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Canku
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(Many
Paths)
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An Online
Newsletter Celebrating Native America
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August
1, 2010 - Volume 8 Number 7
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"Auka"
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The
Kumeyaay Greeting
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"Hello-This
New Day!"
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"TSENEAGA"
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Dog Days
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Yuchi
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On Friday, July
2, Canku Ota lost one of our special contributors. Timm
Severud passed away at his home in Northern Wisconsin. Timm was with
us in the very beginning and his stories and love of history will be missed.
We are grateful to have known Timm and treasure the works that he shared
with all of us.
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Our Featured Artist: | Honoring Students | |
Shocking
Story Behind Sealaska Art Show Winner
The "Best of Show" piece in the traditional category at the fifth Sealaska Juried Art Competition, a Tlingit war helmet by carver Wayne Price, came with an electrifying back story. The wood came from an alder tree that knocked out the power in Juneau for half a day when it came down, the artist said. |
Six
Red Cloud Indian School Students Receive Gates Millennium Scholarships
Six students from Red Cloud High School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, S.D., have received the coveted Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium Scholarship, putting them one step closer to realizing their dreams of going to college. |
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Our Featured Story: | Northwestern Wisconsin First Person History: | |
Nourishing
Native Foods Win National Cooking Competition
Members from the Tohono Oodham Community Action Youth Cooking Class tantalized the taste buds of the judges in a national cooking competition with Native ingredients from their community, winning them the prestigious contest in Detroit, Mich. in May. |
The
Indian Priest
Father Philip B. Gordon 1885-1948 Chapter 17 - An Unforgettable Journey |
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Education News | Education News | |
Graphic
Artists Illustrate American Indian Tales In 'Trickster'
Pairing 21 American Indian storytellers with graphic artists, editor Matt Dembicki has produced a spectacular color anthology of trickster tales. While Dembicki and his contributing artists have taken pains to respect the cultural integrity of the stories, their visuals never feel politically correct or preachy. Instead, reading this book creates the same excitement that discovering the Brothers Grimm or Italo Calvino's "Italian Folktales" does, only with pictures as well as words. |
Documentary
On Fort Chip Kids Makes Toronto International Film Festival Shortlist
A documentary on children in Fort Chipewyan and their concerns about oilsands pollution has made it onto a short list for an award at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. The short documentary, called Keepers of the Water, features several children aged nine to 12 talking about what they think the industry is doing to their water supply and their health. The film is competing with four others for fan votes to determine best emerging filmmaker. |
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Education News | Education News | |
Waap
Galtsap A Hit With Crowd At Official Opening
Hundreds came out May 8 to Northwest Community Colleges Terrace campus to witness the historic and long anticipated opening of Waap Galtsap, the longhouse that is the first of its kind to be built on a Canadian college campus. To commemorate the event, NWCC invited the public, chiefs, matriarchs, elders and special guests and dignitaries to an afternoon of celebration that kicked off with the ceremonial raising of two nine-foot totem poles carved by graduates of NWCCs Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art. |
Young
Oneidas Dig Their History
A group of Oneida Nation young people spent the past week excavating an archaeological site hidden back in the woods which was once home to their tribe hundreds of years ago. The archaeological dig at the Vallaincourt site is part of the six-week Youth Work/Learn summer program run by the Oneida Nation. "It gives them a little bit of an understanding of who they are and an understanding of where they come from," said Clint Hill, Oneida Nation Men's Council member. "Just to give them overall more of an understanding of themselves and the things that they can do." |
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Preserving Language | Preserving Language | |
Native
Voices Heard At National Language Summit
Native languages are alive and well, and they need the federal government to help their voices flourish. That was the message of a group of Indian educators who gathered for the National Native Language Revitalization Summit on Capitol Hill July 13 14 to make legislators and administrators aware of their concerns and desire for support. |
Southeast
Languages Focus Of Books
Sealaska Heritage Institute has published a new series of learners' dictionaries for the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian languages and the first-ever Alaska Haida phrasebook. "We've been working on language restoration for nearly 10 to 12 years, and I would say for a greater part of this we've been working on these dictionaries," institute president Rosita Worl said in a press release.
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
Exhibition Spotlights Native Americans In Rock And Roll Up
Where We Belong, a 1982 crossover hit co-written by Cree folk
singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, lends its name to an upcoming exhibition
about American Indians in rock and pop music at the Smithsonians
National Museum of the American Indian.
Were trying to show where Native musicians were instrumental in crafting the big American music, said Tim Johnson, one of the museums associate directors, and document instances where Native musicians were right in the center of it. |
Long
Walk Re-Enactors Recall Centennial
Dianne Livingston was 15 when she participated in the Long Walk reenactment in the summer of 1968. Livingston, now 56 and living in Church Rock, N.M., was one of the many re-enactors who attended a reunion Saturday at the Window Rock Sports Complex during the Treaty Days Celebration. Approximately 300 Navajos from throughout the reservation participated as re-enactors, camp crew, horse wranglers, cooking crew and security staff. |
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Living History | Living History | |
Prehistoric
Pet?
Dog Burial Found In O.C. It might have been a treasured pet, or the victim of traditional destruction of property after its owner's death. The reason for its burial remains a mystery. But 18 centuries ago, someone carefully positioned the body of a small dog in what was likely a shallow grave in the marshlands of Laguna Canyon, then turned over a stone grinding bowl to cover the animal. Four years ago, the dog's burial place was discovered by archaeologists keeping watch for artifacts during the widening of Laguna Canyon Road. |
Native
Hawaiians Served On Both Sides During Civil War
Henry
Ho'olulu Pitman, the son of a Hawaiian high chiefess, was born in Hilo,
served as a young man in the Union Army during the American Civil War,
and died from the effects of being held in the South's Libby Prison. James Bush, also part Hawaiian, was in the Union Navy in the war between the states, and he received a veteran's pension when he was older. The history of Isle service on both sides of the war isn't widely known, said Justin Vance, a Civil War and military history professor at Hawai'i Pacific University.
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About
This Issue's Greeting -
"Auka"
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The Kumeyaay Nation extends from San Diego and Imperial Counties in California to 60 miles south of the Mexican border. The Kumeyaay are members of the Yuman language branch of the Hokan group. Included with the Kumeyaay in the Yuman branch are the PaiPai, Kiliwa, Cocopa, Mohave, Maricopa, Quechan, Yavapai, Havasupai, Hualapai. The Hokan language group is wide ranging, covering most of the coastal lands of southern California. It includes tribes as far north as the Kurok of Northern California. |
Nature's
Beauty:
Yellow-headed Blackbird |
This
Issue's Web sites
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Opportunities
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"OPPORTUNITIES" is gathered
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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