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(Many Paths)
An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
 
January 1, 2010 - Volume 8 Number 1
 
 
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"Quyakamsi!"
 
 
The Siberian Yupik Greeting
 
 
“We Welcome You”
 
 

 
 
"Ha'kwi kiishthwa"
 
 
Severe Moon
 
 
Shawnee
 
 
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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."
~Billy Mills~
 
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We Salute
Guillaume Saladin

Guillaume Saladin left his career as a professional acrobat to help young Inuits in northern Canada form Artcirq, their own performing troupe.

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Our Featured Artist: Honoring Students
Oklahoma Actress Always Puts Family First

Casey Camp-Horinek can sum herself up in five words: wise, mother, grandmother, traditionalist and environmentalist. The 61-year-old Ponca woman credits these attributes for the woman she is today, who is a long-time Native rights activist.

 
Navajo Prep Celebrates $7.5M Student Center Displaying 'Vision Of Very Many'

A banner with the phrase "Yideeskáágóó Naat´áanii" hangs in the Shimá Sání Cafe at Navajo Preparatory's new student center.

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Our Featured Story: Northwestern Wisconsin First Person History:
What I'm Riding For This Year – On Horse – During My Anti-Colonial Holiday Season

As I rush off and dash to jet-set again for yet another destination and another area of Turtle Island – I’m reminded this time around that the place I’m going to requires me to stop, pause, and really think about what it is I’m about to do.

 
The Indian Priest
Father Philip B. Gordon
1885-1948
Chapter 12 - The Budding of an Orator
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Education News Celebrating Mother Earth
Farmington Students Pay Visit To Shiprock Pinnacle

Sandra Cheebenally made tracks last month when she took one of Farmington Municipal School District's 46-passenger, 40-foot school buses on one of the most notable and treacherous roads in the county.

Cheebenally, or Cheesa, as her young passengers call her, was the driver for a Project Venture trip Nov. 21, designed to expose Farmington students to the culture and folklore of the Navajo Nation. The destination: Shiprock pinnacle.

 
Partnerships Will Help Save Our Natural Resources

The Oneida Tribe of Indians has been a leader in restoration and sustainability of our natural resources. The Oneida people know their responsibilities to take care of Mother Earth are not negotiable. These are inherent duties we have been given by our Creator, and they have been passed down generationally.

In our ceremonies and in our philosophy, we teach our children to be mindful of how important it is to understand that the significance of our life begins and ends with our relationship with our environment.

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Living Tradition Living Tradition
The Gift of Tribal Tradition

An intriguing woman with a beautifully woven basket upon her head and an abalone shell around her neck greets me warmly with “Howka, mamuyuth miñay?” Although Karen Vigneault is speaking in a language I don’t understand, I realize she’s welcoming me with a common salutation that means, “Hello, how are you doing?”

 
Comanche Agency Saves Sacred Birds, Way Of Life

Bill Voelker has spent his life working with eagles and other birds important to his people.

A member of the Comanche Nation, Voelker learned about the importance of eagles and their feathers in American Indian culture and rituals from his father, mother and grandmother.

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Play Brings Christmas In Indian Country To Life

Ebenezer Screech Owl is a mean and cranky character but those who have seen Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" know there is goodness in him–somewhere.

 
Art of the White Clay People

Joe Horse Capture is the Associate Curator of African, Oceanic and Native American Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. With a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Horse Capture has been continuing the work of his father to track down all of the artifacts of his tribe - the A'aninin (the White Clay People)

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Preserving Language Education News
Comanche Language To Be Saved At Texas Tech

This fall, a Texas Tech University professor of anthropology will begin the difficult task of collecting the remnants of the near-extinct Comanche language, then creating a way it can be taught in a university setting.

 
Native American School Band Rocks The Oldies - And The Ancients

Ten years ago Kim Cournoyer answered an ad seeking a music teacher at the high school on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in Fort Yates, N.D.

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Ceremonial War Bonnet Returns To Comanche Nation

An early 20th century ceremonial war bonnet once belonging to former Comanche Tribal Leader, William Karty, will soon be on display at the Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center thanks to a generous loan from his family. The headdress was originally loaned to Lawton’s Museum of the Great Plains for display.

 
Painting Captures J. Sterling Morton and Pawnee Treaty

As early as 1827, Baptist missionaries were urging the creation of a Pawnee Agency for the tribe considered the area's prominent residents.

In 1833, the roughly 10,000 Pawnee, who lived principally on the Loup and Platte rivers, ceded to the United States all of their land south of the Platte River, comprising "the central one third of the entire state."

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Environmental News Celebrating Mother Earth
Red Lake Recovery
Red Lake Walleye Harvest, Population Look Good

Walleye harvests on state and tribal waters of Upper Red Lake and Lower Red Lake gradually are moving toward safe-target levels, but there's still plenty of room to take more fish, and populations are looking good, managers say.

 
Walking Into the Earth's Heart: The Grand Canyon

“I HAVE heard rumors of visitors who were disappointed,” J. B. Priestley once said of the Grand Canyon. “The same people will be disappointed at the Day of Judgment.”

I have to confess I was disappointed on my first visit to the canyon more than a decade ago.

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About This Issue's Greeting - "Quyakamsi"
 

Siberian Yupik is spoken in the two St. Lawrence Island villages of Gambell and Savoonga. The language of St. Lawrence Island is nearly identical to the language spoken across the Bering Strait on the tip of the Siberian Chukchi Peninsula. The total Siberian Yupik population in Alaska is about 1,100, and of that number about 1,050 speak the language. Children in both Gambell and Savoonga still learn Siberian Yupik as the first language of the home. Of a population of about 900 Siberian Yupik people in Siberia, there are about 300 speakers, although no children learn it as their first language. Although much linguistic and pedagogical work had been published in Cyrillic on the Siberian side, very little was written for St. Lawrence Island until the 1960s when linguists devised a modern orthography. Researchers at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks revised that orthography in 1971, and since then a wide variety of curriculum materials, including a preliminary dictionary and a practical grammar, have become available for the schools.

Nature's Beauty : Walleye
 
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Opportunities
"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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