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Canku
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(Many
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An
Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
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October
1, 2009 - Volume 7 Number 10
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"Manahoo "
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Paiute
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Welcome
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"Cawapekasna
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Moon when the
wind shakes off the leaves
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Lakota
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"Children were encouraged
to develop strict discipline and a high regard for sharing. |
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Our Featured Artist: |
Honoring Students |
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Taku
Wadaka He? Author:
Joanne Zacharias This Native American children's book is written in the Dakota language and in the English language. |
Students Learn At Powwow The skies were gray but the spirits were bright of the estimated 500 Topeka-area third-graders who gathered Friday morning for the 17th annual Native American Education Day, part of the Shawnee County Allied Tribes Inc. Pow Wow at Lake Shawnee. |
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Our Featured Story: |
Northwestern Wisconsin First Person History: |
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11th Annual Native American Music Awards Nominees Announced Nominations for the 11th Annual Native American Music Awards were recently announced by the Native American Music Association. |
The
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Education News |
Education News |
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Harvard
University to Offer Groundbreaking Doctoral Program for Education Leaders
Harvard University today announced the launch of a new, practice-based doctoral program to prepare graduates for senior leadership roles in school districts, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector. |
NIEA Releases 2009 Honor List The National Indian Education Association will be honoring eight Native individuals and one school who have had a large impact on the world of education during their 40th annual convention to be held in Milwaukee, Wisc., Oct. 22-25. Since 1977, the membership association has honored Native leaders who have changed and improved the lives of their schoolchildren and affected dialog concerning Native education issues, both locally and nationally. |
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Education News |
Education News |
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University of Wisconsin-Superior will be hosting its 11th Annual American Indian Art Scholarship Exhibit The University of Wisconsin-Superior will be hosting its 11th Annual American Indian Art Scholarship Exhibit during the month of April 2010. This is a collaborative show that includes artwork from professional American Indian artists and high school student artists. |
Dream Comes To Life For Tribe: New School Officially Opens Since 1985, the Muckleshoot Tribal School has met in the tribe's community center, far from the best place for it be. But with the grand opening this week of the new Muckleshoot Tribal School, kids have their own place with plenty of elbow room and all the modern trimmings. |
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Honoring Students |
Honoring Innovation |
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Seattle Youth Honor Local Native Heritage Rainier Valley Youth Theatre (RVYT) recently wrapped its SummerSTAGE 2009 season with the Northwest premiere of Pieces of Us: How the Lost Find Home. Written by American playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr. (Assiniboine), the all-teen cast explored modern-day issues of Native identity and mixed heritage through the eyes of Adam, a fictional member of the Coast Salish Tribe who sets out on a voyage to reclaim his heritage. |
Southern Utes' Innovation Fuels Colorado's New Energy Economy The
union of traditional long-term planning and a contemporary race to the
future joined July 29 with the dedication of a biofuels plant on the Southern
Ute Indian Reservation.
Southern Ute tribal lands are flanked on the east by Chimney Rock, a centuries-old ceremonial site, and on the west by the famed cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park. |
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Living Traditions |
Education News |
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Tribal Honey Takes Blue Ribbon Honey produced and bottled by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community recently won a blue ribbon at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair. The blue ribbon was awarded in the light amber novice class. SMSC Honey also came in fourth in the white honey novice class. This was the first time SMSC Honey was entered in the State Fair. The honey was judged on its container (appearance and cleanliness), its color (conformity to schedule), the volume (accuracy and uniformity of the fill of the container), absence of impurities, percentage of moisture, clarity (absence of crystals and bubbles), and flavor (absence of off-aroma or flavor). |
Salazar Launches Partnership with All-American Rhodes Scholar Myron Rolle for Innovative Health Program at Indian Schools Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today was joined by college football All-American and Rhodes Scholar Myron Rolle to announce a new partnership that will introduce an innovative physical fitness and health program into Interior-funded American Indian schools. "Our objective in this initiative is to inspire American Indian and Native Alaskan students to live healthier lifestyles through exercise, outdoor activity, and proper nutrition," |
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Living Traditions |
Living Traditions |
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New Web Site Aims To Set Record Straight On Flathead Indian Reservation The call, from a University of Montana student, Rob McDonald remembers, came out of the blue. Marli Harmon was writing a paper for a class on tribal government. She'd found the phone number for McDonald, spokesman for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, on the CSKT Web site and dialed it. While the non-tribal member obviously didn't know much about how Indian tribes operate, McDonald says from his office here on the Flathead Indian Reservation, "she asked a ton of questions, insightful questions." |
Eagle Bodies, Parts For Indian Rites Are Collected, Sent From Colorado Morgue For
some Americans, practicing their religion requires a federal permit and
a long wait for a controlled substance eagle parts.
The National Eagle Repository, Building 128 at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, is a one-of-a-kind religious-supply house that processes about 2,000 dead golden and bald eagles a year for American Indian rituals. Under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act of 1940 and amendments, an eagle may not be taken or killed not even a loose feather may be picked up. Only dead eagles can be salvaged and only by the federal government. |
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Preserving Language |
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Keeper of Yakama Language Awarded Honorary Degree When Virginia Beavert was just a teenager, she was appointed by the Yakama Tribal Council to work with an anthropologist studying the tribe's culture on the reservation. Beavert was the only tribal member then who could speak English and several dialects of the 14 different tribes that make up the Yakama Nation. |
Bumper Harvest For Wild Rice: Skilled Teams Shake Loose 100 Pounds Per Hour Ardy McCradie of rural Grandin, N.D., came to Lower Rice Lake in Clearwater County this year for vacation, which was just for ricing. "I've never seen anything like Monday in my whole life," she said. "Everyone was coming in with boatloads (of wild rice). I'm sure glad I was here." |
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About
This Issue's Greeting - "Manahoo"
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The
Paiutes speak, along with the Great Basin peoples "speak languages
in the Numic group of the large Uto-Aztecan family of languages. The Uto-Aztecan
language family in many parts of the Southwest and go through Mexico and
all the way down to South America.
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Nature's
beauty:
American Alligator |
This
Issue's Web sites
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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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