Amerindian Arts Native American News & Information: Potawatomi Trails Pow-Wow, Schemitzun 2007 Annual Feast of Green Corn & Dance, Wild Rice Pow Wow

Artist's include Martha Berry, Cherokee Bead worker; Wendy Ponca, Osage artist; Cindy Russell, Kaw Painter; Shalah Rowlen, Sac and Fox Ribbon worker and Virginia Stroud, Cherokee Painter, and many others

The exhibit runs through September 16, 2007 and the hours of the museum are Tuesday and Saturday 9-5pm and Sunday 1-5pm. For more information, please call 580-765-6108 or check www.pioneerwomanmuseum.com.

The Baltimore American Indian Center holds its 33rd Annual PowWow from Aug. 24 to 26 in Patterson Park at Eastern and Linwood avenues. The PowWow will include cultural presentations, Native American jewelry and clothing, art, a dance and drum competition and Native American food. Admission is $5. Call 410-675-3535

There is a call for art entries for the 70th Annual New Mexico State Fair. Ramona Vigil-Eastwood, state fair arts director, has put out the call for entries in Native American Arts with a deadline of Aug. 20. The fair starts on Sept. 7, and runs through Sept. 23.

Louisiana State Exhibit Museum.

“Wrapped in Tradition: The Chihuly Collection of American Indian Trade Blankets” will be exhibited Sept. 23 to Nov. 30 at the museum.

The 80 vibrantly colored commercially woven woolen blankets date from the 1880s to the 1930s.

Oklahoma (RedLand): Choctaw Art and Culture
July 28 – Sept. 29, 2007
The word “ Oklahoma” is a Choctaw word meaning “ Red Land.” In recognition of Oklahoma’s centennial year, the Choctaw people and its history are featured in this exhibition. The exhibition includes a special public program and book signing held in celebration of a new book about the history of the Choctaw tribe written by Clara Sue Kidwell (Chippewa/Choctaw), Chair of the Native American Studies Dept. at the University of Oklahoma. The book release coincides with our exhibition of select Choctaw artists that are also invited to discuss their works, the book, as well as their responses to the Oklahoma State Centennial.

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

Recent Books of Interest

''Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest (University of New Mexico Press: 2006). Editors V.B. Price and Baker H. Morrow have assembled 15 essays on the millennium-old Puebloan landscape.

"Being Lakota", Book by Larissa Petrillo

How the Bees got their Stingers – Ojibwa

There was a time when bees did not have stingers. They were small and had no way of protecting themselves, so all the animals and birds used to steal their honey.

The bear, who was greedy, could never get enough honey. No matter where the bees hung their hives the bears would find them. The birds would suck the honey from the hives. The squirrels and chipmunks found the honey and ate it too. The bees always worked hard and looked every where for blossoms to make more honey.

One time,, autumn came and most of the flowers had withered and died. The bees did not store enough honey to last the long, cold winter so many of the bees died.

At last spring came,, the bees decided to go see Nanabush, the Great Spirit Being. They took Nanabush a gift of honey, in hopes that he could help them against the other animals and birds. Nanabush listened to the bees and told them because they worked hard and were not lazy, he would give them something to defend themselves against the animals and birds.

The bees were each given a stinger. The bees were pleased because now they would be able to protect themselves and their honey. The bees gave thanks to Nanabush by giving him the gift of sacred tobacco.

The bees returned home and they were happy. Soon the animals and birds gave up trying to steal the honey all except the bears. A swarm of bees would attack the greedy bear and send him yelping bad into the forest or the river but the bear kept returning.

Soon the bear learned not to be so greedy and the bees were grateful to Nanabush for their stingers.

Blue Panther Keeper of Stories

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)

Zuni fetish updates from Amerindian Arts

Todd Westika, 6-26-2007, lapis, stichtite, rhodocrosite bears and buffaloes
Jeff Tsalabutie, to be posted June 26th, 2007opal carvings, various other stones
Stewart Quandelacy, 6-24-2007, Necklaces and pendants, rhodocrosite, stichtite, and lapis bears
Gibbs Othole, 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
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
Lena Boone, 2-4-2007, bears, badgers, frogs, and a fox
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

Profiles, Biographies of Native American Painters and Potters

Edgar Hachivi, Heap of Birds

Lenni Lenape artist Jacque

Arapaho artist Brent Learned

Juane Smith Quick-to-See

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 "Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas"

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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