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Canku
Ota
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(Many
Paths)
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An
Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
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August 2014 -
Volume 12 Number 8
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Favorite
Sites
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collected
by Paul and Vicki
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NATIVE
AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER
Our Mission: To enhance the diverse strengths of our youth and
families in partnership with the community through cultural
identity and education. Founded by the community, for the community,
NAYA is a family of numerous tribes and voices who are rooted
in sustaining tradition. We work to identify and provide intentional
services that will guide our people in the direction of personal
success and balance, empowering positive change and cultural
wealth.
http://nayapdx.org/ |
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Native
Vote
Native Vote, a national non-partisan effort to mobilize the
American Indian and Alaska Native vote, is an initiative of
NCAI. Native Vote is a non-partisan initiative. All Native
Vote activities will be conducted in a nonpartisan manner
in compliance with IRS rules and regulations and will not
constitute prohibited political activity. We do not endorse
any candidate for office or support any partisan statements
or endorsements expressed by members of NativeVote.org.
http://www.nativevote.org/
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Picayune
Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians
Welcome to our website. We at the Picayune Rancheria of the
Chukchansi Indians hope that you will find the information presented
on these pages helpful as you seek to learn about our history
and culture, our government and the services we provide, the
strides we have made and continue to make in business and economic
development, and the efforts we have made to give back to our
community which is so important to us.
http://www.chukchansi.net/index.html |
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Ecological
Society of America
The Ecological Society of America is the country's primary professional
organization of ecologists, representing 10,000 scientists in
the United States and around the world.Since its founding in
1915, ESA has diligently pursued the promotion of the responsible
application of ecological principles to the solution of environmental
problems through ESA reports, journals, research, and expert
testimony to Congress. ESA offers a professional Certification
Program for ecologists and maintains a Directory of Certified
Ecologists.
http://www.esa.org/esa/ |
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Beagle
Freedom Project
Beagle Freedom Project began in December 2010 when Shannon Keith
received information that beagles who were used for animal experiments
in a research lab were to be given a chance at freedom. Our
mission is rescuing and finding homes for beagles used in laboratory
research.
http://www.beaglefreedomproject.org/?fb_action_ids=10204243341634854&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=r581195
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Nez
Perce Trail Ride 2014
My name is Hetty Dutra, and I rode the entire Nez Perce National
Historic Trail in 1994. I might be the only person since the
flight in 1877 to ride the whole trail in the same time frame
as the original.
http://nezpercetrailreride.com/ |
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The
Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) National Historic Trail
Congress passed the National Trails System Act in 1968, establishing
a framework for a nationwide system of scenic, recreational,
and historic trails. The Nez Perce (Nimíipuu or Nee-Me-Poo)
National Historic Trail stretches from Wallowa Lake, Oregon,
to the Bear Paw Battlefield near Chinook, Montana. It was added
to this system by Congress as a National Historic Trail in 1986.
http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/npnht/home |
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Chief
Dull Knife College
Chief Dull Knife College is located on the Northern Cheyenne
Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana. The reservation
is approximately 44 miles long and 23 miles wide, encompassing
450,000 acres. Located in a rural area, the reservation is predominantly
surrounded by ranching and coal mining activity. Major electrical
generation plants are located just north of the reservation
at Colstrip, Montana.
http://www.cdkc.edu/ |
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Online Scavenger Hunts
This week’s site selection is dedicated to improving search
skills. Some of today’s sites feature a single daily question
(or search challenge), and others offer a collection of topic-based
research questions often called online scavenger hunts. Good
hunting!
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Blackwell's
Best: Internet Scavenger Hunts
Vicki Blackwell brings us lots and lots of scavenger hunts.
A few have fallen victim to link rot (URLs that no longer work)
but there are so many goodies here, I just had to ignore the
few problems. The first batch (listed at the top of the page)
is hunts created by teachers in the Tangipahoa Parish School
System in Louisiana. Next comes a PowerPoint presentation that
consists of research questions called "mini-hunts."
The third section is a collection of both on-site and off-site
scavenger hunts, some from sites such as Education World , Scholastic
and Cyberbee.
http://www.vickiblackwell.com/hunts.html |
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Education
World: Internet Scavenger Hunts
Education World has organized their large collection of printable
scavenger hunts (in PDF format) by month. For example, May
includes Memorial Day Memories, April Showers Bring May Flowers,
Honoring our Veterans and fourteen other topics. In addition
to the one-page activity sheets with questions and links to
web resources, Education World provides online answer keys.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/scavenger_hunt.shtml
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A
Google a Day
"There's no right way to solve it, but there's only one
right answer." This fun, daily scavenger hunt from Google
is special for several reasons. First, the daily questions are
created so as not to be easily found with a single search; it
usually will take at least two searches (sometimes more) to
find the answer. Another unique part of Google a Day is that
it is powered by Deja Google. Calling it a "wormhole inspired
time machine", Deja Google is a snapshot of yesterday's
Google results, so that other players will not spoil your fun
by having their answers appear in your Google results.
http://www.agoogleaday.com/#game=started |
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Trivia
Café: Question of the Day
"What is the name of the metallic alloy composed of copper
and zinc?" "At the age of twenty-three, in 1740, she
became Empress of Austria. During her forty year reign she had
sixteen children, one of whom was Marie Antoinette, future Queen
of France. Who was she?" With both daily and weekly trivia
questions, along with subject categories (such as Animals, History,
Mathematics) there are abundant opportunities for search practice
here at Trivia Café.
http://www.triviacafe.com/dailytrivia/ |
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World
Book: Web Scavenger Hunts
These printable scavenger hunts were designed "to help
familiarize students and library patrons with the resources
available on the World Book Web." Unfortunately the World
Book links within these PDFs are now for members only. But
the questions and answers themselves are still valuable. The
hunts are divided into two age groups: Elementary/Middle School
and High School/College. They include subjects such as Maps,
Presidency, Heredity, and Galileo. "What important philosopher
did Galileo study while at the University of Pisa?"
http://www.worldbookonline.com/training/html/scavenger_hunts.htm
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History of the World Wide Web
Although commonly used as a synonym for the Internet, the World
Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is a hypertext media service
that runs on the Internet. Separate from other Internet services
such as email or FTP, the Web is the world of webpages, hyperlinks,
search engines, and URL addresses. British computer scientist
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN in 1989, wrote a proposal
defining the WWW and is credited as its inventor.
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CERN:
Birth of the Web
"The web was originally conceived and developed to meet
the demand for automatic information-sharing between scientists
in universities and institutes around the world. The first website
at CERN -- and in the world -- was dedicated to the World Wide
Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer."
Visit CERN's history of the Web to view the very first website
and click around on the interactive Birth of the WWW timeline.
http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/birth-web |
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Pew
Research Internet Project: World Wide Web Timeline
Did you know that the Web might have been called the "Mesh"
or the "Mine"? "The World Wide Web begins as
a CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) project
called ENQUIRE, initiated by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee.
Other names considered for the project include ‘The Information
Mesh' and ‘The Mine of Information.'" Don't miss this
terrific timeline that includes iconic events such as AOL's
"You've got mail!" greeting, and the birth of the
term "surfing the Internet."
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/03/11/world-wide-web-timeline/
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Web
Directions: Timeline of the History of the World Wide Web
From 1910 (with the creation of The Mundaneum, an institution
dedicated to gathering and classifying all the world's knowledge)
to the retiring of the French information system Minitel in
2012, this interactive timeline features highlights in the history
of information science. Fast forward to 1990 to view the data
point about the original web browser developed by Berners-Lee.
http://www.webdirections.org/history/ |
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World
Wide Web Consortium: Answers for Young People
Berners-Lee answers questions from kids. "Q: What made
you think of the WWW? A: Well, I found it frustrating that in
those days, there was different information on different computers,
but you had to log on to different computers to get at it. Also,
sometimes you had to learn a different program on each computer.
So finding out how things worked was really difficult. Often
it was just easier to go and ask people when they were having
coffee." While at the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) be
sure to look at How it All Started, a slideshow commemorating
the tenth anniversary of the Web.
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids.html |
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World
Wide Web Foundation: History of the Web
"Believe it or not, Tim Berners-Lee's initial proposal
was not immediately accepted. However, Tim persevered. By
October of 1990, he had specified the three fundamental technologies
that remain the foundation of today's Web (and which you may
have seen appear on parts of your Web browser)." These
three innovations were HTML (the web's markup language), URI
(the web's addressing system), and HTTP (the transfer protocol
used to retrieve Web pages.)
http://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web |
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Meteor
Showers
Meteor showers are cyclical, predictable events because they
are formed from the icy rock debris shed by comets as they
pass the Sun. The following sites explain why they happen,
when they occur, and offer tips on how to best view them.
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American
Meteor Society: Meteor Shower Basics
"From earliest times, humankind has noticed flurries of
meteors that seemed to emanate from points in the sky at particular
times of the year. These flurries, now called meteor showers,
are produced by small fragments of cosmic debris entering the
earth's atmosphere at extremely high speed." Visit the
AMS site for Meteor FAQs, Photos, Videos, a Meteor Shower Calendar,
and this introductory article.
http://www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-basics/
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Meteor
Showers Online
In recognition of his extensive comet research, Gary Kronk has
been honored by the International Astronomical Union with a
minor planet named after him . His Meteor Showers Online site
covers all the basics, with sections on How to Watch Meteors
and a Meteor Shower Calendar. "The beauty of observing
meteors is that it is the one branch of astronomy that requires
virtually no equipment, or at least no expensive optical equipment.
The optical equipment you will use are your eyes and the only
other equipment you really need is a reclining chair."
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Sky
& Telescope: Meteors: A Primer
"Shower meteors can appear anywhere in the sky, but their
direction of motion is away from the constellation whose name
the shower bears. This apparent point of origin is known as
the radiant." For more meteor facts and viewing tips, click
on the Meteors category link at the bottom of this article.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/meteors-a-primer/
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StarDate:
Meteor Showers and Viewing Tips
The most popular meteor question online is, "When is the
next meteor shower?" StarDate answers this question with
a calendar of seven annual meteor showers that include the peak
of the shower (for the lower forty-eight states) and the moon
phase. Since bright moonlight makes meteor viewing difficult,
your best viewing is going to be when the moon is new or crescent.
The next meteor shower is the Perseids on August 12, 2014, but
the moon will out most of the night.
http://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors |
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UT
Knoxville: Astronomy 161: Meteors and Meteor Showers
These illustrated class notes from the introductory astronomy
class University of Texas at Knoxville are a great resource.
This meteor page defines important concepts, and covers a
brief history of meteor science. Some of the linked resources
are long gone, and the calendar is no longer current, but
be sure to watch the short video clips. "The meteor shower
is commonly named after the constellation in which this radiant
is found, and occurs annually during a well-defined time period."
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/meteors/showers.html
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Nelson
Mandela
Nelson Mandela (July 18, 1918 – December 5, 2013) was a South
African freedom fighter who became South Africa’s first democratically
elected President (1994 to 1999). His leadership was fundamental
in dismantling apartheid, and he won the Nobel Peace Prize
in 1993. Before his presidency, Mandela was imprisoned for
twenty-seven years (1962 to 1990) convicted of crimes such
as leaving the country without a passport, and sabotage against
the National Party government.
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Biography:
Nelson Mandela
"Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in Mveso, Transkei,
South Africa. Becoming actively involved in the anti-apartheid
movement in his 20s, Mandela joined the African National Congress
in 1942. For 20 years, he directed a campaign of peaceful, nonviolent
defiance against the South African government and its racist
policies." Visit to read the rest of this Mandela biography,
to view the photo and video galleries, and peruse the quote
collection.
http://www.biography.com/people/nelson-mandela-9397017 |
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CNN:
Nelson Mandela
This CNN special edition is chock full of articles, videos,
and photographs memorializing Mandela. Some unique clicks include
The Pop Song that Helped Free Mandela, What America Learned
From Him, Sports as Weapon Against Racism, and In Mandela's
Own Words. "No one is born hating another person because
of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they
can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the
human heart than its opposite."
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/05/world/africa/nelson-mandela/ |
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Nelson
Mandela Foundation
Great content can be found in Life & Times of Nelson Mandela
(including a biography, timeline, FAQ, and historical contexts)
as well as under the menu items Multimedia Resources and Mini-Sites.
Don't miss the cartoons of Len Sak (who used his talents to
illustrate the changing political climate of South Africa in
the early 1990's), the interactive timeline of Mandela's life,
or the selected quotes from Mandela's By Himself book. "If
I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man
who dares call himself a man."
http://www.nelsonmandela.org/ |
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PBS:
The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela
Visit this PBS site to view the full-length, PBS movie The Long
Walk of Nelson Mandela, as well as read interviews, letters
Mandela sent from prison, and excerpts from two Mandela biographies.
"During the 1950s Mandela was banned, arrested and imprisoned
for challenging apartheid. He was one of the accused in the
massive Treason Trial at the end of the decade and, following
the 1960 banning of the ANC, he went underground, adopting a
number of disguises--sometimes a laborer, other times a chauffeur."
On the tech side, I could not watch the movie in Chrome, but
had no problem with Firefox or Internet Explorer.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/ |
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TIME
for Kids: Nelson Mandela: 1918-2013
The only of this week's sites written specifically for kids,
TIME for Kids presents a short Mandela biography, and a slideshow
about his life. "Mandela stepped down as president in
1999. That same year, he created the Nelson Mandela's Children
Fund, a charity that helps poor South African children. ‘Children
are the wealth of our country,' he said in an interview with
TFK in 2002. ‘They must be given love.'"
http://www.timeforkids.com/news/nelson-mandela-1918-2013/97361
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STAR
Students And Teachers Against Racism
announces their new website that offers insight into the Native
American perspective to teachers and educators.
http://www.racismagainstindians.org/
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Changing
Winds Advocacy Center
Through presentations, classroom sessions, curriculum, fund
raising, charitable works, and multi-media efforts, we seek
to raise public awareness of the stereotyping, discrimination,
racism and other unique situations facing Native Americans.
http://changingwinds.org/
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