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Canku
Ota
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(Many
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An Online
Newsletter Celebrating Native America
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May
1, 2011 - Volume 9 Number 5
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"Halito!
Chi chukma?"
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Chickasaw
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"Hello,
How are you?"
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"Waabigwani-giizis"
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BLOSSOM MOON
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ANISHNAABE
(CHIPPEWA, OJIBWE)
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"A Warrior
is challenged to assume responsibility, practice humility, and display
the power of giving, and then center his or her life around a core of
spirituality. I challenge today's youth to live like a warrior."
~Billy Mills~ |
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Our Featured Artist: | Honoring Students | |
Master
Carver Crafts Canoe for Suquamish Family
Leaning over the center of a partially carved 32-foot-long western red cedar, master carver Ray Natraoro's eyes moved down the grain of the old growth tree. Using a level, string and pencil, Natraoro focused on the center of the monstrous log, trying to determine where cuts should be made to continue its transformation from a 10-ton tree into a classic Salish-style tribal canoe. |
Seventh
Generation Leading: Making the Case for Native Youth Leadership and Organizing
Information from Honor the Earths latest researchWe Are the Seventh Generation: An Assessment of the Needs and Potential of Native Youth Organizingwill be presented at a May 4 event in New York City. |
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Our Featured Story: | Northwestern Wisconsin First Person History: | |
Film
Premiere: Off the Rez Is Hoop Dreams Meets Glory Road
A vicious cycle is defined as a chain of events in which the response to one difficulty creates a new problem that aggravates the original difficulty. Thus is the perceived life on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Eastern Oregon. But Shoni Schimmel changed all that. |
History
of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan
Chapter Six |
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Education News | Education News | |
Exchange
Students
Bozeman and Reservation Teens Learn From Each Other Bozeman students have traveled as far as Europe and the Galapagos Islands to learn about the larger world, but this school year one group of students didn't have to leave Montana to broaden their understanding of other people and cultures. Twenty Bozeman high school and middle school students traveled last fall to the Fort Belknap Reservation and Harlem High School, where about 90 percent of students are Native American and the senior class is about 40 students, or one 10th the size of Bozeman High's |
Native
Alaska Students Get Taste of Southern California
Going to Disneyland was not the highlight of a recent Southern California visit by Native Alaskan students. Instead, a hike in the hills above The Oaks on the Soboba Reservation resonated with them. Most of the youths in the tribe started fishing and hunting at a young age in order to subsist off the land as past generations have done. "They all hunt, snare rabbits and canoe. They all have their own knives and guns, so they couldn't understand people standing in long lines to shoot a fake gun or ride in a boat," said teacher Dora Powell, who runs the school at Stevens Village in central Alaska. |
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Education News | Education News | |
Tulsa Law School to Launch Online Indian Law Program The University of Tulsa College of Law and Concord Law School of Kaplan University have announced that they will offer an online master of jurisprudence in Indian law degree beginning in August, pending acquiescence by the American Bar Association. The 30-credit-hour program is for college graduates, particularly those working in tribal governments and businesses and government agencies, interested in learning about Indian law. |
Accenture
American Indian Scholarship Fund
The Accenture American Indian Scholarship fund seeks high achieving student leaders. This program meets a vital need for American Indian and Alaska Native students seeking higher education and requiring financial assistance. Accenture will award American Indian and Alaska Native students seeking degrees and careers in fields of study including: various engineering, computer science, operations management, finance, marketing and other business oriented fields. |
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Encouraging Students | Encouraging Students | |
Sam
Bradford Tells Kids to Get Outside and Play
Go outside and play, kids. It worked for Sam Bradford That was the message the St. Louis Rams quarterback delivered Wednesday outside the U.S. Department of Agriculture building, where he helped American Indian and other children plant a garden. He delivered the same message to parents. "Get your youth outside," he said. "It's not all on them." |
Pro
Golfer Notah Begay III Brings Anti-diabetes and Youth Wellness Message
to 194 Native American Schools With New Technology
Four-time PGA Tour winner Notah Begay III is back in his hometown this weekend for a series of events that will reach out to 97 percent of all Native American students in the nation to sound the alarm about the growing epidemic of type 2 diabetes in Indian Country. |
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Education News | Preserving Language | |
Chickasaw
Nation opens STEM Academy
An innovative building designed to inspire and nurture future scientists and engineers was officially opened Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby was joined by several hundred guests to open the Chickasaw Nation Science-Technology-Math Academy, located at 301 Seabrook Drive. |
Preserving
the Cherokee Language with Children's Books
The Kituwah Preservation & Education Program [KPEP] is taking measures to preserve the ancient language of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, with colorful children's books written in the native Cherokee language and illustrated by local artists. |
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Preserving Language | Living Traditions | |
Cherokee National Youth Choir to perform with Oak Ridge Boys Earlier this year, they shared a stage with country superstar Vince Gill. This time, the Cherokee National Youth Choir is ready to perform with legends. Opening for the Oak Ridge Boys on Thursday at The Joint inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa, the choir will perform "The Star Spangled Banner" and "Lean on Me." The groups will share the stage for an encore of "Elvira." |
High
Kicking at the 41st Annual NYO Games in Anchorage
Nearly 500 high school students from 50 Alaska communities are coming to Anchorage from April 29 to May 1 to compete in the Native Youth Olympics at the Denaina Center. The NYO Games, as theyre now called, is open to Natives and non-Natives from the 7th grade to seniors in high school. Its an event that showcases Alaskas cultural heritage, based on games that past Alaska Natives played to help them hone their survival skills and form the necessary communion between mind and body that was required to survive the states rugged, oft-brutal terrain and weather. |
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Honoring | Living Traditions | |
Oklahoma-born
American Indian Activist Will Receive Honorary Degree
Suzan Shown Harjo, an Oklahoma native who has supported tribal rights for decades, will receive an honorary doctorate May 13 from the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico. The award recognizes Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee) for a lifetime of advocacy on behalf of native peoples. |
Indian
Cooking
A member of the American Indian tribe native to the Tehachapi area gave a cooking demonstration last week, showing how her people utilized the wildflower they call Koovoos, which flower guides today refer to as spring gold (Lomatium utriculatum). Janice Williams, a Nuwa (Kawaiisu) tribal member, and I teach classes on Nuwa language, basketry and other cultural practices. Janice is known for her delicious cooking, especially her homemade tortillas, so she demonstrated her techniques last week in order to incorporate koovoos, which is flowering now. |
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Education News | A Poem | |
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About
This Issue's Greeting - "Halito! Chi chukma?"
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The
Chickasaw are of the Muskogean linguistic family and are one of the Five
Civilized Tribes. Their native written language is nearly the same as
that of the Choctaw Nation; their speech is also very similar. At one
time, the Chickasaw language served as a medium of commercial and tribal
intercourse for all the tribes along the lower Mississippi River, which
was virtually controlled by the powerful and warlike Chickasaw Nation
during the 18th century.
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Nature's
Beauty : Barn Swallow
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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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