Amerindian Arts Native American News & Information: Red Earth Festival, Santa Fe Indian Market, Discovering American Indian Art

"Voices in the Tall Grass: Native Women Artists of Oklahoma," is the newest exhibit at the Pioneer Woman Museum in Ponca City, OK. Described as a "wonderful aesthetic expression of culture and identity" by Rebecca Brave, exhibit curator, the exhibit will open at 1 p.m. on May 20, 2007 with remarks presented at 2 p.m. The artwork, on display until September 16, 2007, will represent a variety of contemporary and traditional media including pottery, beadwork, basketry, ribbonwork, sculpture, paintings and illustrations.

The exhibit features works by artists Martha Berry, Cherokee beadworker; Wendy Ponca, Osage artist; Crystal Hanna, Cherokee potter; Gwen Lester, Choctaw painter; Cindy Russell, Kaw painter; Shalah Rowlen, Sac and Fox ribbonworker; Virginia Stroud, Cherokee painter; and others

Annual Memorial Day Veterans Powwow: Noon to 5 p.m. Monday, May 28th, Mille Lacs Indian Museum & Trading Post, 43411 Oodenda Drive, Onamia, Minn. 1-320-532-3632

24th Annual Piscataway Indian Festival and Pow Wow, June 2-3, American Indian Cultural Center, 16816 Country Lane, Waldorf, MD, (301) 782-2224, www.piscatawayindians.org. Is that sage in the air, or a faint goatskin drum beat starting to pick up? Perhaps no other group is as crafty as the Native Americans, so there is most definitely something for everyone at this gathering.

Native American Powwow set for June
KIMBOLTON, OH -The eighth Annual Native American Powwow will be held June 2 and 3 at Rocky Fork Recreation in Kimbolton. It will be two days of energy and spirit of Native Americans by demonstration through traditional dancing, drumming, singing and story telling. More than six different Native American Nations participating. Evening music featuring Dave "White Wolf" Trezak, a national recording artist in the contemporary and traditional Native music. Traditional food, and arts and crafts will be available. $2 per person or $6 per carload. Starts at noon until dark. For more information and/or directions call 740-498-4614 or 740-498-4505

Edward-Dean Museum and Gardens will present “Native American Women's Creations”
Edward-Dean Museum, 9401 Oak Glen Rd. in Cherry Valley, CA, from June 3 to Aug. 25.

The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, features two exhibitions from its own collection. "Weaving a Collection: Native American Baskets from Bruce Museum," through June 10, explores five geographic regions of major Native American basket makers. "New Acquisitions Photography from the Bruce Museum Collection" is on view through August 19.

Redbird's 2007 Children of Many Colors Native American Intertribal Powwow will be Fri. to Sun., July 20 to 22 at Moorpark College athletic field, 7075 Campus Road, Moorpark, CA.
The schedule is as follows:
Fri., July 20: 6 to 10 p.m., Open Native American flute circle.
Sat., July 21: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Gourd dancing, grand entry, intertribal and exhibition dancing.
Sun., July 22: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Gourd dancing, grand entry, intertribal and exhibition dancing.
The event also features Native American art, crafts, food and fine jewelry vendors, and displays by informational and nonprofit organizations.
Tepees, drums and dancers are welcome.
The host is Northern Drum Wild Horse Singers. The master of ceremonies is Michael A. Reifel, San Carlos Apache, and head gourd dancer is David Patterson, Sac and Fox Nation.
Entry is a $2 suggested donation

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

Spokane artist George Flett, well kown for his depictions of ledger art, announcing forthcoming book "The Ledger Art of George Flett"

Po'pay, Leader of the First American Revolution, Clear Light Publishing, 2006, new book by Herman Agoyo (Ohkay Owingeh)

Forest Dwellers - Choctaw

A long time ago in ancient time, while the Choctaw Indians were living in Mississippi, the Choctaw legends say that certain supernatural beings or spirits lived near them. These spirits, or "Little People," were known as Kowi Anukasha or "Forest Dwellers." They were about two or three feet tall. These pygmy beings lived deep in the thick forest, their homes were in caves hidden under large rocks.

When a boy child is two, three, or even four years old, he will often wander off into the woods, playing or chasing a small animal. When the little one is well out of sight from his home, "Kwanokasha", who is always on watch, seizes the boy and takes him away to his cave, his dwelling place. Many times his cave is far away and Kwanokasha and the little boy must travel a very long way, climbing many hills and crossing many streams. When they finally reach the cave Kwanokasha takes him inside where he is met by three other spirits, all very old with long white hair. The first one offers the boy a knife; the second one offers him, a bunch of poisonous herbs; the third offers a bunch of herbs yielding good medicine.

If the child accepts the knife, he is certain to become a bad man and may even kill his friends. If he accepts the poisonous herbs he will never be able to cure or help his people. But, if he accepts the good herbs, he is destined to become a great doctor and an important and influential man of his tribe and win the confidence of all his people.

When he accepts the good herbs the three old spirits will tell him the secrets of making medicines from herbs, roots and barks of certain trees, and of treating and curing various fevers, pains and other sickness. That is the reason the "'Little People" take the boy child to their home in the wilderness, in order to train Indian doctors, transmitting to them their special curative powers and to train them in the manufacture of their medicines. The child will remain with the spirits for three days after which he is returned. He does not tell where he has been or what he has seen or heard. Not until he becomes a man will he make use of the knowledge gained from the spirits, and never will he reveal to others how it was acquired. It is said among the Choctaws that few children wait to accept the offering of the good herbs from the third spirit, and that is why there are so few great doctors and other men of influence among the Choctaws.

It is also said the "Little People" are never seen by the common Choctaws. The Choctaw prophets and herb doctors, however, claim the power of seeing them and of holding communication with them. During the darkest nights in all kinds of weather you can see a strange light wandering around in the woods. This light is the Indian doctor and his little helper looking for that special herb to treat and cure a very sick tribesman.

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~mboucher/mikebouchweb/choctaw/legends2.htm

Keeper of Stories
Reprinted by permission

Zuni fetish updates from Amerindian Arts

Gibbs Othole, to be posted May 28th, 2007opal carvings, various other stones
Jeff Tsalabutie, to be posted May 28th, 2007opal carvings, various other stones
Andres Quandelacy, 4-11-2007, to be posted 4-12-2007, rhodocrosite, white coral horses, horse pendants, horse necklaces
Todd Westika, 3-16-2007, lapis, stichtite, egyptian marble, turquoise bears and buffaloes
Andres Quandelacy, 3-1-2007, baltic amber fetishes, pink opal horse pendant
Ernie Mackel, 2-27-2007
Lynn Quam, 2-5-2007, buffaloes, bears, and wolves
Jayne Quam, 2-5-2007, bears, coyotes, and a mountain lion
Claudia Peina, 2-5-2007, smiling bears
Kateri Quandelacy Sanchez, 2-4-2007, corn maidens
Stewart Quandelacy, 2-4-2007, Spiney Oyster, Lapis, honey onyx, jasper and turquoise medicine bears. Buffaloes and old-style eagles
Lena Boone, 2-4-2007, bears, badgers, frogs, and a fox
Gibbs Othole, 2-2-2007, Apple coral mt. lion, more to come
Dee Edaakie, 2-2-2007, bears
Zuni fetish necklaces and pendants, 2-1-2007Sandra, Georgia, and Chad Quandelacy; Nancy Westika
Andres Quandelacy, 1-15-2007, opal pendant necklaces, variscite horse fetishes
Sandra Quandelacy, 12-22-2006, corn maidens

Books of Interest

Navajo Spaceships

Classic Hopi And Zuni Kachina Figures

MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK: THE FIRST 100 YEARS

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
To Order this book

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."
To Order this book

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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