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Native American artist keeps tradition alive

Native American Culture to Be Celebrated This Weekend
Oklahoma City Indian Clinic is celebrating their 30th anniversary

Ansel Adams' sense of wonder
lesser-known photographs of urban subjects and Native American pueblos

National Museum of the American Indian's National Powwow

Navajo photographer featured at market

Patrons important to tribal public perception battles

No offense intended’ isn’t acceptable anymore

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Sept. 4-Nov. 13: "By Native Hands: Native American Basketry," Forsyth Center Galleries, Memorial Student Center, Texas A&M. 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

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First American in the Arts (FAITA). Led Zeppelin tribute band Black Dog performs to raise money for the FAITA Awards and Scholarship Fund, which supports Native American youth. Info: (805) 989-4208 or Firstamericans.org. Cinespace, 6356 Hollywood Bl, second level, Hollywood, (323) 817-3456. Mon at 7. $20.

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LAGUNA/ZUNI PUEBLO ARTIST IS AWARDED: The New Mexico Center for Nursing Excellence has named Laguna/Zuni Pueblo artist De Haven Solimon Chaffins the artist for the Nursing Excellence Awards. The awards ceremony is scheduled for Oct. 22 at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in Albuquerque.
Chaffins' "Continuation of a Prayer" painting will be featured in program materials and the custom designed awards to be given at the black tie dinner and awards ceremony, presented by Lovelace Sandia Health System and sponsored by Presbyterian Healthcare Services and the University of New Mexico Hospitals. The event will recognize nurses from around the state for excellence in their profession.
"Continuation of a Prayer" is an abstract representation of a young Hopi maiden praying at sunrise. The artwork also includes a hummingbird, messenger to all the deities, hovering next to the maiden's heart. The image is dedicated to Chaffin's daughter Fauve and to the memory of her son Skye.
"This is how I view the tremendous work that nurses do," Chaffins said. "Nurses are a family, brought together in times of incredible happiness or great sorrow. Nurses bring together not only their professional medical skills but their own sense of comfort, kindness and compassion for all humanity. They are an important part of the healing process."
The New Mexico Center for Nursing Excellence is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the recruitment, retention and professional development of nurses in New Mexico.
Albuquerque Journal

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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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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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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.

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
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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Spiritual Views and Traditions of the Cherokee

As reported by Rev. Buttrick and John Howard Payne in 1835

The world was created at the time of the first new moon in autumn, with the fruits all ripe. The first new moon in autumn is therefore the great new moon, or nu-ta-te-qua and with it the year commences, as regards the feasts of new moons, though the first new moon is spring begins the year with regard to the feast of first fruits, etc., because then the fruits begin to come forward.

INFORMANT: Yu-wi-yo-ka

Alexander Longe's Cherokee informant. in 1725, stated that the Green Corn Ceremony MUST take place, and MUST observe the sacrifice of the first fruits, and the priests' prayer to God, for if we do not remember him in thanksgiving, he will not remember us.

*Note: Cultural information may vary from clan to clan, location to location, family to family, and from differing opinions and experiences. Information provided here are not 'etched in stone'.

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].