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Corps approves reservoir
A proposed reservoir in King William County that triggered disputes over American Indian peace-treaty obligations, wetlands protection and water rights received a qualified go-ahead yesterday from the Army Corps of Engineers.

Native arts on display at SAMA
"It is one of the best private collections of Native American art that I have ever seen," said SAMA fine arts curator Dr. Graziella Marchicelli.

Trade show spotlights American Indian food
South Dakota American Indian products sold at the show included buffalo meat from the Brownotter Buffalo Ranch of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe; popcorn from the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe; and Lisa Little Chief Specialty Food's Sioux Fry Bread mix and gift baskets of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe.

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.

American Indian- and Alaska Native-Owned Businesses:

-- There were 206,125 American Indian- and Alaska native-owned businesses in 2002, with receipts of $26.4 billion. In the 2002 survey, businesses were asked to report ownership by an American Indian tribal entity. These businesses are considered to be government-owned entities and are therefore excluded from the estimates of American Indian- and Alaska native-owned businesses. This distinction was not made in the 1997 survey, so prior data are not directly comparable.

-- An estimated 25,101 American Indian- and Alaska native-owned businesses had paid employees and their receipts totaled $21.2 billion, or about $847,492 per firm.

-- American Indian- and Alaska native-owned businesses with no paid employees numbered 181,024 with receipts of $5.1 billion. Average receipts of these businesses were $28,299 per firm.

-- American Indian- and Alaska native-owned firms were prevalent in many industries, with the largest concentrations in construction; retail trade; professional services; health care; and other services. Receipts were highest in retail trade and construction.

-- American Indian- and Alaska native-owned businesses accounted for 8 percent of firms in Alaska and about 5 percent of firms in both Oklahoma and New Mexico.
-U.S. Census Bureau Public Information Office

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.

PORTLAND, OR- Collector John D. Gray has donated 40 Native American art objects to the Portland Art museum -- including 31 pre-Columbian objects from Central America, several prehistoric Southwestern pottery vessels and three sculptures by the late contemporary Native American artist Allan Houser.

Gray, a prominent real estate developer, couldn't be reached for comment, but Bill Mercer, the museum's curator of Native American art, says Gray decided to donate the work after the death of his wife a few years ago. He and his wife had been collecting Native American art since the early 1970s.

From: dorindamoreno dorindamoreno@comcast.net
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.

Church is from the Sweetgrass First Nation Indian Reservation in the province of Saskatchewan. She was named Entertainer of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year by the Saskatchewan County Music Association.

Asdza Shash Productions is recruiting local Native American veterans for the project.

"There's been a small response so far," she said of the number of veterans who wanted to participate in the video.

Native American dance groups and code talkers are also planned to be part of the video, which is set to shoot in September.

Church postponed the video last year so she could include as many Native American veterans as possible.

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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.

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.

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.

Native playwright’s work to be performed in Tulsa
Comedy takes satirical look at stereotyping

Mama Earth Loves Lace is part of a trilogy by Ojibwe writer, Mark Anthony Rolo, a prize-winning journalist, and former President of the Native American Journalists Association. The play will be performed by Thunder Road Theater (formerly Tulsa Indian Actors’ Workshop) as part of Summerstage, the theater festival hosted by the Performing Arts Center.
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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. ECSIUT will once again bring images, stories, documentaries, music videos and dramatic feature films in celebration of National Native American Indian Heritage Month to the audiences of the southeastern United States. On November 1-5, 2005 the Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois & United Tribes of South Carolina and the Columbia Film Society of South Carolina will once again join to present Native American films. This unique film festival, the only Native festival of it's kind in the southeastern section of the country draws independent film makers and theater goers from area states including North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. "We are a non-profit organization that feels this is important....We have been successful getting new independent Native American and Indigenous Filmmakers and movies to new audiences," explained the Film Festival's founder and Coordinator, Dr. Will Moreau Goins.

The Nickelodeon and the Columbia Film Society are also co-sponsors and the adopted home for the annual film festival each year. "This festival helps us make that connection to the rest of the Native American Indian world that is not in South Carolina. Bringing us new and contemporary images and current issues facing our Native brothers and sisters and also entertaining us," explained Goins. "We want to show contemporary, authentic, current and quality work in film that features Native American Indian and indigenous people and culture .... that has been our goal since this film festival started and that goal hasn't changed. We welcome filmmakers from throughout the diverse Native and indigenous Diasporas... reaching out specifically to our Latino/Hispanic native indigenous people, culture and filmmakers from the Indians in Brazil, South America, Central America or those of the Native Hawaiians.

"These all fit in our festival and we welcome Filmmakers to submit that share stories from these Native experiences," Goins said. In years past, as in this year, this festival has brought Native American producers, directors, associate directors and featured actors in a Native American historical drama to the screenings to further our understanding of media literacy and the making of their film, by hosting discussions, receptions and forums for these discussions. In the evening with the panel discussion Native Americans and Native Filmmakers share, their adaptation of film-making through their respective lenses. They discuss their unique perspectives of their voices and their contributions to cinema and the world.

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

A new exhibit at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum features an array of art. "Northeastern Native American Fine Arts Show," 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.

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.

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, Totems to Turquoise: Native American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest 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.

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: "The Jewelry of Joe Quintana," 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.

Millicent Rogers Museum: Paul Peralta-Ramos Taos Collection, Southwest American Indian art and Hispanic textiles and devotional art. Through March 12, 2006. 1504 Millicent Rogers Road, Taos. Admission and hours: (505) 758-2462.

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

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.

AEQ Book Review of Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Frawley, William, Kenneth C. Hill, and Pamela Munro, eds.Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 450 pp. ISBN 0520229967, $34.95.

Reviewed for the Anthropology & Education Quarterly by Catherine S. Fowler
University of Nevada
csfowler@unr.nevada.edu

This volume of papers provides fascinating perspectives on the processes and practices of dictionary making by several contemporary lexicographers, all of whom have struggled or are yet struggling to develop these important tools for indigenous languages in North America and Meso-America. Given that most of the 23 contributors are well known for their work in theoretical and/or historical linguistics, but also are actively involved in language preservation and restoration efforts, their accounts of the complexities, time and issues involved in developing dictionaries become even more important and significant. As noted in the introduction by Fawley, Hill and Munro, when one considers that a good dictionary "is a thousand pages of ideas and history, a guide to the mind and world of a people" (p. 22), developed by a person (rarely persons) who is "simultaneously a phonetician, morphologist, syntactician, and semanticist but also a sociologist, anthropologist, biologist, diplomat, therapist, mediator, and salesman" (p. 21), then the work and results deserve much more consideration than they are often accorded. Indeed, lexicographers are far from the "unfortunate drudges" that history suggests, but rather heros to be celebrated and lauded for their ultimate achievements. Readers of this volume will come away with that impression, as well as a genuine feeling for the real work and problems involved.

© 2004 American Anthropological Association. This review will appear on the web site www.aaanet.org and will be cited and indexed in the December 2004 issue (35.4) of the Anthropology & Education Quarterly. Please note that the postings to the Council for Anthropology and Education listserv are delayed due to AEQ's transition to Arizona State University. We apologize for the delay and thank you for your understanding.

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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.

1413745474 He has written his first novel which was released in December, 2004. The title of the book is THE FOURTH WORLD

THE FOURTH WORLD

Creation Story Seminole

Near the beginning of time, five Seminole Indian men wanted to visit the sky to see the Great Spirit.

They traveled to the East, walking for about a month. Finally, they arrived at land's end. They tossed their baggage over the end and they, too, disappeared beyond earth's edge.

Down, down, down the Indians dropped for a while, before starting upward again toward the sky. For a long time they traveled westward. At last, they came to a lodge where lived an old, old woman.

"Tell me, for whom are you looking?" she asked feebly.

"We are on our way to see the Great Spirit Above," they replied.

"It is not possible to see him now," she said. "You must stay here for a while first."

That night the five Seminole Indian men strolled a little distance from the old woman's lodge, where they encountered a group of angels robed in white and wearing wings. They were playing a ball game the men recognized as one played by the Seminoles.

Two of the men decided they would like to remain and become angels. The other three preferred to return to earth. Then to their surprise, the Great Spirit appeared and said, "So be it!"

A large cooking pot was placed on the fire. When the water was boiling, the two Seminoles who wished to stay were cooked! When only their bones were left, the Great Spirit removed them from the pot, and put their bones back together again. He then draped them with a white cloth and touched them with his magic wand. The Great Spirit brought the two Seminole men back to life! They wore beautiful white wings and were called men-angels.

"What do you three men wish to do?" asked the Great Spirit.

"If we may, we prefer to return to our Seminole camp on earth," replied the three Seminoles.

"Gather your baggage together and go to sleep at once," directed the Great Spirit.

Later, when the three Seminole men opened their eyes, they found themselves safe at home again in their own Indian camp.

"We are happy to return and stay earthbound. We hope never to venture skyward again in search of other mysteries," they reported to the Chief of the Seminoles.

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

Creation Story - Potawatomi

Anishnabe found himself alone on earth. The Creator told him to give everything a name, and he did this, accompanied by a wolf. He discovered that only he, among the many species, was alone, without a mate, and he was lonely.

He traveled to the Great Lakes and while searching, heard a beautiful song coming across the water. The woman's voice was singing that she was making a home for him. He fell in love with the voice and the song. In the days that followed, he learned how to cross the water and finally came to a lodge facing west. There lived a beautiful woman and her father, the Firekeeper.

This was the first union - Anishabe and the Firekeeper's Daughter. It determined the roles of men and women in marriage. They had four sons, who when they were grown traveled to the four directions of the earth. The son who traveled north had a hard journey, but learned that the melting snow cleansed Mother Earth. Because of the snow, the color for North is white. This son married the daughter of the Spirit of the North and was given sweet grass, the first gift of Mother Earth. It is kept in a braid like a mother's hair.

The second son traveled east, into the yellow of the rising sun. He learned that fire is the essence of life and gained in knowledge of the Creator. He married the daughter of the Spirit of the East, and was given tobacco to use in prayer, to communicate with the Creator. The third son went south, which is the woman's direction from which comes seeds and other things that give life. Red, the color of life's blood, is the color for south. He married the Spirit of the South's daughter and was given the gift of cedar, which is used to cleanse and purify the home and prepare for food.

The fourth son went West, toward the mountains. Marrying the Spirit of the West's daughter, he was given sage and learned that the setting sun represents the circle of life and its cycle. The color for West is black, for the dark time, and the sage, a strong purifier, is to keep illness away.

Smoke from the cedar and sage is fanned upward with an eagle feather because the eagle once saved the Indian people when the Creator would have destroyed them. The eagle told the Creator there were faithful people on earth, and was sent out each morning to see if the smoke still rose from the lodges of those good people. Fanning the smoke with the eagle feather symbolizes the eagle delivering the message to the Creator that his people are still there and still believe.

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].

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