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Canku
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(Many Paths) An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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February
2018
- Volume 16 Number 2
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"Posoh!"
Menominee "Hello!" |
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Kohmagi
mashath
FEBRUARY - the gray month Pima |
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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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We Salute Fighting For Native Americans, In Court And Onstage An icy January afternoon was turning into evening, and inside a warmly lit rehearsal room at Arena Stage, the company of a new play called "Sovereignty" had arrived at the final scene. The sweet, 21st-century ending unfolds in an unlikely setting: a family cemetery in rural Oklahoma, not far from the spot where, in 1839, a Cherokee Nation leader named John Ridge was stabbed to death in an act of political retribution. His influential father, Major Ridge, was assassinated the same day, and for the same reason. |
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Our Featured Artist: | Honoring Students | |
Charles
Huntington
The Ojibwe artist's massive steel sculptures propelled him from blue collar beginnings to the top of the art world as he devised a career all his own. It began with boredom, Charles Huntington once told a reporter, when his first career as an auto mechanic became monotonous. With spare parts, and odds and ends around the garage, he began making art out of crushed wheels, hood ornaments and whatever else drew his imagination. |
Page
CCC Student Receives New Spring To Success Scholarship
A student at Coconino Community College in Page will be springing
to success after receiving a newly created scholarship. |
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Our Featured Story: | First Person History: | |
Native
American Rap Star, JOEY STYLEZ, Seeks To Empower The People
Joey Stylez, real name Joseph LaPlante, has opened up about his own experiences with drugs and alcohol - and how those experiences robbed him of happiness but he's not ashamed of his past. He wants to use it to empower the people. "We are not the things we've done, but the things that we think about consistently. When inner pain is not dealt with, it can become something that propels alcohol and drug abuse," said Stylez. |
Early Copper Mining History In the Lake Superior Basin (Part 1) |
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Education News | Education News | |
Alianait
Lists This Years Iqaluit Concert Series
Its that time of the year again for Alianait concert goers. The annual Nunavut concert series is kicking off Jan. 20 with an Inuktitut music tribute concert. Igloolik musicians Lazarus (Mister) Qattalik and Allan Kangok will join Mason Angnakak from Pangnirtung and local artists Daniel Kolola and Charlie Panipak to perform many favourite Inuktitut tunes, Alianaits executive director, Heather Daley, said in a Jan. 11 release. |
New
Scholarship Helps Students 'Re-boot' At CCC
Coconino Community College students who may have had
difficulties with the rigors of college in the past now have a chance
to "re-boot" their college careers. |
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Education News | Education News | |
American
Indian Science And Engineering Society Honors Two Sandia Employees
Sandia National Laboratories researcher Ginger Hernandez and Tribal Government Program manager Laurence Brown have been honored by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society for their career accomplishments. Hernandez is the recipient of the AISES Technical Excellence Award and Brown has received the Government Partner Service Award. |
Middle
School Class Keep Nisqually Legacy Alive
Yelm Middle School teacher Cody Colts seventh grade Washington state history class keep the legacy of the Nisqually Indian Tribe alive by presenting to younger peers.
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Education News | Living Traditions | |
Art
Invigorates Participation At Standing Rock
Schools
The walls of Standing Rock Elementary School and Standing Rock Middle School are lined with artwork and the sound of music reverberates from the classrooms. For both of the schools' administrators and teachers, a real change has occurred in the past two school years. Morale among students and teachers has improved at the schools on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which faces challenges of poverty. Through the arts, self-confidence among students has been boosted, the middle school principal said. |
Seal,
Moose, And Rabbit On The Menu For Canadian Indigenous Chefs Reclaiming
Culinary Heritage
When Algonquin chef Cezin Nottaway was 5 years old, her mother taught her how to kill and skin a beaver with her bare hands. The little girl also learned how to snare a rabbit and to draw a moose out of the forest by emulating its haunting grunt. "We were using local ingredients long before it became fashionable," Nottaway, 38, said in her log-cabin kitchen on the Kitigan Zibi reserve, near this town about 136km north of Ottawa, Ontario.
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Who We Are | Who We Are | |
Infant
Skeleton Sheds New Llight On Early Native American Populations
Scientists divided the ancient American populations into two categories: the Southern and the Northern Native Americans. The two groups are related, but a link between them and an ancient Siberian population was missing, until now. |
Stone
Shrine Discovered Inside Mexican Volcano Depicts Mythical Aztec Universe
Mexican archaeologists have discovered a stone sanctuary at the bottom of a pond below the Iztaccihuatl volcano that seems to depict a mythical model of the universe. |
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Who We Are | Living Traditions | |
From Lookout Mountain To Belgium, Setting The Record Straight On American Indian Performers On top of Lookout Mountain, past roads named Moonview and Indian Paintbrush, François Chladiuk inscribes a message in Old Lakota in an open book. "Wakan ni un," the 65-year-old Belgian says to the couple standing over him at Buffalo Bill's Pahaska Tepee gift shop and café. "It's a quote from Walter Littlemoon. It means, Live in a sacred manner.' " |
Tribal
Cultures Remain As Different As Their Indigenous Languages
I hear time and time again Native culture. What does that phrase even mean? It seems to me people are uneducated and uninformed about our first people and our culture. We become one tribe to people when in fact tribes across the United States are very diverse and unique. Each nation and tribe has its own values, cultural teaching and languages. In 1990, Congress passed the Native American Languages Act (NALA) in order to, preserve, protect, and promote, Native American Languages. They put the act together to make sure the languages could survive.
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Healthy Living | Living Traditions | |
Indigenous
Group Tackles Diabetes With Storytelling
When Emilys mother lay dying of kidney failure from years of diabetes, Emily begged the doctors to take her kidney and transplant it into her mom. But the doctors refused Emily had diabetes too. She would need both kidneys herself. Like many Indigenous groups around the world, the James Bay Cree of northern Québec have a disproportionately high rate of diabetes. Theyre facing it down with a decidedly Indigenous solution: A Talking Circle in print.
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Tea
Collection Launches United States Inspired Collection With Native American
Collaborations And First Ever Tween Line
Tea Collection, a high-quality childrens clothing brand with designs inspired by the beauty of global cultures, introduces its first ever United States inspired collection. Although world travel and exploration will always be at the heart of Tea Collection, the brand understands that that same diversity, found just down the road or across the street here in the United States, also deserves celebration. The 2018 collection honors the extraordinary cultures, colors and creative spirit of our beautiful home, with the hope of motivating others to explore their backyards to discover the beautiful global richness that makes America what it is today. |
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Education News | Living Traditions | |
FDLTCC
Hosts Third Annual Beekeeping Workshop
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, in partnership with the Northeast Minnesota Beekeepers Association, is hosting a day-long workshop called Beekeeping and More! on Saturday, February 17, 2018, for anyone interested in learning about beekeeping as a hobby or as a commercial enterprise. The Symposium will open at 8:30 a.m. and classes run from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. starting in the college commons. Pre-registration is encouraged. The first Beekeeping and More workshop held in 2016 drew in more than 150 beekeepers and the event has kept growing, making it one of the largest beekeeping workshops in northern Minnesota. |
Sam
Noble Oklahoma Museum Featuring Tulsa Native American Family In Exhibit
'Fluent Generations: The Art Of Anita, Tom And Yatika Fields'
A family of accomplished Native American artists will showcase their works of photography, ceramics and paintings, celebrating the vitality of indigenous cultures, in the newest exhibit to be unveiled this month at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, 2401 Chautauqua Ave. | |
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Education News | Honoring | |
Closing
The Gap: How A poor, Rural School Uses Culture To Help Native American
Kids Learn
If you hit gravel on He Dog Road, youve gone too far. Just before the pavement ends on the southwest-bound curve, theres an unmarked turn where the road winds south, crosses Cut Meat Creek and ends in front of a red brick schoolhouse. The cement steps leading to the door are so crumbled and worn theyre unusable. An auxiliary staircase leads to the creaking wooden floors inside. The Bureau of Indian Education has recommended the 90-year-old elementary school be condemned, but for now, its home to 155 students. |
Native
American Veterans Will Be Honored With A Memorial On The National Mall
The Mall is studded with monuments to iconic people and events, from presidents to wars to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Later this month, finalists will be announced for a memorial to a group with less name recognition: Native American veterans. In the 20th century, Native Americans served in the United States military at a higher per capita rate than any other ethnic group, and their service stretches back to the Revolutionary War. This might sound surprising, given their fraught history with the U.S. government. Why would so many choose to fight and sacrifice for a country that has often treated native tribes so badly? | |
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Protecting Our Land | Living Traditions | |
Bennett
Orders Full Environmental Assessment For Nunavut's Grays Bay
The huge Grays Bay Road and Port project proposed for western Nunavut will undergo a full environmental review that will scrutinize the impacts of more mining and shipping on the regions residents and environment, the Nunavut Impact Review Board said late Wednesday. The responsible federal ministers said in a Jan. 15 letter to the review board that they have accepted its recommendation to refer the Grays Bay project proposal for a full environmental assessment, a process that the the NIRB had recommended last October in its screening report. |
Omaha
Tribe Working To Restore Hospital Built By First Native American Doctor
The 26-year-old Omaha woman woke up early that morning, long before the sun began to warm the frozen prairie of her northeast Nebraska reservation. Susan La Flesche moved as quickly as she could, harnessing her horses to her buggy and dropping her small black bag on a seat before setting out. She knew time was her enemy. Somewhere out in the cold and the dark and the two feet of snow, a girl lay dying. And La Flesche, the Omaha Reservation's doctor, refused to let her people down, knowing how much they had pushed to get her into medical school and into a profession dominated by men. | |
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Honoring | Living Traditions | |
First
Nations, Inuit And Métis Among Order Of Canada Appointees
Not too many recipients of the Order of Canada would say they felt sadness when notified that they were being awarded the honour. Elder Harry Bone from Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation in Manitoba, was one of 125 new appointees announced last week. His wife died three years ago, and her memory was the first thing he thought of when he found out he had been named for the honour. |
Cherokee
Copper hopes to sell jewelry worldwide
With hopes of getting Cherokee jewelry in fine jewelry stores worldwide, Greg Stice, owner and artist of Cherokee Copper, is on his way to doing just that with a key part of his jewelry consisting of copper and pearls. "Our goal is to take the Cherokee, our tradition to the world so that you can walk into any fine jewelry (store) and you will be able see Cherokee fine jewelry," he said. | |
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
Poet
Natalie Diaz Talks Indigenous Culture, Womanhood
Northwestern welcomed poet Natalie Diaz on Wednesday to share her poetry and lead a conversation about preserving indigenous culture through literature. The conversation, co-sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences' Department of English and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, took place in Harris Hall as part of the Moore Lecture Series. The project aims to provide a platform for established writers to talk to students, faculty and other community members, according to the English department's website. |
Tribal
Cultures Remain As Different As Their Indigenous Languages
I hear time and time again Native culture. What does that phrase even mean? It seems to me people are uneducated and uninformed about our first people and our culture. We become one tribe to people when in fact tribes across the United States are very diverse and unique. Each nation and tribe has its own values, cultural teaching and languages. In 1990, Congress passed the Native American Languages
Act (NALA) in order to, preserve, protect, and promote,
Native American Languages. They put the act together to make sure the
languages could survive.
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About
This Issue's Greeting - "Posoh"
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In
most respects Menominee is a typical Algonquian language. Menominee has
six vowels rather than the usual four, and has complex rules governing
vowel length, but otherwise the sound system is similar to Ojibwa, Mesquakie
(Fox) and Shawnee. The vocabulary is also similar to the neighboring languages;
especially, most Menominee words will have an exact equivalent in Potawatomi
and Ojibwa. The noun inflections are similar to other Algonquian languages,
but Menominee has a number of verb inflections not found in the other
languages, and consequently some sentences are put together in a different
way than in Ojibwa or Mequakie.
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Nature's
Beauty:
American Badger |
This
Issue's
Favorite Web sites |
A
Story To Share:
How The Badger's White Stripes Came To Be |
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