Weekend fair in Santa Fe displays American Indian art

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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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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.

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 Indian Water-Medicine - Blackfoot

Once a Crow Indian had a son killed in war. He was in mourning: so he took his lodge into the mountains and camped there that he might have dreams in which power would be given him to revenge the death of his son. He slept in the mountains ten nights. At last as he was sleeping, he had a dream, and in this dream he heard drumming and singing. Then a man appeared and said, "Come over here: there is dancing." So he followed the man. They came to a lodge in which there were many old men and women. There were eight men with drums. He also saw weasel-skins, skins of the mink and otter, a whistle, a smudge-stick, some wild turnip for the smudge, and some berry-soup in a kettle. One old woman had an otter-skin with a weasel-skin around it like a belt. So the man staid there, learned the songs which these people sang, and when he came back to his people he started the Crow-water-medicine. Since that time he has had other dreams: and the skins of the beaver, the muskrat, all kinds of birds, etc., with many songs for each, have been added.

This medicine has great power. If any one wishes a horse, he calls in some of the Crow-water-medicine people. Then they pray, sing, and dance.

The power of this medicine is such that after a while a man may come along and say, "I have had a bad dream. You must paint me, that the dream may not come true." Then he gives a horse as a fee. The medicine has power also in treating the sick. The people who have this medicine meet at regular times, - on Sundays and at the time of the new moon. They paint their faces with a broad red stripe across the forehead, and one across the mouth and cheeks. A rectangle of red is also painted on the back of each hand. Some wear plumes.

Anthropological Papers American Museum of Natural History, Vol. II, 1908.

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Crow Indian History - Crow

Crows (trans., through French gens des corbeaux, of their own name, Absároke, crow, sparrow hawk, or bird people). A Siouan tribe forming part of the Hidatsa group, their separation from the Hidatsa having taken place, as Matthews (1894) believed, within the last 200 years. Hayden, following their tradition, placed it about 1776. According to this story it was the result of a factional dispute between two chiefs who were desperate men and nearly equal in the number of their followers. They were then residing on Missouri river, and one of the two bands which afterward became the Crows withdrew and migrated to the vicinity of the Rocky mountains, through which region they continued to rove until gathered on reservations. Since their separation from the Hidatsa their history has been similar to that of most tribes of the plains, one of perpetual war with the surrounding tribes, their chief enemies being the Siksika and the Dakota. At the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition (1804) they dwelt chiefly on Bighorn river; Brown (1817) located them on the Yellowstone and the east side of the Rocky mountains; Drake (1834) on the south branch of the Yellowstone, in lat. 46º long. 105º. Hayden (1862) wrote: "The country usually inhabited by the Crows is in and near the Rocky mountains, along the sources of Powder, Wind, and Bighorn rivers, on the south side of the Yellowstone, as far as Laramie fork on the Platte river. They are also often found on the west and north side of that river, as far as the source of the Musselshell and as low down as the mouth of the Yellowstone."

According to Maximilian (1843) the tipis of the Crows were exactly like those of the Sioux, set up without any regular order, and on the poles, instead of scalps were small pieces of colored cloth, chiefly red, floating like streamers in the wind. The camp he visited swarmed with wolf like dogs. They were a wandering tribe of hunters, making no plantations except a few small patches of tobacco. They lived at that time in some 400 tents and are said to have possessed between 9,000 and 10,000 horses. Maximilian considered them the proudest of Indians, despising the whites; "they do not, however, kill them, but often plunder them." In stature and dress they corresponded with the Hidatsa, and were proud of their long hair. The women have been described as skilful in various kinds of work, and their shirts and dresses of bighorn leather, as well as there buffalo robes, embroidered and ornamented with dyed porcupine quills, as particularly handsome. The men made their weapons very well and with much taste, especially their large bows, covered with horn of the elk or bighorn and often with rattlesnake skin. The Crows have been described as extremely superstitious, very dissolute, and much given to unnatural practices; they are skilful horsemen, throwing themselves on one side in their attacks, as is done by many Asiatic tribes. Their dead were usually placed on stages elevated on poles in the prairie.

The population was estimated by Lewis and Clark (1804) at 350 lodges and 3,500 individuals; in 1829 and 1834, at 4,500; Maximilian (1843) counted 400 tipis; Hayden (1862) said there were formerly about 800 lodges or families, in 1862 reduced to 460 lodges. Their number in 1890 was 2,287; in 1904, 1,826.

The Crows have been officially classified as Mountain Crows and River Crows, the former so called because of their custom of hunting and roaming near the mountains away from Missouri river, the latter from the fact that they left the mountain section about 1859 and occupied the country along the river. There was no ethnic, linguistic, or other difference between them. The Mountain Crows numbered 2,700 in 1871 and the River Crows 1,400 (Pease in Ind. Aff. Rep., 420, 1871).

Present aggregate population, 1,826.

See Hayden, Ethnog. and Philol. Mo. Valley, 1862; Maximilian, Trav., 1843; Dorsey in 11th and 15th Reps. B. A. E., 1894, 1897; McGee in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 1897; Simms, Traditions of the Crows, 1903.

Handbook of American Indians (1906) ~ Frederick W. Hodge

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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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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].