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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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August
14, 2004 - Issue
119
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Favorite
Sites
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collected
by Paul and Vicki
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On
August 13, 2004 the XXVIII Olympiad will begin in Athens,
Greece, the 776 BCE birthplace of the original games and host
of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. This year, nearly
10,500 athletes will compete in twenty-eight sports, vying
for 903 medals. Many time zones away, we will be watching
and clicking.
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Ancient
Olympics
"Were the ancient games better
than ours? More fair and square? More about sports and less
about money? Are modern games more sexist? More political?
Have we strayed from the ancient Olympic ideal? Read on and
decide for yourself." There is much talk of how commercial
today's Olympic games are. Where the ancient games purer?
The conclusion drawn by this expert from the University of
Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology may surprise
you.
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Olympics/olympicintro.html
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Athens
2004 Olympic Games
The Internet address (or URL) of the
kids section of the official Athens 2004 site is so long,
that the easiest way to get there is simply to click on Youth
2004 from this front page. Best kid clicks are the interactive
quizzes that test your knowledge of Olympic sports (look in
the Playground) and the printable activity books. The printable
books include K-12 classroom activities, and a Greek fairy
tale, Desina and the Dove. To find them, visit the Library
and click on Olympic Educational Material.
http://www.athens2004.com/
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NBC
Olympics
If you're looking for one Olympic site
that has it all, this is it. As the official Olympics broadcaster,
NBC Olympics includes news coverage, commentaries, event schedules,
television schedules (there will be over 1200 hours of TV
coverage), sport-by-sport analysis, reader polls and photo
galleries. Click on O-Zone to zip code customize the site
to display stories about local Olympic heroes. Unique features
include instructions on text messaging the athletes (look
under Athletes) and an interactive globe featuring the best
athletes from each country (under Countries.)
http://www.nbcolympics.com/
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Wakpala
School
Smee School District #15-3 is a public
school located in Wakpala, South Dakota on the Standing Rock
Indian Reservation. We are dedicated to the intellectual and
social growth of each student as they learn to live effectively
in a contemporary bi-cultural world. Our school educates students
to help them become successful in all aspects of life with
attention to individual differences. (editor's
note: In our humble opinion, this is an excellent school site
... lots of information AND lots of pictures.Wasteste)
http://www.smee.k12.sd.us/
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The
Avalon Project
The Avalon Project will mount digital
documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics,
Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount
only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking
to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body
of the text.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
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Young
Native Scholars
Entering its fourth year, American Indian
Academic Outreach and Young Native Scholars (YNS) support
high/middle school and college students with the resources,
information and motivation to pursue higher education and
improve retention. YNS is a year-round academic enrichment
and outreach program, highly innovative, unique and engaging.
Identification as "scholars", students allow themselves
a positive metaphor, a sense of pride and accomplishment.
Students are given access to the best mentors and professionals
the community and nation have to offer.
http://www.nativescholars.org/
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"Potawatomi
Tracks" by Larry Mitchell
My book "Potawatomi Tracks: The
Ballad of Vietnam and Other Stories" is my autobiography
and is an 152 page poetic chronicle that covers my combat
tour of duty in Vietnam and the thirty years of PTSD, drug
use, homelessness, alcoholism, and racism that followed upon
my return to the world.
http://www.potawatomitracks.com/
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Dakota
Commemorative March 2004
On November 7, 2004, as in 2002, Dakota
people from the United States and Canada will begin a 150-mile
long Commemorative March through southern Minnesota in honor
of their ancestors who were forcibly removed from the Lower
Sioux Agency to concentration camps at Mankato and Fort Snelling
in November of 1862. For the Dakota this commemoration signifies
an opportunity to remember and grieve for the suffering endured
by their ancestors as well as to relate a perspective of the
event which has rarely been told.
http://www.dakota-march.50megs.com/index.html
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STAR
Students And Teachers Against Racism
announces their new website that offers insight into the Native
American perspective to teachers and educators.
http://www.racismagainstindians.org/
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