Amerindian Arts Native American News & Information: Smithsonian 2008 Native Arts Participants, Maxwell Museum Goes Alaskan, American Indian Repertory Theatre

SUNY Cortland’s Native American Film Festival will open on Tuesday, Oct. 30, with a screening of the 2005 documentary “Mohawk Girls.” The four selections in this year’s festival are a mix of independent, documentary and comedy films on themes such as contemporary life, growing up Native, political activism and a sad relocation in American history.

All movies during the four-film series running through Tuesday, Nov. 20, will be shown on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Sperry Center, Room 104. Sponsored by the College’s Native American Studies Program, the festival is free and open to the public

“Mohawk Girls,” a film by Tracy Deer, follows the lives of four teenage girls living on the Kahnawake reserve in Canada.

“Trudell,” a 2005 documentary about the legendary Native American poet and activist John Trudell, will be shown on Nov. 6. The 78-minute film won the 2005 Documentary Special Jury Award at the Seattle International Film Festival.

On Nov. 13, “The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy,” an award-winning 2006 documentary filmed by Chip Richie and written by Daniel Blake, will be shown.

The Kate Montgomery holiday comedy classic “Christmas in the Clouds” will conclude the festival series on Nov. 20.

-SUNY Cortland News

WHO: American Indian Repertory Theatre

WHAT: Weaving the Rain

WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 and 11

WHERE: The Village Black Box Theater is located within The Villiage dormitory complex, at the intersection of Forest Park Parkway and Big Bend Boulevard, Washington U., St. Louis, MO.

TICKETS: Tickets are available at the Buder Center (935-6288) for $10 for the general public and $8 for University students. Tickets will be $12 at the door.

SPONSOR: Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work

INFORMATION: (314) 935-6288

Alaskan Native musicians Pamyua! are winners of the Record of the Year at the Native American Music Awards, were Grammy Award performers and were nominated for the Aboriginal People’s Choice Awards. Pamyua! will wow Albuquerque with traditional Yup’ik songs and world beats. Visit www.pamyua.com. Listen to Pamyua! (MP3 attached with permission by the band.)

On Friday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m., Pamyua! Tribal Funk and World Music will be featured at UNM’s Keller Hall in the Center for the Arts, $15, $10, (students, seniors, children). Tickets are available at www.unmtickets.com or 925-5858, or at the UNM Bookstore box office.

HIS HERITAGE: The Indians aren't just from Cleveland.

Red Sox rookie Jacoby Ellsbury, who started in centre field for Boston in Games 6 and 7 of the AL championship series, is an American Indian. He is believed to be the first Navajo to make the major leagues, and he's become a source of pride for not just his family, but his tribe.

"I hear from a lot of them," Ellsbury said Sunday before Game 7. "It's very nice how they've treated me so far."

The Cleveland Indians are said to be named for Louis Sockalexis, who played for the then-Cleveland Spiders from 1897-99. But some Indian groups have complained that the team's logo is offensive, saying it depicts a racial caricature of an Indian.

Ellsbury said he wasn't personally offended, though he understands both sides.

"You could look at it two ways," he said. "You could look at it as offensive or you could look at it as a tribute to your heritage. That's the way I look at it."

-The Canadian Press

Native American art and history exhibit by artist Jon Tiger
Where: Walker County Civic Center on U.S. 27 in Rock Spring
When: Friday, Nov. 9, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 10, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 11, from noon to 6 p.m.
Cost: $5 fee for adults

Rockwell Museum of Western Art exhibit "By Native Hands: Native American Baskets from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art." The exhibit features about 64 baskets, many of which were created between 1850 and 1910. The diverse selection of baskets include a variety of materials and dyes from local plants. Various tribal styles and techniques are represented in the artistry.
The exhibit will remain on display through Nov. 11. The museum is at 111 Cedar St. in Corning, NY. To make reservations for the reception, call (607) 974-2333.

Kalamazoo, MI, American Indian Dance Theatre--7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6--The American Indian Dance Theatre will share their history and heritage through an evening of dance. The troupe pays tribute to the Native American culture, customs and values with a blend of traditional and modern movement and music. Tickets for American Indian Dance Theatre at Miller Auditorium range from $10 to $35

Work by local artist Dejean Jawrunner and Linda Lomahaftewa will be on exhibit at the Harwood Museum of Art/Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, NM, Sept 28 to Dec. 30.

A Kiowa's Odyssey: A sketchbook from Fort Marion, images by Etahdleuh Doanmoe, an American Indian who more than 125 years ago was taken from his home in Oklahoma and imprisoned in an Army fort in Florida along with 71 other Indians. The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. Runs until early 2008.

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

"American Indian Nations: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow", Book by George Horse Capture

How The Wildcat Caught The Gobbler – Cherokee

The Wildcat once caught the Rabbit and was about to kill him, when the Rabbit begged for his life, saying: "I'm so small I would make only a mouthful for you, but if you let me go I'll show you where you can get a whole drove of Turkeys." So the Wildcat let him up and went with him to where the Turkeys were.

When they came near the place the Rabbit said to the Wildcat,

Now, you must do just as I say. Lie down as if you were dead and don't move, even if I kick you, but when I give, the word jump up and catch the large stone there." The Wildcat agreed and stretched out as if dead, while the Rabbit gathered some rotten wood and crumbled it over his eyes and nose to make them look flyblown, so that the Turkeys would think he had been dead some time.

Then the Rabbit went over to the Turkeys and said, in a sociable way, "Here, I've found our old enemy, the Wildcat, lying dead in the trail. Let's have a dance over him." The Turkeys were very doubtful, but finally went with him to where the Wildcat was lying in the road as if dead. Now, the Rabbit had a good voice and was a great dance leader, so he said, "I'll lead the song and you dance around him." The Turkeys thought that fine, so the Rabbit took a stick to beat time and began to sing: "Gälägi'na hasuyak', Gälägi'na hasuyak' (pick out the Gobbler, pick out the Gobbler)."

"Why do you say that?" said the old Turkey. "O, that's all right," said the Rabbit, "that's just the way he does, and we sing about it." He started the song again and the Turkeys began to dance around the Wildcat. When they had gone around several times the Rabbit said, "Now go up and hit him, as we do in the war dance." So the Turkeys, thinking the Wildcat surely dead, crowded in close around him and the old gobbler kicked him. Then the Rabbit drummed hard and sang his loudest, "Pick out the Gobbler, pick out the Gobbler," and the Wildcat jumped up and caught the Gobbler.

Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney. From the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 1897-98, Part I. [1900] and is now in the public domain.

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

Complete update at Prophet's Rock, numerous carvers
Todd Westika, 10-20-2007, bears and buffaloes
Andres Quandelacy, 10-20-2007, Zuni fetish necklaces

List of Native American authors

Herman Agoyo, Biography
Z. Susanne Aikman
Kater i Akiwenzie-Damm, Biography
Sherman Alexie
Taiaiake Alfred, Has also published under Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, Author profile
Arthur Amiotte
Anahareo (also Gertrude Bernard)
Owanah Anderson
Jeanett e Armstrong
Joanne Arnott
Catherine Attla
Marilou Awiakta
Jim my Santiago Baca
Shonto Begay
Archibald Belaney, also Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin , and Grey Owl
Betty Louise Bell
Gloria Bird
Sherwin Bitsui
And rew J. Blackbird
Kim berly M. Blaeser
Zitkala-Sa (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin)
Linda Boyden
Beth Brant
Ignatia Broker
Vee Browne
Joseph Bruchac
Shirley Cheechoo
Robert Conley
Mary Crow Dog
Joseph A. Dandurand
Ella Cara Deloria
Qwo-Li Driskill
Carolyn Dunn
Debra Magpie Earling
Anita Endrezze
Jack Forbes
Eric Gansworth
Janice Gould
Joy Harjo
Allison Hedge Coke
Lance Henson
Tomson Highway
Robert a Hill Whiteman
Geary Hobson
Le Anne Howe
Beverly Hungry Wolf
Rita Joe
Steven Graham Jones
Emily Pauline Johnson
Basil Johnston
Daniel Heath Justice
Maude Kegg (Ellen Mitchell)
Thom as King
Winona LaDuke
Frank S. LaFountaine
Adrian C. Louis
Evelina Zuni Lucero
Lee Maracle
Leslie Marmon Silko
Joseph Marshall, III
Shaunn a Oteka McCovey
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Russell Means
Tiffany Midge
Devon Abbott Mihesuah
N. Scott Momaday
MariJo Moore
Daniel David Moses
Mourning Dove , see also Christine Quintasket
Nora Naranjo Morse
Jim Northrup
Louis Owens
Elise Paschen
Susan Power
Delphine Red Shirt
Marcie R. Rendon
Carter Revard
Paxton W Riddle
Wendy Rose
Gayle Ross
John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird)
Carol Lee Sanchez
William (Sundown) Sanders
Greg Sarris
Cheryl Savageau
C ynthia Leitich Smith
Paul Chaat Smith
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Abena Songbird
Luther Standing Bear
Denise Sweet
Mary TallMountain
Luci Tapahonso
Drew Hayden Taylor
Tim Tingle
Laura Tohe
David Treuer
Mark Turcotte
E. Donald Two-Rivers
Geral d Vizenor
Velma Wallis
Anna Lee Walters
Ron Welburn
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins , see also Thocmetony
Karenne Wood
Elizabeth Woody
Ray A. Young Bear
Ofelia Zepeda

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.
To Order this book

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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