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Media Advisory: National Museum of the American Indian's National Powwow

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Visions by Native Americans

For a unique view of Native American culture, drop by the University of New Mexico's Maxwell Museum of Anthropology to see Native American Visions: Illusions of Traditional Life. It features watercolor, acrylic, colored pencil and oil pastel works by students in a class for Native Americans with disabilities at VSA North Fourth Art Center, taught by Sam Bautista, artist and longtime art teacher from Laguna Pueblo. Look for work by Nicky Arango, Elaine Archuleta, Cari Lynn Carlston, Lannette Silver, Joe Tenorio, Helene Valdez, Derrick Wanoskia and Bautista. Get to know them through the artist photo and information by their work. The exhibit runs through November 2005.

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Aug. 13-14 Native American Benefit Festival (Pow Wow), 10 a.m., General Butler State Resort, 1608 U.S. 227, Carrollton. American Indian music, dancing, storytelling, arts and crafts, food. Benefits Kentucky Center for Native American Arts & Culture Center. $6, $4 seniors, $2 ages 13 and under. (502) 532-7290.

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Indian Market is Santa Fe's biggest single event and the largest show and sale of Native American art and craft in the world. There is no other gathering of Native American artists that offers the breadth of variety and depth of quality than this weekend in Santa Fe. This year marks the 84th annual Indian Market and will feature the work of 1,200 artists from all over North America. In addition to the actual market there are auctions, art shows, special gallery exhibits and artist receptions, musical events and festivities all over town leading up to the weekend show. For seasoned collectors and first-timers alike, Indian Market is a remarkable look at new and old art forms and one of Santa Fe's most memorable events, held this year on the Santa Fe Plaza, Aug. 20-21. Free admission. For information: (505) 983-7647; www.swaia.org.

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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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October 30. Native American Fall Festival-Lenape Village. Churchville Nature Center. Churchville, PA. 215-357-4005. www.churchvillenaturecenter.org.

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Native Americans from all over the country will dance, tell stories and sell handicrafts at the Thunder Mountain Lenape Nation Native American Festival. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., AUG. 21st., 235 Skyline Drive, Saltsburg, Indiana County, PA. 724-639-3488 or
www.thundermtlenape.org.

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Call for Entries: Ninth Annual Native American Indian Film & Video Festival 2005

Columbia — Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois & United Tribes of South Carolina is Calling for Entries to their successful annual Film Festival.

The Nickelodeon and the Columbia Film Society are also co-sponsors and the adopted home for the annual film festival each year.

This festival presents a series of films that are American Indian produced, directed, and starring Native American Indian people. The major categories for this festival include: Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Commercial Feature, Short Subject, Music Video, Animated Short Subject, Student Film, Public Service, and Industrial. Formats excepted include: 35 mm, VHS, DVD, Digital,16mm, and Beta SP. Deadline for submission is September 20, 2005.
For Application or More Information Contact:
ECSIUT, Film Festival of Southeastern USA
P.O. Box 7062, Columbia South Carolina, 29202, (803) 699-0446,
Attn: Dr. Will Moreau Goins, Film Festival Coordinator/ Presenter
To get Application Form for Submission with Film/Video VHS Preview go to the website and (Click on) Call for Entries

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Northeastern Native American Fine Arts Show. A new exhibit at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum features an array of art, which runs through Sept. 5 at the museum's gallery, shows off the artistic skills of American Indians from the Northeast. Thirty-four artists with connections to tribes of the Northeast were chosen for the show, which includes sculpture, carvings, oils, acrylic and mixed media.

Native American tribes of the Southwest, California, the Great Plains and the Northwest Coast, Southwest Museum, 234 Museum Drive, Los Angeles, (323) 221-2164. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. $7.50 adults, $5 students and seniors 60+, $3 children 2-12. The museum's permanent collection includes artifacts of the Native American tribes of the Southwest, California, the Great Plains and the Northwest Coast. Works by Robert Freeman, Tom Red Bear and Russell Means are on display. The show and sale includes etchings, paintings and stone sculptures; through Aug. 14.

Totems to Turquoise: Native American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest, Fernbank Museum-Atlanta. Opening on October 1, are two exhibitions that allow visitors to further explore the history and peoples of the region featured in Grand Canyon. The special exhibition, celebrates the traditional beauty, power and symbolism of Native American arts through a historic and contemporary collection of jewelry and artifacts. The gallery exhibition, Sacred Places of the Southwest features black and white photographs from Claus Mroczynski, which capture the mystical beauty of early Native American dwellings found throughout the landscapes of the Southwest.

The Jewelry of Joe Quintana, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: works by the Cochiti silversmith, through Sept. 1; "Beauty Within," historical objects from the collection, through Oct. 23; "IconoClash," symbols of American Indian culture, through Jan. 15; "The Pottery of Santa Ana Pueblo," through Feb. 19. 708 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe. Admission and hours: (505) 476-1250.

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, (701) 232-3821.

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AEQ Book Review of Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas .
Frawley, William, Kenneth C. Hill, and Pamela Munro, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 450 pp. ISBN 0520229967, $34.95.
© 2004 American Anthropological Association Book Review of Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas .
Reviewed for the Anthropology & Education Quarterly by Catherine S. Fowler
University of Nevada
csfowler@unr.nevada.edu
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W. Tussinger has written his first novel which was released in December, 2004. The title of the book is THE FOURTH WORLD.
W. Tussinger is a member of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma and has lived on several reservations including the Yuroks of Northern California and the Yakamas of Washington State where he attended college.
THE FOURTH WORLD

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Crow's Song - Cochiti

At the bottom of La Bajada Road there was a pueblo (an unnamed ruin). Crow said to himself, "I shall go to that plain and sing a song for that pueblo to make them happy." Crow went into an inner room. He said, "I won't tell my mother, but I'll take this bunch of dancing shells." He took them and went to the plain and started to dance (very slow dignified steps). He sang his song (in unintelligible language). Nobody paid any attention except old Coyote. He came running. "I heard somebody singing nicely far off. I shall go to him and find his song." Old Crow kept on singing. Old Coyote got near, "Are you singing?" he said. "No; I am not singing." "Yes,; you are singing. I saw you far off. What a pretty bunch of shells you have. Will you lend them to me? Then if I learn the song, I shall have this kind of shells too." "I won't let anybody have them. You have good eyes. I took out my eyes and made them shells. Look at my eyes. I haven't any." He shut them tight. "Shall I cut yours out and make, shells?" "With what?" "Go and find a sharp black stone (arrowhead), I'll cut them out with that." "All right; I'll find one, for I want to sing the song you sing." He brought this and laid it on the ground. Crow said, "Lie down flat." Coyote did this. Crow came with the sharp black stone and cut under his eyes. "Ouch, ouch!" "Don't say that or the shells won't sound nice." So Coyote didn't make a sound, though the blood rolled down his eyes. Crow held up one eye and gave it to him. Coyote was blind on one side. Crow cut out the other eye. "Ouch, ouch!" he cried. "Don't," said Crow. "All right," he answered. "Now, get up." Coyote was blind on the other side. Coyote stood up, his eyes in his hand. "Now, start your song," commanded Crow. He shook his eyes and shook them, and he sang, but they did not sound right at all. "It doesn't sound right," he said. Crow flew away, and he called back, "Stay as you are! Do as you please!" He watched Coyote from the air; Coyote was bumping into everything. "I wish anybody would come along and take me home," he said. Nobody came. He came to a high bank and walked right off. There he died.

Tales of the Cochiti Indians by Ruth Benedict, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 98 [1932]

From Blue Panther Keeper of Stories. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Native_Village http://groups.msn.com/KeeperofStories

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"Communing with Bears"

By Sara Wright

Communing with Bears is the story of a joyful encounter between one woman and a black bear.

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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].