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The free 9th annual Portland Community College Traditional Winter Powwow (Wacipi), from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, in the HT Building on the Sylvania Campus, 12000 SW 49th Ave., attracts more than 1,000 visitors each year, according to Crystal Rogers, student event coordinator and a member of the Tlingit Tribe in northwest Alaska.

For more information about the powwow, call the PCC Multicultural Center at 503-977-4112

MESA, AZ -- The Symphony of the Southwest (SSW) is excited to feature Native American Flutist Carlos Nakai and the Chuck Maronhic trio in the Made in the USA concert at the Ikeda Theater of the Mesa Arts Center, January 26, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. An All-American evening celebrates our country's rich musical tradition.
Tickets prices range from $45-$15 and are available through the Mesa Arts Center box office, www.mesaartscenter.com, 480-644-6500.

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.

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 Tolba (turtle got his name) – Wabanaki

Well, plawinno (the slow one) was down near the river one day like he always was. But this day turtle saw several phahanamak wli (good looking young woman) near the water's edge without cloths as they were bathing. Plawinno thought, hola! These human woman are really attractive! Oh how I would like to "be" with them.

Just then crow was flying about and heard plawinno's desires. Crow said to plawinno, "hey slow one, I know how you can have your pleasure with those human woman". Eagerly, Plawinno responded; "How mkaza sibs (crow)". Crow answered "Well I will give you the power to detatch your weiner so that it will be able to swim across the sibo (river) and have your way with Phahanamak wli". "Wligen! (its good!)", responded plawinno.

At this point mkaza sibs detatched plawinno's weiner and it swam under water, and across the river, and the whole time plawinno could still feel everything! Plawinno thought that this was truly a wonderful skill! Plawinno was successful in pleasing himself with a couple of the confused phanamak wli. So after he was done, plawinno summoned his unit back to his body, and it was nearly half way back across the sibo when mkaza sibs swooped down and ate it right out of the water!!!

Plawinno could still feel everything, and he sqirmed with pain! Mkaza sibs kept his weiner in his stomach for a while then puked it back out at plawinno. In great pain plawinno then painfully struggled and sqirmed to fit his shriveled partially digested manhood back on in a real hurry! Finally plawinno succeeded in refitting it to his body.

After the pain subsided and poor plawinno rested he looked down to admire his member, when to his dismay he realized that it was all shrivled up and put on (Tolba) backwards!!!!! His weiner was backwards!

If you were to look at a turtle's male anatomy you would see that the penis does appear to be backwards. So the word Tolba refers to backwards. However, human people who belonged to Turtle lineage, (when clan systems were still really understood) were called Plawinnoak or the slow people. But Turtle was called Tolba.

As told by a Honored Grandfather

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)

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