Friday, July 08, 2005

Zuni Enigma Controversy, Navajo Fair in Flagstaff

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Zuni Enigma

Audio files discussing the controversy created by Nancy Yaw Davis' book and the speculation of Japanese contacts with the Zuni and perhaps other Native American tribes in prehistoric times. Guests include Nancy Yaw Davis, Hayes Lewis (past superintendant of the Zuni school system), Zuni councilman Arden Kucate, and Malcolm Bowekety, member of the Zuni Nation.

This is a topic worthy of comment. Listen to the file and post your comments here.

Summer art classes for children at FIA

FLINT Ð The Art School has summer classes available for children at the Flint Institute of Arts, 1120 E. Kearsley Street, Flint.

Artwork is a weekly summer program that gives children ages 5-12 the chance to be inspired by great works of art and to make art of their own. Students will see amazing works of art and create their own using exciting materials. Each week is different so children may register for one or more sessions.

Native American culture will be the inspiration for the week of July 25-29 as students will learn about American Indian art and participate in hands-on art activities that will include making petroglyphs, masks, clay vessels and more.

July 29 - 31, 2005 56th Annual Navajo Festival of Arts and Culture, Flagstaff, AZ. Salina Bookshelf will join more than 50 Navajo artists during this event at the Museum of Northern Arizona

Plains Art Museum: "Between Two Cultures: The Art of Star Wallowing Bull," opens Sept. 24; "Contemporary Native American Artists - Reflections After Lewis and Clark," opens July 21; "Suzanne Moser: Folk Paintings" through July 17; "A Different Side of the Collection: Abstract Paintings from the Plains Art Museum," opens July 21. (701) 232-3821.

Alice Walton, heiress and daughter of Sam Walton, un-veiled plans of her dream for the 100,000-square-foot glass and wood Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which, she said, would be created in the rustic location of Bentonville, Arkansas. The Crystal Bridges, costing $50m and slated to open in May 2009, will concentrate on Native American art and American artists from the colonial era to the 20th century.

Ohio University Gallery, Athens -- Kennedy Museum of Art, Lin Hall at the Ridges: "Weaving Is Life," Navajo textiles from the Edwin L. and Ruth E. Kennedy Southwest Native American collection; 740-593-1304.

Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History. 165 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove, CA. Impressive exhibits include Native American artifacts. 648-5716.

Summer is powwow season and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum prepares people by holding its two-day Powwow Festival.

The festival takes place 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday on the Museum Terrace of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. The powwow is free with a paid admission to the museum.

Visitors can experience traditional American Indian foods such as fry bread, buffalo burgers and Indian tacos. Hand-made artwork such as wampum jewelry, pottery and more will be available for purchase.

A traditional round dance will take place and visitors can join. Master of ceremonies Jules Strongbow will explain the various dance styles, such as fancy shawl, jingle dress and men's grass dance. The indian drum group provides the music. Indian artists will demonstrate their skills and crafts and explain the cultural traditions of the items they make.

A daily raffle will also be held.

While at the museum, visitors can check out the latest exhibition, the Native American Fine Arts Show that recently opened. It features works from tribes in the Northeast and many of the works are available for purchase.

From: "ghwelker"

Subject: Native American story teller needed (for National Geographic article)

Dear Mr. Welker,

I am a writer with National Geographic Magazine. I'm currently researching an article about ancient marine reptiles and the legends/stories their fossils have inspired world-wide. Adrienne Meyer kindly gave me your email address. She suggested I contact you about finding a Native American story teller who would be willing to discuss and share with me some of their water monster stories. In particular, I'm looking for someone from the Lakota/Sioux peoples, since they were long familiar with the fossils of the Badlands.

Many thanks for any suggestions and for your kind help.

Best wishes,

Virginia Morell
Contributing Writer
National Geographic Magazine

Glenn Welker
Indigenous Peoples Literature

SEATTLE-Burke Museum Subhankar Banerjee's magnificent photos of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are the result of a two-year expedition among caribou and tundra. Savor these images, before ExxonMobil and BP bring their "low-impact" drilling apparatus to ANWR. Also on display: traditional and contemporary Native American art depicting arctic animals. UW campus, Northeast 45th Street and 17th Avenue Northeast, 206-543-5590. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily (until 8 p.m. Thurs.).

Gallup, NM Hosts Balloon Festival Over Ancient Red Rock Canyons

The 25th annual Red Rock Balloon Rally takes place the first week of December in Gallup, New Mexico. Come to view the magnificent 200 balloons from across the Southwest, and around the world, fly the ancient canyon walls of Red Rock State Park. Often described as a balloonist’s paradise, this honorable invitation presents pilots with the opportunity to compete for fine Native American Arts and Crafts. Unique to this rally, spectators are welcomed to become active participants by joining balloon chase crews.

For more information contact Maxine Armstrong Touchine at 505-863-1277 or email: mtouchin@ci.gallup.nm.us Please visit their website: http://gallupnm.org

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

Creation Kato - Kato

The sandstone rock which formed the sky was old, they say. It thundered in the east; it thundered in the south; it thundered in the west; it thundered in the north. "The rock is old, we will fix it," he said.

There were two, Nagaitcho and Thunder. "We will stretch it above far to the east," one of them said. They stretched it. They walked on the sky.

In the south he stood on end a large rock. In the west he stood on end a large rock. In the north he stood on end a large, tall rock. In the east he stood on end a large, tall rock. He made everything properly. He made the roads. He made a road to the north (where the sun travels in summer).

"In the south there will be no trees but only many flowers," he said. "Where will there be a hole through?" he asked. At the north he made a hole through. East he made a large opening for the clouds. West he made an opening for the fog. "To the west the clouds shall go," he said.

He made a knife. He made it for splitting the rocks. He made the knife very strong.

"How will it be?" he considered. "You go north; I will go south," he said. "I have finished already," he said. "Stretch the rock in the north. You untie it in the west, I will untie it in the east."

"What will be clouds?" he asked. "Set fires about here," he told him. On the upland they burned to make clouds. Along the creek bottoms they burned to make mist. "It is good," he said. He made clouds so the heads of coming people would not ache.

There is another world above where Thunder lives. "You will live here near by," he told Nagaitcho.

"Put water on the fire, heat some water," he said. He made a person out of earth. "Well, I will talk to him," he said. He made his right leg and his left leg. He made his right arm and his left arm. He pulled off some grass and wadded it up. He put some of it in place for his belly. He hung up some of it for his stomach.

When he had slapped some of the grass he put it in for his heart. He used a round piece of clay for his liver. He put in more clay for his kidneys. He cut a piece into parts and put it in for his lungs. He pushed in a reed (for a trachea).

"What sort will blood be?" he enquired. He pounded up ochre. "Get water for the ochre," he said. He laid him down. He sprinkled him with water. He made his mouth, his nose, and two eyes. "How will it be?" he said. "Make him privates," he said. He made them. He took one of the legs, split it, and made woman of it.

Clouds arose in the east. Fog came up in the west. "Well, let it rain, let the wind blow," he said. "Up in the sky there will be none, there will be only gentle winds. Well, let it rain in the fog," he said. It rained. One could not see. It was hot in the sky. The sun came up now. "What will the sun be?" he said. "Make a fire so it will be hot. The moon will travel at night." The moon is cold.

He came down. "Who, I wonder, can kick open a rock?" he said. "Who can split a tree?" "Well, I will try," said Nagaitcho. He couldn't split the tree. "Who, I wonder, is the strongest?" said Thunder. Nagaitcho didn't break the rock. "Well, I will try," said Thunder. Thunder kicked the rock. He kicked it open. It broke to pieces. "Go look at the rock," he said. "He kicked the rock open," one reported. "Well, I will try a tree," he said. He kicked the tree open. The tree split to pieces.

Thunder and Nagaitcho came down. "Who can stand on the water? You step on the water," Thunder told Nagaitcho. "Yes, I will," Nagaitcho said. He stepped on the water and sank into the ocean. "I will try," said Thunder. He stepped on the water. He stood on it with one leg. "I have finished quickly," he said.

It was evening. It rained. It rained. Every day, every night it rained. "What will happen? It rains every day," they said. The fog spread out close to the ground. The clouds were thick. The people then had no fire. The fire became small. All the creeks were full. There was water in the valleys. The water encircled them.

"Well, I have finished," he said. "Yes," Nagaitcho said. "Come, jump up. You must jump up to another sky," he told him. "I, too, will do that."

"At night when every kind of thing is asleep we will do it," he said.

Every day it rained, every night it rained. All the people slept. The sky fell. The land was not. For a very great distance there was no land. The waters of the oceans came together. Animals of all kinds drowned. Where the water went there were no trees. There was no land.

People became. Seal, sea-lion, and grizzly built a dance-house. They looked for a place in vain. At Usal they built it for there the ground was good. There are many sea-lions there. Whale became a human woman. That is why women are so fat. There were no grizzlies. There were no fish. Blue lizard was thrown into the water and became sucker.

Bull-snake was thrown into the water and became black salmon. Salamander was thrown into the water and became hook-bill salmon. Grass-snake was thrown into the water and became steel-head salmon. Lizard was thrown into the water and became trout.

Trout cried for his net. "My net, my net," he said. They offered him every kind of thing in vain. It was "My net" he said when he cried. They made a net and put him into it. He stopped crying. They threw the net and trout into the water. He became trout.

"What will grow in the water?" he asked. Seaweeds grew in the water. Abalones and mussels grew in the water. Two kinds of kelp grew in the ocean. Many different kinds grew there.

"What will be salt?" he asked. They tasted many things. The ocean foam became salt. The Indians tried their salt. They will eat their food with it. They will eat clover with it. It was good salt.

"How will the water of this ocean behave? What will be in front of it?" he asked. "The water will rise up in ridges. It will settle back again. There will be sand. On top of the sand it will glisten," he said. "Old kelp will float ashore. Old whales will float ashore.

"People will eat fish, big fish," he said. "Sea-lions will come ashore. They will eat them. They will be good. Devil-fish, although they are ugly looking, will be good. The people will eat them. The fish in the ocean will be fat. They will be good.

"There will be many different kinds in the ocean. There will be water- panther. There will be stone-fish. He will catch people. Long-tooth- fish will kill sea-lion. He will feel around in the water.

"Sea-lion will have no feet. He will have a tail. His teeth will be large. There will be no trees in the ocean. The water will be powerful in the ocean," he said.

He placed redwoods and firs along the shore. At the tail of the earth, at the north, he made them grow. He placed land in walls along in front of the ocean. From the north he put down rocks here and there. Over there the ocean beats against them.

Far to the south he did that. He stood up pines along the way. He placed yellow pines. Far away he placed them. He placed mountains along in front of the water. He did not stop putting them up even way to the south.

Redwoods and various pines were growing. He looked back and saw them growing. The redwoods had become tall. He placed stones along. He made small creeks by dragging along his foot. "Wherever they flow this water will be good," he said. "They will drink this. Only the ocean they will not drink."

He made trees spring up. When he looked behind himself he saw they had grown. When he came near water-head-place (south) he said to himself, "It is good that they are growing up."

He made creeks along. "This water they will drink," he said. That is why all drink, many different kinds of animals. "Because the water is good, because it is not salt, deer, elk, panther, and fishers will drink of it," he said. He caused trees to grow up along. When he looked behind himself he saw they had grown up. "Birds will drink, squirrels will drink," he said. "Many different kinds will drink. I am placing good water along the way."

Many redwoods grew up. He placed water along toward the south. He kicked out springs. "There will be springs," he said. "These will belong to the deer," he said of the deer-licks.

He took along a dog. "Drink this water," he told his dog. He, himself, drank of it. "All, many different kinds of animals and birds, will drink of it," he said.

Tanbark oaks he made to spring up along the way. Many kinds, redwoods, firs, and pines he caused to grow. He placed water along. He made creeks with his foot. To make valleys for the streams he placed the land on edge. The mountains were large. They had grown.

"Let acorns grow," he said. He looked back at the ocean, and at the trees and rocks he had placed along. "The water is good, they will drink it," he said. He placed redwoods, firs, and tanbark oaks along the way. He stood up land and made the mountains. "They shall become large," he said of the redwoods.

He went around the earth, dragging his foot to make the streams and placing redwoods, firs, pines, oaks, and chestnut trees. When he looked back he saw the rocks had become large, and the mountains loomed up. He drank of the water and called it good. "I have arranged it that rocks shall be around the water," he said. "Drink," he told his dog. "Many animals will drink this good water." He placed rocks and banks. He put along the way small white stones. He stood up white and black oaks. Sugar-pines and firs he planted one in a place.

"I will try the water," he said. "Drink, my dog." The water was good. He dragged along his foot, making creeks. He placed the rocks along and turned to look at them. "Drink, my dog," he said. "I, too, will drink. Grizzlies, all kinds of animals, and human beings will drink the water which I have placed among the rocks." He stood up the mountains. He placed the trees along, the firs and the oaks. He caused the pines to grow up. He placed the redwoods one in a place.

He threw salamanders and turtles into the creeks. "Eels will live in this stream," he said. "Fish will come into it. Hook-bill and black salmon will run up this creek. Last of all steel-heads will swim in it. Crabs, small eels, and day-eels will come up.

"Grizzlies will live in large numbers on this mountain. On this mountain will be many deer. The people will eat them. Because they have no gall they may be eaten raw. Deer meat will be very sweet. Panthers will be numerous. There will be many jack-rabbits on this mountain," he said.

He did not like yellow-jackets. He nearly killed them. He made blue- flies and wasps.

His dog walked along with him. "There will be much water in this stream," he said. "This will be a small creek and the fish will run in it. The fish will be good. There will be many suckers and trout in this stream."

"There will be brush on this mountain," he said. He made manzanita and white-thorn grow there. "Here will be a valley. Here will be many deer. There will be many grizzlies at this place. Here a mountain will stand. Many rattlesnakes, bull snakes, and water snakes will be in this place. Here will be good land. It shall be a valley."

He placed fir trees, yellow-pines, oaks, and redwoods one at a place along the way. He put down small grizzly bears. "The water will be bad. It will be black here," he said.

"There will be many owls here, the barking-owl, the screech-owl, and the little owl. There shall be many blue jays, grouse, and quails. Here on this mountain will be many wood-rats. Here shall be many varied robins. There shall be many woodcocks, yellow-hammers, and sap- suckers. Here will be many mocking-birds and meadowlarks. Here will be herons and blackbirds. There will be many turtle-doves and pigeons. The kingfishers will catch fish. There will be many buzzards and ravens. There will be many chicken-hawks. There will be many robins. On this high mountain there will be many deer," he said.

"Let there be a valley here," he said. "There will be fir trees, some small and some large. Let the rain fall. Let it snow. Let there be hail. Let the clouds come. When it rains let the streams increase, let the water be high, let it become muddy. When the rain stops let the water become good again," he said.

He came back. "Walk behind me, my dog," he said. "We will look at what has taken place." Trees had grown. Fish were in the streams. The rocks had become large. It was good.

He traveled fast. "Come, walk fast, my dog," he said. The land had become good. The valleys had become broad. All kinds of trees and plants had sprung up. Springs had become and the water was flowing. "Again I will try the water," he said. "You, too, drink." Brush had sprung up. He traveled fast.

"I have made a good earth, my dog," he said. "Walk fast, my dog." Acorns were on the trees. The chestnuts were ripe. The hazelnuts were ripe. The manzanita berries were getting white. All sorts of food had become good. The buckeyes were good. The peppernuts were black. The bunch grass was ripe. The grass-hoppers were growing. The clover was in bloom. The bear-clover was good. The mountains had grown. The rocks had grown. All kinds that are eaten had become good. "We made it good, my dog," he said. Fish for the people to eat had grown in the streams.

"We have come to south now," he said. All the different kinds were matured. They started back, he and his dog. "We will go back," he said. "The mountains have grown up quickly. The land has become flat. The trout have grown. Good water is flowing. Walk fast. All things have become good. We have made them good, my dog. It is warm. The land is good."

The brush had grown. Various things had sprung up. Grizzlies had increased in numbers. Birds had grown. The water had become good. The grass was grown. Many deer for the people to eat walked about. Many kinds of herbs had grown. Some kinds remained small.

Rattlesnakes had multiplied. Water-snakes had become numerous. Turtles had come out of the water and increased in numbers. Various things had grown. The mountains had grown. The valleys had become.

"Come fast. I will drink water. You, too, drink," he told his dog. "Now we are getting back, we are close home, my dog. Look here, the mountains have grown. The stones have grown. Brush has come up. All kinds of animals are walking about. All kinds of things are grown.

"We are about to arrive. We are close home, my dog," he said. "I am about to get back north," he said to himself. "I am about to get back north. I am about to get back north. I am about to get back north," he said to himself.

That is all.

Goddard, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, v, 184, No. 2

From the archives of Blue Panther Keeper of Stories

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Andres Quandelacy, Blue Peruvian Opal Bear with Fish

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Literacy in Indigenous Communities by L. David van Broekhuizen, Ph.D. (2000)
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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
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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].

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