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Canku
Ota
(Many Paths) An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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October
2014
- Volume 12 Number 10
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"Ka-hay
Sho-o Dah Chi"
The Crow Greeting Hello. How are you? |
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"Hotehimini
kiishthwa"
Strawberry Moon Shawnee |
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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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Salute
Beaver Racing Team Read how the Beaver Racing Team and KanDo inspire a young girl with "a little bit of autism" |
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Our Featured Artist: | Honoring Students | |
Tribal
College Journal Designer Walt Pourier Honored
Colorado Creative Industries (CCI) has announced that Walt Pourier (Oglala Lakota) of Nakota Designs has been named as a recipient of the 2014 Governors Creative Leadership Award. Pourier was one of three nominees selected from a list of 18 individuals and organizations throughout the State of Colorado. The Governors Creative Leadership Awards honor Coloradans who have demonstrated a significant commitment to the states creative landscape through civic leadership and volunteerism, including advocacy, vision, collaboration, or innovation. |
Bill
Clinton Gives Nod to American Indian STEM Program
When your science education program figures in remarks made by a former U.S. president, folks pay attention. President Bill Clinton recognized the work of the PAST Foundation during his opening statement at the 2014 Clinton Global Initiative America Meeting, saying, "In 2012 the PAST Foundation and its partners committed to improve STEM education in rural and Native American reservation schools in South Dakota by equipping 450 teachers with the necessary training to implement an innovative and culturally relevant approach to teaching |
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Our Featured Story: | Northwestern Wisconsin First Person History: | |
Shaping The Future of Indian Education I was inspired to be a part of the Native Threads meeting at the Minnesota Humanities Center today (Oct. 1 - ed.), a meeting designed to build awareness about the work and projects we are doing as Indian Educators with potential sponsors for our important work. Also, we met to address the achievement/opportunity gap for Native students and to see where there might be opportunities to build partnerships. It was a grassroots meeting that will include a much larger voice in the days to come. |
Autobiography of Black
Hawk
Starts For A New Home |
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Education News | Education News | |
Keepers
of the Past, For the Future
At Diné College and Sinte Gleska University, faculty are working to record the wisdom of the elders for posterity. Using state-of-the-art digital media, these two TCUs are paving the way by archiving oral histories that can be accessed with the click of a button. Readers can view and learn about these documentaries at TribalCollegeJournal.org. If these elders' wisdom reaches the wider community where it can become living knowledge, much of the battle has been won. In the feature, "A Hundred Ways of Learning," Martha Lee builds on this premise, maintaining that teaching and learning about cultural knowledge is a community endeavor. |
Navajo
Woman Undertakes Project To Document Native American Languages And Histories
Karen Begay wants to preserve Native American languages from becoming extinct by recording and documenting tribal and family history from tribes across the United States told by elders in their own languages. She envisions turning her work into an archive titled Native American Oral History that can be passed on to future generations. A big part of the project is capturing the time when the elders grew up, a time that does not exist now. |
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Education News | Education News | |
NMAI
To Open New Exhibit Exploring Native and U.S. Relations
Since it's opening, the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) has dedicated itself to the promotion of native identity and cultural understanding. Now celebrating the 10th anniversary of the D.C. museum, it is launching an ambitious exhibit this September that seeks to highlight the role of treaties between the United States and Native Nations. Upon opening September 21, 2014, the exhibit "Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations," will explore the Native diplomats and leaders who crafted some of the earliest agreements with the Founding Fathers. |
Treaties
Exhibit Ushers in 10 Years of American Indian Museum
The National Museum of the American Indian will open its first exhibit exploring the contentious issue of treaties between the U.S. government and Indian Nations next week. "This exhibit is a tangible reminder of the federal government's relationship with sovereign tribal nations of this country," Senate Indian Affairs Chairman Jon Tester, D-Mont., said Thursday. "It's also a reminder of the moral and legal obligations that the United States has to honor and uphold our treaties with Indian country."
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Preserving Culture | Living Traditions | |
Alutiiq Dance History Project Funded A grant from the Alaska State Museum will help the Alutiiq Museum preserve a piece of recent Kodiak history, the revitalization of Alutiiq dance. Thirty years ago, members of the Kodiak Alutiiq community began researching Alutiiq dance, with the goal of creating the first traditional dancers in a century. Elders' knowledge, ethnographic research, and assistance from Yup'ik dancer Chuna McIntyre helped them to form the Cuumillat'stun Alutiiq dance group. Three decades later, performances by the group continue to inspire a new generation of Alutiiq dancers, island-wide. |
Legg
Honored at White House as 'Champion of Change'
The White House has named Cherokee Nation citizen Daryl Legg a "Champion of Change" for going from a three-time convicted felon to someone who's helped positively change the lives of dozens. Legg was sentenced to prison three times for drug possession, but turned his life around and now runs a work re-entry program helping other Natives overcome similar obstacles.
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
100
Mile Club
16 Weeks of Motivation and Empowerment The 100 Mile Club has just completed its final challenge at the Hopi Veterans Memorial Center on Monday, August 25th with 5k, 2 and 1 mile courses. This 16 week walk/run program began as a step forward to encourage people to come together to exercise and build a foundation of health awareness. With the 100 Mile Club coming to a close; we hope you all continue to work on bettering blood glucose readings, make exercise a part of your daily routine, and schedule annual doctors visits - PREVENTION is the key. |
That's
So Money! Code Talkers and Iron Workers Score Copy Coin Tributes
The U.S. Mint has announced its designs for the 2015 and 2016 Native American copy coins, and the choice of subjectsMohawk Iron Workers and Code Talkersrepresent a focus on late 19th- and 20th-century Native history. Since 2009, beginning with a depiction of the "three sisters" agricultural technique, which Natives practiced for thousands of years before European contact, reverse-side coin designs have spotlighted elements of Native culture or episodes from history in a sort of timeline. The 2014 coin commemorated the Native role played in Lewis and Clark's 1804-06 journey into the Pacific Northwest. |
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
Woman
Warrior Honored At The White House
Women warriors have always existed in many tribes across Indian Country. Their fearless feats in combat and security for their tribes have long been told in historic and contemporary storytelling. One such woman warrior of is Crow, Hidatsa, Gros Ventre and Northern Cheyenne heritage has been recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change. |
New
Museum Outreach Project Sprouts History, Culture, Education
Sometimes community outreach begins by planting seeds in your own backyard. "This shows culture in action history brought to life," said Van Samuels, a Tribal community outreach specialist at the site of a new authentic Seminole garden on the grounds of Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum.
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Preserving Language | Living Traditions | |
$300K
Award for Hawaiian Language Preschools
The Administration for Native Americans has awarded the 'Aha Punana Leo Hawaiian language nest preschools a $300,000 grant for the first year of a three-year grant project. The project will enhance and strengthen Punana Leo's quality and impact in the Native Hawaiian community through increasing language proficiency and the professional capabilities of its staff. |
Baseball
Jerseys Reveal Unusual Alliance Between Team And Tribe
Football season has kicked off another round of scrutiny over how professional sports teams use Native American mascots. But in eastern Washington, a minor league baseball team has earned the approval of its native namesake. Avista Stadium in Spokane is full of the familiar sights, sounds and smells of baseball. And then, there are things that might make you do a double take. |
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
Yazzie,
Chee Win Average, Final Four At Fair Rodeo
Given the pressure building nature of competing on the final day of the Navajo Nation Fair, the last thing you want to do is abandon your mechanics. For Odessa Yazzie and Autumnrain Chee they stuck with the fundamentals and kept things simple, as they emerged as the average and Final Four winners in their respective events at this year's fair. |
Navajo
Weaver's Rug Wins Indian Market Best of Show
From shearing the sheep to spinning the wool to weaving the pattern, Navajo weaver Lola Cody spent almost two years making the rug that won Best of Show at this year's Santa Fe Indian Market. She said the weaving portion alone took her eight months "weaving every day, up to 14 hours a day." | |
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About
This Issue's Greeting - "Ka-hay
Sho-o Dah Chi"
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In
traditional and contemporary Crow culture, it is customary to greet each
other with a quick glance away or a blink and nod of the head. If they
are wearing a hat, they might tip the brim of the hat. Handshaking is
a white man's custom and was only recently accepted as a greeting in Crow
culture. You will rarely see Crow people embracing publicly. From: Vincent
Goes Ahead, Jr., Museum Interpreter, Vice Chairman of the Crow Tribe
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