Tuesday, January 15, 2008

White Buffalo calf born, Branigan exhibit features World War II heroes, Ledger art project

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White Buffalo calf born to Cheyenne tribal member

Advocate for American Indian tribes is hosting a free small-business information seminar

Judge: Gorman estate case 'wholly inadequate'

Ledger art preserved by digitalization project

A code of honor: Branigan exhibit features World War II heroes

Ogopogo the Chameleon- N’ha-a-itk of Indian Myths

American Indian Mafia

Remains of 12,000 American Indians stored under UC Berkeley gym

Shan Gray says 21-story American Indian monument still planned

Patrice H. Kunesh appointed director of USD’s Institute of American Indian Studies

Crystal Frazier, subject of director Billy Luther's film "Miss Navajo,"

Native American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

American Indian dancers broaden awareness of tribal cultures

The Delaware tribe still seeking official status

An exhibition of work by James Lavadour, a Native American painter and printmaker

Miccosukee Indian Village

Native American Jack Peel untwists history of Natives

Tohono O’odham open Village Trading Post

Remembering Native Americans Imprisoned at the St. Augustine Fort

Tim Ryan, environmental educator, teaches ways of his Native American ancestors

Culture by Momaday at the Rasmuson Theater

The sixth season of Native Trails kicks off at Scottsdale's Civic Center Mall

The Transformation of Native American artist Rick Bartow

Tribal groups call Indiana home

SCOTTSDALE - The sixth season of Native Trails kicked off a 4-month series of free entertainment and Native American culture Tuesday at Scottsdale's Civic Center Mall. Through April 5th, 2008
Details

Recent Books of Interest

American Indian Mafia

An FBI Agent's True Story about Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier, and the American Indian Movement (AIM)

PORTLAND - Two January events at Portland Community College will provide entertainment and help to those in financial need.

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

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

Itsayaya and the Otter - Nez Perce

After Itsayaya, the coyote, had changed the animals, he went on down the great river. After a day of travel he came to a place where the river spread out and ran into a lake, the biggest lake he had ever seen.

This must be the lake my cousin told me about, he thought. I can't see the other shore. Well, I'm thirsty. Maybe I'll have a drink. And Itsayaya put his head down to drink. But when he tasted the water, hejumped back.

"What's this?" he shouted. "This is no lake, but some kind of poisoned water. It tastes bitter and salty. What a trick for my cousin to play on me! I came all this way to find a salty poisoned lake!" Of course, Itsayaya had come to the ocean, but since he had never seen the ocean be-fore, he didn't know that it contained salty water.

Suddenly the coyote felt very homesick for his own valleys and mountains and the beautiful meadow of Simini-kum, so he turned right around and started home. "I'll go back where the water is good," he said.

Itsayaya traveled for many days up the river, over hills, through the hot desert and over the Seven Devils, and at last came to the place where the roaring river Te-well-ka-koos and the clear Koos-koos-ki run together in the meadow of Siminikum. Then the coyote knew that he was home. He lay down in the shade of a huge pine tree and slept for two whole days and nights.

When Itsayaya awoke he was wonderfully refreshed. He stretched, shook himself, and trotted up the Koos-koos-ki to look for his family who had gone to camp beside Lapwai, the place of the butterflies. On his way he passed Hoonee, a great rock jutting out into the river. On this rock sat a family of little spotted dogs. Long long ago they had disobeyed the law of Simini-kum and chased the deer in the magic meadow. For this misdeed Itsayaya had called down his magic medicine and turned them to stone as they sat on the rock in the sun. You can see them there to this day.

As Itsayaya traveled up the river, he met a big salmon, who called to him from the water, "You, there, Itsayaya, I'm certainly glad you came home. We need your help."

"Good morning, Natsoh," said Itsayaya. "And what is the trouble?"

"Well, you see, Itsayaya, there is an old otter at the entrance to Yehyeh Creek. He lies on the bottom and every time some of us salmon start up the creek he grabs us and eats us. I've lost a number of my family to him in the past few days." Tears rolled down the old salmon's slippery cheeks as he spoke.

"I'll see what can be done," said Itsayaya. "You come with me, Natsoh, and we'll talk to this mean fellow."

"Very well," said the salmon. "Let's hurry before he eats another of my family."

So the salmon swam up the river and Itsayaya trotted along the bank. When they came to Yehyeh, the salmon swam up to the mouth of the little creek and said to the coyote, "Now watch and see what Kilosk, the otter, does."

Then Natsoh, the salmon, started up the little creek. Very suddenly Kilosk darted from the bottom, shouting as he came, "Just what do you think you're doing swimming up my stream, Natsoh?"

"Your stream? Ha!" said the salmon. "This stream be-longs to me and to all my brothers and sisters. We were born here."

"Don't go up that creek, Natsoh!" said Kilosk, the otter. "This water is warm and will be bad for you. Be-sides, if you try it, I shall eat you."

Now Itsayaya, the coyote, had hidden himself behind a big boulder so that he could see and hear what was happening. He stepped out and said in his sternest tones, That will be quite enough, Kilosk. I heard you threatening Natsoh. That is not the way to treat anyone, especially close neighbors like the salmon."

Kilosk was frightened and surprised to see the great king of Simmikum on the little stream Yehyeh. He stammered in embarrassment, "I-I-was only fooling The salmon may use the creek. I won't bother them again "

"Fooling? How silly!" said Natsoh. "You are lying Kilosk, because you are afraid of what Itsayaya with his magic medicine might do to you." Kilosk, the otter, made no reply.

Then Itsayaya, the coyote, waved his paws and called down his magic medicine. "There must be justice for all my subjects," he said. "I shall turn you, Kilosk, into a stone so that you can no longer harm the salmon." And the otter became a stone. You can see him still, sitting by the little stream, a useless guard to keep the salmon from swimming up Yehyeh.

Taken from Tales of the Nimipoo - From the Land of the Nez Perce Indians, Eleanor B. Heady, 1969

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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