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Canku
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(Many
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An Online
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July
1, 2009 - Volume 7 Number 7
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"Tau
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The Arawak
Greeting
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"Hello
and Good Day!"
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"Wasasa"
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Red
Berries Moon
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Assiniboine
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"All I try
to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination
and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one
idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray
everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives
of Indians, perhaps people learn something new."
~Sherman Alexie~ |
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Salute Taneesha Watson had to cancel our first interview - she had forgotten to bring her awards to school with her, and couldn't remember all of them. Anyone who attended Chinle High School's awards banquet could forgive her. Watson claimed so many honors she wore out a path between her seat and the stage. |
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Our Featured Artist: |
Honoring Students |
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Apache Skateboards: douglas miles Apache Skateboards — the first Native-owned skateboard company — is championing these new concrete warriors, translating an ancient heritage onto the silk-screened deck of a skateboard. |
A unique honor
Dr. Kishan Lara, a Hoopa Tribe member and of Yurok and Karuk descent, is the first of her tribes to earn a doctorate in education. It is also likely she is the first Humboldt County native to receive her degree from the hands of President Barack Obama. |
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Our Featured Story: |
Northwestern Wisconsin First Person History: |
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Native Americans descended from a single ancestral group For two decades, researchers have been using a growing volume of genetic data to debate whether ancestors of Native Americans emigrated to the New World in one wave or successive waves, or from one ancestral Asian population or a number of different populations. |
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Education News |
Education News |
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magic of the rez Danielle Tolth's summers used to be pretty lazy, and that was how she liked them. "I didn't do much of anything," said the 13-year-old from Fort Wingate, N.M. "I just stayed home." That all changed this year.
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UMN-Gallup’s Long 1st Dual-Honor Graduate Gallup resident William Long, 18, got the night's biggest reception during the University of New Mexico-Gallup commencement ceremonies May 14 in the Red Rock Park amphitheater. "It felt amazing," Long said. |
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Art News |
Art News |
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comanche artist completes tepee Art is as much a part of Quanah Parker Burgess' life as the Comanche blood that fills his veins. "I've been an artist all my life," Burgess, 33, said; his eyes never looking away from the straight line of acrylic paint gliding from paintbrush to canvas. "I'm always going to do it," he said. "I enjoy it." |
'sheep is life' at navajo prep The soft hum of a treadle spinning wheel set the soundtrack Tuesday at the annual "Sheep is Life" celebration at Navajo Preparatory School. Feet firmly planted on the pedals of the spinning wheel, Sarah Natani let the silky strands of cashmere wool slip through her fingers while she joked with a small group of women. |
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Living Traditions |
Living Traditions |
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cherokees' relationship with water always special Summer is officially here for the kids in Cherokee. The Oconaluftee River, which runs through downtown Cherokee, has been one way to celebrate the summer break. For my boy, there isn’t much better than a cool dip in the river. The kids in Cherokee are enjoying the oldest of Cherokee traditions. |
tribes welcome back first salmon
Nearly 50 people crowded along the bank of Omak Creek at sunrise Friday, a rock in each hand — clack-clack-clack — and called the salmon back. They sang and tapped the rocks together in unison, first standing, then squatting at the water's edge to tap them under water, splash-splash-splash, clack-clack-clack.
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Preserving Language |
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a family deal Gary Clark and his wife Ann Clark had big plans for retirement nearly five years ago. They wanted to use the money they saved to travel the country. But in the blink of an eye, their grandson, Justin Lane Yazzie, changed all their plans. "He saw those kids, riding those horses out there," Gary Clark said. "So we bought him a horse, an old mare." |
Master Hatter to Offer New Line Nate Funmaker is a master hatter noted for his high – quality hats, each handmade, designed and constructed with a particular buyer in mind. His business is Nathaniel’s Hat Shop. It’s a passion with him, something he’s devoted the past 16 years doing. He loves making hats, but realizes there is a limit to what he can do and what he can earn. “Everything I sell now, I have to touch. That’s fine, I don’t mind, but I’ll always just make wages doing that.” |
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Living Traditions |
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lakotA ledger art selected FOR powwow poster A work of contemporary ledger art has been selected to represent the 40th Annual United Tribes International Powwow. “We Protect our Families” is a work by artist Tom Haukaas, Rosebud Lakota. “We Protect our Families” depicts two armed warriors fleeing on horseback after rescuing a third companion. One warrior balances himself on his surging mount to fire his rifle at a threat behind. |
spring shad ritual, every year a ritual renewed Tribes’
ancestors relied on yearly spawning to satisfy winter’s hunger.
They return each spring, an ancient migration that slips upriver like a silvery plume of mercury. Once, the annual shad run meant full bellies after the lean of winter. | |
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About
This Issue's Greeting - "Tau
ah Taiguey"
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Before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, most of the Caribbean was peopled by three types, or groups, of inhabitants: the Ciboney or Guanahuatebey, the Taino or Arawak, and the Caribs. The cultural distinctions among the three groups are not great; the single greatest differentiating factor appears to be their respective dates of arrival in the region. The Ciboney seem to have arrived first and were found in parts of Cuba and the Bahamas. They also seem to have had the most elementary forms of social organization. The most numerous groups were the Arawaks, who resided in most of the Greater Antilles--Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (presently, Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico. The smaller eastern island chain was the home of the Caribs, a tropical forest group related to most of the indigenous Indians found in Central and South America. Barbados and a number of smaller islands were not permanently inhabited. The pre-European populations
of the territories that later formed the Commonwealth Caribbean belonged
to the groups designated as Caribs and Arawaks. Both were tropical forest
people, who probably originated in the vast expanse of forests of the
northern regions of South America and were related linguistically and
ethnically to such present-day tropical forest peoples as the Chibcha,
the Warao, the Yanomamo, the Caracas, the CaquetÌo, or the Jirajara--in
short, the peoples found anywhere from Panama to Brazil.
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Nature's
Beauty: Brown Pelican
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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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Celebrating Native America" web site and its design is the
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