Canku Ota
(Many Paths)
An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
May 3, 2003 - Issue 86
Opportunities - Page Four
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PALASKA NATIVE HERITAGE CENTER WILL CELEBRATE OPENING DAY FOR SUMMER SEASON ON MOTHER'S DAY |
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(Anchorage, AK) - The Alaska Native Heritage Center (ANHC) will celebrate its Opening Day for the summer season on Mother's Day, May 11, 2003. To recognize the support the local community has given the Center and to celebrate Mother's Day, ANHC has dropped admission rates. Mothers will be admitted free and everyone else pays only $1. Opening Day at ANHC also marks the beginning of the summer season with its new hours, 9am to 6pm daily. The theme for summer 2003 will be, "Explore the Past, Experience the People". "We have experienced overwhelming support from the local community for our winter programs. We want to take this opportunity to thank the community by opening our doors for a day of celebration", stated Lonnie Jackson, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. "Our fifth year of summer programming will offer activities and programs for Alaskans and for visitors from around the world". Opening Day will feature many activities for families, including Native dance lessons, storytelling and dance performances by the ANHC Dance Group. There will be musical entertainment by the Artie Joseph Fiddlers and flute player Doug Yates. ANHC cultural hosts will be presenting information on all the Alaska Native cultures. In addition, there will be village site tours and demonstrations of Native games. The Alaska Native Heritage Center Dance Group includes young Native adults trained at the Center, who work to encourage other youth to participate in Native Cultures. They performed at Governor Murkowski's Inaugural Ball and recently finished a tour of the East Coast. The dancers, dressed in traditional regalia, will perform dances that tell the stories of Native legends and lifestyles. The Artie Joseph Fiddlers are from Anchorage and their members include Artie Joseph, Louise Britton and David Chanar. The Athabascans of Interior Alaska learned fiddle music and step dancing from early traders and quickly made it their own. Distinctive styles developed along the great waterways that cut through the vast Interior landscape. Fiddle dances have become popular with other Alaska Native cultures and are an endearing tradition that Athabascan fiddlers continue to share. Doug Yates, Tsimpshian and Haida, is a wood flute player from Metlakatla and Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. Yates is from the Killer Whale clan, a culture bearer and motivational speaker. He is active in promoting Native culture and speaks to young people about prevention of suicide and the effects of drug and alcohol abuse. Arts and Crafts sessions will be available throughout the day for all ages. Instructions include how to make: Athabascan Mini-Shelters and Medicine Pillows, Yup'ik/Cup'ik Ladies Tool Bags and Masks, Inupiaq/St. Lawrence Island Yupik Bullroarers and Fur Bracelets, Aleut/Alutiiq Paper Baskets and Rattles and Southeast Tattoos/Face Paint and Stone Necklaces. Several videos will be shown such as Potlatch, Just Dancing, Siberia Through Siberian Eyes, Nourished By Our Food, Sustained By Our Traditions, Bending Traditions and Bishuta: Contemporary Seal Hunt. The 2003 theme, "Explore the Past, Experience the People", is a culmination of ANHC's themes from the first four years of operation. Past themes include Native traditional housing, clothing, watercraft and health and wellness. Each month, there will be a focus on one past theme, but programming will include activities and demonstrations from all themes. ANHC Memberships will be discounted during the month of May. New and renewing members can purchase annual memberships at 10% off the regular price. Members receive benefits including free admission to ANHC, discounts on non-consignment items at ANHC Heritage Gifts, discounts on classes and free guest passes. Memberships will be available on Opening Day or by calling 330-8000. More information about the various types of membership can be found at www.alaskanative.net/20.asp. Visitors can experience the five recreated village sites that illustrate the traditional structures in a typical village before or shortly after contact with non-Native cultures. Knowledgeable tour guides will share the history, culture and traditions of each site. The Alaska Native Heritage Center is an independent, nonprofit that is open year-round as a gathering place to celebrate, perpetuate and share Alaska Native cultures; it is a place for all people. It is located at 8800 Heritage Center Drive in northeast Anchorage, just off Muldoon Road North near Bartlett High School. For more information about other events and programs, visit www.alaskanative.net
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Return Of the Drums Community Pow Wow & Festival |
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M'Wikwedong
Native Cultural Resource Centre Tickets available in advance:
Note: Watch for new programming additions on our website!!
* Intertribals- All visitors are invited to join in the dances. NB: NEW: In addition to Dancer Honorarium- Draw for $1,000; $500; $250 will be held on Sunday. Dancers must be registered and dance for both Saturday and Sunday. |
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An Opportuniy |
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Many of you know me as the Rant Writer. But when I'm not out saving the world from the evil ways of stupid politicians, I am a Contracts Administrator for a Fortune 500 Company. Actually, for one of the top 5 Engineering Firms in the world and I need your help. Currently, the client I work for is expanding their facilities. I have been placed in charge of the Construction Contracts for all of their facilities ... 29 to be exact all over the US. I find the companies we need, I qualify them, I send them the bid packages and if they bid right, I'll write the contract that guarantees payment. In that capacity, I have a lot of power to qualify and select what companies do business with us and which ones don't. I've taken advantage of this position to expand the diversity of our Contractors to include a larger number of Minority, Female, Veteran, and Disabled Owned companies. Believe it or not, finding many of these companies, isn't as easy as a click of the mouse like so many things are today. I see this as an opportunity to showcase and make public Native American Companies that might not otherwise have that opportunity. Advertising is not cheap as many of you know, but here, it's free and it is guaranteed to get you noticed. Sure, I could go to the Chamber of Commerce, or other resources, but this reaches so many more and people go to those sites to look specifically for something. I need Contractor companies of all kinds.
The more of you that contact me, the larger I can make this list and perhaps use it as a resource for my parent company for the future. Many of the companies I seek work for the Government, but now is an opportunity to work for a Top 100 company. Send out the word. Get me the information I need and I'll contact you as soon as I can. Don't hesitate to call me or contact me with any questions at all. Thank you in advance for your assistance and I look forward to hearing from you. Primarily, I need Contractors that can work in:
Jamie
Lockard "There
are many things to be shared with the Four Colors of humanity in our common
destiny as one with our Mother the Earth. It is this sharing that must
be considered with great care by the Elders and the medicine people who
carry the Sacred Trusts, so that no harm may come to people through ignorance
and misuse of these powerful forces." |
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ACTION
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The
U.S. Department of Education has issued a draft plan for a "New ERIC"
system. Unless this plan is modified all 16 Clearinghouses and their services--including
the ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools which serves
American Indians and Alaska Natives--will be eliminated. There
also will be a dramatic change in the content of the ERIC database. The public has an opportunity to comment until May 9, 2003. The plan for the "New ERIC" makes the following changes:
There is still time to change it! If the proposed changes do not reflect your vision of ERIC, ask Secretary Paige and your legislators to change their plan to include all 16 ERIC Clearinghouses with their information services and user-friendly products and Web sites; and to continue comprehensive coverage of the education literature. Please make your views known by May 9 to:
Secretary of Education Rod Paige
Your
State's Senators:
Your Congressional
Representative: For additional up-to-date information on ERIC, please visit:
ERIC
Reauthorization News PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ALONG TO OTHERS WHO WILL MISS THE ERIC CLEARINGHOUSES! |
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