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Canku
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(Many Paths) An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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December
2018
- Volume 16 Number 12
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"Nich-che-coogh!"
The Umatilla Greeting "Welcome" |
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"Hash Haponi"
moon of cooking Choctaw |
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"Let us put
our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
~Sitting Bull~ |
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Our Featured Artist: | Honoring Students | |
Anishinabe Wiigwaasi-Jiiman (canoe building) Community Project The purpose
of this build is to bring the community together to revitalize the teachings
and knowledge of our ancestors to build a 15-foot Anishinabe Wiigwaasi-Jiiman
(birchbark canoe) that can be used to harvest wild rice the way our ancestors
did, said Lupe Gonzalez, coordinator for SCTCs Extension Program.
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Hopi High Students Take Home Awards At State Journalism Conference Hopi High School
won nine awards at the Arizona Interscholastic Press Association Conference
Nov. 6 at Arizona State University in Tempe. Hopi
High was the only reservation school to win media awards and was one of
the smallest schools represented.
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Our Featured Story: | First Person History: | |
Native American Women Made History In The Midterms Two years
ago, as Americans were locked in a bitter dispute over the presidential
election, Deb Haaland stuffed her suitcase full of green chiles and flew
from her home state of New Mexico to North Dakota to join a different
fight.
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World War I And American Indians In 1917 the
United States entered into World War I. While Indians were not liable
to be drafted, they enlisted in large numbers. Many of the volunteers
were eager to count coup, gain war honors, and to maintain the warrior
traditions of their tribes. An estimated 10,000 Indians served in the
military during the war.
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
America Moves To Bite The Hand That Fed It We know that
we, the Mashpee Wampanoag, have occupied the same region for over 12,000
years. But what many do not know today is that we are in a struggle to
maintain homelands that were placed in trust by the United States of America
Department of the Interior in 2015- some 400 years after sustained European
contact and settlement and the same number of years of struggle to maintain
our homelands.
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The Thanksgiving Tale We Tell Is A Harmful Lie I was born and
raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in the 1970s
and am a member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe. Growing up, I went to
a very small country school on the reservation, in the poorest county
in the United States. Our school had predominantly Native students, but
we were still taught what everybody was about Thanksgiving: It represented
a time when "pilgrims and Indians" celebrated together, and it was about
being thankful. Only later would we find out that it was a lie.
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Preserving Language | Education News | |
Reconnecting With Roots At Alaska Native Languages Summit The Walter Soboleff
Building on May 12, 2015, home of the Sealaska Heritage Institute. The
private nonprofit hosted a three-day emergency language summit at the
Centennial Hall Convention Center in Juneau beginning Nov. 13.
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Public School Named After Native Olympian Billy Mills, Becomes First In History Supporters,
students, teachers and the gold medal-winning Olympian Billy Mills gathered
in Lawrence, Kansas to celebrate a historic day in honor of Billy Mills
Middle School as the only public school to bear the name of a Native American
public figure.
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
Sharice Davids' Historical Election To Congress Celebrated In Kansas Ho-Chunk Sharice
Davids from Kansas won her bid for United States Congress on Nov. 6, 2018.
Davids and Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, of New Mexico are the first Native
women elected to Congress. Also, Sharice Davids is the first L.G.B.T.
Native to serve as a federal lawmaker.
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Six Nations School Will Spend $732K To Train New Speakers Of Cayuga Language Six Nations
Polytechnic (SNP) will train eight Cayuga language speakers to teach others.
That pool of speakers will also create an archive of resources, and train
teachers who will teach the language at the school. "This
project will be the most significant effort to stabilize the Cayuga language
that our organization has ever initiated," said Rebecca Jamieson,
SNP president, in a media release.
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Honoring Students | Book Review | |
New Town Runners Building A Dynasty While running
has long been a tradition at New Town High School, which encompasses five
towns, the last decade or so has been a boom particularly for the boys
cross-country program. The Eagles have won 12 North Dakota small-school
titles in the last 14 years, including six in a row. The years they didn't
win, they finished second.
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Book About Vine Deloria's Influence A Page Turner Every now and
then a book comes along that reminds us that there is a vast history of
the real work (not just indulgences like memoirs) that Native writers
have been doing in the 20th century that advances our knowledge of the
race problem in the United States in important ways. Vine
Deloria has always been my mentor even though I did not study with
him.
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
Wadasé Returns With A Friend Weather patterns
have been erratic this year, and fall has been no exception in Oklahoma.
The pastures are still lush and green, and the trees, which would normally
be nearly bare, are full of leaves that are only just beginning to suggest
that autumn is here. But the wildlife around us has already signaled a
shift in seasons.
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Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation Wins Big Court Victory This fight
to restore recognition has been lengthy, costly, and sad," Chief
Mark Gould said. "But today New Jersey has reaffirmed that American
Indians are not only part of its storied past, but valued partners in
a shared future. We are ready to do our part to rebuild our relationship
with the state government.
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
It's Clear Sailing For A Giant Sioux Wind Power Enterprise Called the
'Saudi Arabia of wind power,' the Great Plains could fulfill U.S. energy
needs several times over with emissions-free, wind-generated electricity.
A coalition of Sioux
tribes is poised to harness the wind. Long held sacred by the Great Sioux
Nation, or Oceti Sakowin, the wind may soon provide tribal communities
with clean, renewable power and sustainable economic development.
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Meet Nunavut's First Inuit-Owned Coffee Company: Kaapittiaq That means good
coffee, and its the name of a new Inuit-owned social enterprise
company dedicated to the production of premium coffee by and for the Canadian
Arctic.
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
Putting Osage Women In Control Of Their Own Images Like many Americans,
Osage women in Oklahoma in the early 1900s loved to put on their best
clothes and have their portraits taken. The photos were a nice gift for
family or descendants and an expression of self-respect that attacked
prevailing American attitudes about indigenous people. But the practice
quickly went bad.
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Oneida Heritage Center And Warrior Archery Welcome Olympian Mackenzie Brown 23-year-old
Olympic archer Mackenzie Brown, ranked 15th in the world, visited the
Oneida Heritage Centers Warrior Archery on Saturday, Oct. 26 to
teach and inspire kids from the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley about the
sport of archery. Her visit preceded the beginning of the Ys youth
archery program at Oneida Heritage, which will run Nov. 24 Dec.
29 each Saturday morning starting at 10 a.m. or 11 a.m., and Nov. 28
Jan. 9 each Wednesday night from 5-6 p.m.
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
DNA Of World's Oldest Natural Mummy Unlocks Secrets Of America's Ice Age Tribes A legal battle
over a 10,600-year-old ancient skeleton called the 'Spirit Cave
Mummy' has ended after advanced DNA sequencing found it was related
to a Native American tribe.
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The Indians Were Right, The English Were Wrong: A Virginia Tribe Reclaims Its Past From the road,
the abandoned chief's house is a shadow, almost invisible under a cloak
of vines and trees on the edge of a corn field. If you managed to find
it, you wouldn't know what it meant the ragged wood siding, the
gaping windows, the shattered plaster.
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Education News | Education News | |
Building A Love For Math And Science Starts Early Parents and
caregivers dont have to wait until a child can solve written math
problems or conduct complex science experiments. Activities such as finger
painting, building blocks and baking are fun and interactive ways to build
science and math skills in young kids.
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Migizi Communications Purchases New Building With Big Plans Migizi Communications
is celebrating 40 years of service to the American Indian community in
the Twin Cities but is looking far ahead through training Native youth
for leadership, education preparation and careers in emerging environmental,
technical and renewable energy occupations.
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Living Traditions | A Poem | |
In The Puget Sound, Welcoming The Return Of The Salmon Every summer, a generation
of salmon returns to rivers across the Pacific Northwest where they
hatched. And when they do, coastal tribes from British Columbia
to Oregon gather on driftwood-strewn beaches to celebrate the First
Salmon ceremony, to welcome the salmon back with open arms.
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Native American Farmers Are Growing A Sustainable Market Thirty miles south of
Phoenix, green fields of alfalfa and pima cotton stretch toward
a triple-digit sun. Hundreds of yellow butterflies dance above the
purple flowers that dapple the tops of the young alfalfa stalksto
expert eyes, the flowers signal that the plants are heat-stressed
and should be harvested soon.
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About
This Issue's Greeting -"Nich-che-coogh!"
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The
three tribes (Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla) are part of a much larger
culture group called the Plateau Culture. The Plateau Culture includes
the Nez Perce bands of Idaho and Washington, the Yakama bands of Central
Washington and the Wasco and Warm Springs bands of North Central Oregon
on the lower Columbia River. There were many other smaller bands and groups
such as the Palouse and Wanapum.
This large body of people belonged to the Sahaptin Language group and each tribe spoke a distinct and separate dialect of Sahaptin. The Umatilla and Walla Walla each spoke their own separate dialect, while the Cayuse in later years spoke a dialect of the Nez Perce with whom they associated a great deal. The original Cayuse language, which is extinct today but for a few words spoken by a few individuals on the Umatilla Reservation, is closely related to the Mollala Indian language of the Oregon Cascade Mountains. |
Nature's
Beauty:
Barn Swallows Have Evolved To Live Alongside Us |
This
Issue's
Favorite Web sites |
A
Story To Share:
How The Swallow's Tail Came To Be Forked |
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