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Canku Ota |
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(Many Paths) |
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An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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July 28, 2001 - Issue 41 |
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"Haku" |
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Chumash |
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"In the native ancestral Chumash language, "Haku" means Welcome" |
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"TAGUNOTAL P'A SAN" |
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LITTLE MOON OF DEER HORNS DROPPING OFF |
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KIOWA |
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"The native concept of power is how much you can empower
people around |
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We Salute RAPID CITY — When crowds gather outside New York City's Lincoln Center in August to
watch the American Indian Dance Theatre perform, they'll see a former Rapid City man swaying and stepping through
the moves of the grass dance. |
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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We've added maps to our articles, so that you can see where the many paths of our People are. Additionally, we've provided these two maps of North America and a coloring book picture for you to print. We hope that this new feature is helpful. |
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Artist: Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. Born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. She worked at various jobs, such as hoeing sugar beets, farm work, waitressing, short order cooking, lifeguarding, and construction work, before becoming a writer. |
Native Schools Grow in Many Directions The school, as it is built and adorned, is a strong symbolic reminder for the children
of the culture. |
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The Migration Project On June 25, 2000, a group of individuals gathered together and formed a network of communities in order to bring awareness of the state of the environment around the Great Lakes. This courageous group embarked on and completed a 1,200-mile journey around Lake Superior. The journey arrived on August 28, 2000 where it began, at the southern shores of Lake Superior on the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation in Wisconsin. A WALK TO REMEMBER- A SACRED JOURNEY FOR SEVEN GENERATIONS was lived as a spiritual journey around Lake Superior to bring forth community visions to protect the air, land and water for the Seven Generations yet to come. |
Skydancer.tv Reaches for the Stars Skydancer.tv will 'tell-a-vision' and broaden programming possibilities entering your home. On June 17th a partnership between the Oneida Nation in New York, and longtime American Indian Los Angeles-based producers Dan C. Jones (Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma) and Sonny Skyhawk (Sicangu Lakota Tribe of South Dakota) to create a television production company was announced. The project is believed to be the first television production company owned, operated and funded entirely by Native Americans. |
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Lost Totem is Back with Tlingit Indians KETCHIKAN, Alaska -- Two hundred painted Tlingit Indian dancers, draped with traditional robes adorned with likenesses of killer whales, eagles, ravens and bears, gave a rousing welcome home here Monday to a dozen museum artifacts taken from their ancestors 102 years ago. The male and female dancers, ranging from 3-year-olds to a grandmotherly woman shuffling determinedly on crutches, chanted and snaked joyously through Ketchikan's civic auditorium past 200-year-old carved totem poles, house posts, grave markers and the front of a clan chief's house. |
Return of Drums Reunites Ojibwe OWEN SOUND, Ontario - After 150 years of silence, the drums have returned to the site
of a former Ojibwe village on the shores of Owen Sound Bay, Lake Huron. |
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Idaho Reservation School Preserves Tribal
Language FORT HALL, Idaho - When Alta Browning asks a group of squirming first-graders to say
the Shoshoni words they know, everyone can come up with at least a few. |
A Passion for Translation KANGIRSUK — Martha Kauki says she sometimes gets so wrapped up in her job, she doesn’t
realize what she’s doing. |
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The Summer Comes Alive for Junior Rangers KANGIRSUK - Sunday begins no differently than any other day at the 10-day Junior Canadian
Rangers training camp in Nunavik. |
A 'Positive Place for Kids' WINDOW ROCK - "The positive place for kids" is on its way. |
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Breaking More than Basketball Stereotypes In a matter of years, she has become the anti-stereotype. And not just because she's
a great girls high school basketball player and an American Indian. |
Tribe Salutes 'Rising Star' WINDOW ROCK — Folks who are as proud of U.S. Army Maj. Tracey Clyde as his own family
are Navajo Nation Council delegates. They spent about a half-hour during Tuesday's council session congratulating
Clyde and saluting his military accomplishments. |
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Pamunkey Tribe Invited to Tell its Story KING WILLIAM - Virginia's Pamunkey Indian Tribe will introduce itself to the world
in 2004 when the National Museum of the American Indian opens in Washington on the National Mall. |
Colorful Festivity Draws Huge Crowd BROWNING, MT -- This year's North American Indian Days is the largest ever in its 50
year history. |
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Tulalips Home Again TULALIP -- Growing up in New Mexico, Dana Krsnadas often found herself trying to explain
to friends and others about her Tulalip background. But people didn't really seem to get it. They'd mispronounce
Tulalip. And they didn't know about the traditions, the treaties, the family histories. "I was one of those people without an identity," Krsnadas said. |
San Manuel Leader Balances Family, Duty,
Commute, School San Manuel Reservation - Even as Deron Marquez led visitors through a maze of stairs
and hallways en route to his second-floor office, he warned that there would be interruptions. |
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Culture Camp LAKE ASAAYI, N.M. - Like a proud grandfather sharing knowledge gained over a lifetime,
Mike Mitchell of Tsaile, Ariz., forged a path in the woods as about 50 adults and children followed him. |
Getting American Indian Culture into the
Classroom Bismark, ND - Fifty teachers from across the Dakotas gathered in Bismarck this week
to learn how to better teach American Indian students. |
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Baskets Past, Present Early tribal people living in Inland valleys and mountains believed that before the
Moon Maiden went up into the sky, she gave them a gift: She taught them how to weave baskets. |
Justices Visit Tribal Court WELLPINIT, Wash. _ Two of the nation's most powerful judges Wednesday stepped out of
the world of black robes and formal procedures and into the world of Strong Heart Court, Talking Circles and eagle
feathers. |
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Which is Really the Real Thing?? We all know that water is important, but, did you know this????? |
Book Review: The Hollyhocks Trail Editor's Note: Summertime is reading time. I recently had the pleasure of reading three books by Dr. Bruce Stapleton. In the next few issues, I will share a review with you. The second, is The Hollyhocks Trail. |
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About This Issue's Greeting - "Haku" |
The Chumash people have eight distinct languages, with an approximated population of about 5,000 spread throughout the territories. |
This Date In History |
Recipe: Get the Blues!!! |
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Story: Children of the Sun |
What is this: Elk |
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Project: Hairpipes - Part 3 |
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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