Amerindian Arts Native American News & Information: 9/16/07

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

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Smithsonian Institution has named Kevin Gover director of its National Museum of the American Indian. Gover is a member of the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and a professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where he also is a faculty member of the university’s Indian Legal Program. He served as assistant secretary for Indian Affairs in the Interior Department from 1997 to 2000. Gover, who joins the museum on December 2, succeeds founding director W. Richard West Jr., who is retiring after 17 years.

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.

The fall’s premier Native American art event, the Cherokee Art Market, is returning for its second year to Cherokee Casino Resort in Tulsa on Oct. 13-14. The Cherokee Art Market will unveil Native American art from across the nation at this event, which will feature the top 200 elite Native American artists in the country appearing by invitation only. Art patrons will have the opportunity to view and purchase native paintings, sculptures, weavings, baskets, clothing, jewelry and photography. To complement this collection of artwork, the Cherokee Art Market will also host live performances of singing, dancing and storytelling and a Native American art symposium.

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

CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN ART: PAINTINGS BY NORMA AKERS: Artist’s talk, 7 p.m. Sept. 11. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday; 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday; closes Sept. 30. Carnegie Arts Center, 601 S. Fifth, Leavenworth. leavenwortharts.org (913-651-0765)

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 Kingfisher Got His Bill – Cherokee

Some old men say that the Kingfisher was meant in the beginning to be a water bird, but as he had not been given either web feet or a good bill he could not make a living. The animals held a council over it and decided to make him a bill like a long sharp awl for a fish-gig (fish-spear). So they made him a fish-gig and fastened it on in front of his mouth. He flew to the top of a tree, sailed out and darted down into the water, and came up with a fish on his gig. And he has been the best gigger ever since.

Some others say it was this way: A Blacksnake found a Yellowhammer's nest in a hollow tree, and after swallowing the young birds, coiled up to sleep in the nest, where the mother bird found him when she came home. She went for help to the Little People, who sent her to the Kingfisher. He came, and after flying back and forth past the hole a few times, made one dart at the snake and pulled him out dead. When they looked they found a hole in the snake's head where the Kingfisher had pierced it with a slender tugälû'nä fish, which he carried in his bill like a lance. From this the Little People concluded that he would make a first-class gigger if he only had the right spear, so they gave him his long bill as a reward.

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

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

Edgar Hachivi, Heap of Birds

Lenni Lenape artist Jacque

Arapaho artist Brent Learned

Juane Smith Quick-to-See

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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