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Canku
Ota
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(Many
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An Online
Newsletter Celebrating Native America
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October1,
2010 - Volume 8 Number 10
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"Hon
Dah!"
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The Apache
Greeting
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Means
“Welcome”
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"Canwapekasna
Wi "
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Moon of Falling Leaves/Changing
Seasons
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Lakota
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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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Our Featured Artist: | Honoring Students | |
Wooshdéé',
Biil!
Juanita's Descendants Welcome Home Her Weavings Two extremely rare relics of Chief Manuelito's wife Juanita were unpacked and welcomed by three generations of her descendants last week at the Navajo Nation Museum, where they will be on loan from the Autry National Center for six months.The dress and saddle blanket woven by Juanita, who died in 1910, were carefully lifted out of their cardboard boxes, unfolded and put on display as part of the Chief Manuelito exhibit, which opened Aug. 27. |
Twin Fond du Lac Brothers Share Twin Dreams The
Dunlap brothers have overcome cultural and economic obstacles on their
journey through life and hope to return to Carlton County to share
their talents.
Twin brothers Caleb and Jared Dunlap graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2009, and their sights are now set on medical school. But, the two say, they've come long way already. |
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Our Featured Story: | Northwestern Wisconsin First Person History: | |
Four
Days, Nights:
A Girls' Coming-Of-Age Ceremony On a wide grassy bank of the Missouri River on the Yankton Sioux/Ihanktonwan Oyate Reservation in South Dakota, Brook Spotted Eagle stands watching five young girls raise a tepee. It's early August, and the girls are taking part in a four-day coming-of-age ceremony revived in the 1990s by the Brave Heart Women's Society. |
The
Indian Priest
Father Philip B. Gordon 1885-1948 Chapter 20 - Last Days of a Great Man |
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Education News | Education News | |
Innovative
Project Brings Native Culture Tto Thousands Of Alaska Students
The first item of business for students visiting the Alaska Room at Anne Wien Elementary is getting dressed. Thursday afternoon, Ann Pearsons third-grade class, arriving from Arctic Light Elementary, did just that. |
The
Power Of NASA
In the summer of 2009, Leech Lake Tribal College student Marie Kingbird-Lowry participated in NASA research to route a high-voltage power line through the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in north-central Minnesota. Kingbird-Lowry said the experience with NASA has given her a desire to be a role model, leading the way for other Native American young people to get involved in NASA projects. |
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Education News | Education News | |
Solar Car Team Wins National Title The Choctaw Central High School Solar Car Team has an opportunity to participate in the World Solar Car Race in Australia in 2011 after winning a national championship this summer. The team won the Hunt-Winston Solar Car Challenge, a cross-country race. |
Students
Learn Heritage, Culture Of Area Tribes
Wednesday, it was the Hoop Game. The Native American Club at Senior High has been celebrating American Indian Heritage Week during its lunch hours and Wednesday was game day. |
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Education News | Honoring Students | |
Students
Grow, Eat Their Own Veggies At Black Mesa
In
the continuing battle to get children to eat their vegetables, Black Mesa
Community School may have stumbled upon a secret weapon.
Apparently, vegetables taste better when eaten by the kids who grew them. "Yeah!" confirmed Laneisha Clah, 8. |
College
Crowns New Indian Princess
Six
contestants stood on the stage Thursday, each hoping to earn the crown
naming her the new Ms. Indian San Juan College.
Cheerful supporters watched as Alanna Yazzie was crowned after the two-hour pageant held in the college's Little Theatre.
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Living Traditions | Living Traditions | |
Conference
Promotes Native History Through Narration
Choctaw storyteller Tim Tingle remembers the first time he tried to tell an audience about the Trail of Tears. He used historically accurate facts. The entire front row walked out. Tingle was one of the organizers and presenters at the 5 Tribes Story Conference at Bacone College. |
Trio
Keeps Basket Weaving Part Of Mission Tradition
American Indian traditions are alive and well at Mission San Juan Capistrano, thanks to a small group who have maintained the art of basket weaving. Teeter Marie Olivares Romero, Ellen Sue Olivares and Kim Olivares Leone teach basket weaving the first and third Wednesdays of each month at the mission. It has become an integral part of the mission's efforts to preserve the area's history and traditions. |
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Education News | Living Traditions | |
Student
Design Embraced By Pinoleville Pomo Nation
What started as a six-week project for engineering freshmen is helping to create culturally sensitive and energy-efficient housing for a small California Indian tribe. A yurt-style house design conceived in last springs E10, Engineering Design and Analysis, was used as the base concept for several successful housing grant applications by members of the Pinoleville Pomo Nation (PPN), who will use the funds to build up to 26 new homes in the Mendocino County community of Ukiah, California. |
First
Wave of Cayugas Moves to Seneca Falls, Home of Ancestors
Growing up in Western New York, Irene Jimerson would accompany her mother, a Cayuga Indian, to tribal meetings at local community halls. Some 20 to 30 Cayugas, most of them adults, would gather to talk about old and new business. Often discussion would turn to their ancestral homeland that encompassed 64,000 acres around the north end of Cayuga Lake. It was always the wish the dream that all the people had to be able to come and settle on our own land, Jimerson recalled |
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About
This Issue's Greeting - "Hon
Dah"
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The
Anglo theory is the Apache Indian migrated to the Southwest from Northern
Canada in the 1500's. The Apache Indian history says it was the other
way around, that most of the Athapaskan speaking people migrated to the
North and a few stayed in their homeland. In any event, it is generally
agreed that about 5,000 Apaches lived in the Southwest at the end of the
1600's.
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Nature's
Beauty :
Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly |
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Issue's Web sites
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