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20th Annual Taos Pueblo Pow Wow

July 8 - 10, 2005
Taos Pueblo , NM

Contact Information
Taos Pueblo Tourism
505-758-1028
info@taospueblopowwow.com
http://taospueblopowwow.com

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Kickapoo Pow-wow Days

July 15 - 17, 2005
Horton , KS

Contact Information
Michelle Thomas
877-864-2746
michelle.thomas@ktik.org

INVITED DRUMS:
MILWAUKEE BUCKS-Host Northern
YOUNGBIRD-Host Southern

Head Judge: Victor Thomas
Miss Kickapoo 2004-05: Nadas Green
Color Guard: Kickapoo American Legion Post & Kickapoo Womens Auxillary

SPECIALS

JR GIRLS ALL-AROUND
1st - $300 + Jacket
2nd - $200
3rd - $100
Sponsored by Miss Kickapoo 2004-05, Nadas Green & Family

MENS TRADITIONAL SPECIAL
Operation Iraqi Freedom
In Honor of Leroy Pelkey, Jr.

JINGLE DRESS SPECIAL
Sponsored by Yvette Ewalk

MEN'S FANCY DANCE SPECIAL
Sponsored by Gabe Bullock

DRUM CONTEST

1st: $3,500
2nd: $2,500
3rd: $1,500
$2,500 split
Minimum of 5 singers
No Drum Hopping

DANCE CHAMPIONSHIP CATEGORIES

GOLDEN AGE 50 & UP
Men Combined
Women Combined
1st-$800 2nd-$500
3rd-$300 4th-$200

ADULTS 18-49
Mens Traditional Womens Northern Traditional
Mens Straight Womens Southern Cloth/Buckskin
Mens Grass Womens Jingle
Mens Fancy Womens Fancy Shawl
1st-$800 2nd-$500
3rd-$300 4th-$200

TEENS 13-17 YRS
Boys Traditional Girls Traditional
Boys Grass Girls Jingle
Boys Fancy Girls Fancy Shawl
1st-$325 2nd-$225
3rd-$150 4th-$100

JUNIORS 6-12-YRS
Boys Traditional Girls Traditional
Boys Grass Girls Jingle
Boys Fancy Girls Fancy Shawl
1st-$200 2nd-$150
3rd-$100 4th-$50

TINY TOTS PAID DAILY

Registration opens Friday at 5:00 pm & Closes Saturday at 1:00 pm. Point system will be used.

Grand Entries:
July 15th-7 p.m.
July 16th-1 p.m. & 7 p.m.
July 17th-1 p.m.

ADMISSION: Weekend Pass: $5
Daily Pass: $3
Seniors 50 & up, Children under 6-FREE

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Khowutzun Warmland Inter-Tribal Pow wow

July 15 - 17, 2005
Duncan , BC

Contact Information
Lester Joe OR Fred Roland Jr.
250-709-2248

Additional Information
The vendors tables are as follows: arts and crafts $75.00 a day or $200.00 for the weekend and for two tables only, any more than two there will be an additional charge of $50.00 for each table. Food vendors are as follows: $125.00 a day or $300.00 for weekend. First come first serve bases. We are expecting around 5000 more or less people this year as we are having our event on the same weekend as the "Duncan Summer Festival Days" which draws about 30,000 more or less people each year. This is where all the town closes the streets off down town and the bussinesses bring their goods on the sreet to sell. So we are expecting a lot of non-natives coming this year. We reserve the right to change our venue for the vendors. All proceeds go towards pow-wow. "Sorry no cheques" cash only, paid in full. vendors are responsible for their merchandice, if they want to purchace insurance they can. No bussiness licence required. We will have a security on duty all days and nights thru out the weekend.

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Ocmulgee National Monument

9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, 1207 Emery Highway, Macon, GA. American Indian mounds, museum featuring 10,000 years of human history, Native American Art Gallery, picnic area and five miles of trails. 752-8257. Free.

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ILLINOIS

Contemporary Indian Art Show, Collinsville, July 9-10. Paintings, sculptures, silverwork, ceramics, paper art, and pen and ink drawings by more than 30 Native-American artists from across the nation are featured at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. 618-346-5160

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Native American Flute 5–7 pm, Featherstone Center for the Arts, Barnes Rd., Oak Bluffs, MA. Ronn Speed teaches beginners, weekly through July 27. $120. Preregister. 508-693-1850.

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Art entries needed for New Mexico State Fair

Native American art will be accepted at the Native American Art Gallery on Wednesday through Friday, Aug. 17-19, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturday, Aug. 20, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dealers may pre-register between Tuesday and Friday, Aug. 9-12. Exhibits must have been produced by Native American Indians of federally regulated tribes.

For more information, go online at www.exponm.com, call Vigil-Eastwood at (505) 265-1791, extension 454 or e-mail her at ramonave@swcp.com.

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BROWNING, Montana — Just like modern-day soldiers, early Plains Indians were adept at armoring their bodies for battle. Long before Kevlar vests, Blackfeet fighters repelled stone-tipped arrows with "war shirts" laced with a protective — and often richly decorative — weave of porcupine quills. Modern-day connoisseurs of military garb and lovers of authentic Native American artistry normally look to museums for a peek at these precursors to the bulletproof vest. Finding one for sale has always been trickier — until now. An authentic war shirt made by a modern Native artist is among the thousands of traditional and contemporary Indian art pieces for sale at the new Blackfeet Heritage Center and Art Gallery in Browning. The center is located on Highway 2, a convenient stop for the estimated 2 million visitors who enter Glacier National Park each year via the Blackfeet Reservation. And it's across the street from the Museum of the Plains Indian, a well-established venue for Blackfeet artifacts and art, and the North American Indian Days powwow grounds. The July 7-10 powwow, one of the largest in the region, is an intriguing way to observe authentic Blackfeet traditions.

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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
*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
nmainationalpowwow@si.edu
www.americanindian.si.edu
(webpage in development-email announcement to staff when complete)

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Artists re-imagine native styles

"Fusing Traditions: Transformations in Glass by Native American Artists," on display at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art in Corning, exhibition introduces the first generation of Native American studio glass artists to re-imagine their cultural art forms: beadwork, pottery, masks, spindlewhorls, dance wands and hats.

Eighteen artists fused cultural heritage and individual creativity into dazzling new glass forms for this traveling exhibition featuring 37 artworks. The show was organized by the Museum of Craft & Folk Art in San Francisco.

The museum is on the corner of Denison Parkway and Cedar Street in Corning. Summer hours: 9 a.m.-8 p.m. daily. Details: www.rockwellmuseum.org.

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"HOME: Native People in the Southwest" at the Heard Museum: The Heard ends a yearlong celebration of its 75th anniversary by opening a huge new gallery that houses a larger and improved exhibition of Southwestern Native American art. The new exhibition organizes 2,000 objects by tribe instead of type, includes maps of each tribe's ancestral and modern lands, information about their history, and excerpts of interviews with living members of the tribe. The result is that "HOME" feels less like a showcase of treasures amassed on the cheap by rich white people and more like an explanation of the still-living cultures that produced them. Through 2020. Heard Museum, 2301 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, 602-252-8848.

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Turtle Island A new puppet
show based on Native American legends. Presented every Saturday in May at PuppetART, Detroit. Tickets: $5/children, $7/adults. 313-961-7777. www.puppetart.org.

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Artrain USA kicks off Michigan tour

ANN ARBOR Ð Artrain USA has announced a nine-city Michigan State Tour that kicked off May 14 in Petoskey. The Michigan Tour will take the exhibition "Native Views: Influences of Modern Culture" throughout Artrain USA's founding state.

Michigan Tour dates are Harrisville, Oct. 1 to 4; Standish, Oct. 7 to 10; West Branch, Oct. 13 to 16; Owosso, Oct. 20 to 23; and Grand Haven, Oct. 29 to Nov. 1.

"We are thrilled to be sharing our 'Native Views' exhibition in our home state. Touring in Michigan is always a highlight along our national tour route. It is a chance to return to our roots and strengthen our legacy. This tour is a salute the arts in Michigan and the 'Native Views' exhibition is a celebration of the outstanding contributions Native American artists make in our society," said Debra Polich, president and CEO of Artrain USA.

Native Views is a contemporary Native American art exhibition comprised of 71 artworks by 54 Native American artists. It explores the influence of popular culture and the many commonalties shared by all Americans.

Artrain USA is "America's Hometown Art Museum." A nonprofit organization, Artrain is an art museum housed in vintage rail cars that travels via the nation's railroads. More than 3 million people have visited Artrain USA during 780 community visits across 45 states. Founded in Michigan in 1971 by the Michigan Council for the Arts, Artrain USA's national headquarters is in Ann Arbor.

For more information please call 800-ART-1971 or www.ArtrainUSA.org.

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Wichita Art Museum, an exhibit, "Prints by Woody Crumbo"

At the Wichita Art Museum, an exhibit, "Prints by Woody Crumbo," celebrates his legacy with 18 color serigraphs depicting Native American ceremonies. Crumbo died in 1989.

The prints will be on view in the foyer above the museum's River Room interactive gallery through July 31.

Admission to the Wichita Art Museum, 1400 W. Museum Blvd., is $5, discounts available. On Saturdays, admission is free. For more information, call 268-4921.

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Creation Choctaw - Choctaw

At the beginning there was a great mound. It was called Nanih Wiya. It was from this mound that the Creator fashioned the first of the people. These people crawled through a long, dark cave into daylight. They became the first Choctaw.

Eclipse of the sun blamed on black squirrel (Choctaw) xx In Choctaw history, solar eclipses were attributed to black squirrels, or a black squirrel, supposed to be eating the luminary, and they must be driven off if mankind were still to enjoy the heat and light. Cushman says: The Choctaw . . . attributed an eclipse of the sun to a black squirrel, whose eccentricities often led it into mischief, and, among other things, that of trying to eat up the sun at different intervals. When thus inclined, they believed, which was confirmed by long experience, that the only effective means to prevent so fearful a catastrophe befalling the world as the blotting out of that indispensable luminary, was to favor the little, black epicure with a first-class scare; therefore, whenever he manifested an inclination to indulge in a meal on the sun, every ingenuity was called into requisition to give him a genuine fright so that he would be induced, at least, to postpone his meal on the sun at that particular time and seek a lunch elsewhere. As soon, therefore, as the sun began to draw its lunar veil over its face, the cry was heard from every mount from the Dan to the Beersheba of their then wide extended territory, echoing from hill to dale, "Funi lusa hushi umpa! Funi lusa hushi umpa," according to our phraseology, the black squirrel is eating the sun! Then and there was heard a sound of tumult by day in the Choctaw Nation for the space of an hour or two. Far exceeding that said to have been heard by night in Belgium's Capital, and sufficient in the conglomeration of discordant tones terrific, if heard by the distant, little, fastidious squirrel, to have made him lose forever afterward all relish for a mess of suns for an early or late dinner.

The shouts of the women and children mingling with the ringing of discordant bells as the vociferous pounding and beating of earsplitting tin pans and cups mingling in "wild confusion worse confounded," yet in sweet unison with a first-class orchestra of yelping, howling, barking dogs gratuitously thrown in by the innumerable and highly excited curs, produced a din, which even a "Funi lusa," had he heard it, could scarcely have endured even to have indulged in a nibble or two of the sun, though urged by the demands of a week's fasting.

But during the wild scene the men were not idle spectators, or indifferent listeners. Each stood a few paces in front of his cabin door with no outward manifestation of excitement whatever - so characteristic of the Indian warrior but with his trusty rifle in hand, which so oft had proved a friend sincere in many hours of trial, which he loaded and fired in rapid succession at the distant, devastating squirrel, with the same coolness and calm deliberation that he did when shooting at his game. More than once have I witnessed the fearful yet novel scene. When it happened to be the time of a total eclipse of the sun, a sufficient evidence that the little, black epicure meant business in regard to having a square meal, though it took the whole sun to furnish it, then indeed there were sounds of revelry and tumult unsurpassed by any ever heard before, either in "Belgium" or elsewhere.

Then the women shrieked and redoubled their efforts upon the tin pans, which, under the desperate blows, strained every vocal organ to do its utmost and whole duty in loud response, while the excited children screamed and beat their tin cups, and the sympathetic dogs (whose name was legion) barked and howled - all seemingly determined not to fall the one behind the other in their duty since the occasion demanded it; while the warriors still stood in profound and meditative silence, but firm and undaunted, as they quickly loaded and fired their rifles, each time taking deliberate aim, if perchance the last shot might prove the successful one; then, as the moon's shadow began to move from the disk of the sun, the joyful shout was heard above the mighty din "Funi-lusa-osh mahlatah! " The black squirrel is frightened.

But the din remained unabated until the sun again appeared in its usual splendor, and all nature again assumed its harmonious course.

From the archives of Blue Panther Keeper of Stories

http://groups.msn.com/KeeperofStories
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/keeper_of_stories_3

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Creation Choctaw 2 - Choctaw

The Choctaw who remain in Mississippi tell this story as an explanation of how they came to the land where they live now and of how Naniah Waiya Mound came to be.

Two brothers, Chata and Chicksah led the original people from a land in the far west that had ceased to prosper. The people traveled for a long time, guided by a magical pole. Each night, when the people stopped to camp, the pole was placed in the ground and in the morning the people would travel in the direction in which the pole leaned.

After traveling for an extremely long time, they finally came to a place where the pole remained upright. In this place, they laid to rest the bones of their ancestors, which they had carried in buffalo sacks from the original land in the west.

The mound grew out of that great burial.

After the burial, the brothers discovered that the land could not support all the people. Chicksah took half the people and departed to the North and eventually became the Chickasaw tribe.

Chatah and the others remained near the mound and are now known as the Choctaw.

From the archives of Blue Panther Keeper of Stories

http://groups.msn.com/KeeperofStories
http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/keeper_of_stories_3

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Essay on the Zuni World View
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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].