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Archives of Native American art news, 2004-2006, presented by
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Interview With A Navajo Weaver

“It’s done with chants and prayers,” Garnanez of Waterflow, 56, said while sitting at his loom on a recent Monday. “It’s about things that aren’t important to Western thought.”

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American Indian Ballerinas

Rosella Hightower, Yvonne Chouteau, Maria Tallchief, Marjorie Tallchief and Moscelyne Larkin, known as the "American Indian ballerinas," five Oklahoma natives of American Indian descent who rose to prominence in the ballet world from the 1940s through the 1960s.

Recalling the 'American Indian Ballerinas'

In 1991, artist Mike Larsen was commissioned to paint a permanent mural for the Oklahoma State Capitol that was a tribute to the American Indian Ballerinas. It is entitled "Flight of Spirit"

The lives of the Native American Ballerinas is chronicled in "American Indian Ballerinas", a book by Lili Cockerille Livingston

The Story of Miracle Hill, Cabot Yerxa's Pueblo Museum

Built by Yerxa between 1941 and 1963, the museum houses Cabot’s collection of Native American pottery, early 20th century photographs and artifacts from his Alaskan adventures. The museum also houses a Pueblo Art Gallery, a bookstore, and the famed sculpture “Waokiye,” a 43-foot-tall Indian monument carved from a 750-year-old Sequoia Redwood

Cabot’s Pueblo Museum

New Mexico gets $1 million art collection

The state Department of Cultural Affairs has received a gift of 171 artworks valued at $1 million. The collection includes works by more than 100 artists, including Dan Namingha, Glenna Goodacre, Gregory Lomayesva, Kevin Red Star, R.C. Gorman, Ford Ruthling and Melissa Zink, and will be distributed among the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Museum of International Folk Art.

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The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian virtual gallery

The Museum is posting its 800,000 piece collection on the web. The project is expected to take four years

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Judge rules that a federal ban on the possession of eagle feathers by non-Indians is too restrictive

U.S. District Judge said making non-tribal members ineligible to apply for feathers at a national repository and subjecting them to possible criminal prosecution puts a burden on the free exercise of religion.
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Traditional Native Art Materials: Decoding Wildlife and Migratory Bird Laws

Alaska Native artists who use traditional art materials in their handicrafts got some help decoding wildlife and migratory bird laws at a recent summit held in Anchorage.
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"White Fawn's Devotion"

Library of Congress has added "White Fawn's Devotion," a 1910 film by James Young Deer, the first known Native American movie director, to its National archives.

"White Fawn's Devotion" (1910), is an 11-minute silent drama concerning a misunderstanding between a white settler and his Native American wife. Director James Young Deer, a member of the Winnebago Indian tribe, was believed to have written and directed more than 100 films between 1910 and 1913. (Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY and Southern Indiana)

Eiteljorg Lands 800 Piece Southwest Art Collection

(INDIANAPOLIS) December 12, 2008, The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is proud to announce the gift of the Helen Cox Kersting Collection of Southwestern Cultural Arts, a multi-million-dollar collection of nearly 800 objects, including the best of Southwestern pottery, jewelry and other objects. The collection will be the basis of a forthcoming book and an exhibition in 2010.

Inside Indiana Business

Native American Indian Policy: Removal or Genocide?

"If this happened today, it would likely be considered genocide." "To a detached, objective outsider, America’s Indian Policy and Removal Acts were nothing short of racial genocide. Broken treaty after broken treaty. One lie after another."

See full article by Jack Wellman - OVI Magazine

Art: Review: Vanishing Frontier, Cincinnati Art Museum

An article examining the construction of the visual mythology of the American Indian

Exploring American Indian imagery

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
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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
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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

Web Sites:

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Indigenous Peoples Literature
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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
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