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The Migration Project
On June 25, 2000, a group of individuals gathered together and formed a network of
communities in order to bring awareness of the state of the environment around the Great Lakes. This courageous
group embarked on and completed a 1,200-mile journey around Lake Superior. The journey arrived on August 28, 2000
where it began, at the southern shores of Lake Superior on the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation in Wisconsin. A WALK
TO REMEMBER- A SACRED JOURNEY FOR SEVEN GENERATIONS was lived as a spiritual journey around Lake Superior to bring
forth community visions to protect the air, land and water for the Seven Generations yet to come.
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Skydancer.tv Reaches for the Stars
by Suzanne Westerly, Photographer / Writer
Skydancer.tv will 'tell-a-vision' and broaden programming possibilities entering your
home.
On June 17th a partnership between the Oneida Nation in New York, and longtime American
Indian Los Angeles-based producers Dan C. Jones (Ponca Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma) and Sonny Skyhawk (Sicangu
Lakota Tribe of South Dakota) to create a television production company was announced. The project is believed
to be the first television production company owned, operated and funded entirely by Native Americans.
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Lost Totem is Back with Tlingit Indians
KETCHIKAN, Alaska -- Two hundred painted Tlingit Indian dancers, draped with traditional
robes adorned with likenesses of killer whales, eagles, ravens and bears, gave a rousing welcome home here Monday
to a dozen museum artifacts taken from their ancestors 102 years ago.
The male and female dancers, ranging from 3-year-olds to a grandmotherly woman shuffling
determinedly on crutches, chanted and snaked joyously through Ketchikan's civic auditorium past 200-year-old carved
totem poles, house posts, grave markers and the front of a clan chief's house.
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Return of Drums Reunites Ojibwe
by Roberta Avery Indian
Country Today correspondent-July 11, 2001
OWEN SOUND, Ontario - After 150 years of silence, the drums have returned to the site
of a former Ojibwe village on the shores of Owen Sound Bay, Lake Huron.
At an emotional ceremony in June, the Return of the Drums traditional pow wow held, at the site of the original
village, reunited the Ojibwe people now called the Chippewas of Nawash with the home of their ancestors for the
first time since they were relocated in the 1850s.
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Idaho Reservation School Preserves Tribal
Language
by EMILY JONES Idaho State Journal
FORT HALL, Idaho - When Alta Browning asks a group of squirming first-graders to say
the Shoshoni words they know, everyone can come up with at least a few.
"One boy got the numbers from one to five," Browning said. "He was so proud."
Classes at Fort Hall Elementary received Shoshoni alphabet books from an Idaho State University language arts education
class.
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A Passion for Translation
by Miriam Hill Nunatsiaq
News-July 20, 2001
KANGIRSUK — Martha Kauki says she sometimes gets so wrapped up in her job, she doesn’t
realize what she’s doing.
"If the speaker puts up his hand," she says, gesturing in her Kangirsuk kitchen, "I put up my hand.
If he bangs the table, I bang the table. If he starts bawling, I’ll start bawling."
Kauki, 48, is a self-employed interpreter-translator and has a real passion for her work, even though she finds
simultaneous interpreting the most difficult.
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The Summer Comes Alive for Junior Rangers
by Miriam Hill Nunatsiaq
News-July 13, 2001
KANGIRSUK - Sunday begins no differently than any other day at the 10-day Junior Canadian
Rangers training camp in Nunavik.
About three kilometres from Kangirsuk at the edge of Ungava Bay, sleepy heads roll off pillows at about 6 a.m.
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A 'Positive Place for Kids'
by Sasheen Hollow Horn The
Navajo Times-July 12, 2001
WINDOW ROCK - "The positive place for kids" is on its way.
The Boys & Girls Club of the Navajo Nation will be hosting a grand-opening ceremony at the Nageezi Multi-purpose
facility today for the second of 11 new centers planned to be completed by 2002.
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Breaking More than Basketball Stereotypes
by C. Jemal Horton Indy
Star-July 17, 2001
In a matter of years, she has become the anti-stereotype. And not just because she's
a great girls high school basketball player and an American Indian.
Believe it or not, Kayla Lambert will tell you, there have been plenty of good female ballplayers on the Fort Peck
(Mont.) Indian Reservation, where she lives.
Lambert merely is the only one to make it to the Nike girls basketball camp at Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis.
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Tribe Salutes 'Rising Star'
by Larry Di Giovanni Gallup
Independent Staff Writer-July 18, 2001
WINDOW ROCK — Folks who are as proud of U.S. Army Maj. Tracey Clyde as his own family
are Navajo Nation Council delegates. They spent about a half-hour during Tuesday's council session congratulating
Clyde and saluting his military accomplishments.
"He (Tracey) is only three ranks away from becoming a general in the U.S. Army," said proud brother Victor
Clyde, a tribal prosecutor from Chinle. About a dozen of Tracey Clyde's family members came to tribal Council Chambers
to see the council pass a resolution praising his promotions.
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Pamunkey Tribe Invited to Tell its Story
by Lawrence Latane III-Richmond
Times Dispatch-July 19, 2001
KING WILLIAM - Virginia's Pamunkey Indian Tribe will introduce itself to the world
in 2004 when the National Museum of the American Indian opens in Washington on the National Mall.
The tribe is among nine from the United States, Canada and South America invited to tell their stories in special
exhibits highlighting contemporary Indian culture.
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Colorful Festivity Draws Huge Crowd
By Jennifer Perez Great
Falls Tribune Staff Writer-July 15, 2001
BROWNING, MT -- This year's North American Indian Days is the largest ever in its 50
year history.
The celebration, which brings thousands of people together to share in the song and dance of the powwow, the drama
of the rodeo and the fun of the parade, will wrap up late tonight as the powwow winds down.
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Tulalips Home Again
by Theresa Goffredo Everett
Herald Writer- July 19, 2001
TULALIP -- Growing up in New Mexico, Dana Krsnadas often found herself trying to explain
to friends and others about her Tulalip background. But people didn't really seem to get it. They'd mispronounce
Tulalip. And they didn't know about the traditions, the treaties, the family histories.
For the most part, neither did she.
"I was one of those people without an identity," Krsnadas said.
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San Manuel Leader Balances Family, Duty,
Commute, School
by Darrell R. Santschi-The
Inland Empire Online-July 16, 2001
San Manuel Reservation - Even as Deron Marquez led visitors through a maze of stairs
and hallways en route to his second-floor office, he warned that there would be interruptions.
He told his secretary to hold his calls, but before she could return to her desk and Marquez could ease into his
brown leather chair, the phone was ringing.
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Culture Camp
Youth, parents explore traditional
activities at symposium
by Nathan J. Tohtsoni -The Navajo Times-July 5, 2001
LAKE ASAAYI, N.M. - Like a proud grandfather sharing knowledge gained over a lifetime,
Mike Mitchell of Tsaile, Ariz., forged a path in the woods as about 50 adults and children followed him.
He pointed out the significance in Navajo culture of the many shrubs and herbs found along the base of the Chuska
Mountains.
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Getting American Indian Culture into the
Classroom
by Tony Spilde Bismark Tribune-July
14, 2001
Bismark, ND - Fifty teachers from across the Dakotas gathered in Bismarck this week
to learn how to better teach American Indian students.
For five days, United Tribes Technical College hosted the third annual Summer Teacher Institute. Coordinators of
the program sought to inspire educators to teach students about Indian culture.
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Baskets Past, Present
by Pat Murkland The
Inland Empire Online-July 15, 2001
Early tribal people living in Inland valleys and mountains believed that before the
Moon Maiden went up into the sky, she gave them a gift: She taught them how to weave baskets.
Baskets helped keep Indian cultures and traditions woven together for centuries. All began unraveling in the 1800s
when settlers arrived and began overtaking Southern California lands.
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Justices Visit Tribal Court
by Jim Camden Spokesman-Review
Staff Writer-July 19, 2001
WELLPINIT, Wash. _ Two of the nation's most powerful judges Wednesday stepped out of
the world of black robes and formal procedures and into the world of Strong Heart Court, Talking Circles and eagle
feathers.
U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer made a historic visit to the Spokane Indian
Reservation for a look at innovative tribal courts.
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Which is Really the Real Thing??
We all know that water is important, but, did you know this?????
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Book Review: The Hollyhocks Trail
Editor's Note: Summertime is reading time. I recently had the pleasure of reading three books
by Dr. Bruce Stapleton. In the next few issues, I will share a review with you. The second, is The Hollyhocks Trail.
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