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Canku
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(Many Paths) An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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August
2016
- Volume 14 Number 8
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"Klahowya"
Chinook Jargon common salutation |
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"OPUNHOPIZUN"
THE MOON YOUNG DUCKS BEGIN TO FLY Cree |
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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 | |
Luzene Hill Luzene Hill, an EBCI tribal member, is known worldwide for her out-of-the-box visual arts. She has shown her work in New York City and Russia and on Wednesday, July 20 was awarded a $20,000 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF) National Artist Fellowship. "The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship is a coveted prize, and I'm truly grateful for this award, said Hill. "I'm honored to have my work recognized in this way and very excited to have funding for my new work. |
Cuyamaca
College To Launch Associates Degree In Kumeyaay Studies
Cuyamaca College plans to launch an associate's degree program in Kumeyaay studies this fall and become one of the first community colleges in the state to offer a degree program focusing on the language, culture and history of a specific Native American group. The program is a step up from the current certificate in Kumeyaay studies offered by Cuyamaca and will draw from the sciences, humanities, world languages and history departments, according to the college. |
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Our Featured Story: | First Person History: | |
the Ntvs Here's what Aaron, one of the owners, had to say about the creation and reason for The Ntvs.
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Bering Strait
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Education News | Education News | |
Saint
Regis Mohawk Tribe Donates $100k To Akwesasne Freedom School
On Ohiarihkó:wa/July 8, 2016, the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Council presented the Tribe's annual contribution in the amount of $100,000 to the Akwesasne Freedom School. The amount is dispersed in two payments of $50,000 during the year to support the school's Mohawk language immersion instruction. "The preservation and strengthening of the Mohawk language, culture and traditions are important to our community because of the values it provides and instills in our youth who are the foundation of our future," said Tribal Chief Eric Thompson. "The Freedom School continues to be an integral part of what makes Akwesasne distinct and unique, as a community and as a people." |
Onondaga
Nation To Thank Nancy Cantor For Scholarship That Gives 'Hope' To Students
The Onondaga Nation will honor former Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor this evening for her role in creating the Haudenosaunee Promise Scholarship. The promise scholarship was announced in 2006 by Cantor as a way to strengthen the relationship between the Haudenosaunee, which includes the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora nations, and the university.
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Education News | Education News | |
Tuba City Teachers Attend Advanced Placement Conference Last week a four-day AP Annual Conference took place
in the Anaheim Convention Center in California and eight Tuba City High
School and Junior High staff members attended. The conference is the
largest professional development gathering of the Advanced Placement
Programs and Pre-AP education communities.
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Tribal
Member Named 'White House Champion Of Change For Climate Equity
On Friday, July 15, the White House recognized ten individuals from across the country as White House Champions of Change for Climate Equity. Tribal member and Division of Environmental Protection Manager and Climate Change Planning Coordinator Michael Durglo, Jr. traveled to Washington DC to receive the prestigious award. |
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Honoring Students | Honoring Students | |
To'Nanees'Dizi
Chapter College Students Put Together First Of Its Kind Assessment Of
Needs Of Bennett Freeze Area Resident
It is already hot at 9 a.m. when members of the Former Bennett Freeze Area Field Intake project head out to assess another home in the To'Nanees'Dizi Chapter, part of its five-year land use plan update. One Northern Arizona college student, Charmayne Flatrock, and three Adult Workforce Department workers, Ronda Anderson, Eva Wilson and Larsena Slender, head out to the areas around Tuba City. |
PLP
Participants Get Insight Into Tribal Life
By August 1, the Potawatomi Leadership Program students will be packing
their bags and heading back to their hometowns after a six-week internship
that taught them the ins and outs of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. The
award-winning program brings a group of 10 young tribal members from around
the country to Shawnee, Oklahoma to learn about the government, culture,
and economic development of CPN.
This year the participants came from North Carolina, Virginia, Oregon, Kansas, Arizona, Vermont, California and Oklahoma. The PLP arrived on June 17 and dove right into tours, introductions and the Family Reunion Festival. |
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Preserving Language | Preserving Language | |
Nation
Looks To Enhance Language Learning
Research has long suggested the ideal time to teach a new language is to 4-year-old students because young learners absorb so much information at this age. With that in mind the Oneida Indian Nation Language program and Madison-Oneida BOCES (MOBOCES) are developing a curriculum and best practices to ensure all children at the Oneida Indian Nation Early Learning Center are learning the traditional language. |
Hoocak
Ee Cooni Fights To Keep The Language Alive
To have a language is to have a culture. And sadly, to lose that language is to lose the culture. For this precise reason, Daycare Administrator Mary Thundercloud-Eary and her staff at the Hoocak Ee Cooni learning center in Wisconsin Dells fight to preserve the Ho-Chunk language within the tribe. They realize the importance of language within a culture, and its vast significance in retaining that culture. Based on this realization, they devote every second of the day to teaching Ho-Chunk youth their native language. |
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Living Traditions Neighbor Helping Neighbor |
Living
Traditions Neighbor Helping Neighbor
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The
Ho-Chunk Nation Sends Aid To Northern Neighbors
"I lost my tent I was camping when it happened." Greg Dashner said on Monday, July 18 after a series of severe thunderstorms moved through northern Wisconsin resulting in more than $30 million in damages, according to the Wisconsin Emergency Operations Center. Dashner, a resident of the Bad River Indian Reservation, located in Ashland and Iron counties, has received a great amount of help from the surrounding area communities and various neighboring tribal communities. |
Brad
Pitt Foundation Homes Arrive On Reservation
The first five of 20 eco-friendly modular homes arrived on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and are being set on their foundations this week. Founded by actor Brad Pitt, the Make It Right foundation and the Fort Peck Tribes are hoping to have the first five families moved into their new homes by Aug. 1. Plans are to have the entire housing project filled by Dec. 1.
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Saving Our Children | Preserving Language | |
Using
Horse Traditions To Reduce Teen Suicide On Wind River Reservation
Kids and horses gather on a dusty riding ground on a ridge overlooking the snow-capped Wind River Range. Northern Arapaho Social Services Director Allison Sage starts the day's ride as he always does: with a prayer and introductions. "We're using Arapaho language," he says. "We're saying nee'eesih'inoo. That means 'my name is.' So you say, nee'eesih'inoo and then how you feel." |
Osage
Orthography Included In Unicode 9.0, Language Department Developing App
The latest languages released by Unicode version 9.0 were announced last week and the Osage orthography is included. The historic achievement has been something the Osage language department has been striving toward since they filed their application in mid-2014. The Unicode Consortium accepted it in late 2014. |
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Education News | Living Traditions | |
Tuba
City High School Athletes Shine In Athletics And Education
Four of Tuba City High School's top male and female student athletes were selected "Athlete of the Year" and two of the students also took a second, more competitive honor of "Academic" Athlete of the Year" award, doubling the prestige and recognition with awards selected by high school sports peers and coaches for the high school. Sydney Brown, Roland Becenti, Albert Fuller and Koralyn Curley from Tuba City High School were honored at a banquet at the Tuba City High School Warrior Pavilion before a packed house filled with parents, extended family and sports supporters. |
Saxman Tribal House To Get New Roof With USDA-RD Grant The rural City of Saxman, Alaska has received a $60,000 grant from U.S. Department of Agriculture-Rural Development (USDA-RD) it was announced on Thursday by USDA State Director Jim Nordlund. The funding for the roof replacement of Saxman's Tribal House was provided by USDA_RD Alaska's Community Facility Direct Grant, it was reported. | |
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Mother Earth | Living Traditions | |
Sheefish
A Shiny Surprise On Interior River
Fishing at the spot where this long, squiggly stream mixes with a floury channel of the Tanana River, Alison Beamer feels a thump. Line squeals from her spinning reel as a creature as long as her arm flashes beneath the surface. After a few runs east and west, the fish tires, becoming still beneath the clear surface. Beamer's canoe-mate Jason Clark nets and dispatches the fish. He then threads it on a stringer. |
Old
World Metals Traded On Alaska Coast Hundreds Of Years Before Contact
Two leaded bronze artifacts found in northwestern Alaska are the first evidence that metal from Asia reached prehistoric North America prior to contact with Europeans, according to new Purdue University research. | |
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Living Traditions | Mother Earth | |
CHC
Exhibit Gives Visitors Look Into Cherokee Textiles
The Cherokee Heritage Center is giving visitors a look into the clothing and textiles of the Cherokee people with its Threads of Time exhibit. The show features garments, jewelry, historic photographs and an antique loom used by the Sequoyah Indian Weavers Association. CHC Executive Director Candessa Tehee said the exhibit, which runs until Aug. 20, is important because it shows innovation through time. |
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Huckleberry Patch
There's a bitter truth to the work tribal member Rebecca Peone conducts
to restore huckleberries on the Colville Reservation. The 50-year-old won't enjoy the fruits of her efforts in her lifetime,
she says. "I won't see these huckleberries produce," she says, in the thick
of an undisclosed traditional gathering area in Inchelium. "Huckleberries
are particular. They take a really long time to grow. You don't see them
like blueberry crops." | |
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
Aanji-nitaawigichigaadewin
manoomin (Wild Rice Restoration)
The Fond du Lac Natural Resources Program has begun a large manoomin (wild rice) restoration effort in Nagaajiwanaang (the lower St. Louis River Estuary). This area where the name of our Band is derived from, is where our ancestors riced for generations. Manoomin habitat was altered and neglected over the past 150 years as the Duluth Harbor was developed, industries polluted, the old growth forest was harvested, and hydropower dams were installed. As part of a cooperative effort between Minnesota DNR, Wisconsin DNR, MN Land Trust, 1854 Treaty Authority, and the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, work is underway to bring back approximately 275 acres of manoomin over the next 10 years. |
Larsen
Painting 'Back Home' In Oklahoma After 10-Year Hiatus
Mike Larsen's eyes poured over two huge acrylic paintings he created 21 years ago. "This painting of an Arapaho holy man and his people brings back many emotions," Mr. Larsen said. "It was painted right after the Oklahoma City bombing. Two of our children are included and the others are close friends. Many of them now gone." After 10 years in Kansas City, the Chickasaw artist's two-panel painting "Cloud People" is back in Oklahoma. It was relocated to Kansas City in 2006 when the Oklahoma City Federal Reserve branch moved into a new office without the capacity to properly display it. | |
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
14th
Annual Ironworkers Festival
Several hundred people showed up on July 16 to celebrate the Ironworkers Festival, an annual tradition which completed a 14th year. Several dozen union ironworkers from around the U.S. and Canada showed up at the event at the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino Resort to compete for the Ultimate Ironworker title, which this year went to Al Stanley of Ironworkers Local 12, Albany.
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"RJ"
Lomayestewa Named MVP As AZ Warriors Take 2016 NABI Boys Basketball Championship
At the Native American Basketball Invitational (NABI) Boy's Gold bracket championship game (Talking Stick Arena July 2), the AZ Warriors defeated Team Respect from Concho, OK with a score of 81-68, claiming the Championship title and making history as the first ever NABI back to back champions. | |
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
Shinnecock
Members Head West For Paddle To Nisqually
Four members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation have made their way to Seattle, Washington, to join forces with other Native American tribes in the annual Tribal Canoe Journey, known this year as Paddle to Nisqually.They are catching the tail end of a canoe journey that began earlier this month, with paddlers en route to the home of the Nisqually tribe, about 15 miles east of Olympia, Washington. The theme focuses on the waters and the tribes' connection to it which resonates with the Shinnecock who will participate. |
Tribal
Canoes Carrying 5,000 People Land At Point Defiance
It took about two dozen people Thursday afternoon to haul one of the massive dugout canoes out of the water and onto the gravel shore of Owen Beach. Patrica Elofson of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe in Port Angeles looked on fondly. "Everybody joins in," said Elofson, 66. "Those people probably aren't even from that tribe." | |
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
Fletcher Hikes Most
Of Northern Trail Of Tears Route
Cherokee Nation citizen Chance Fletcher, 20, spent June retracing approximately 900 miles of the Northern Route of the Trail of Tears. He started at Red Clay State Park in Tennessee on June 2 and finished on July 1 at the Cherokee Courthouse. |
Trail Trees Along
The Old Spanish Trail
We traveled from one part of the country to another visiting and trading with each other and other tribes. I call them nomads (traveling for a purpose) and not nomadic (which indicates traveling aimlessly) as indicated in the dictionary. Most of the Anthropologist, Historians and Federal government personnel that worked with Indians used the term Nomadic to specify that the Indian in North America traveled aimlessly which is not true. | |
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About
This Issue's Greeting - "Klahowya"
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Chinook
Jargon, or Chinuk Wawa as it speakers refer to it, was commonly spoken
in the Pacific Northwest from northern California to southern Alaska.
As a Native American lingua franca, it was used among the various ethnic
groups during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Nature's
Beauty:
How Many Pleiades Can YOU See? |
This
Issue's
Favorite Web sites |
A
Story To Share:
Seven Sisters |
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