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(Many Paths) |
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An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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May 19, 2001 - Issue 36 |
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"Hon Dah" |
Apache |
"Welcome" |
"DECONENDZO" |
MULBERRY RIPENING |
Yuchi |
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"When your brother falls behind you don't leave him there. Wait
for him to catch up." |
We Salute Irvin Harrison came to Albuquerque to work, not to attend school, when he moved from
his native Farmington and joined the staff of the University of New Mexico in 1995. |
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 |
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Artist: John Nieto is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and exciting contemporary artists in the United States. An innovative interpreter of his native southwest, Nieto's dramatic compositions and bold use of color translate classic American themes into unmistakably modern images that somehow escape the boundaries of time. |
Sugarbush Ishkigamizige-giizis I just call it the woods. It is where my maw, my grammaws, and all the grammaws before them came from. Going home I am when I go to the woods. Spring returns to the north woods of Minnesota. Sure enough, the Shinnobs in this HUD house are excited about going to the sugar bush. |
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Teachers Are Offered Wonderful Opportunities to Teach in Indian Country Last spring, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Office of Indian Education Programs (OIEP) moved from Washington, D.C. to Albuquerque, New Mexico. The new southwest location enticed two very special people to it. Barbara Parisian (Blackfeet) and Darrell Flyingman (Choctaw), are both dedicated to educating American Indian youth, and were ready to take on their new challenge; filling vacancies in the BIA school system. But how? |
Record Number of Indians Graduating Great Falls, MT - A record number of Native American students - 62 - is graduating this year from Great Falls Public Schools. In the next few weeks, 28 students will graduate from Great Falls High School, 20 from C.M. Russell High School and 14 from Skyline Education Center. Last year, 54 Native American students graduated. "That's the highest ever," said Gloria Burrows, secretary for the Great Falls Indian education program. "This is really good news." In a traditional celebration, students were presented with eagle feathers. |
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Cheyenne River Buffalo Project Earns Recognition The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe's buffalo restoration project, Pte Hca Ka, has been named one of 99 semifinalists in the Innovations in American Government Awards, which recognizes original and effective initiatives at all levels of government. |
U.S. Mint Strikes New American Buffalo Commemorative Coin United States Mint Director Jay W. Johnson today hosted a ceremony at the U.S. Mint in Denver to strike the first American Buffalo Commemorative Coin. |
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Breathing Sacred Language TUCSON, Ariz. - When Hopi surveyed their young people to determine how many were speaking the Hopi language, statistics for youths 19 and younger were staggering. "We found out teen-agers on down couldn't speak Hopi at all," said Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, Hopi cultural preservation director. |
Yavapai Survived Against Great Odds TUCSON, Ariz. - They were murdered by the Cavalry's poisoned sugar. Those who survived were marched to San Carlos. When they danced in ceremonies, the soldiers thought they were performing the Ghost Dance. "They killed a lot of Yavapai. We are an endangered species." |
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Language Holds Universal Mysteries TUCSON, Ariz. - When Ronnie Lupe was a little boy, it was the words of the Apache language
that carried the history of his grandmother hiding in the mountains during the battle to end all battles. |
Lessons of a Cheyenne Tribe La Crescenta, CA - One by one, the students stepped up to the burning sweet grass and
pulled the smoke toward them with four scooping motions. What the students had participated in was a purifying ceremony that the Cheyenne people begin their day. |
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Arctic Bay Teen Tours Canada in Youth Corps IQALUIT — The last seven months have led Kenny Allurut of Arctic Bay from one adventure
to the next. |
Counselor Challenges Students On the northernmost edge of Arizona, Page High School is a feeder to Ivy League colleges.
The Ivies are always looking for smart and talented Native American students. |
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Group Seeks Alaska Course in Schools ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A coalition of Anchorage groups, spurred by the January paint ball
attack on Alaska Natives, proposed that the Anchorage School District add a required high school course to teach
students about Alaska cultures and history. |
Cherokee 'Angels' Lift Up Tribe TAHLEQUAH -- Their chief refers to them as special "Cherokee angels." |
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Site Selected for Navajo Theme Park at 2002 Olympics SALT LAKE CITY - Things could not have worked out better for the Navajo Nation's plans
at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, officials said. The tribal council allocated $1.75 million in 1998 for the Navajo Nation to be a part of the Olympics. Part of that money was used to obtain contractors to work on behalf of the Navajo Nation. |
Five to be Inducted into Area Hall of Fame It's been more than a half-century since some of the guys took a cut at a fastball
or kicked up a cloud of dust sliding into home plate. |
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A Native Treasure Returns Home STOCKHOLM - A group of fair-haired schoolchildren rushes toward the seats around a totem pole in the National Museum of Ethnography here. They settle in to hear the story of how the totempolen, as its called in Swedish, came from Canada 70 years ago, and how it will soon return. |
Natives Help Spruce up Aging Totem Poles Ketchikan, AK -- For years totem poles have told their stories. |
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Anthropologist leaves life's work to tribe IGNACIO, CO – A young anthropologist just beginning his career came here in 1961 to document the Southern Ute Indian language – a language that had never before been written down. |
History & Culture of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe In the studying the culture of a person, it is well to understand him for what he is today as compared to what he was yesterday. In other words, understanding the evolution of his culture is primary. |
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About This Issue's Greeting - "Hon Dah" |
The Anglo theory is the Apache Indian migrated to the Southwest from Northern Canada in the 1500's. The Apache Indian history says it was the other way around, that most of the Athapaskan speaking people migrated to the North and a few stayed in their homeland. In any event, it is generally agreed that about 5,000 Apaches lived in the Southwest at the end of the 1600's. |
This Date In History |
Recipe: Ice Cream!! |
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Story: Turtle's Race With Bear |
What is this: Snapping Turtle |
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Project: The Beading Series - Part 6 |
This Issue's Web sites |
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Opportunities |
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"OPPORTUNITIES" is from sources distributed nationally and includes scholarships, grants, internships, fellowships, and career opportunities as well as announcements for conferences, workshops and symposia. |
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