Thursday, December 25, 2008

Artist Fritz Scholder, Romelia Kassavanoid, Indian Educator of the Year Sydna Yellowfish

Andres Quandelacy, Bisbee Cobolt Azurite Buffalo

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

Putting tribal culture in school lessons on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation

Mary G. Ross, Cherokee rocket scientist

Handcrafted Comanche Nevaquaya flutes stolen in Apache

Oklahoma Council for Indian Education Indian Parents of the Year

The Oklahoma Council for Indian Education awards Sydna Yellowfish the Indian Educator of the Year

Custer's Fall. The book describing the battle from the Native American perspective

Romelia Kassavanoid, Comanche quilt maker

Zuni Pueblo Helps Rare New Mexico Fish

The 33rd Annual American Indian Film Festival honors top films and talent

Printmaking students, Native artists to collaborate

Schools are keeping the Ojibwe language alive

The soon-to-open View is the first hotel in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park

Artist Fritz Scholder Changed the Way American Indians Are Portrayed

“Twisted Path,” a collection of Native American art now showing at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor

Eiteljorg Lands 800 Piece Southwest Art Collection

Native Trails Kicks Off Seventh Season of Free Native American Performances

Indian murals featured

An exhibit titled "American Indian Mural Painting in Oklahoma and the Southwest” is on view through May 3 at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63. The exhibit draws on the museum’s extensive Silberman Collection of American Indian art.

For more information, call 478-2250.

Exquisite clay pots in the exhibition "Born of Fire: The Life and Pottery of Margaret Tafoya," at Carnegie Museum of Natural History through Jan. 4th, 2009

(Through Feb 3, 2009) BEYOND TRADITION Beyond Tradition: The Pueblo Pottery of Tammy Garcia is on display at the National Museum of Women in the Arts through February. One of the most recognizable figures in Southwestern ceramics, Garcia is known for infusing a two-thousand year old tradition with modernity. Examples of her most important pots are featured, with intricate designs, and bold shapes delicately carved into the clay.

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

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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