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3 Tribes Gather for Historic
Journey to Honor Ancestors
by JAMES HAGENGRUBER of The
Billings Gazette Staff
LAME DEER, MT – The last time young men from the three tribes stared at the sacred
carvings on the Deer Medicine Rocks, they held rifles, coup sticks and warrior’s shields.
On Monday – 125 years later – they wore Nikes.
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Elder Brings Pride to Kickapoo
by Al Swanson UPI News
LE ROY, IL, June 14 (UPI) -- When Marguerite Salazar was a girl she heard stories about
her tribe's life in central Illinois and the forced relocation of the Kickapoo in the 1800s from her grandparents
and parents.
"They walked from here to Mexico," said Salazar, who at 108 is one of the oldest living American Indians.
"There were some horses, but they walked."
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Fulfilling a Need and a Dream
by Brenda Gazzar Appeal-Democrat
According to the well-known Native American legend, good dreams can be caught in the
air and passed on to the sleeper by hanging a webbed dream catcher on the wall.
Dr. Gladys Wyles of Oroville, a Native American of Cherokee descent, has caught her dream and is fulfilling it.
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Helping to Break the Ceiling
by John Stromnes of the Missoulian
PABLO, MT - Alice Chumrau says that "glass ceiling" metaphor is a pretty
tired one. Nevertheless, she's devoted years to helping women advance in jobs that were not so long ago held almost
exclusively by men.
Glass or not, there is some kind of social barrier there that women must overcome, she said.
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S.D. Schools Try for Indian Perspective
by Brenda Wade Schmidt The
Argus Leader
When Emmett Martin's history students learn about Sitting Bull, they hear more than
stories of Indian conflicts. They learn about a medicine man who loved children and had a beautiful singing voice.
Martin also weaves together oral histories from the Rosebud tribal elders and other American Indians in the Todd
County School District to make the stories from the 1870s personal to his students, most of whom are Indian.
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Inuktitut: The Future of the Language
by CBC North
The students at Joamie Elementary School in Iqaluit start every day in the same way.
As the sun rises over Frobisher Bay, they step in from the frigid weather, take their coats and boots off, and
head to the gymnasium to sing Oh Canada.
But here, the national anthem begins like a traditional Inuit song, and it's sung in Inuktitut. Many of these children
are taught exclusively in Inuktitut until grade four.
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Navajo Ways
Corsica Ways
by Ollie Reed Jr. The Albuquerque
Tribune
RIVENTOSA, Corsica -- Lena Benally, a Navajo shepherd and weaver, has her back to a
corral filled with sheep -- some white, some black, some tan, some gray, everyone of them bleating, blaring, noisy.
But Benally isn't listening to the sheep. She's listening to the wool.
"It's saying: 'I'm OK. I am healthy,'" Benally interprets as she tugs on the fleece she's holding near
her ear. "It sounds strong."
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Brokaw Speaks to OLC Grads
by Heidi Bell Gease, Rapid
City Journal Staff Writer
NBC newscaster Tom Brokaw urged Oglala Lakota College graduates Sunday to follow in
their ancestors' footsteps and rise to the challenges of this generation.
The greatest days of the Oglala Sioux lie ahead, he said, "and you shall lead us in that direction."
Sunday's roster of 140 graduates was the largest in OLC's 30-year history. Hundreds
gathered under shelters at the powwow grounds on the Piya Wiconi campus near Kyle to watch family and friends receive
their degrees.
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Council, Chief Honor Cherokee Cadet
by Cherokee.org
TAHLEQUAH-- The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council and Principal Chief Chad Smith honored
Michael Stopp, the only Cherokee at the United States Military Academy, during the regular council meeting Monday
night.
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Values Promoted by Community Spirit
by Lori Lea Pourier Special to Indian Country Today
It's been exactly one year since Jason and LaDonna Denny joined the First People's
Fund circle of artists and started down a path that would change their perspective about the aesthetic and economic
value of their beadwork.
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Living and Relearning at School: An Indian
Tale
by Larry Fisk Philadelphia Inquirer
Staff Writer
PHOENIX - Like thousands of elementary-school-age Indian girls and boys before and
after her, Maxine K. Rogers was more than a little frightened when she arrived at what would be her new home for
all of her school years, the Sequoyah School in Tahlequah, Okla., in the 1920s.
Far from home, at least she had company - her sister, also elementary-school age, was with her. Together, they
became part of what many older Indians say was the formative experience for members of nearly every tribe of the
late 19th and 20th centuries: the Indian boarding school.
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Early Childhood Program Helping Youngsters
Prepare for School
by Nathan J. Tohtsoni The
Navajo Times
ST. MICHAELS, AZ - On a recent afternoon, Laurinda Moore of Fort Defiance signed up
her two-year-old son, Latreyal Moore, for an early childhood program because she believes in its importance.
The Early Bird program, located at the St. Michael Indian School, is designed to prepare a child not only for school,
but for life. It helps newborns to four-year-old children to do well academically before they enter kindergarten.
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Heritage Weekend Teaches the Cherokee Way
of Life
by Jon Ostendorff Asheville
Citizen Staff Writer
SWANNANOA, NC — As Bo Taylor hammered out an ancient beat on a deer-skin drum, Angel
Dahlgren did her best imitation of a quail and followed the other 12 dancers in a circle around a classroom at
Warren Wilson College.
Dahlgren traveled from Birmingham, Ala., to attend the Cherokee Heritage Weekend at
the college.
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Camp Celebrates Heritage
by Vincent Brydon The Capital-Journal
Topeka, KS - Drumming, singing and dancing, historical reports, and plenty of food
were on the agenda Friday for the last day of the Indian Education Summer Camp at Meadows Elementary School.
"It's the only time that native kids in 501 schools get to learn about their history, culture and tribe,"
Indian Education Program director JoAnne Kaner said.
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Who Really Sported the First Mohawk?
by Mitchel Raphael National Post
The first time Western Europeans set eyes on and recorded a mohawk haircut may have
been in Canada in the early 1600s -- and it wasn't even on a member of the Mohawk tribe.
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The King of Welcomes
By Karl Schweizer Herald Writer
TULALIP -- More than 500 people came together in a fire-lit Tulalip Tribes longhouse
Saturday to dance, pray and wait for Big Chief King Salmon.
They weren't disappointed.
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KSUT Radio Celebrates 25 Years of Musical
Diversity, Goes Global
by Matt Joyce Durango Herald
Staff Writer
Having grown from a small signal serving only Ignacio and Bayfield, public radio station
KSUT-FM will go worldwide over the Internet on Thursday in celebration of its 25th anniversary.
"One of my wishes is to be able to be heard off the tip of South America, and
now it goes beyond that," said Eddie Box Jr., a member of the station’s board of directors since its first
year. The new Webcast will be accessible at the station’s Web site, www.ksut.org .
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Indigenous Environmental Network
12th Annual
Protecting Mother Earth Conference
from Indigenous Environmental Network
This is the first Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) conference to be held in Canada.
The outdoor camping conference will be held on traditional lands of the Okanagan Nation of the Penticton Band of
First Nations.
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Speaker, Drawing from Oral Histories, tells
of Salish-Lewis and Clark Meeting
by Jennifer Perez Great
Falls Tribune Staff Writer
When the Salish Indians first encountered the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition,
it wasn't the two famous leaders who drew their attention.
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Program Preserves Historic Sacred Objects
by Agnes Diggs North County
Times Staff Writer
TEMECULA, CA - In the hills near Clinton Keith Road, a dozen or more giant earth-moving
machines are cutting foot-deep swaths to prepare the land for civilization. In their wake, on foot, Pechanga tribe
members search for sacred objects that may have lain in the earth for thousands of years.
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