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Alamos Monitor - Los Alamos,NM,USA
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Vigil or RC Gorman amongst us. Each year it is ...
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diaries of Europeans, and the oral histories of Native American
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... for Health
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studies department ... The second Gathering of American
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Big
Party Planned For Opening Of Waterfront
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... There will also
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From: dorindamoreno
From: Carol
gilbert lujan wrote:
> A good step forward
>
> magu
> Magulandia Studio "D"
> 558 west Second street
> Pomona, 91766, Aztlan
> 909-629-8240
>
> http://indianz.com/News/2005/007089.asp
> Indian murals at EPA building to undergo review
> Thursday, March 17, 2005
>
> A handful of government murals that depict Indian people in an
> unfavorable
> light will undergo a review to determine whether they are appropriate
to
> display, a federal agency announced on Wednesday.
>
> After years of complaints by Indian employees and their advocates,
the
> General Services Administration initiated the review of six murals at
the
> Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. The
GSA
> plans to take input from the public under the National Historic
> Preservation Act because the artwork is more than 70 years old.
> "By utilizing this historic preservation review process, we will
provide
> all interested parties an opportunity to inform GSA how they view
this
> issue," Donald C. Williams, the GSA administrator for the Washington
> area.
> Indian employees at EPA have already made their views known about the
> public display of the murals at the Ariol Rios Building. They say
that
> depiction of Indian men scalping nude white women and murdering white
men
> are offensive. The paintings also show nude Indian men and women in
> submissive positions.
> "The subliminal message of these is discouraging," Bob Smith, a
member of
> the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin who works at the building, said in an
> interview. "What they reinforce is stereotypes and I think that's
> wrong in
> a government building. It creates a hostile work environment for
American
> Indians."
> Elizabeth Kronk, a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa
from
> Michigan, is a Washington attorney who has been advocating for the
> removal
> of the murals. She said they are an affront to Indian employees and
to
> tribal leaders who visit the EPA building to meet with federal
officials.
> "These murals perpetuate stereotypes of Native Americans as
murderers,
> rapists and in positions of inferiority," she said. "To have to be
faced
> with these depictions every day," she added, "is horrible."
> The murals, located on two different floors, were installed in the
1930s
> when the building was the headquarters for the U.S. Postal Service.
> One in
> particular, "Dangers of the Mail," by Frank A. Mechau, has been
> controversial from the start because it displays nude women being
> attacked
> by Indians.
> The issue attracted the attention of former EPA administrator Carol
> Browner, who served during the Clinton administration. In 2000, she
> ordered
> the murals to be covered, saying they were offensive to American
Indians
> and women.
> But the covering was removed at the start of the Bush administration
and
> some of the murals were sent out for restoration by the GSA. "By
> restoring
> the paintings, it made the brighter and more vivid to portray their
> negative stereotypes," asserted Smith.
> Bush officials later put up an Indian-related display in front of two
of
> the murals, including the "Dangers of the Mail" one. However, it is
still
> possible to view the murals by walking behind the display.
> To help gain more attention, Kronk submitted a resolution to the
National
> Congress of American Indians to call for action on the murals. The
> resolution was passed at the NCAI annual session last October.
> Kronk acknowledged there is some difficulty in resolving the matter
> because
> two of the murals are attached to the wall. The other four, however,
are
> canvas paintings that have been easily removed in the past. "We would
> encourage [GSA] to do that again," said Kronk.
> Physical removal of the two attached murals is an option, Kronk said,
but
> covering them up completely could also be considered. "In essence
they
> need
> to be removed from public display," she said. "Whether that's
physical
> removal, we leave that to the agencies."
> Whatever the solution, Smith wants it resolved quickly. "This has
been
> really dragging on," he said yesterday. "Nobody's really taking a
firm
> stand."
> Smith pointed out that former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft
covered
> up a semi-nude statue at the Department of Justice headquarters. The
> government spent $8,000 on curtains to hide the statue from public
> display.
> "He was high level," Smith said of Ashcroft. "If the little man
> complained,
> they would have been ignored."
> Smith has worked at the EPA for 15 years and has to pass the murals
every
> day. He said it affects more than just himself and the 30 to 40
Indian
> employees at the headquarters.
> "I wouldn't even bring my daughter here for Bring Your Daughter to
Work
> Day," he said. "How would I explain to my own kids the depiction of
their
> own people as savages and sexual predators and murderers?"
> The EPA did not return a request for comment yesterday. Nationwide,
the
> agency has about 700 Indian employees.
> http://indianz.com/docs/epamuralshq.pdf
From: "apcKaruk"
The Northern California Indian Development Council has a web-based
archive of
traditional images and sounds.
Photo Galleries: Three galleries of stunning photography with
accompanying descriptions,
as well as the NCIDC Staff Photo Gallery and Council Member Photo
Gallery.
The NCIDC Song Gallery contains sound clips that are small segments of
Traditional Karuk
songs. They were recorded by Andre Cramblit, the Operations Director of
NCIDC, a Karuk
Tribal Member.
To find the site go to:
click the galleries link underneath the picture of the traditional Pit
House.
To subscribe to a news letter of interest to Natives send an email to:
IndigenousNewsNetwork-subscribe@topica.com or go to:
http://www.topica.com/lists/
IndigenousNewsNetwork/subscribe/?location=listinfo
From: "ghwelker"
Saving Tribal Tongues
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1995/0301/tribal.html
California's Native Americans Are in a Race Against Time
by Patricia McBroom
Native Americans in California are working against enormous odds to
save their ancestral languages before the last speakers die, a
Berkeley linguist told American scientists Feb. 18 at their annual
meeting in Atlanta.
Progress is being made with an apprenticeship program to teach
indigenous languages to younger members of native groups, but it is a
race against time, said Leanne Hinton, associate professor of
linguistics.
"It's like trying to stitch together the fragile threads of a precious
cloth that is coming apart in your hands," said Hinton of the language
preservation program.
A woman who may have been the last speaker of Northern Pomo, native to
Sonoma and Mendocino counties in Northern California, died in January
in the midst of teaching a younger member of the tribe her language.
She was almost 90. Many other Indian languages in the state have only
one or at most a handful of speakers still alive, all of whom are
older than 60, said Hinton.
Hinton spoke recently in Atlanta at the annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
The good news is that some languages will be saved, thanks to a
Master-Ap-prentice Language Learning Program run by a Native-American
network with Hinton's help.
Beginning in the summer of 1993, the program has enlisted teachers and
apprentices in 10 languages that are on the verge of extinction. This
represents about a fifth of the 49 native American languages remaining
in California.
The program's aim is to keep a language alive by teaching it to at
least one younger member of the group who is then encouraged to set up
language training for children of that tribe.
In many cases, there is only one master-apprentice pair per tribe--an
elder who is the last speaker and a younger relative who agrees to
work closely with the elder and learn not only the ancestral language,
but the cultural traditions that go with it.
"This is very fragile work," said Hinton. "Oftentimes, the elder whose
language was ignored for years must be convinced that this is a
sincere effort, while the apprentice must dedicate a large portion of
his life to the relationship, putting aside other career and
educational goals."
The model that keeps the California teams going is that in less than
20 years, native Hawaiians have saved their language and culture from
extinction. Now there is a generation of Hawaiian children who really
know their ancestral language, said Hinton.
So far, good progress has been made with Karuk speakers in Humboldt
County. When the program began, there were only 12 Karuk speakers left
in the world, all elderly. Now four young Karuks speak it fluently.
"Even two or three new fluent speakers in a generation can extend the
life of a language by 50 years or more," said Hinton.
Terry Supahan, one of the Karuk apprentices, works with his wife to
teach the language to Karuk children in school, hold summer language
camps and perform ceremonial dances.
Supahan is spending 20 hours a week learning the language from his
elderly blind aunt and according to his own account is keeping one
step ahead of the children.
The move to save these languages was given impetus in 1990 by passage
of the Native American Language Act, which reversed the federal
government's centuries-old drive to obliterate Indian languages and
cultures.
The act gives Native American languages special status and pledges
government help in saving them.
"It was very nearly too late," said Hinton of the legislation. "But
still it is important."
She said that even if many of the languages do not get passed on, the
effort to preserve them will have a positive impact on the self-esteem
of Native American children.
"With previous policies, Indian children formed identities that were
damaged," she said. "They became people who were ashamed of their
heritage.
"Whatever happens to the dream of reconstructing communities of native
speakers, we will at least have the languages documented on tape and
video and we will have kids with strong identities," said Hinton.
Groups in the Master-Apprenticeship program are:
o the Hupa and two Karuk-speaking groups in Humboldt County, Northern
California
o the Washo near Reno, Nevada
o the Yowlumni around Porterville near Fresno, Central California
o the Mohave along the Colorado River, Southern California
o the Chemehuevi, also along the Colorado, Southern California
o the Tubatulabal near Bakersfield, Central California
o the Western Mono in the Sierra foothills east of Fresno
From: Glenn Welker
National Museum of the American Indian
National Powwow
Actual Location MCI Center, 601 F Street NW, Washington D.C. 20004
Event Dates August 12, 13, 14, 2005
Event Hours Fri - 10am to10pm; Sat - 10am to 10pm; Sun - 10am to 8pm
Admission Fee(s) Adult: $12
Senior 65 yrs & older /Child - 4 to 11 years: $10
Special Members Price: $10
Group Rate (25 or more):$10/person
Three day pass: $30
Educational Comp. "Origins and Evolutions of the Powwow" (more
information to follow as this is currently being developed)
Type of Event Contest Powwow
Prize Purse $100,000
*Head Staff*
MC(s) Wallace Coffey (Comanche) OK,
Dale Old Horn (Crow) MT
Jason Goodstriker (Blood) AB
Head Man: Spike Draper (Navajo) NM
Head Lady: Karen Pheasant (Ojibway) ONT, CANADA
Arena Director Randy Frazier (Shawnee & Pottowatamie) OK
Randy Medicine Bear (Rosebud Sioux)
Dance Judge(s) Jim Red Eagle (Lakota & Dakota Sioux) CA
Ralph Haymond (Pawnee & Otoe) OK
Drum Judge(s) Jonathan Windyboy (Plains Cree) MT
Host North. Drum Midnight Express (Chippewa & Sioux) MN
Host South. Drum Yellow Hammer (Ponca) OK
Host Contemp.Drum Bear Creek (Sault St. Marie Chippewa) ONT, CANADA
Invited Drums "All Drums Invited"
*Vendors*
Fees $600 (10'x10' space)
$800 food vendors - TBD (not sure if we will be able to accommodate
food
vendors because of MCI Center restrictions)
*Vendor applications will be ready for distribution within the next
couple of weeks. We will allow ample time, approx. 2 months for vendors
to apply. Justin Giles will be the point of contact for vendors and he
is currently taking names and info and will send application forms when
ready.
*General Contact*
Number 877-830-3224 or 301-238-3023
Email Address nmainationalpowwow@si.edu
Website www.americanindian.si.edu
"For the Children - Our Future" - Running Deer
From: George Lessard -media@web.net
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: George Lessard
From: NAJA-Email Alerts
Nominations sought for American Indian Journalism Institute, June 5-24,
2005
Nominations and applications are being accepted for the fifth annual
American Indian Journalism Institute, June 5-24, 2005, a concentrated
three-week academic program at The University of South Dakota. The
nomination deadline is March 31.
An informative 11-minute video and other information are available
online at
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=17963
To nominate a student, write an e-mail or letter explaining why the
person should be accepted into the institute and how the student can
be contacted. Please include the nominee's mailing address and e-mail
address. Self-nominations also are welcome.
Send nominations to Jack Marsh, executive director, Al Neuharth Media
Center, 555 Dakota St., Vermillion, SD 57069 or via e-mail to
jmarsh@freedomforum.org. Telephone 605/677-6315.
AIJI is a college course sanctioned by the university and funded by
the Freedom Forum's Al Neuharth Media Center. It trains about 25
Native students each year in the fundamentals of print journalism and
is the largest program of its kind in the country. AIJI students
attend classes and lectures and receive hands-on experience in
reporting, writing and photojournalism. The Al Neuharth Media Center,
a newly refurbished state-of-the-art facility where AIJI is held,
also is home to the Native American Journalists Association.
Tuition, fees, room, board, books and supplies are free. Those who
successfully complete the program earn four hours of college credit
that can be transferred to another college. They also receive a $500
stipend/scholarship when they re-enroll as full-time college students
in the fall.
About a dozen participants will go directly from AIJI to paid summer
internships at daily newspapers. AIJI graduates also are eligible to
apply to work for www.Reznetnews.org, the country's foremost online
newspaper produced by and for Native students.
AIJI is open exclusively to Native students interested in journalism
who have completed at least one year of college and who intend to
return to school in the fall.
Preference will be given to those applicants interested in journalism
careers and who show the greatest potential to become journalists.
Previous journalism coursework is not required. The program forbids
the use of alcohol, other intoxicants and illegal drugs at any time
from June 5 through June 24, 2005. Violators will be dismissed from
the institute.
From: "ghwelker"
Greetings fellow readers,
I invite you to experience the world as seen from the
eyes of a traditional Navajo boy on the largest Native American
Reservation in the United States. Although I am a member of the
Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma, I was raised from the age of eight years
old in Window Rock, Arizona and consequently married into the Navajo
Nation to a beautiful woman from the Pinon, Arizona area. We have
three children and continue to live near her family as is the way of
the matrilineal people of the Navajo Nation.
As my soul took me through the pathway of life, I went
to school and received my Bachelor's of Science and became a
Registered Nurse; however, my heart belonged to the written word.
The Fourth World is my first fiction novel and I believe you and other
readers will greatly enjoy the special insights that I share about the
Navajo people. I write under the pen-name W. Tussinger. I have
included a print of the front and back covers. The book is published
by Publish America under ISBN # 1-4137-4547-4.
This is, obviously, a promo letter. My interest in
writing is really to enquire how I might work with your fine
organization to our mutual benefit. I'd be open to working closely
with you to let your readers/viewers know of my work. Rather this
entails personal appearances and/or writing articles per your
guidelines.
As a legitimate media representative you are invited
to request a complimentary copy of Fourth World from
support@publishamerica.com.
Thank you very much.
Bill Elliott,
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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Coyote and his son had been eating a bear's carcass, and, having
overfed
themselves, fell asleep alongside of it. Some women who were
egg-hunting
came along, and, finding them sound asleep, smeared their mouths and
hands
with bear-fat, and took away all the cooked meat they could see. This
happened at a place in Lower Nicola called Kestami' ns a snikie' p.6
When
Coyote awoke, he missed the meat, and, seeing his son's hands and mouth
covered with fat, he began to thrash him. The lad said, "It must have
been
yourself, for your mouth is also covered with fat."
Now Coyote knew that a trick had been played on them, so he followed
the
women's tracks, and found them gathering eggs near the lake-shore. He
went
to a fine camping-place, where he knew they would camp for the night,
and
changed himself into an old stump, and his son into a broken branch on
the
stump. He made ants build a hill round the base of the stump to delude
the
women still more. At evening the women arrived, and made preparations
to
camp, some of them hanging their baskets on the stump. They made an
earth
oven and baked the eggs, saying "They will be cooked in the morning."
They
put several hundred eggs in the oven, and had more in the baskets. When
they
were going to bed, an old woman said, "The stump moves." and another
said,
"That stump was not there before." But the others all laughed, and said
it
had always been there, and asked how it could move. When they were all
asleep, Coyote and his son ate all the eggs in the baskets, and then,
opening the oven, ate all that were there also. When they had finished,
they
stuffed the privates of each woman with egg-shells. Next morning the
women
got up and, going to urinate, wondered at the noise they heard. Those
still
in bed thought it was made by a Chinook wind striking the tops of the
mountains, but it really was caused by the urine playing on the
egg-shells.
The women soon noticed that the stump was gone and also all their eggs.
They
said, "That is the dog of a coyote getting even with us."
"Oh," he said. "I must have been sleeping."
Taken from: Myths and Tales from Nicola Valley and Fraser River
collected by
James Alexander Teit, 1911
From Blue Panther Keeper of Stories
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Subject: Re: Indian murals at EPA building to undergo review
> To: magu4u@hotmail.com
Subject: Native Songs & Pictures
http://www.ncidc.org/
Subject: Saving Tribal Tongues
Subject: National Powwow
Karen Rawlins, Community Recreation Programs Supervisor
City of Rockville, 111 Maryland Avenue
Rockville, Maryland 20850
240-314-8633 (phone)
240-314-8659 (fax)
krawlins@rockvillemd.gov
Subject: 2004 Nunavut Literary Prize winning stories published
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
Subject: "Fourth World" (new novel)
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beverleepettit.org/wendat_wtussinger.html
Early tribal artifacts put in spotlight
Little-known items focus of exhibit in Chicago
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