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Siletz Pow-Wow to honor Craig Whitehead
This year's celebration takes place at Pauline Ricks Memorial Pow-Wow Grounds on Government Hill.

KU's American Indian artifacts are being neglected, students claim...

N.M. residents help feds assess environment act
For Calbert Seciwa and the rest of the Pueblo of Zuni Tribe, the National Environmental Protection Act stopped a coal company that wanted to mine near lands in New Mexico sacred to the tribe.

Indian arts institute to put site in Cherokee

Reburial brought tribes together

Indigenous Art & Fashion Event in Santa Fe

Tribe to host 20th annual Oglala Nation Gathering

Native American culture focus of fest Aug. 13-14

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American Indian Picnic
August 6, 2005
Boise's 5th Annual American Indian Picnic Potluck Join us at Municipal Park Saturday, August 6, 2005 5 - 9 p.m. We supply the drinks, hot dogs and hamburgers, & place settings...you supply yourself, your family, favorite potluck item & a comfy chair to sit on. For more information, contact: Brenda Crazy Bull (208) 429-1852 Rachel Pelayo (208) 333-0876

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Philly, PA.Bethlehem Musikfest kicks off Friday, Aug. 5, Native American blues-rockers Indigenous (8 p.m., $19-$25).

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State Fair art entries: Entries accepted at Expo New Mexico as follows: fine arts, including china painting, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 5 and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 6, Fine Arts Building; Hispanic art, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 12 and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 13, Hispanic Arts Center; photography, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 15, Creative Arts Building; Native American art, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 17-19 and 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 20, Native American Art Gallery; youth and non-professional art, including china painting, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 26 and 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 27, Creative Arts Building Information: www.exponm.com or Ramona Vigil-Eastwood, 265-1791, Ext. 454

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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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Lake Tahoe--This weekend marks the 15th annual Wa She Shu It Deh Native American Arts Festival for which the tribe showcases its rich heritage in the forms of basketmaking and dance.

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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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Subject: Native American vets sought to participate in new music video
By Pamela G. Dempsey
Diné Bureau Information
Veterans interested in participating can contact Asdza Shash
Productions at
(623) 693-1365 or (623) 693-1364.
A one-page biography and photograph is requested.
Outside of the Four Corners area please call: (306) 937-7796 or email nativeamericanvet @hotmail.com
WINDOW ROCK - Local Native American veterans are invited to participate in a music video shoot.
Native American singer and songwriter Lorrie Church is shooting a music video "Native American" to honor Native American veterans and the memory of the late Pfc. Lori Piestewa.
Native American dance groups and code talkers are also planned to be part of the video, which is set to shoot in September.
RCarneen (360)848-9931(Voicemail only, checked twice a day...email is best way to reach me!) online: www.ksvr.org local:(91.7FM KSVR Mt Vernon, WA NAMAPAHH First People's radio, news & music: Th 7-8pm/Sun 3-4pmPST)Native News Views & music...bringing light to the darkness...

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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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OKLAHOMA—Murals by the celebrated Kiowa Five, a group of American Indian artists from Anadarko (pop. 6,645), can still be seen on the walls of the Anadarko Post Office. Three of the five—Steven Mopope as the lead artist, assisted by James Auchiah and Spencer Asah—painted 16 murals in the post office in 1936 and 1937 portraying life among the Kiowa before settlers arrived.

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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; sculptures by Doug Hyde, through March 26. 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
To Order this book

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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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Creation Story - Tewa/Hopi

Way back in the distant past, the ancestors of humans were living down below in a world under the earth. They weren't humans yet, they lived in darkness, behaving like bugs.

Now there was a Great Spirit watching over everything; some people say he was the sun. He saw how things were down under the earth, so he sent his messenger, Spider Old Woman, to talk to them. She said, "You creatures, the Sun Spirit doesn't want you living like this. He is going to transform you into something better, and I will lead you to another world."

When they came out on the surface of the earth, that's when they became humans. In the journeys that followed, they were looking for a place of harmony where they could follow good teachings and a good way of life.

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

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Creation The Origin of Death by Dying - Zuni

The impetuous fathers of the Bear and Crane did not deliberate for long. No! Straightway they strode into the stream and feeling with their feet that it even might be forded-for so red were its waters that no footing could be seen through them-they led the way across; yet their fear was great, for, very soon, as they watched the water moving under their very eyes, strange chills overcame them, as though they were themselves changing in being to creatures moving and having being in the waters; even as still may be felt in the giddiness which besets those who, in the midst of troubled or passing waters, gaze long into them. Nonetheless, they won their way steadfastly to the farther shore. But the poor women who, following closely with the little children on their backs, were more áyauwe (tender, susceptible), became witlessly crazed with these dread fear-feelings of the waters, wherefore, the little ones to whom they clung but the more closely, being k'yaíyuna and all unripe, were instantly changed by the terror. They turned cold, then colder; they grew scaly, webbed and sharp clawed of hands and feet, longer of tail too, as if for swimming and guidance in unquiet waters.

See! They suddenly felt to the mothers that bore them as the feel of dead things; and, wriggling, scratched their bare shoulders until, shrieking wildly, these mothers let go all hold on them and were even wanted to shake them off-fleeing from them in terror. Thus, multitudes of them fell into the swift waters, wailing shrilly and plaintively, as even still it may be said they are heard to cry at night time in those lonely waters. For no sooner did they fall below the surges than they floated and swam away, still crying-changed now even in bodily form; for, according to their several totems, some became like to the lizard (mík'yaiya'hli), chameleon (sémaiyak'ya), and newt (téwashi); others like to the frog (ták'aiyuna), toad (ták'ya), and turtle (étâwa). But their souls (top'hâ'ina: "other-being" or "in-being"), what with the sense of falling, still falling, sank down through the waters, as water itself, being started, sinks down through the sands into the depths below. There, under the lagoon of the hollow mountain where it was earlier cleft in two by the angry maiden-sister Síwiluhsitsa as before told, lived, in their seasons, the soul-beings of ancient men of war and violent death. There were the towns for the 'finished' or dead, Hápanawan or the Abode of Ghosts; there also, the great pueblo (city) of the Kâ'kâ, Kâ'hluëlawan, the town of many towns wherein stood forever the great assembly house of ghosts, Áhapaáwa Kíwitsinan'hlana, the kiva which contains the six great chambers in the middle of which sit, at times of gathering in council, the god-priests of all the Kâ'kâ exercising the newly dead in the Kâ'kokshi or dance of good, and receiving from them the offerings and messages of mortal men to the immortal ones.

Now, when the little ones sank, still sank, seeing nothing, the lights of the spirit dancers began to break upon them, and they became, as be the ancients, 'hlímna , and were numbered with them. And so, being received into the midst of the undying ancients, see! these little ones thus made the way of dying and the path of the dead; for where they led, in that ancient time, others, wanting to seek them (insomuch that they died), followed; and yet others followed these; and so it has continued to be even unto this day.

But the mothers, still crying, did not know this-did not know that their children had returned unharmed into the world from where even themselves had come and to where they must eventually go, constrained there by the yearnings of their own hearts which were ill with mourning. Loudly, still, they wailed, on the farther shore of the river.

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].