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An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America |
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January 1, 2009 - Volume 7 Number 1 |
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"Yá'át'ééh Bina" |
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The Navajo Greeting |
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Good Morning! |
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"PAAMUYA " |
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Joyful Moon |
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Hopi |
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"A Warrior is
challenged to assume responsibility, practice humility, and display the
power of giving, and then center his or her life around a core of spirituality.
I challenge today's youth to live like a warrior." |
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Salute Wizipan Garriott, 28, has been appointed First Americans Public Liaison, a newly created position in President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team. The position is aimed at honoring a nation-to-nation relationship with tribes. |
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Our Featured Artist: |
Honoring Students |
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Modern
Master Canyon de Chelly watercolor artist Justin Tso was 5 years old and out herding sheep with his grandpa back in 1953 when he first became inspired to draw and paint. |
High School Food Drive Helps Hopi Elders The Hopi High School National Honor Society delivered 140 turkeys and hams along with food boxes to the elderly to make sure they have something to eat during the holiday season. |
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Our Featured Story: |
Northwestern Wisconsin First Person History: |
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Barrow dance group will perform for Obama The Suurimmanitchuat Eskimo Dance Group, led today by elder Warren Matumeak, would be heading to Washington, D.C., to perform in the Jan. 20 Inaugural Parade following President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony. |
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Education News |
Education News |
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Law
School Honors First Native American Regent
The first Native American appointed to the Arizona Board of Regents said she’s honored to serve on the board, but it comes with a great challenge. “It’s being a part of history, but it’s also a great responsibility to represent not only Native Americans but also rural Arizona,” said LuAnn Leonard, a member of the Hopi Tribe. |
History Luncheon Highlights Jim Thorpe Jim Thorpe has been called “The Greatest Athlete of All-Time” and football’s “first star.” During the 1912 summer Olympics in Sweden, Thorpe became the first and only athlete in history to win both the pentathlon and decathlon. Besides being an unmatched athlete Thorpe, as an American Indian, helped break some race barriers. |
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Education News |
Education News |
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Native Colleges: America's Best Kept Secret Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), stumbled across a great disparity while seeking appropriations for the Native American colleges. |
Native American Booklist To mark the 13th anniversary of Native American Heritage Month (November), NEA has released a recommended reading list that includes titles ranging from such pre-K classics as Mama, Do You Love Me to Tony Hillerman's Joe Leaphorn Series that has been thrilling young (and older) adults for more than a decade. |
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Preserving Language |
Honoring Students |
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Teaching Indian Languages Preserves Heritage, Too This classroom at first sounds like any other, as fourth- and fifth- graders belt out the Pledge of Allegiance. But then they slip seamlessly into Lushootseed, one of Washington state's native languages. |
Schools are Keeping the Ojibwe Language Alive It's working. In Minnesota schools, enrollment in Ojibwe classes more than tripled from 2001 to 2007 — from 309 students to 1,150. And the benefits go beyond keeping the language alive. |
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Living Traditions |
Education News |
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Zuni Pueblo Helps Rare New Mexico Fish A fish once found throughout the Zuni River watershed has been reduced to three small populations in a couple of remote canyons that slice through western New Mexico, so biologists and conservationists have teamed up to keep the fish from disappearing. |
The UPS Foundation Makes a Special Delivery Of $128,000 to American Indian College Fund The UPS Foundation awarded the American Indian College Fund (the Fund) $128,000 for scholarships benefiting American Indian students for 2008-09 academic year scholarships. |
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Living Traditions |
Living Traditions |
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Dakota 38 riders Gallop Through Flandreau Jim Miller, a 60–year–old Vietnam veteran, Lakota Spiritual Leader and a descendant of the Dakota Sioux Tribe, said he dreamt of himself on a horse, traveling east. He was accompanied by a number of other riders, though he didn’t know where he was going or why. |
Hopi Monies Give New Life to Village Water Source In one of the most practically applied use of tribal monies for a utilitarian project that honors water, the most essential natural resource for everyone, the Village of Hotevilla on Third Mesa has just completed the first phase of a natural village spring restoration project. |
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Smithsonian Museum Features Nisqually Salmon Recovery Effort Below the 45-foot model of a right whale named Phoenix, behind the case holding a rare giant squid and not far from the remains of a prehistoric coelacanth caught off Africa, is an exhibit highlighting Pacific Northwest salmon and the efforts of the Nisqually Tribe to restore a wild run. |
Isleta Church Shows Beauty of its 300 Years When you first walk through the doors of the historic Saint Augustine Catholic Church in Isleta, your eyes automatically follow the light. That light comes from a single window shining brightly on the crucifix hanging above the altar. |
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Cherokee Rocket Scientist Leaves NMAI A Gift When she was 96 years old, Mary Golda Ross asked her niece to make her something very special: the first traditional Cherokee dress that Ross, the great-great-granddaughter of renowned Chief John Ross, would ever own. |
Standing Rock Among Tribes in Obama's Inaugural Parade As the inaugural parade nears, tribal representatives in five states -- North Dakota, Montana, Wisconsin, Alaska and Idaho -- are preparing for the coming presidential inauguration. | |
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Book Sheds Light on North Shore Legend John Beargrease Many people know the quick version of the John Beargrease story: The son of an Ojibwe chief who grew up on the rugged North Shore in the 1850s, he started delivering mail by boat, dogsled and foot — and didn’t let up for two decades |
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Reservations Spud Jones just goes. Always has. In high school, when he broke his leg riding a bronc? He tried healing for three months and then cut the cast off himself. Couldn't stay off horses and bulls. | |
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About This Issue's Greeting - "Yá'át'ééh Bina" |
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Navajo is an American Indian language spoken by between one hundred twenty and one hundred forty thousand people in the Southwestern United States. Navajo is a member of the Athabaskan family of the Na-Dené group of languages. It is considered to be closely related to Apache. |
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Opportunities |
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"OPPORTUNITIES" is gathered
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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| Canku Ota is a free Newsletter celebrating Native America, its traditions and accomplishments . We do not provide subscriber or visitor names to anyone. Some articles presented in Canku Ota may contain copyright material. We have received appropriate permissions for republishing any articles. Material appearing here is distributed without profit or monetary gain to those who have expressed an interest. This is in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107. | ||
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