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An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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September 22, 2001 - Issue 45 |
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"He' Awenik " |
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Lenape |
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"Hello People" |
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"Manoominike-giizis" |
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RICE MOON |
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Anishinaabe |
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"The longest
journey you make in your lifetime is 18 inches, from your head to your heart, the centre of your being. That's
where spirituality lies." |
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Thoughts By now, we're all aware of the events of September 11, 2001. Paul and I extend our
profound sympathy to those who have lost loved ones and our prayers to those who were wounded. |
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: The 2002 Winter Olympics are five months away, but the Cultural Olympiad -- the arts
festival surrounding the Games -- hits the ground this week with an outdoor exhibition of large bronze sculptures
by the late Apache artist Allan Houser. |
Carrying the Flame Angeline Alberts' house on the Spirit Lake reservation in Fort Totten, N.D., the humming
of the sewing machine is like a lullaby to her grandchildren who live with her. The soft and steady clickety clickety
never seems to stop. |
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Kiowa Language Survives in Tribal Member's
Text For generations, grandmothers and grandfathers taught their children's children the
Kiowa way. They sat together at night and spoke in the language, told the stories and sang the songs. |
Language Immersion Camp Successful At Second
Mesa “No English Allowed” was the slogan posted in several spots around the language immersion camp at Second Mesa in July and August of this summer. The immersion technique helps to break barriers, especially for those who understand a lot of Hopi, but are hesitant to speak it. Since the whole point is to start speaking, eventually everyone does, especially as they see others doing the same thing. This is the advantage of an immersion camp. By the end of the three weeks, everyone is speaking a lot, and they will never go back to their original feeling of fear about making mistakes. |
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Program Seeks to Build Bridges Between Seniors,
American Indians Now in her 70s, Barbara Bertrand remembers being a first-year clerk in the Woolworth's
store in downtown Lawrence. |
Cherokee Nation Holds Cultural Camp Dozens of people attended a three-day Cherokee cultural camp on tribal lands in Little
Kansas, Okla. Camp attendees gathered to learn about Cherokee heritage, traits, and experience traditional foods
all free of charge. |
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Dance for Life Dressed in pink and blue regalia dresses, Shirley and Sophie Bell danced to honor their
cultures and the ties that bind all cultures together and to celebrate life in the face of tragedy. |
Oral Tradition Making a Strong Comeback Once upon a time, storytellers lived in every family, every tribe and every village. |
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Local Plant Seeks to Save Sugar Cane for
Basket Weaving South Louisiana's tribal people predate the arrival of European settlers. Although
many tribes have endured throughout the centuries. However, their members are having an increasingly difficult
time keeping their traditions alive. |
Students Learn about Indian Ancestry: A
Link to the Past Students in Sherie Buchanan's class at Christian County Middle School knew they had
some Native American heritage. |
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The Queen of the Pocagemah In the winter of 1846 I was trading at a place between the Snake River and Pocagemah
Lake in Minnesota, and on the bank of the Snake River near its entry into Cross Lake, I built my trading house. |
Paddling in the Waters of Time It's been about 150 years since the sight of Chumash Indians paddling a plank canoe
to the Channel Islands was a common occurrence. |
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Ten Aboriginal Youth Take Off on South Pacific Adventure September 15, 2001 marks the beginning of a six-month South Pacific odyssey for 10
young Aboriginal Canadians. Through the internship program, these youth will immerse themselves in the work and
daily life of indigenous communities in the Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and New Zealand. Their work placements
will offer them a range of experiences in everything from indigenous tourism to coastal resource management, and
from community popular theatre to traditional medicine. |
Programs Build Fond Memories Having grown up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Maggie Ross knows how little
there is for kids to do when school is out. |
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American Indian Tribes to Invoke Blessings
at 2002 Games American Indians are hoping to highlight the differences between the nearly 400 tribes
residing in North America for visitors at the 2002 Winter Games. A series of morning-prayer rituals, featuring a different tribe each day, will set the stage for the Olympic festivities. The prayer ceremonies will take place on the steps of the State Capitol Building in Salt Lake City each morning at sunrise for seven days leading up to February 8. |
Novato Fete Spotlights American Indian Heritage
The dance begins with the beat of the drums. |
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Devils Lake Educators Awarded Humanities
Grants "Lake Region State College and Devils Lake Public Schools have received $35,000 in grants for a project about Native American life and a project about Native American, Germans from Russia and Norwegian cultures. Project directors for the grants from the National Endowment to the Humanities are Devils Lake educators Sam Johnson and Teresa Tande. The first project, "Native Voices: A Study of Native American Life and Literature," received $25,000 to create a study group of 15 middle school, high school and college teachers of humanities, language arts and social studies. |
Tribes Back Education Bill California Indian tribes once again are rallying behind a measure that would change
what school children learn about the history of tribal people in the state. Proponents hope changes introduced to the current bill will satisfy Davis, but so far the governor has given no indication where he stands on the issue. |
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Life Circles and Lenape Words
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The Naming of the United States |
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About This Issue's Greeting - "He' Awenik" |
The LENAPE (len-ah'-pay) which means "The People" belong to the Algonquian linguistic group. They were among the first Indians to come in contact with Europeans (Dutch, English, & Swedish) as early as 1600. They were considered a "Grandfather" tribe whose power, position, and spiritual presence served to settle disputes among rival tribes. |
This Date In History |
Recipe: Cooking Catfish |
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Story: How Catfish Got a Flat Head |
What is this: Flathead Catfish |
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Project: Preparing Feathers - Part Two |
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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