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Why
Rethink Columbus?
"Why rethink Columbus? Because the Columbus
myth is basic to children's beliefs about society. For many youngsters,
the tale of Columbus introduces them to a history of this country, even
to history itself. The 'discovery of America' is children's first curricular
exposure to the encounter between two cultures and two races. As such,
the study of Columbus is really a study about us -- how we think about
each other, our country, and our relations with people all over the
world.
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Speaker
Shares Life Story with Students
by John Booth Warren
Tribune Chronicle
LORDSTOWN-OH - When Don Bartlette was born,
his mother later told him, a doctor took one look at the Native American
boy's severe cleft palate and facial deformity and whispered to the
woman, ''You must not let him live.''
For the fourth time, Bartlette, 61, shared his story about a childhood
of abuse, neglect and poverty with students at Lordstown High School.
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Center
Allows Children, Elders of the Oneida Nation to Meet, Learn, Share
by Glenn Coin Post-Standard
At one end of the building, Sarah Stout swirls
the dark mauve paint on her canvas during an art class for senior citizens.
At the other end, dozens of pre-school children ride scooters and read
books and even learn simple math skills by stacking up blocks.
It's a typical day at the Ray Elm Children and Elders Center, built
by the Oneida Indian Nation.
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Bringing
it all Together
by Max Nichols Special
Correspondent-News OK
When Enoch Kelly Haney was about 5 or 6 years
old in Seminole, he made a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln out of the red
clay and gravel on the road in front of his house.
"I must have heard something about him," said Haney, a longtime
state senator with decades of experience in sculpture and painting.
"I must have said to myself: 'I can make this.' I learned about
art from my grandmother, Winey Haney, who often worked with arts and
crafts, and my grandfather, Willie Haney, a 1940s Seminole chief who
made animals out of dried cornstalks."
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Powwow
Promotes Cultures and Tolerance
by Cindy Gonzalez Omaha
World-Herald
Howard Wolf, an elder in the Omaha tribe,
sat near his family's tepee at an intertribal powwow Saturday and reflected
on the event's start 10 years ago.
Two drums, some 20 dancers and a smattering of exhibition booths greeted
visitors then.
Saturday's cultural display was on a much grander scale: more than 100
dancers, eight pulsating drums, dozens of booths, hundreds of new faces.
"We had sort of pitiful beginnings," said Wolf, 76, who was
on the original planning committee.
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Inland Pupils Meet, Learn from Indians
by Darrell R. Santschi The
Press Enterprise
AN BERNARDINO - A field trip Friday to Cal
State San Bernardino was an awakening for 25 third-graders from Mariposa
Elementary School in Ontario.
"They were very surprised to learn that Indians really exist,"
said Gloria Rennison, a fourth-grade teacher who chaperoned them. "They
expected to see Indians the way they used to see them before; the way
they see them in pictures."
What they saw were Indians from tribes throughout the Inland Empire
in T-shirts, business clothes and sports shirts, some of them with cell
phones and pagers and all of them talking about their history, culture
and customs.
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Old
Songs of the Hopi Kept Alive
by Judy Nichols The
Arizona Republic
The sounds sift into the recesses of Leland
Dennis' brain, searching for a foothold of recognition.
It is there, somewhere. If only he can concentrate hard enough.
Then it comes to him.
It's a Hopi lullaby his grandmother used to sing, a story about the
hohoyo'u, or stink bug, how it helped its brother stink bug, carrying
it around on its back.
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First
American Indian Rides to Orbit in August
by Steven Siceloff Florida Today
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - John Herrington will
become the first American Indian in space when shuttle Endeavour begins
a mission in August.
An eagle feather will ride with him representing the first Americans,
the New World natives from whom he descended. "It represents strength,
it's an amazing symbol," Herrington said from Johnson Space Center,
where he and his new crewmates have begun training for the space station
construction mission.
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Teens
Form Lifesaving Squad with Life-Changing Effects
by Danielle Wolffe The Tundra
Drums
Aniak -- Last month three teenage girls hopped
out of their fire truck and extinguished a blazing smokehouse fire before
any adult volunteers arrived on the scene.
The experience was fun, but not exceptional. The girls are members of
the Dragon Slayers, a team of 13- to 20-year-old female firefighters
and paramedics who function as part of the Aniak Volunteer Fire Department.
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HHS
Awards Native American Elders Caregiver Grants
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced
today the award of nearly $5 million in grants to 119 tribal organizations
to implement the new Native American Caregiver Support Program.
"This new program will make real and lasting differences improving
the quality of life for some of America’s most vulnerable citizens,
our Native American elders and their caregivers," said Secretary
Thompson.
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The
Institute of American Indian Arts
"SANTA FE: The Institute of American
Indian Arts expects to award its first bachelor's degree this spring
after less than a year of four-year accreditation."
The Native Eyes Project will implement new approaches to college teaching
in the Humanities and Social Sciences, incorporating social, cultural
and intellectual contributions of Native Americans. The teaching materials
will be innovative in both content and format. While the new four year
major entitled "Native American Perspectives on Knowledge and Culture"
will pay special attention to needs and interests of the broader Native
American community, it will also have a major outreach to people of
all races and cultures. In other words, the initiative aims to expand
the academic scope, as well as the range of teaching methodologies,
in both American Indian Studies and mainstream Humanities programs.
It is hoped that the full major will soon be available for study by
distance students online, utilizing interactive learning techniques
developed especially for the program.
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Charter
School Opens on Reservation
by Michael Buchanan Staff Writer North
County Times
RINCON INDIAN RESERVATION ---- Justin Blackowl
sat with his classmates inside a dark room Wednesday at the new All
Tribes American Indian Charter School. The classroom was dark because
the school had no electricity.
School officials had hoped to have electricity by later that day, but
at the end of the school week they were waiting for the power to be
installed. But the lack of lights has not stopped Blackowl and his classmates
from learning, the students said.
Organizers set up the school with a limited budget. The campus on Valley
Center Road consists of five trailers on a 4-acre parcel that the school
leases from a private owner.
Blackowl is one of roughly 22 students enrolled at the campus, which
opened on the Rincon reservation on Sept. 10. The school is open to
all students but is designed to help curb drop-out rates among American
Indians.
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Healing
Teachings From a Tepee
by Peter Johnson Great
Falls Tribune
Great Falls, MT - Indian Education Coordinator
Billie Maddox's teachings for a tepee erected at Sacajawea Elementary
spoke of respect for people of different cultures.
Maddox and Sacajawea Principal Susan Ballantyne later said they were
good lessons for children and adults in the aftermath of the Sept. 11
suicide bombings that threatened to turn Americans of different cultural
and religious backgrounds against each other.
"That terrorism was tragic, but it's
sad to see animosity between Americans," Maddox said.
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White
Bison Conference Opens with Prayer For Tragedy
by Richard Simonelli
Over 450 participants came to the Strengthening
Our Families Conference in Rapid City, South Dakota despite uncertain
flight schedules and national grief.
Old friends working in Native American community healing, and people
who would be new friends by the end of the conference, carried glad
expectations for the three days of workshops, learning experiences,
teaching circles, ceremonies and feasting to come. But like the rest
of America, and the world, they also carried a heaviness in their hearts
over the American tragedy.
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Heritage
Celebrated
by Ryan Reynolds-Evansville
Courier and Press
Consider Rick Lampson a nature-loving kind
of guy.
When he’s away from his Vine Grove, Ky., home for work, he’s putting
in eight hours a day as a ranger for the National Parks Service.
The free time — the moments he cherishes most — are spent expressing
his affection for the outdoors as part of his Native American heritage.
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Students
Celebrate Heritage
by Susan Olp of the Billings
Gazette Staff
Girls in elk-tooth dresses and boys in full
headdress perched on cars and trucks during a parade in Pryor on Friday
to celebrate Native American Week.
The parade capped the week designated by the Montana Legislature as
a time to appreciate the state’s Native American culture.
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Cheyenne-Eagle
Butte girls win Lakota Nation Invitational
by Laura M. Dellinger /
Today Correspondent / Indian Country Today
RAPID CITY, S.D. – The partisan crowd didn’t
fill the arena at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, but their cheers
did as the 19th annual Lakota Nation Invitational Girls Basketball tournament
narrowed to four teams on its last day.
The championship saw the Cheyenne-Eagle Butte Lady Braves defeat the
Red Cloud Lady Crusaders, 67-40, while the Crow Creek team took third
place beating McLaughlin in the consolation game, 67-61.
This tournament saw four days of spirited competition between 16 teams
from high schools – Pine Ridge, Red Cloud, Crow Creek, Lower Brule,
Cheyenne-Eagle Butte, Todd County, and Little Wound, Tiospa Zina, Takini,
Douglas, Marty, Crazy Horse, St. Francis, Standing Rock, McLaughlin
and Custer.
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Hunter
Says Elders' Wisdom Kept Him Alive
by CBC
North-September 27, 2001
Cambridge Bay, Nunavut - A Cambridge Bay hunter
credits the inspiration of elders for helping keep him alive for four
days on the tundra.
James Panioyak was lost about 130 kilometres northeast of the community.
He says he managed to survive by using traditional knowledge and his
hunter's instinct.
Panioyak says he knew the area where he was hunting last Friday. After
catching three caribou, he headed back to camp.
While driving, he was surprised by two large muskox. He swerved on his
all-terrain vehicle to avoid hitting them, and was thrown off. The accident
left him shaken up and disoriented.
Panioyak didn't have a global positioning system, and started heading
in the wrong direction.
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Native
America's Journal Wins 9 Media Awards for Journalism Excellence
ITHACA, N.Y. - Building upon success, Native
Americas Journal, the hemispheric publication of Akwe:kon Press at Cornell
University's American Indian Program, won nine national journalism awards
at the 17th Annual Native American Journalist Association convention.
Held in Buffalo, New York, in June, Native Americas received top honors
for its insight into the realities of the indigenous world.
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Store
Starts Program to Help Protect Children
by Shana Hawk Shawnee
News Star
Shawnee, OK - Firelake Discount Foods has
implemented a program to help protect children who wander away from
busily-shopping parents.
The grocery store on South Gordon Cooper Drive, owned by the Citizen
Potawatomi Nation, is believed to be the first Native American enterprise,
and the only business in the Shawnee area, to adopt the Code Adam Alert
program designed to help recover missing children in retail stores.
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Red
Woman with Backward Eyes and Other Stories
In her new book, Red Woman With Backward Eyes
and Other Stories, Cherokee author MariJo Moore has successfully woven
the metaphors of traditional storytelling with the harsh sometimes grim
realities of present day Indian society. Her finely crafted, double
weave writing has as its strength multidimensional characters with hopeful
yet pragmatic understandings of the challenges facing today's Indigenous
peoples.
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