Saturday, March 15, 2008

Know what you're buying with Indian crafts, JoAnne Bird, Women's leadership conference

Andres Quandelacy, Bisbee Cobolt Azurite Buffalo

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Headlines, exhibits, powwows listed below: (access past headline archives for 2004-2006 here)

The Eye Of An Artist- JoAnne Bird

2nd celebration of Indian artists

Native American Center breaking new grounds

From the bottom of the education barrel

Mary Kay Hall was a friend of Jacobson House

Congress working on apology to Indians

Plans for American Indian center at Central Wyoming College advance

Indian life depicted at Nanticoke Museum

Hopi woman is first American Indian on Az regents board

Grammy Award-Winning Musician To Give March 19 Talk In Boulder

Women's leadership conference to bring female tribal leaders together

Exhibition features early Native American art and images

American Indian Pow Wow kicks up celebrational sand at The Beach

Cal State pow-wow

Willamette Social Powwow honors tribe member

Know what you're buying with Indian crafts

Osage Nation chief earns American Indian Tribal Leadership Award

Mike Williams, member of the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, is being recognized for excellence in folk and traditional arts

Library to feature month-long series exploring American Indian culture

Indigenous cultures to converge in festival at Peabody Essex

Pawnee professor named first Gipp Scholar at Haskell

Works of art from the Eugene B. Adkins Collection -- a private collections featuring the Taos artists as well as Native American art -- will open to the public March 7 at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art on the University of Oklahoma campus.

More on the Adkins Collection

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

Jamestown, North Dakota Culture Festival is slated for Aug. 1-3.

One special guest will be Hidatsa storyteller Mary Louise Defender Wilson. She is a winner of the NEA National Heritage Fellowship and the only fellow living in North Dakota. Marvin Bald Eagle Youngman will be teaching different Ojibwa games. Storyteller Keith Bear has also been invited to participate.

“The Native American component of the festival will include artists, music, dancing, storytelling, games and food,” said Taylor Barnes, Arts Center director. “This festival is primarily about how traditions are shared through games and food.”

Recent Books of Interest

American Indian Mafia

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

''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

Keepers of Light - Squaxin

A long time back, back when du'kWibahL had finished creating all the animals, he noticed different ones were complaining about how dark it was. There was no light - just darkness! So du'kWibahL decided he would create light. After he had done this some complained that it was too bright and too hot, so he started looking around for someone to take the light up to the Sky World. He had to find just the right one because whoever he chose had to be able to fly very fast, and had to be very strong. Well some time passed and he came to Raven, and he watched him for a long while. He saw that he was both strong and fast. So du'kWibahL asked Raven if he would take the light and place it in the sky. Raven was honored, and told du'kWibahL that he would be happy to do this for him.

When Crane heard about this he was jealous. He decided to follow Raven and try to take the light from him so that he would be the hero who would place the light in the sky.

Just then, Raven picked up the light and made ready to fly. Crane said, "I will fly with you so you won't be lonely or afraid." Everyone heard him say this, and knew that Crane would not be able to keep up with Raven because Crane was a little chubby boy! But this didn't stop Crane, and they took off together.

After they got up in the air and were flying for a while, Crane decided to try to take the light from Raven. Every time he tried to take the light he could grab only a small piece , so he spat it out and let it drop in the water. Just before Raven placed the light in the sky Crane's feet got caught on a mountain, but he was flying so fast he didn't realize this. He just kept on flying, not knowing that he wasn't going anywhere and his body was stretching out. All of a sudden his feet were free and he was able to fly very fast! But it was too late ... Raven had already placed the light where du'kWibahL wanted it.

They flew back to du'kWibahL.

Later that day du'kWibahL was walking around checking on how everyone was doing. He came to Crane, who was just sitting by the water, looking very sad. du'kWibahL asked him what was wrong and Crane told him he had really wanted to put the light in the sky. du'kWibahL, being the wise man that he was, decided to make another ball of light and ask Crane to be the one to place it in the sky. This made Crane very happy! He flew up and put it right where du'kWibahL wanted it, then he returned and tolddu'kWibahL that it was done. du'kWibahL was very pleased - but there was still one more thing left to do: he needed someone to gather up all the pieces of light that had been dropped into the water.

When everyone gathered around they noticed that Loon had little pieces of light all over his back. du'kWibahL asked Loon how far down into the water he could dive. "Very far," said Loon, "I am a great diver!" So du'kWibahL asked Loon to go down and gather all the light in the water and bring it to him. And Loon did this.

As Loon was flying back to du'kWibahL some of the light pieces fell of his back and were flying through the area. du'kWibahL thought this was very beautiful, and he gave Loon some more and had him fly all over the sky. Then, when everyone had returned and were gathered around du'kWibahL, he explained these things:

Raven's light would be known as Sun, and would rule the day.

Crane's light would be known as Moon, and would rule the night.

Loon's lights would be known as Stars, and would provide directions to travel by at night.

du'kWibahL was very pleaesd with what he had created, and so was everyone else. And today the Keepers of Light still fly around, making sure that everything is just as it should be.

(Squaxin Island, Pacific Northwest)

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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