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In the New West, Do They Want Buffalo to Roam?

A Tribal College Crumbles

Museums here little affected by illegally acquired art, artifacts

Report: The best colleges for Native students are in Oklahoma

Native American dance on show this weekend in Cherokee

The sky's the limit in Santa Fe

A critical look at American Indian writing

17th-century records offer look into colonial history

Philbrook Adds Curator of Native American & Non-Western Art

Ableauctions to Host the Heritage Galleries' Pre-Columbian and Native American Art Auction

Former U. S. senator leaves statecraft for his art

Park to host American Indian festival

Schools recruit Indian educators to teach

85th annual Santa Fe Indian Market: A connecting rhythm

Aug. 31: 2006 Native American Music Festival - The Atoll and Pura Fe

As part of the 4th Annual Native American Music Festival hosted by the Fort Collins Museum, there will be an on-campus concert featuring singer songwriter Pura Fe and local favorites The Atoll.

Date and Time: Thursday, Aug. 31, 2-5 p.m.Location: Lory Student Center Sculpture Garden (West side of building)

The event is made possible through the support of the College of Liberal Arts and its departments, CASAE, Women and Minorities in Engineering Program and Native American Student Services.

For more information, contact Greg Smoak at gsmoak@colostate.edu

www.newmexicocreates.org is creating a new website.

Institute of American Indian Arts Museum: "Relations: Indigenous Dialogue," group show by artists actively seeking to break stereotypes, through Sept. 30. 108 Cathedral Place, Santa Fe. Admission and hours: (505) 983-8900.

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: "Elements of Earth and Fire: New Directions in Native American Ceramic Art: Texture," third of three four-month installations, each focusing on one element of pottery-making, through Oct 8; "Wondrous Works: Contemporary Art by Native American Women," through Jan. 14. 708 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe. Admission and hours: (505) 476-1250.

More than 200 pieces of pueblo pottery from the San Bernardino County Museum's permanent collection will be on view for its new exhibit, "Pottery from the Pueblos," which opened July 15. Runs through November 5, 2006.

August 25-27—PowWow Native American Festival: Intertribal gathering of Native American dancers, drummers, artists, and craftspeople, Friday noon-8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-9 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Patterson Park at Linwood and Eastern avenues, 410-675-3535, baic.org.

OCT. 5-6

Virginia Indian Symposium -- Williamsburg Hosted by Virginia's Indian tribes, the "400 Years of Survival" symposium will feature nationally known Native American speakers on topics such as sovereignty, federal recognition, health care, repatriation and education.

Azban the Raccoon – Abenaki

http://www.abenakination.org/azban.html

Raccoon and the Waterfall

Wowigit ndatlokangan wa AAzban. Here camps my story of Azban.

One day, Azban the Raccoon was walking around. There were many things which Zaban could have done back at his own lodge. However, those were boring things, everyday things, things which he was supposed to do. Azban would much rather do things he wasn't supposed to do, especially on a fine day like this one. His long fingers were just itching to get into something. As always, Azban was looking for trouble.

As he walked along through the woods, he heard the chirping of baby birds from the trees above him.

"Little birds," he called up, "Come down and play with your Uncle Azban. I will teach you some new games."

The mother birds, though, looked out of their nests with suspicion. They would not let the little birds go and play with Azban.

"Be careful," they said to their young ones. "Azban is a nest-robber. You cannot trust him."

"Silly birds," Azban said to himself. "Don't they know I just like to play with baby birds and birds' eggs. It isn't my fault if playing makes me hungry some times."

He looked up at the trees and smiled, but he could see that he would have no luck there today. The birds were being too watchful.

"Don't worry, little birds," Azban called back over his shoulder, "I will be back another day."

Azban walked and walked. Soon he was in a valley which led through the hills. Then he cocked his head and listened. He could hear something. It sounded like many people shouting.

"Now, what is that?" Azban said. "I shall have to go and see."

He began to follow the sound, which seemed to be coming from the end of the valley. The closer he came, the louder the sound became. Finally, pushing his way through some brush, Azban found himself on the edge of a cliff, looking down at the Winooski river where it roared and roared. It made a sound like the voices of many people all shouting together.

"Ah-hunh," said Azban, speaking to the waterfall. "So you think you can shout loudly, do you?"

The waterfall did not answer him. It just kept pouring down, splashing on the rocks below.

"Do you think you can outshout me?" said Azban. "I am Azban, the great one, you know."

But the waterfall did not answer him.

"Do you think you can ignore me?" Azban said. "Listen, I shall outshout you!"

Then Azban shouted. "Yiiiiii!" but his little voice was nowhere near as loud as the waterfall.

"Hmm," Azban said, "I see that I shall have to shout louder."

He took a deep breath and shouted even more loudly. "YIIII!" But his little voice was still drowned out by the roar of the waterfall."

"I shall have to get closer," Azban said. He climbed down closer to the edge of the falls, took a very deep breath and shouted again. "YIIIIIIIIIIII!" But his little voice was still lost in the sound of the falls.

"Hmm," Azban said, "I shall have to lean out further." Then he took a very very deep breath. He filled his lungs with as much air as he could and shouted. "YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" He shouted so loud and so long that he became dizzy and lost his balance. Down he fell, into the water. Before he could rescue himself, he was swept over the falls.

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Articles by Amerindian Arts

Note on Zuni substance

Concept of the Sublime

Dorothy Dunn On Primitive Art
(Excerpt)Quoting Alice Corbin Henderson, Dunn states that in an Indian society, art is "possessed in common" and "totally lacking in individualistic concept." Thus, objectivity is enjoined with intentionality as personal accomplishment without a reference to the individual. This would satisfy a pedagogic sense of rationality in that in an Indian society "the surest way to make a prayer effective is to symbolize the matter prayed for" (Bandelier). If the prayer (the art of rhetoric) was effective, then it was handed down from generation to generation and its success justified its rationality.

Essay on the Zuni World View

Bibliography of the Zuni Language

Indian Ledger Art-Resources and Information

Books of Interest

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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THE FOURTH WORLD
W. Tussinger has written his first novel which was released in December, 2004.
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.
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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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Literature on Native America

An Overview of Pacific Northwest Native Indian Art
Free downloadable e-book

American Indian Women's Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
by Donna Hightower Langston
Complete article

Linguists Find the Words, and Pocahontas Speaks Again
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand, The Book
Early tribal artifacts put in spotlight at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

"Communing with Bears"
By Sara Wright
Communing with Bears is the story of a joyful encounter between one woman and a black bear.

Literacy in Indigenous Communities by L. David van Broekhuizen, Ph.D. (2000)
HTML Format (70K)
PDF Format(117K)
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.

Web Sites:

Native American Links Page
Indigenous Peoples Literature
Native Voice
Wisdom of the Old People
By David Whitney

National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation
Inuit film to tell story of last great shaman
My Two Beads Worth: Indigenous News Online
Northern California Indian Development Council
Native Village
Smudge Ceremony

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