Canku Ota - A Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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Mohegan |
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"NASANMUYAW" |
Full Harvest Moon |
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"We only ask to survive so that we can remain who and what we are
- and for that we will always thank the Creator. We ask only the chance to pass on our way of life and our love
for the Creator to our children and grandchildren." |
Rodney Grant Rodney A. Grant is a well known celebrity in the Native Community. A Native American actor who is in support of Native American issues and is always willing to speak for the Native American people. He stands up for the youth of today and supports many charitable organizations. His concern about the youth and elders out in the reservations has taken him on many trips to these reservations, to take care of the people. At the First Americans in the Arts Awards held in San Francisco earlier in the year, he expressed his discontent in not seeing many celebrities out there, on his many trips, to the Rez. He brought his son on the stage to accept one of his awards. |
National Native American Holiday Native Americans from all over the United States have joined in an effort to have Congress enact a national Native American Holiday. |
School News The information here will include items of interest for and about Native American schools. If you have news to share, please let us know! I can be reached by emailing: Vlockard@aol.com |
Artist: Take the drum journey - feel the earth, free the spirit and honor your ancestors - as you travel with the rhythms of Medicine Dream's Native drum. The intertribal group's synergy, 10 musicians strong, create a spiritual-musical fusion - each beat of the drum is salve for the soul. |
Message of Home Some 2,000 American Indian elders crafted a message in Duluth and delivered to America. |
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Native American Music Finally Getting Recognized For years, Native American music has been relegated to the folk, world and new age
bins at record stores across the country. |
Tribal Radio Making Its Mark on the National Level When sound waves from KABU (90.7) bounce over the broad back of Devils Lake, travelers new to the area might do a double take at the drum sounds that fill their car. This low-powered radio station is only one of some 40 Native stations throughout the nation and Alaska. That drum music only -- barely -- begins to tell us what Indian radio is. |
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The Art of Learning PENDLETON, Ore. - Decked out in black, from his short-brimmed felt hat to his Italian
shoes, Tim Rollins has sauntered into Pendleton looking as if he's starring as "the stranger" in a spaghetti
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And the Nominees Are.. Final nominees for the Third Annual Native American Music Awards have been announced. This year's awards will take place on November 11, 2000. The Native American Music Awards helps America remember its heritage, honor its unique culture, and celebrate its achievements. The Awards have been consistently sold-out and highly acclaimed for its professionalism, beauty, inspiration, and method of providing overdue recognition. This year's special award recipients include; Rita Coolidge for Lifetime Achievement and the Navajo Code Talkers as Living Legend award recipients. |
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Save the Children Breaking the cycle: stopping substance abuse before it starts It is impossible to walk into Jeddito Elementary School without being struck by its beauty—multi-colored walls and ceilings, skylights, an open courtyard, comfortable classroom spaces. The school welcomes the visitor, and certainly must welcome the child. As in most schools around the country, Jeddito teachers, staff and administrators want to do what is best for their students. Sometimes that means being more than just a teacher; they must be mentors and friends, dealing with tough problems their students can encounter once they leave school grounds, problems like parental substance-abuse. |
Culture and Comics Need Multicultural Perspective Tall Oak, a Narragansett quoted in the documentary "500 Nations," calls Indians
the conscience of America. "The lesson," he
says, "is to realize the value of an alternative perspective. And that is why
we are here. That is why the Creator allowed some of us to remain, in spite of all the attempts to destroy us." |
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Film About Little People Brings Mohegan Culture into High-tech Age Mohegan — There wasn't a peep in the room when some of the Mohegan Tribe's youngest members
watched a film version of the Indians' revered story of the Little People. |
How Mosquitoes Were Made "How Mosquitoes Were Made" is one of the many examples of Inuit traditional knowledge. It is part of knowledge being drawn on for "Inuuqatigiit" the principals on which the new K-12 curriculum being developed for our Nunavut schools. Long before the earth was covered with water, there lived a fierce giant that everyone was afraid of. The Inuit hoped that someone would come to help them fight the giant. |
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Few Among Many As she moved from the Navajo Reservation to join 35,000 UA students starting fall classes this week, JoLene Tsosie was filled with inspiration from her grandparents. "They always pushed me to go on in my education so I could teach the little children," said the 18-year-old civil engineering major. The freshman moved this week to the University of Arizona from Kayenta in Northern Arizona. |
Native American Excels in Road and Mountain Cycling The 17-year-old William Quillman earned 16th place in La Tour de l'Abitibi in Quebec
four weeks ago along with his five other team members. |
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Pyramid Tribe Unveils New School With a sense of pride, members of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe bowed their heads and
listened to a drum song and a Paiute prayer at the opening of the tribe’s new combination middle and high school.
The school’s opening was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and remarks from tribal and state leaders, including U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and state Sen. Bernice Mathews, D-Reno. |
Comanche Language Kept Alive Geneva Navarro of Santa Fe never taught her children more than a few words of the Comanche language. Now the 74-year-old retired nurse is making up for that by teaching the smooth monotone of Comanche to her grandchildren and more than 35 other students in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. The younger the student, the better, according to Navarro, who counts herself as the only fully fluent Comanche in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. "My grandchildren can learn better now than my children," she said. "Hopefully it's not too late." |
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About This Issue's Greeting - "Aquay" |
The Mohegan Tribe's language is an Algonquian dialect, which is currently undergoing restoration and revival |
This Date In History |
Recipe: Camp Stews |
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Story: The Alligator and the Hunter |
What is this: White-Tailed Deer |
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Project: Macrame Bracelets |
This Issue's Web sites |
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