Santa Fe Indian Market, Mother Earth's "Red Alert", tribute to culture of Luiseño Indians
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Headlines, exhibits, powwows listed below: (access headline archives for 2004-2006 here)
List of Native American Authors
Native American festival brings heritage, customs to life
Native American Pow wow event blends culture, art
Joe Scerato works to preserve an endangered language spoken for centuries by the Mojave Indians
Art exhibit to pay tribute to culture of Luiseño Indians
Lied Center of Kansas Presents Irene Bedard and Deni
Groups concerned about restoration of Native artifacts
Archaeological dig reveals Indian, pioneer artifacts
American Indians and Plants in the Great Basin: An Ancient Relationship
''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
NATIVE AMERICAN POWWOW: Public invited to 14th annual Native American Powwow Aug. 3-4, Frank Liske Park, 4001 Stough Road, south of Concord. Bring blankets, lawn chairs and umbrellas. Family-oriented event, free admission; no illegal drugs or alcohol. Food vendors. Many vendors of homemade Native American crafts, such as dream catchers, bead work, leather craft and clothing with ribbon work. All war veterans, police officers, EMT personnel and firefighters invited to dance (or walk) in sacred circle during grand entry. Aug. 3: 3 p.m., hands-on learning in "fur and feather" sessions; 7 p.m., Powwow dancing begins. Aug. 4: 10 a.m., craft contest; noon, hands-on learning in "fur and feather" sessions; noon, powwow princess contest; 1-3 p.m. Gourd Dance; Native American storyteller Elizabeth Pulliam to perform; 3 p.m., traditional dancing begins. Raffles of various handmade crafts throughout day Aug. 4; "Crazy Midnight Auction" about 30 minutes after final dance
The Redhawk Native American Arts Council
11th Annual Bear Mountain, Hudson Valley Native American Heritage Celebration
Saturday, Aug. 4, 11a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday, Aug. 5, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Anthony Wayne Recreation Area in Stony Point, Exit 17 of the Palisades Interstate Parkway
$10 adults, $ 6 seniors and children, children ages 6 and under free; Parking $6
Contact information: 718-686-9297 or www.redhawkcouncil.org
World's Largest Indian Market on August 18-19
The Santa Fe Plaza hosts to the most prestigious Native American arts show in the world - the annual Santa Fe Indian Market on Aug. 18-19. The one-of-a-kind event provides a unique opportunity to buy directly from more than 1,000 Native American artists from across the country.
“Santa Fe Indian Market gives New Mexicans and their visitors a genuine cultural experience,” said Michael Cerletti, Secretary of the New Mexico Tourism Department, “and is an integral part of life in the Land of Enchantment.
The Santa Fe Indian Market has long been the place where Native American art meets the world. Join thousands of collectors, artists, volunteers and visitors who return from across the United States and the world to join in the festivities that celebrate American Indian culture and artistry.
The outdoor market provides a unique place to meet and buy directly from the nation's top Native American artists, including youth, who represent nearly 100 tribes.
For more information call 1-505-983-5220
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.
2007 Smithsonian National Powwow
More than 800 Native Americans in traditional dress compete for $125,000 in prize money during the three-day dance competition at the annual event hosted by
Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Indian artisans and exhibitors will have art, jewelry, sculpture and pottery for sale, as well as
traditional fare.
When, where: Aug. 10 to 12 at the Verizon Center, 601 F St. N.W., Washington, D.C.
Admission: $15, $12 for kids ages 5 to 11, 4 and younger free.
Info: (877) 830-3224, www.americanindian.si.edu.
The Bald Eagle in Native America
The Lakota use an eagle feather as a symbol of honor for a person who achieves a special task or accomplishment. Many college graduates this time of year will be given an eagle feather for their achievement.
Many pow wow dancers use the eagle claw as part of their regalia as well.
The Lakota also use an eagle bone whistle during the Sun Dance; the Creek and Cherokee perform an Eagle Dance.
The Zuni use an eagle fetish to help give personal insight and to help with hunting. The Zuni Pueblo is the first American Indian nation to own and operate an eagle sanctuary for cultural purposes. The Zuni use the mottled eagle feathers and for hundreds of years they would collect the eaglets and protect them in their homes.
The Prairie Island Dakota Community in Minnesota got involved with the protection and education of eagles with a contribution to the new National Eagle Center, which opened May 1. The Dakota hold the eagle as sacred, which was the reason Prairie Island became involved with the National Eagle Center.
For more information, visit www.nationaleaglecenter.org.
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.
Pioneer Woman Museum to exhibit native art
"Voices in the Tall Grass: Native Women Artists of Oklahoma," is the newest exhibit at the Pioneer Woman Museum in Ponca City, OK. Described as a "wonderful aesthetic expression of culture and identity" by Rebecca Brave, exhibit curator, the exhibit will open at 1 p.m. on May 20, 2007 with remarks presented at 2 p.m. The artwork, on display until September 16, 2007, will represent a variety of contemporary and traditional media including pottery, beadwork, basketry, ribbonwork, sculpture, paintings and illustrations.
The exhibit features works by artists Martha Berry, Cherokee beadworker; Wendy Ponca, Osage artist; Crystal Hanna, Cherokee potter; Gwen Lester, Choctaw painter; Cindy Russell, Kaw painter; Shalah Rowlen, Sac and Fox ribbonworker; Virginia Stroud, Cherokee painter; and others
Bull Run All Nations Powwow, set Aug. 4 and 5, at Riverfront Park and Canfield Island in Loyalsock Township, intersection of the Bull Run and Seshequin trails
Edward-Dean Museum and Gardens will present “Native American Women's Creations”
Edward-Dean Museum, 9401 Oak Glen Rd. in Cherry Valley, CA, from June 3 to Aug. 25.
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
Museum of New Mexico/Museum of Indian Arts & Culture-Current and Online Exhibitions
How Grandmother Spider Stole the Sun - Creek
When the Earth was first made, there was no light.
It was very hard for the animals and the people in the darkness. Finally, the animals decided to do something about it.
"I have heard there is something called the sun," said the bear. "It is kept on the other side of the world, but the people there will not share it. Perhaps we can steal a piece of it."
All the animals agreed that it was a good idea. But who would be the one to steal the sun?
The Fox was the first to try. He sneaked to the place where the sun was kept. He waited until no one was looking. Then he grabbed a piece of it in his mouth and ran. But the sun was so hot it burned his mouth and he dropped it.
To this day all foxes have black mouths because that first fox burned his carrying the sun.
The Possum tried next. In those days, Possum had a very bushy tail. She crept up to the place where the sun was kept, broke off a piece and hid it in her tail. Then she began to run, bringing the sun back to the animals and the people. But the Sun was so hot it burned off all her hair on her tail and she lost hold of it. To this day all Possums have bare tails because the sun burned away the hair on that first possum.
Then Grandmother Spider tried. Instead of trying to hold the sun herself, she wove a bag out of her webbing. She put the piece of sun in her bag and carried it back with her. Now the question was where to put the sun.
Grandmother Spider told them, "The Sun should be up high in the sun. Ten everyone will be able to see it and benefit from its light."
All the animals agreed, but none of them could reach up high enough. Even if they carried it to the top of the tallest tree, that would not be high enough for everyone on the Earth to see the Sun. Then they decided to have one of the birds carry the sun up to the sky. Everyone knew the buzzard could fly the highest, so he was chosen.
The Buzzard placed the sun on top of his head, where his feathers were the thickest, for the Sun was still very hot, even inside Grandmother Spider's bag. He began to fly, up and up toward the top of the sky. As he flew the sun grew hotter.
Up and up he went, higher and higher, and the Sun grew hotter and hotter still. Now the Sun was burning through Grandmother Spider's bag, but the buzzard still kept flying up toward the top of the sky. Up and up he went, and the sun grew hotter.
Now it was burning away the feathers on top of his head, but he continued on. Now all of his feathers were gone, but he flew higher. Now it was turning the bare skin of his head red, but he continued to fly. He flew until he reached the top of the sky, and there he placed the Sun where it would give light to everyone.
Muskogee [Creek]
Taken from the book Keepers of the Earth
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
Books of Interest
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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