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(Many Paths) |
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An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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February 24, 2001 - Issue 30 |
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Yeeh-Seeh! |
Means “Welcome!” |
Hopi |
"Kohmagi mashath" |
FEBRUARY - the gray month |
Pima |
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"When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light.
Give thanks for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and give thanks for the joy of living. And if
perchance you see no reason for giving thanks, rest assured the fault is in yourself." |
We Salute TAHLEQUAH -- The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council honored U.S. Paralympic Bronze Medal winning bicyclist and Cherokee tribal member Brad Cobb during their monthly council meeting on Monday night. Cobb, who lives in Bartlesville, said that his Cherokee heritage was a major factor in his recovery from a 1997 car accident that claimed his left leg and nearly took his life. |
The information here will include items of interest for and about Native American schools. If you have news to share, please let us know! I can be reached by emailing: Vlockard@aol.com |
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And the Winner Was........ Native Americans took home their first Grammy Award on Wednesday after a 10-year struggle to get their music recognized as a recording art form. |
Artist: No leap into the spotlight may have been greater than the one for this young group from the Standing Rock Reservation, straddling the North and South Dakota line. It plays mainly at Sun Dances and naming ceremonies in Lakota country. Courtney Yellow Fat, lead singer with his brother, Dana, says the group doesn't hit the pow wow circuit much. "Pow wows are getting too commercialized. There's too much money involved." |
Native American Woman Awarded Fellowship We are pleased to announce that Diane Way (Lakota/Cheyenne) has been awarded the Literary
Fellowship - Playwriting for 2001-02 from the Arts Council of Silicon Valley. |
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StarBand Does it Again McLean, Va., February 20, 2001 - StarBand Communications Inc. today introduced distance learning via its satellite-delivered, high-speed Internet service to the Fort Mojave and Colorado River Indian Tribes, located along the banks of the Colorado River in southeastern Arizona. The installation of the StarBand systems will enable tribal students to enroll and earn professional certificates at Northern Arizona University's School of Hotel & Restaurant Management (HRM) without ever leaving their reservations. |
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the Insanity In the fall of 1968, I was a senior at Shawano Senior High School in Shawano, Wisconsin. I was also senior class president. Our school's student population was about 1500, with the ratio of about 6 non-Indians to each Indian student. I was approached by the athletic director about becoming the school mascot and leading out the basketball team at home games. The school's nickname was "Indians." |
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Career Fair Shows Off-Reservation Choices CROW AGENCY, MT. – On the verge of graduation,
high school student Reuben Plainbull is beginning to get the jitters. |
Guidance Counsellor Hopes Career Fair Will Benefit Native Students DALHOUSIE, N.B. - A career fair in Dalhousie
is trying to encourage native students to continue on with their education. |
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Soaring with the Eagles PICKSTOWN -- On the north side of Fort Randall Dam the Missouri River is frozen in blue and white swirling patterns, a big lake congealed by cold. Nothing moves. This is eagle country. |
Bear Found During Fire Season to be Released HELENA – Hidden from public eye, Montana’s most famous bear cub slumbers away the days of February in a straw-filled box at the state’s wildlife shelter in Helena. |
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A Perfect Fit Michelle Hall embraces her Colville Indian roots while doing promotions for Native American filmmakers and musicians. Michelle Hall jumped at the chance to promote the documentary, "Alcatraz Is Not an Island," at the Sundance Film Festival. |
LaDuke Leads Lesson in Culture The black velvet vest that Winona LaDuke is making by hand for her partner is going to take a long time to complete, she said. |
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Rising to Language Challenge Aboriginal TV's Finding Our Talk series strives to save native tongues Dorothy Lazore has never walked a girder and she has yet to drive in a rivet, but she's carrying on an oral tradition kept alive by the famous skywalkers of Kahnawake. |
Madera
Students Take on MADERA -- History students who ride covered wagons next month in the Madera County mountains will have to decide whose rights were trampled in the 1851 Mariposa Indian War. |
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Play Celebrates Woman's Role as Native Rights Activist The protagonist of Diane E. Benson's play that debuts at the Alaska Native Heritage Center on Sunday is Elizabeth Peratrovich, a Tlingit woman who tipped the scales toward passage of a 1945 anti-discrimination law protecting Native rights. |
Native Tongue Speaks to Oneidas' Heritage When Robert Doxtator speaks, Oneida Indian
adults and children gather close and listen. |
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About This Issue's Greeting - "Yeeh-Seeh" |
There are many relationships with other peoples,
both in the area, and afar, that can be traced by the language. The Hopi language is of the Uto-Aztecan family,
which is closely related to the Northern Paiute and the Aztecs of Mexico, and the Hopi dialect is Shoshone. |
This Date In History |
Recipe: Scratch Cakes |
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Story: The Origin Of Fire |
What is this: Red Fox |
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Project: Loom Beading |
This Issue's Web sites |
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Opportunities |
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"OPPORTUNITIES" is 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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