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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 Vulture Became Bald - Ojibwa

Once again we are are introduced to Nanabush.

The great native healer,teacher,medecine man, trickester...

When the Creator was creating all Creation...he came to the flyers,,

All the flyers were made different sizes and all had purpose...just like you and I.

Then the creator created the Thunderbirds necklace (the Rainbow)..

All the flyers were instructed to take flight and travel through the neclace..And all did...when they came out the other side ...They got there colors...

Now remember that all colors are powerful....in healing, health and medecine.. Different colors represent different things..for example..

the White is the color of change..purity..

The red is the color of vision...passion..

The yellow is the color of time... and intellect (logic)..

the black is the colour of respect and mysterious medecines...

Green is the color of growth and renewal..

Purple is the color of healing and grounding..

Pink is a color of passiveness and unconditional love..

Blue is spirit,,calmness and balance..

And so all the flyers received colors from the thunderbirds neclace...

Now there was one giant bird whom had a beautiful head of feathers..She noticed that she was not colorful enough and wanted to be more... so she flew back through the thunderbirds necklace again and again... Everytime she went through a new colour was added to her head of feathers....Ohh was she magnificent.. And she flew down to the calm pond and looked at herself.. WOW was she beautiful...

In no time she visited all the rest of the flyers and noticed something.. they were not like her...in fact they looked plain she thought to herself.. and as time went on....She developed a nasty habit....In stead of visting and sharing about the wonders of the world,,,she would talk only of how beautiful she was...and eventually.. the rest of the flyers wanted nothing to do with her..Yet she was not taken aback....

Ohhh loook at me Blue jay ...I am not only more beautiful and much larger ....than you ...I am better.. she would say to all the flyers..

Well all the animals were getting tired of her ways and requested that Nanabush...teach her a lesson....

Nanabush agreed...and went down to the beach...he took some medecine from his pouch and ate it..then sang a powerful song and slowly he turned into a Bear...Then nanabush rested on the beach and fell asleep....

Now The colourful large bragish flyer saw this giant bear in the open..and presumed it dead...so slowly it travelled down to the bear....She landed softly and poked at the foot of the bear..no movement...

yet nanabush woke up...and peeked open an eye...and made no response..Nanabush forced himself to stay still....while the flyer poked at his feet...ohhhh it tickled yet nanabush still made no movement...

The flyer was getting hungry and wanted to get to the meat of the bear...She hopped on its belly and poked at it trying really hard to break the skin..yet the skin was to tough..So she hopped around and poked at the eyes..

yet nanabush closed them really tight.. and she couldn't get through...

She hopped to the backside of Bear...."ohhh here is an opening.." She stuck her head in the bears butt....and Nanabush clenched his muscles and let some gas go !!!! BOOM!!!

And out flew the flyer...Splash into the water...

All the other flyers came out and laughed at her...

when she came up...Nanabush got up and pulled the feathers from his butt...and told her..You will from now on ...travel in humility..silently.. for now you don't have the colours anymore ...to seperate yourself from others....and he walked away ...

Today the Vulture is bald.....always travelling in silence and ashamed...humility is big in the vulture....for if you don't appreciate the little things in this life time...how are you to appreciated the Big things...

This is the lesson of the Vulture...

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.
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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
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