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'Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest'

3 photo journals capture diversity in the Southwest

UNC grant to train American Indian teachers

American Indian bread both dense and delicious

American Indian denied unemployment aid after refusing haircut

Spanish Fork teacher gets national kudos

Spanish Fork teacher named American Star

Bergen Community College to Celebrate Native American Heritage Week, September 26-29

SDSU Hosts Native American Media Symposium

Without accreditation, D-Q University faces permanent closure

Inupiaq Eskimo artist to lecture and exhibit at Kennebunkport Gallery

Chilkat dancers, Alaska, 1895.

Diverse Magazine ranks Southeastern in national top 6

85th annual Santa Fe Indian Market: A connecting rhythm

SEPT. 2-3 TOTAH FESTIVAL. Farmington, NM. Native American arts and crafts show and marketplace.

SEPT. 2-4 IROQUOIS INDIAN FESTIVAL. Iroquois Indian Museum, Howes Cave, N.Y. 25th annual celebration of Iroquois arts.

American Indian tribes to hold group Pow Wow
The 13th annual Grand Bois Inter-tribal Pow Wow will be held Sept. 15-17 at Grand Bois Park on Highway 24 in Bourg, LA. The event will feature Native American arts and crafts, traditional food and gourd dancing.
Traders are accepted by invitation only. All drums, lodges and princesses are asked to attend. For more information, call Ernest at (985) 594-7410.

Museum of New Mexico/Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
Curretn and Online Exhibitions

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

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.

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.

Atagahi -The Secret Lake – Cherokee

http://www.bigisland.com/~stony/397myths.html

Somewhere in the high ridges of the Great Smokies there was believed to be a lake called Atagahi, the Secret Lake. Few people had heard of it, and this is a story of a young Cherokee brave and his sister who enjoyed the secret of this beautiful lake nestled in the Great Smokies.

Utani placed his bright, shiny, new knife on the ground next to his new moccasins and admired the gleaming of the blade in the sun. He was a young Cherokee brave, rather tall for his age but very powerfully built and with sharp penetrating black eyes. He was too busy admiring the glint of the metal in the sun to notice the approach of Netani, his sister, until the shadow of her body crossed the knife blade and shut off the sun.

"Get out of the way of the sun," cried Utani. "You are blocking the rays from shining on my knife.,, Netani made no effort to move and so Utani repeated his request.

Netani could not understand Utani's demand that she move, but he was her big brother and so she must, obey. As she stepped aside she inquired of Utani why he watched so intently the blade of his knife in the sun.

Utani, of course, now being a man, did not want to give a childish answer such as, "I am watching the blade shine in the sun." So he quickly gave another answer: "I am receiving a message from the sun."

"What sort of message?" asked Netani.

Oh, the sun is telling me where Atagahi is and maybe if I study the blade long enough the sun will tell me just where to find it."

This Utani thought would satisfy his little sister. But her curiosity was too great, and she asked that Utani take her to the secret lake, Atagahi.

Now, Utani realized he had gone a little too far in his bragging; but being very stubborn, he refused to tell his sister that he really could not find the secret lake by looking at the knife blade in the sun. Utani made up his mind that he would have to find the secret lake, Atagahi. He rose and placed his knife carefully in his belt and, taking his sister's hand, started toward the ridges of the Great Smokies. For two hours, Utani and Netani climbed higher and higher into the mountains; but as the day wore on, Utani began to feel a bit frightened, for they were a long way from home and had come upon nothing that looked like a lake. Finally Netani stopped a few feet behind Utani and called out.

"Let us rest here for a while, big brother. I am getting tired. Besides it is late and I am hungry. Let us go back to the village and look tomorrow."

Of course, Utani secretly thought that was a wonderful idea, for he was tired and hungry too. He agreed to follow his little sister's idea.

As he grasped his sister's hand to start home, his foot kicked a small stone, which rolled off the side of the trail and down a small embankment of earth and landed at the bottom with a splash. Utani and Netani looked at each other with great surprise and then carefully stepped to the edge of the path. Utani pushed aside the branches that grew along the side of the trail, and they both peered down into the waters of a beautiful blue green lake nestled among the trees and rocks that hid it from human eyes along the trail. They had found it! They had found Atagahi! It was fast growing dark, so the two children decided to return to their village and come back the following day to the secret lake. When they returned to their village the older braves wanted to know where they had been. Netani said, "We looked at Utani's knife blade in the sun, and the sun told us where to find Atagahi."

The older Cherokee braves all laughed and laughed very loudly. But Netani and Utani did not laugh, for they knew where Atagahi was and they could go there any time they pleased. They never told anyone their secret, but every once in a while if you looked very carefully up the trail into the mountains, you might see two Indian children kicking stones off the side of the trail.

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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.

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Fine Indian Jewelry: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection

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
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American Indian Women's Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
by Donna Hightower Langston
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Linguists Find the Words, and Pocahontas Speaks Again
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand, The Book
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"Communing with Bears"
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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)
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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.

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