Zuni Pueblo junior wins recitation contest
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May 19-21, Baton Rouge
ANNUAL TUNICA-BILOXI POW WOW: Chief Joseph A. Pierite Pow Wow Grounds, Hwy. 1, Marksville. American Indian singers, dancers and craftspeople will perform and display their wares. Singing and dancing competitions will be held. Featured performances by Annie Humphrey, Cannes Brulée, Hawk (flutist), and Jackie Crow (legend keeper). (318) 253-2034.
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A proposal to develop an American Indian cultural and educational center in a vacant federal building in Wausau is moving forward.
A marketing firm is being paid $35,000 to study the idea. Supporters say the center would help improve relations between Wisconsin's tribes and non-tribal communities and attract tourists to the Wausau area.
The tribes would run the center. Organizers say the center would help preserve Indian culture and languages, feature tribal history and make tribal education more accessible.
From the Free New Mexican
Zuni Pueblo junior wins recitation contest
Santa Fe Indian School student Fantasia Lonjose, a junior from Zuni Pueblo, won the inaugural New Mexico state finals in the Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation contest on Saturday.
She received $200 and a chaperoned trip to Washington, D.C., to represent New Mexico in the national finals May 16. Santa Fe Indian School received a $500 stipend to purchase poetry books for the school library.
The event is sponsored by New Mexico Arts, a division of the state Department of Cultural Affairs. Poetry Out Loud is a new national program of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.
Lonjose recited "The Pow-wow at the End of the World" by Sherman Alexie.
The runner-up was Jade McLellan, a senior at Capital High School in Santa Fe who recited "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear. McLellan received $100 and Capital High School got a $200 stipend to purchase poetry books for the school library.
MSU American Indian Council Pow Wow set April 14-15
Bozeman - The 31st annual Montana State University American Indian Council Pow Wow is scheduled April 14 and 15 in MSU's Brick Breeden Fieldhouse.
The pow wow is one of the largest in Montana and offers free admission to all.
The pow wow begins at 6 p.m. Friday, April 14, in the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse with the grand entry. There will also be grand entries at noon and 6 p.m. Saturday, April 15. A free buffalo chili dinner will be served at 4:30 p.m. April 15.
Throughout all sessions booths offering the crafts of traditional artists and artisans are open around the edge of the dance arena. All pow wow events are free and open to all.
For more information on the pow wow, contact Jim Burns (406) 994-4880 or e-mail him at jburns@montana.edu, or call the Center for Native American Studies, (406) 994-3881.
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Posted: March 22, 2006
American Indian Women's Activism in the 1960s and 1970s-Donna Hightower Langston
Taos Art Museum: "The Stark Legacy," paintings by members of the Taos Society of Artists. Through July 23. 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos. Admission and hours: (505) 758-2690.
"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."
Fire is a Spy - Choctaw
The word for the Great Spirit, Hashtali, means "noon day sun." It was believed the sun holds the power of life and death over people. There is a legend that says Hashtali and Fire are friends. In fact, it was believed that they are always in touch with one another. Fire tells the sun about everything it hears and sees on Earth, especially when it learns of wrong-doing. The people knew that if they did anything naughty near a fire, Hashtali would know of it before they could take even one step. Choctaw children were always very good around a fire
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Fire - Alabama
Bears formerly owned the Fire and they always took it about with them. One time they set it on the ground and went on farther eating acorns. The Fire nearly went out and called aloud. It was almost extinguished. "Feed me," it said. Then some human beings saw it. They got a stick toward the north and laid it down upon it. They got another stick toward the west and laid it down upon it. They got a stick at the south and laid it down there. They got another at the east and laid it down and the Fire blazed up. When the bears came to get their Fire, it said, "I don't know you any more." They did not get it back and so it belongs to human beings
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Fire had come to the Six Nations – Haudenosaunee
Often, around the fire in the long house of the Haudenosaunee , during the Moon of the Long Nights, this tale is told.
Three Arrows was a boy of the Mohawk tribe. Although he had not yet seen fourteen winters he was already known among the Iroquois for his skill and daring. His arrows sped true to their mark. His name was given him when with three bone-tipped arrows he brought down three flying wild geese from the same flock. He could travel in the forest as softly as the south wind and he was a skillful hunter, but he never killed a bird or animal unless his clan needed food. He was well-versed in woodcraft, fleet of foot, and a clever wrestler. His people said, 'Soon he will be a chief like his father.'
The sun shone strong in the heart of Three Arrows, because soon he would have to meet the test of strength and endurance through which the boys of his clan attained manhood. He had no fear of the outcome of the dream fast which was so soon to take. (to fast means to go without food or water)
Three Arrow's father was a great chief and a good man, and the boy's life had been patterned after that of his father.
When the grass was knee-high, Three Arrows left his village with his father. They climbed to a sacred place in the mountains. They found a narrow cave at the back of a little plateau. Here Three Arrows decided to live for his few days of prayer and vigil. He was not permitted to eat anything during the days and nights of his dream fast. He had no weapons, and his only clothing was a breechcloth and moccasins. His father left the boy with the promise that he would visit him each day that the ceremony lasted, at dawn.
Three Arrows prayed to the Great Spirit. He begged that his clan spirit would soon appear in a dream and tell him what his guardian animal or bird was to be. When he knew this, he would adopt that bird or animal as his special guardian for the rest of his life. When the dream came he would be free to return to his people, his dream fast successfully achieved.
For five suns Three Arrows spent his days and nights on the rocky plateau, only climbing down to the little spring for water after each sunset. His heart was filled with a dark cloud because that morning his father had sadly warned him that the next day, the sixth sun, he must return to his village even if no dream had come to him in the night. This meant returning to his people in disgrace without the chance of taking another dream fast.
That night Tree Arrows, weak from hunger and weary from ceaseless watch, cried out to the Great Mystery. 'O Great Spirit, have pity on him who stands humbly before Thee. Let his clan spirit or a sign from beyond the thunderbird come to him before tomorrow's sunrise, if it be Thy will.'
As he prayed, the wind suddenly veered from east too north. This cheered Three Arrows because the wind was now the wind of the great bear, and the bear was the totem of his clan. When he entered the cavern he smelled for the first time the unmistakable odor of a bear. This was strong medicine.
He crouched at the opening of the cave, too excited to lie down although his tire body craved rest. As he gazed out into the night he heard the rumble of thunder, saw the lightning flash, and felt the fierce breath of the wind from the north. Suddenly a vision came to him, and a gigantic bear stood beside him in the cave. Then Three Arrows heard it say, 'Listen well, Mohawk. Your clan spirit has heard your prayer. Tonight you will learn a great mystery which will bring help and gladness to all your people.'
A terrible clash of thunder brought the dazed boy to his feet as the bear disappeared. He looked from the cave just as a streak of lightning flashed across the sky in the form of a blazing arrow. Was this the sign from the thunderbird ?
Suddenly the air was filled with a fearful sound. A shrill shrieking came from the ledge just above the cave. It sounded as though mountain lions fought in the storm; yet Three Arrows felt no fear as he climbed toward the ledge. As his keen eyes grew accustomed to the dim light he saw that the force of the wind was causing two young balsam trees to rub violently against each other. The strange noise was caused by friction, and as he listened and watched fear filled his heart, for, from where the two trees rubbed together a flash of lightning show smoke. Fascinated, he watched until flickers of flames followed the smoke.
Three Arrows had never seen fire of any kind at close range nor had any of his people. He scrambled down to the cave and covered his eyes in dread of this strange magic. Then he smelt bear again and he thought of his vision, his clan spirit, the bear, and its message. This was the mystery which he was to reveal to his people. The blazing arrow in the sky was to be his totem, and his new name - Blazing Arrow.
At daybreak, Blazing Arrow climbed onto the ledge and broke two dried sticks from what remained of one of the balsams. He rubbed them violently together, but nothing happened. 'The magic is too powerful for me,' he thought.
Then a picture of his clan and village formed in his mind, and he patiently rubbed the hot sticks together again. His will power took the place of his tired muscles. Soon a little wisp of smoke greeted his renewed efforts, then came a bright spark on one of the stick. Blazing Arrow waved it as he had seen the fiery arrow wave in the night sky. A resinous blister on the stick glowed, then flamed.
Fire had come to the Six Nations!
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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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