Tuesday, March 22, 2005

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Seminole and Miccosukee Attractions
SouthFlorida.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... authentic village with Seminole artisans preparing arts and crafts ... and stay in an authentic native-style chickee ... and frybread, along with standard American fare ...

Gary Okihiro Takes Two-Year Leave
Columbia Daily Spectator - New York City,NY,USA
... his contract, Nicholas Dirks, Columbia's Vice President of Arts and Sciences ... ethnic studies courses, and creating a major in Native American studies.If he ...

Faculty Senate at ECU preparing to celebrate its 40th anniversary
Greenville Daily Reflector - Greenville,NC,USA
... Native American author and activist Winona LaDuke will give the keynote address at the 2005 ... It is funded by the Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. ...

Trustees' Meeting Coverage
UPENN Almanac - Pennsylvania,USA
... last Thursday, President Amy Gutmann called the Third Annual Arts Day, which was ... that it is a "sacred object" under the Native American Graves Protection ...

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From: "Jeanne Svhiyeyi Aga Dayanisgv Koga Chadwick"

Subject: MY TWO BEADS WORTH UPDATES MARCH 19, 2005

From: "Jeanne Svhiyeyi Aga Dayanisgv Koga Chadwick" Subject: MY TWO BEADS WORTH UPDATES MARCH 19, 2005

My Two Beads Worth Site Updates March 19, 2005My Two Beads Worth

Updates March 19, 2005

Welcome to our newest subscribers! Your interest and support is appreciated.

GOOD NEWS! My Two Beads Worth is back on its own private domain. I decided that it should be because not only will it make it easier for people to find the website but it's best to have it separate and on its own.

This update is dedicated to my brother, Tom Greyhawk Sawyers who walked on November 11, 2004.

Now the updates.

March 19, 2005

Father of Indian Education Dies

Casting Call for Aboriginal Television Hosts

Judge ok's Indian Inmates Religious Plan

Senate votes to open Alaskan Oil Drilling

Goal is to return Indian Remains

Woman Seeks Help for Nephew-Urgent Call For Help

Rick Schroder tags cultural resource for Black Cloud

The Land of the Sippican

Oklahomans and American Indians, Chamber of Commerce rush to aid of Last Comanche Code-Talker

For the Onondaga Nation a Historic Day

ACLU Trainings for Border Observers and notes of a frontlinemom

Juarez Murder Victims get Students to help

Indian Murals at EPA Bldg to undergo review

The Force Behind a Lawsuit

School immeres Mohawk Children in Traditional Language

Sides Air Positions at LNG Hearings - Maine

Sisseton Community Asks Why Girl left in Field for 9 hours

Dana Speaks on Social and Environmental Justice

Leni Lenape win Land Battle

Tohono O'odlam Nation Doles out $646K

Blessings from the Birds

Donations Needed for Liver Donor Liver Transplant

Two American Indian Teens to be kicked off Reservation

Victory is Ours! Taco Bell Boycott Over

Event Honors Piestewa

Help Save Sacred San Franciso Peaks!

The Irish in America Supports American Indian Treaty Rights

Mourning the loss of Ernest Childers

Education Milestone: Examples for the long run

Sacajawea Event

Mexico completes Visual Dictionaries of Indigenous Languages

Onondaga Case Disrupts NY Settlement

Discrimination and Violence Against Indigenous Women in Canada

For the Healing of Mother Earth

Plastic Shamans and Astroturf Sun Dances

Indigenous Day instead of Columbus Day in Maine?

Senator Pledges Fight in Energy Committee

Fenelon: What Are We To Do? The Problem of Ward and "Indian Issues"

If you are having trouble clicking on these links, you can read these updates at the following:

http://mytwobeadsworth.com/March2005.html

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From: dorindamoreno
Subject: Re: Indian murals at EPA building to undergo review

From: Carol
> To: magu4u@hotmail.com

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"
Subject: Native Songs & Pictures

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:
http://www.ncidc.org/

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"
Subject: Saving Tribal Tongues

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
Subject: National Powwow

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 (webpage in development-email announcement to staff when complete)

"For the Children - Our Future" - Running Deer
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


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 Subject: 2004 Nunavut Literary Prize winning stories published

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
Communications Manager
Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth
E-mail: prumbolt@gov.nu.ca
Phone: (867) 975.5531

Kim Crockatt
Nunavut Literacy Council
E-mail: kimcr@polarnet.ca
Phone: 867-983-2678


From: George Lessard Nominations sought for American Indian Journalism Institute

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"
Subject: "Fourth World" (new novel)

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,
PO Box 797
Pinon AZ 86510
(928) 725-3109
bwe4@yahoo.com (personal contact)
beverleepettit.org/wendat_wtussinger.html


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" 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
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

Web Sites:
Native American Links Page
Indigenous Peoples Literature
Wisdom of the Old People
Native American Summer Camp Info
Native Village(117K)

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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Coyote and the Fawns - Sia

One day when he was traveling around, Coyote met a deer with two fawns. The fawns were beautifully spotted, and he said to the deer, "How did you paint your children? They are so beautiful!" Deer replied, "I painted them with fire from the cedar." "And how did you do the work?" asked Coyote. "I put my children into a cave and built a fire of cedar in front of it. Every time a spark flew from the fire it struck my children, making a beautiful spot." "Oh," said Coyote, "I will do the same thing. Then I will make my children beautiful." He hurried to his house and put his children in a cave. Then he built a fire of cedar in front of it and stood off to watch the fire. But the children cried because the fire was very hot. Coyote kept calling to them not to cry because they would be beautiful like the deer. After a time the crying ceased and Coyote was pleased. But when the fire died down, he found they were burned to death. Coyote expected to find them beautiful, but instead they were dead. Then he was enraged with the deer and ran away to hunt her, but he could not find her anywhere. He was much distressed to think the deer had fooled him so easily.

Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest Compiled and Edited by Katharine Berry Judson, 1912 ,, (New Mexico)

From Blue Panther Keeper of Stories

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