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County art exhibit to open March 5 at Coutts Museum
El Dorado Times - El Dorado,KS,USA
... studied drawing, painting, design, as well as Egyptian, Native American, American and European ... Aesthetic 2005" at the Wichita Center for the Arts through April ...

Exhibit focuses on artistic skills of Columbia River tribes
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... of Native American art, artifacts and artwork of the Columbia River weren't easy to get to, so the region "sort of got lumped together," with native arts from ...

American Indian gallery opening American Indian Center holding ...
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
... her he was trying to start a fine arts center in ... In exchange, the American Indian Center will provide learning ... for area youths, a market to buy native art, and ...

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From: "ghwelker"
Navajo Filmmaker Shonie de la Rosa

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"
Subject: Navajo Nation President rejects Indian label, declares ˜I am Dine"?

Contact: George Hardeen, Communications Director
Office 928-871-7917
Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., rejects Indian label, declares ˜I am Dine"?

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.

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From: "ghwelker"
Subject: Information about the Choctaw/Muskogean tribe

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
(425) 226-3184
edpascoe@msn.com


From: "ghwelker"
Subject: Training at Museum of Civilization

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"
Subject: House Bill 179 relating to artifacts recovered from Native American burial sites

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"
Subject: Mohawk Creation Legends of the Iroquois (online movie clip) streaming video
Mohawk Creation Legends of the Iroquois
http://www.presenciataina.tv/CreationStory.mov

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
Subject: AEQ Book Review of Telling Stories the Kiowa Way

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0816522782/104-4144017-1587941?v=glance&st=*
http://www.ubcpress.ubc.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=3875
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?show=Trade%20Paper:Used:0816522782:13.50
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?pwb=1&isbn=0816522782

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 www.aaanet.org/cae/aeq/br/index.htm and will be cited and indexed in the December 2004 issue (35.4) of the Anthropology & Education Quarterly. Please note that the postings to the Council for Anthropology and Education listserv are delayed due to AEQ's transition to Arizona State University. We apologize for the delay and thank you for your understanding.

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 volunteered reviews are rare. The Book Review Editor makes the decision whether to accept the review for publication. This policy has applied and continues to apply to all book reviews, whether published on the AEQ web site or in the paper journal.

Please send your contributions for the ANKN Listserv to Alaska Native Knowledge Network .

If you have any suggestions, questions, or comments, please email Alaska Native Knowledge Network .

George Lessard-Media Specialist


From: "ghwelker" Subject: 28th Annual California Conference on American Indian Education

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
1919 B Street,
Marysville, CA 95901
Phone: (530) 749-6196 Fax: (530) 741-7840
email: jgraham@mjusd.k12.ca.us

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:
Student Name Tribal Affiliation
Age of Student
Phone Number
Address Sponsoring organization (i.e., Title IX, IEC, or school)

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.
http://festival.sundance.org/2005/?=native&107


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


Coyote and His Anus - Nez Perce

Coyote [itsaya' ya] was going along up the valley. He was very hungry. "What is there to eat?" he said to himself. "Let me build a fish trap [a jumping out place - wala' 'tq 'inwas],l and I will catch a salmon." He constructed a weir, then sat down nearby, and sang out, "Oh, salmon, swim up to me; I made you!" He waited, and soon he saw a very large salmon coming up the river. The salmon headed straight into the chute of the weir, and Coyote followed it. Then the salmon flopped around and threw himself out of the water, Coyote rushed up and clubbed it to death. "I will find a good shady place and broil this," he told himself. Then he found a good shade under a cottonwood tree. He started a fire and set up his salmon to broil. "Now let me have a nap; I'm just tired out. I will sleep and the wake up about the time my fish will be well cooked," he decided. Now he lay down and fell into a deep slumber.

A large party of egg hunters came along, the Raccoons [k'ayk'a' yats], the Wolf brothers [himisya' ya], Fox [tili' ptsxi'], and many other four-footed people. "Look, there sleeps Coyote," they whispered. "Let us eat his salmon." And the Wolves, always disrespectfully mischievous, suggested, "Yes, and then we will broil his anus." Now they went up to Coyote and said to him, "Old man, let us eat the salmon-all right?"

"Mm," Coyote mumbled in his sleep.

They addressed him again, "Old man, let us eat your salmon-all right?"

"Mm," Coyote groaned in his sleep.

"He says, 'Yes, go ahead and eat,' " the hunters told one another mischievously. No they ate Coyote's broiled salmon; with so many of them, they ate up every bit. And then they cut out Coyote's anus and set it to broil in the same place the salmon had been. The party went off; they went up the hill to watch.

Presently Coyote awoke. "Ah, so I have a broiled salmon. Let me just walk with eyes shut down to the river to refresh myself, to drink and wash my face. Then I will eat heartily." He got up and went down to the river. After he had washed his face, he walk back toward his fire. But from some distance away, he saw that his salmon was gone. "But someone has broiled meat for me! That youngest one must have been passing by; he always crassly mischievous. He would never respect a person. Well, I will eat heartily of this then," Coyote said to himself. The grease was dripping nicely from the broiling meat. So Coyote ate.

But now from above on the hill, the egg hunters shouted to him, "You are eating your anus!"

"Hark!" Coyote exclaimed. "This is where they once buried a person alive, and it must be he who speaks to me." On the hilltop the people told one another, "The poor one is eating up his anus. Shout again." They shouted to Coyote, "You are eating your anus!"

At this moment an ant ran into the cavity which had been cut in Coyote's buttocks. tickled Coyote; suddenly he started to scratch, only to find that part of his body missing. "I have no anusl Then I was eating it!" he exclaimed. The little piece he had left he shoved back into place. Suddenly he looked up and saw the people on the hill; they were laughing uproariously at him. Now they turned and ran away. Coyote decided, "Let them go. I will not chase them, but I will have revenge later."

The egg hunters went on; after awhile they had gathered a large quantity of eggs. So they stopped to pit-cook them. They dug a pit, started a fire in it, and heated stones. They let the fire bum out until only the coals and hot stones remained. Now they cover these with a layer of twigs and grass. They put in the eggs next, and then sealed up the pit with a layer of sod. "Now let us lie down and sleep for awhile. We are all tired, and we can a nap and get up just about the time the eggs are well cooked," they told one another. they all lay down to sleep.

Suddenly Coyote came upon them. "Oh, now to get revenge!" he told himself. He reached into the pit and took out the eggs. He ate and ate. He left just enough eggs for the otters to have one apiece. "They will first uncover their pit to sample them. I will teach them a lesson! They treated me very badly," he thought. After Coyote had eaten most of the , he began to paint the sleeping egg-hunters with egg batter. "Fox, you too? So you are them, you doer of inane things!" he said. He painted Fox to make him handsome, and did the same to the Raccoons. Now he came to the Wolf brothers. "You mischief makers!" Coyote thought, and he painted them and smeared them to give them the ugliest possible appearance. Now Coyote went away. "I will watch them," he thought. The egg hunters awoke after awhile. "Let us sample our eggs to see if they are done." They uncovered a corner of the pit, and each took out an egg. "They are just right," they said. Now they uncovered their pit; but, lo, they saw only a clutter of egg shells. They looked at one another in amazement only to discover that they were painted up. "Oh, you painted!"

"How about yourself! As if you weren't!" they exclaimed as they began to laugh at one another. Now they began to accuse one another until they saw that they were all painted. "Someone has taken our eggs, and very likely it was Coyote," it suddenly occurred to them. They looked up the hill. There was Coyote throwing himself about in laughter [ts'ax, , ts'ax,"]. "Coyote has done this to us! Let us chase him!" the painted hunters exclaimed. They all ran toward Coyote.

"When could they ever begin to catch me? Let the foolish ones try to overtake me!" Coyote told himself, and away he went in a tremendous burst of speed. Soon the pursuers gave up hope.

Fox alone decided, "Let me overtake him." He ran on, and now Coyote, seeing him ling alone, waited for him.

Coyote said to Fox, "So you, too, had to be in that party!" There the two friends sat down laughed and laughed. Presently they got up and started off somewhere, Coyote and his comrade together.

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

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