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American Indian Summer College Journalism Program Accepting Nominations
VERMILLION, SD-- The Freedom Forum is accepting nominations for the 6th annual
American Indian Journalism Institute, a three-week summer print journalism
program at the University of South Dakota.
The free program, which is slated for June 4-23, is open to American Indian
college students interested print journalism and have completed at least one
year of college. The Freedom Forum, which shares offices with NAJA, will also
accept applications from former AIJI participants seeking specialized
instruction.
Institute graduates earn four hours of transferable college credit. AIJI
graduates also receive a $500 stipend/scholarship from the Freedom Forum and a
one-year NAJA membership. In addition, top AIJI graduates will receive paid
internships at daily papers. More than two-dozen AIJI graduates received
internships last summer.
"We're expanding and improving the curriculum this year to help prepare more
Native Americans for journalism careers," said Jack Marsh, AIJI Director and Al
Neuharth Media Center Executive Director. "Students will be able to return to
AIJI a second or third year and take different courses."
For more information and to download an application, go to the Freedom Forum's
Web site at www.freedomforum.org/diversity. Students may nominate themselves,
however, it is recommended that at least one letter should be from a teacher,
counselor or elder. Nominations should explain why the student should be
accepted into the program and how the student can be contacted. Applications and
nomination letters can be mailed to Jack Marsh, Executive Director, Al Neuharth
Media Center, 555 Dakota St., Vermillion, SD 57069, or emailed to Janine Harris,
assistant to the executive director, at jharris@freedomforum.org. For questions,
call (605) 677-5424.
AIJI is part of the Freedom Forum's commitment to increase employment diversity
at daily newspapers. More than 120 Native American students have graduated from
AIJI so far. Some NAJA members serve as mentors or instructors during the
program.
The Freedom Forum, based in Arlington, Va., is a nonpartisan foundation
dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The
foundation focuses on three main priorities: newsroom diversity, the Newseum in
Washington, D.C., and First Amendment issues.
AIJI graduates also eligible for NAJA's Student Projects, a weeklong summer
workshop that trains Native students in print, TV, radio or the online news site
production. Graduates are also eligible to join reznetnews.org, an online
Native American college newspaper, as paid journalists when they return to
school. With only a few exceptions, reznetnews.org staff members are AIJI
graduates.
AIJI forbids the use of alcohol, other intoxicants and illegal drugs at any time
during the program. Violators will be dismissed from the institute.
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Winter Powwow
Native American drum groups and dancers from Portland, Warm Springs, Klamath, Grand Ronde, Siletz and other places and tribes will kick off Portland Community College’s seventh annual Winter Powwow, an all-ages event open to the public.
The first grand entry signals the start of a cultural day that includes displays by Native American arts and crafts vendors, food and more music. A community feed will take place in the evening followed by a second grand entry that will refresh the powwow’s spirit and keep the good times going until late in the evening.
1 p.m. (grand entry), 5:30 p.m. (dinner) and 7 p.m. (second grand entry) to 11 p.m., SATURDAY, Jan. 21, PCC Sylvania Campus, HT Building Gymnasium, 12000 S.W. 49th Ave., 503-977-4112, free
NATIVE AMERICAN HOOP DANCERS AT HEARD; FASHION AND DESIGN AT HEARD NORTH
The internationally acclaimed Heard Museum and its northern branch, the Heard Museum North in Scottsdale, are presenting two unique events representing different aspects of Native American culture.
Celebrate two decades of design and innovation by Native American artists with the new exhibit Mid-century Modern: Native American Art in Scottsdale. Opening Jan. 28 at Heard Museum North, located at el Pedregal Festival Marketplace in North Scottsdale, this exhibit will feature handbags, men’s and women’s designer clothes, paintings, pottery, and jewelry created by Native artists living and working in Scottsdale in the 1950s and ‘60s, a thriving period of innovation and design. Visitors can see works by Cherokee fashion designer Lloyd Kiva New; one-of-a-kind pottery by Charles and Otellie Loloma (Hopi); paintings by Pop Chalee (Taos), Ed Lee Natay (Navajo) and Andrew Tsinajinnie (Navajo); and silver jewelry by Navajo artists Kenneth Begay and Allen Kee. The exhibit will be open through Aug. 13. Admission costs are a $3 recommended contribution for adults, and free for children 12 and under.
The world’s best hoop dancers will return to Arizona for the 16th Annual World Championship Hoop Dance Contest at the Heard Museum, on Feb. 4 and 5. The best Native hoop dancers from the United States and Canada are set to compete for the prestigious title of world champion during a weekend of competition. These accomplished dancers will showcase their skills in five divisions including Tiny Tot (under 5 years), Youth (5 to 12), Teen (13 to 17), Adult (18 and older) and Senior (40 and older). Each dancer presents a unique variation of the intertribal hoop dance, weaving in aspects of his or her distinct tradition and culture. Individual routines are presented using as few as four to as many as 50 hoops, which are manipulated to create a variety of designs including animals, butterflies and globes. Cost per day (including event and museum admission) is $10 for adults; $3 for children (4-12); and free for children under 4.
For more information, visit www.heard.org or call (602) 252-8848. For media information only, contact Nicole Haas at nhaas@heard.org or (602) 251-0283.
"Expeditions of Spirit," an exhibit of 20 of Lorenzo Clayton's large-scale mixed media assemblages and works on paper, will open Saturday at the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, New York, N.Y.
Clayton's exhibit investigates religious and philosophic world views through complex installations and multi-layered works on paper.
Six of his "mythistoryquest" installations, which examine parallel traditions in indigenous and Christian religions, will be on view together for the first time. Also included will be works from the Come Across series, which express Clayton's rediscovery and embrace of his Navajo identity.
This is the final installation of the "New Tribe: New York" series focusing on New York-based Native American artists.
The show is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Thursdays to 8 p.m.), through April 9. Admission is free. Call (212) 514-3700 or visit ww.americanindian.si.edu for more information.
THE WOMEN/Edward S. Curtis
"THE WOMEN/Edward S. Curtis," by Christopher Cardozo; foreword by Louise Erdrich (Bulfinch Press, $35) — Cardozo, who lives in Minneapolis, is the world's foremost expert on, and collector of, photos of American Indians taken by turn-of-the-century photographer Edward S. Curtis. Cardozo went through 1,000 photos to find the 100 sepia-toned images in this book, which show the daily lives of American Indian women at a time when most were already on reservations. Minneapolis novelist and poet Erdrich discusses women's work in her foreword: " … although Edward Curtis believed that he was documenting a vanishing culture, it is in these humble arts that the strength of Native culture lives on."
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PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION IN SUPPORT OF THE WESTERN SHOSHONE
FORWARD TO YOUR LISTS, YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, ETC.
WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE AT LEAST 10,000 SIGNATURES BY FEBRUARY
28th!
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Thank you to Oxfam America for putting this together.
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US Fails to Respond to UN Request; Western Shoshone
Petition for Public Support
Posted: 4 January, 2006
The United States government has missed a year-end deadline
to answer questions posed by a United Nations committee
looking into charges of federal harassment of the Western
Shoshone people.
But along with the Western Shoshone traditional government,
the Western Shoshone Defense Project is determined not to
let the matter die. The defense project is one of the local
organizations with which Oxfam America partners.
The Western Shoshone maintain that the US government,
through a host of measures including the seizures of
livestock and the imposition of heavy trespass fines as
well as attempts to privatize large tracts of land to
multinational gold companies, is violating the rights of
indigenous people to their ancestral lands—some 60 million
acres that stretch across Nevada, Idaho, Utah, and
California.
The Western Shoshone have now launched a nationwide
petition calling on the UN Committee for the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination, or CERD, to act immediately to
address the human rights violations the Western Shoshone
have long endured.
CERD was the committee that issued the list of 10 questions
the government failed to answer by Dec. 31. The questions
are part of a request for “urgent action,” which, if
accepted, would allow the committee to open an
investigation into US conduct regarding the land issues and
the treatment of indigenous people.
“CERD is going to get a lot of pressure from the United
States to drop this thing and not take it on as a formal
urgent action before the full committee,” said Julie Ann
Fishel, the land recognition program director for the
defense project.
The appeal to CERD is the latest step in a long-simmering
dispute between the Western Shoshone and the federal
government. At issue is the Western Shoshone’s contention
that the land is theirs—recognized as such by the Treaty of
Ruby Valley in 1863—and that federal agencies along with
energy and mining industries are trampling on the rights of
indigenous people in a scramble to access the valuable
resources lying beneath the land.
Protection of the land is critical to the Western
Shoshone’s preservation of their cultural and spiritual
integrity. But among the threats it now faces is a plan to
store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain and to conduct
open-pit gold mining at Mt. Tenabo, both areas that are
spiritually significant to the Western Shoshone.
“This is a critical land rights issue. The federal
government needs to be held accountable for violating
treaties with Indian nations, as the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights has clearly established,” said
Oxfam America’s Laura Inouye, referring to an earlier
decision by that body which found the US Bureau of Land
Management had violated Western Shoshone rights to due
process, property rights, and equality. “A similar finding
by UNCERD will help the Western Shoshone press their case
for justice.”
“This isn’t just about Indians. It’s about everybody,”
added Fishel. “It’s about land, clean water, clean air, and
protection of significant areas. This is about not allowing
the US government to place corporate interests before human
rights and environmental concerns.”
In August, a Western Shoshone delegation traveled to
Geneva, Switzerland, to speak with CERD members and present
their case. Another delegation plans to make a second trip
to Geneva in March to present the petition in person. The
deadline for signing the petition is Feb. 28 of this year.
“If we can get to the heart of US treatment of indigenous
people, and tell the truth about that treatment, we’re
going to get to the core of cleaning up social justice
issues here and wherever US and corporate policies are
affecting peoples’ lives,” said Fishel.
Sign the Petition:
http://ga0.org/campaign/shoshone_petition
For more information: go to: http://www.wsdp.org/
or call: 775-468-0230
Subject: Frog and Rabbit - Cree
Once, Rabbit lived with Frog. Rabbit ran around hunting. He found a beaver
lodge along a creek. He thought it was an evil cannibal emerging from the
snow. Rabbit was really terrified. He ran home very frightened. Frog said to
Rabbit, "Are you out of your mind? It was probably just a beaver lodge." She
told him, "Let's go over there." She told him to take his ice chisel along.
They left.
Here was a beaver lodge standing there. Frog told her husband, "Let's try to
kill the beavers." She told him, "Make a hole in the ice there." Rabbit
chiseled a hole in the ice. Frog ordered Rabbit to scoop out all the ice
from the hole. Frog ran towards the hole and jumped in. Rabbit stood there
and waited.
Frog surfaced and said, "Break open your beaver lodge now." Rabbit broke
open the lodge. Here were all the beaver that were in the lodge that she had
killed. Both Frog and Rabbit dragged their beaver's home.
Rabbit skinned the beaver and cooked them. After he had cooked them, he ate.
Rabbit didn't give any of the beaver meat to his wife, Frog. She told him,
"Feed me." He didn't. Frog got annoyed and threatened him by saying, "Hey,
I'm going to tell Owl that you're not feeding me." Rabbit still didn't feed
Frog. Frog got angry and said, "Owl, Rabbit isn't feeding me his beavers."
They could hear Owl hooting. Now, Rabbit was really frightened. He gave Frog
the beaver meat she was asking for. She said, "Owl, it's OK. He is feeding
me now."
After living together for a while, I guess they finished off eating their
beavers. Rabbit went to look for food again. He saw the large tracks of
someone. He was really frightened again. Rabbit ran home. That is also why a
rabbit is very cowardly today. He said, "I have seen the large tracks of
someone." Frog said, "It must be a moose because I had heard that a moose is
walking around." She must have heard that a moose was walking around. She
said, "Let's go track it." They left.
It was the tracks of a moose. They tracked the moose. Then they reached it
standing there. Frog and Rabbit creeped towards the moose. Frog told Rabbit,
"Stand here." Frog approached the moose. When she got close to it, she
burrowed into the snow. She emerged at the leg of the moose. She carefully
climbed up the leg and entered into the anus of the moose. She went to the
heart of the moose and that was where she started biting and chewing at the
heart.
Rabbit was just watching the moose standing there. Then the moose, who just
stood there not noticing anything, suddenly collapsed. Rabbit just stood
there. Then Frog emerged from the nostril of the moose. They butchered it
and took all the meat home. They had plenty of food.
Then one night, they heard a cannibal screaming. They could hear the evil
being coming closer. Then it reached them. Rabbit jumped into the food that
was on the platform. That was where he hid. Frog jumped into the pot of
blood. The evil cannibal barged into their lodge and began eating their
food. Then Frog heard the cannibal enjoying itself as it ate her husband,
Rabbit. The cannibal ate Rabbit.
The monstrous cannibal turned over the pot of blood where Frog had jumped
in. She burrowed into the boughs and burrowed into the ground. The evil
creature didn't find out about her. It didn't know where she was. Frog
couldn't be killed. That is how long the legend is.
Told by Florrie Mark-Stewart Eastmain
Reposted with Permission from Brother to Horse
From Blue Panther Keeper of Stories.
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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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