,
with
dead bark of pine trees, and with bark of bottom oak; they laid ma'du
grass
on thick on their houses. Also Mountain-Quail Woman built a house for
Coyote.
The Crow people hunted deer together with the Blue Flies. The Buzzard
people
were there in great numbers, and others hanging around. Now they hunted
deer
and many deer were killed. They packed them home to the camping-out
houses.
The Blue Flies, Crows, and Buzzards did not really hunt deer, they
looked
for deer carcasses. They found a deer that was long dead. Crow said to
Blue
Fly, "I have found a deer carcass." "It is I who came upon it first,"
said
Blue Fly. "I found the deer carcass. I saw the deer," said Crow. He
disputed
with Blue Fly. "It is I who came upon it first," (said Blue Fly). "Look
at
what I have shot on it!" He had thrown his excrement way ahead of him.
Crow
said no more, for he was beaten. Blue Fly carried off home the deer
carcass
that had been found by Crow.
When it was dark every one came back from hunting deer to his
camping-out
house. and it was about to rain during the night. The old woman,
Mountain-Quail Woman, had a big vulva. Coyote had his bed on the east,
over
there on the east side of the house, while the old woman lay across
from him
on the west. It rained during the night, the water came pouring down on
where Coyote was sleeping. "O mother-in-law! I am nearly dead frozen,"
said
Coyote. "He!" said the woman, "I put lots of straw over your place of
sleeping, son-in-law! Why should it leak?" (Coyote had said to
himself,) "I
wish that her part of the house should not leak!" "Your place of
sleeping
does not leak," (said Coyote). "I should like that we sleep together
with
heads and bodies averted from each other, mother-in-law!"
[Avowedly for reasons of modesty.] "Turn your head away to the south,
turn
your head away to the south!" (she said). "I am nearly frozen to
death,"
said Coyote. "I never heard of son-in-law and mother-in-law sleeping
together with heads and bodies averted from each other. People never
have
that happen to them," said the old woman. The young woman did not carry
about a vulva; (the old woman) carried all of it about and Coyote had
seen
the vulva. "You will put a rock acorn-mortar between our feet and I
shall
turn my head to the south," said Coyote.
The old woman turned her head to the north, while it kept on raining
during
the night. He put a rock, a rock acorn-mortar, between them. "Leak,
leak!
sleeping place! Do not leak! Mountain Quail Woman's sleeping place!"
said
Coyote to the rain. It did so to Coyote's sleeping place; there was
much
water all over it. "Do not leak (on her bed)!" In the middle of the
night he
caused the old woman to fall asleep. She did so. Now the old woman was
sleeping, snoring. "O, away with mere talk! Shall I go on arguing about
it?"
Coyote got up from his bed on the ground and spread apart her loins.
Now he
copulated all night with his mother-in-law, pushing her about. The old
woman
did not wake up.
When it was nearly daylight Coyote ran off home, having, finished
copulating. She was like a frog, for all her fat had been taken away
from
her. Coyote arrived home, running east to his, wife. The (old) woman
ran
home after him. She ran back east after him and arrived home. "Husband!
Do
not call me mother-in-law!" (she said to Coyote). Mountain-Quail Woman
was
pregnant. "So that is why you told me to go out camping with yourself!
You
intended to act in that way!" Mountain Quail Woman threw the children
into
the water but Coyote did not follow his children.
Yana Texts by Edward Sapir University of California Publications in
American Archaeology and Ethnology Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-235 [1910]
From Blue Panther Keeper of Stories
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Communications Manager
Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth
E-mail: prumbolt@gov.nu.ca
Phone: (867) 975.5531
Nunavut Literacy Council
E-mail: kimcr@polarnet.ca
Phone: 867-983-2678
Navajo Filmmaker Shonie de la Rosa
Subject: Navajo Nation President rejects Indian label, declares ˜I am
Dine"?
Office 928-871-7917
Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr.,
rejects Indian label, declares ˜I am Dine"?
Subject: Information about the Choctaw/Muskogean tribe
(425) 226-3184
edpascoe@msn.com
Subject: Training at Museum of Civilization
Subject: House Bill 179 relating to artifacts recovered from Native
American burial sites
1919 B Street,
Marysville, CA 95901
Phone: (530) 749-6196 Fax: (530) 741-7840
email: jgraham@mjusd.k12.ca.us
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The 28th Annual California Conference on American Indian Education
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Little-known items focus of exhibit in Chicago
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