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An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
 
October 1, 2009 - Volume 7 Number 10
 
 
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"Manahoo "
 
 
Paiute
 
 
Welcome
 
 

 
 
"Cawapekasna wi"
 
 
Moon when the wind shakes off the leaves
 
 
Lakota
 
 
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"Children were encouraged to develop strict discipline and a high regard for sharing.
When a girl picked her first berries and dug her first roots,
they were given away to an elder so she would share her future success.
When a child carried water for the home, an elder would give compliments,
pretending to taste meat in water carried by a boy or berries in that of a girl.
The child was encouraged not to be lazy and to grow straight like a sapling."
Mourning Dove Salish
1888-1936

 

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We Salute
John Poupart: Work On Strengthening American Indian Communities Honored By McKnight Foundation

"Our oral history defines who we are. Our language comes from the Creator as a gift to us as a people, and we are the original people of the Western Hemisphere. We have an oral history maintained by the language," says John Poupart of West Saint Paul, president of the American Indian Policy Center and facilitator for the Dakota-Ojibwe Language Revitalization Alliance (DOLRA), one of the few statewide indigenous language revival efforts in the United States. He has worked there since 1994.

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Our Featured Artist:

Honoring Students

Taku Wadaka He?
(What Do You See?)

Author: Joanne Zacharias
Illustrations by Steve Smith

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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Northwestern Wisconsin First Person History:

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 Indian Priest
Father Philip B. Gordon
1885-1948
Chapter 9 - Indian Allotments

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Education News

Education News

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

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

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

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

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

Living Traditions

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"
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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"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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