Canku Ota - October 2015

	Canku Ota (Many Paths) An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
	October 2015 - Volume 13 Number 10


	"keshi" The Yuni Greeting Hello
	Green Heron (Butorides virescens) fishing sequence (left to right)

	"Li'dekwakkwya lana" Big Wind Moon Yuni

""If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys." ~Chief Dan George~

We Salute
Joy Harjo

Poet Joy Harjo, known for wedding social consciousness to her Muskogee Creek heritage and the south-west American landscape, has won a $100,000 prize for lifetime achievement.

Our Featured Artist:		Honoring Students
Sacred Stories Burn Bright On Minnesotan's Ojibwe Star Map Ojibwe scholar and artist Carl Gawboy grew up listening to his father tell a thrilling creation story, a titanic struggle between the legendary Ojibwe hero Nanaboujou and the panther.		Fields Attends White House Tribal Youth Gathering Washington – Cherokee Nation citizen Cierra Fields recently attended the inaugural White House Tribal Youth Gathering after undertaking two Generation Indigenous challenges. "I was lucky that I was one of the people who was accepted for it," Fields said.

Our Featured Story:		First Person History:
Navajo Technical University Introduces The New Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Dr. Laura Tohe was announced as the next Navajo Nation poet laureate and was recognized at an induction ceremony at the Navajo Technical University Hospitality Center.		History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan Chapter Eight

Living Traditions		Living Traditions
Arapaho Elder Carries Songs, Traditions And Love Of Family Sitting down with 84-year-old Saul Birdshead Jr., Arapaho, and his wife of almost 40 years, Lavera, one is immediately drawn into their spiritual connection with one another.		Akwesasne TV To Launch Broadcast On October Second Akwesasne, NY — The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe is pleased to announce the "light launch" of Akwesasne TV on October 2, 2015. Owned by the Tribe and Mohawk Network, LLC;

Education News		Education News
Cheyenne River Youth Project Launches Fall Semester Of Main University On Monday Eagle Butte, SD — On Monday, September 28, the Cheyenne River Youth Project in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, is launching its fall semester of Main University, one of the not-for-profit youth organization's most popular and enduring programs.		Native American Students Spend A Day At LLNL As Part Of The Inter-Tribal Energy And Tech Tour August marked the road trip of a lifetime for seven students (ages 13 to 18) from regional tribes. They traveled 3,500 miles through five Western states within one week to learn from state-of-the art organizations about energy, technology and partnerships.

Living Traditions		Living Traditions
A History Of Owamni Yomni Lock Closures Signal Healing For Mississippi River To the Dakota, the only waterfall on the Mississippi and its surroundings is known as Owamni Yomni (Whirlpool), revered for centuries as a place of tremendous spiritual power and inspiration.		If 'Denali' Can Be Restored, So Can 'Mount Tacoma' In a show of respect toward Alaska's native peoples, President Obama announced on Sunday that the Interior Department will restore Mount McKinley's original name: Denali. The Athabaskan title is a far better fit than the name of a president who never set foot in Alaska.

Living Traditions		Living Traditions
Gwich'in Educators In N.W.T., Bring Culture And History To High School Course Gwich'in educators in the N.W.T., have developed a high school course for students that hopes to reclaim the aboriginal group's culture after the legacy of residential schools.		Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College Extension Presents Special Mahnoomin Project The fall season is upon us. As we move into the first semester of the 2015-2016 school year, it seems as if it is a time of new beginnings, new classes, children back in school. These new beginnings include a special wild rice project funded by the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College Extension Program.

Living Traditions		Education News
Fishing, Cooking And A Yup'ik Upbringing Made Alaska's Health Commissioner In less than 24 hours, Valerie Davidson has 50 people coming to her house for dinner. She had planned to catch and cook enough salmon for the main course. But early in the morning, Alaska opened the Kuskokwim River to commercial fishing, which means subsistence fishermen like her can't fish on it.		Pewewardy to Receive Potlatch Leadership Honor Award Potlatch Fund is pleased to announce the 2015 Leadership Honoring Award for Education will go to Dr. Cornel Pewewardy (Comanche/Kiowa). Dr. Pewewardy is Professor/Director of the Indigenous Nations Studies Program at Portland State University. He designed and teaches the course Culturally Responsive Teaching for American Indian/Alaska Native Students.

Preserving Language		Living Traditions
Language With Justin: September 2015 Bozho Jayek, (hello everyone) We are pleased to announce the Potawatomi self-paced online Moodle course is live and open to the public. We would like to invite each and every one of you to come enjoy our language. There is no cost; you only need the desire to learn the language and a respect for our way of life.		Chickee-Building Lessons Ensure Legacy Lives For Future Generations Hollywood, FL — In its quest to pass Seminole traditions to the next generation, the Hollywood Culture Department recently taught young men and boys the ins and outs of chickee building.

Education News		Living Traditions
St. Gregory's University, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Strike $5 Million Agreement St. Gregory's University announced a historic agreement, establishing a $5 million prepaid tuition program between St Gregory's Abbey, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and the university.		Cherokee Councils Gather At Red Clay Cleveland, TN – Leaders from the Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians gathered on Aug. 28 at Red Clay State Park for a historic Tri-Council meeting. The event marked the first time all three federally recognized Cherokee tribes assembled for a council meeting at Red Clay.

Living Traditions		Living Traditions
Tom Chisel Revives Midewiwin Ceremony, Once Widespread Among Ojibwe After being dormant for more than 60 years, the Midewiwin ceremony is being revived in Obishikokaang (Lac Seul First Nation), in northwestern Ontario. A group of practitioners, commonly referred to as Mide, have built a Midewiwin lodge and separate teaching lodge.		Comanche Mural Dresses Up Oklahoma Town, Pays Tribute To Tribes, People Anadarko, OK — An Anadarko building is getting a facelift thanks to the talents and hard work of a local American Indian artist. J. NiCole Hatfield and partner Steven Grounds started painting the north side of the Lacey-Pioneer Abstract Building in June after they were given permission by the city of Anadarko.

Living Traditions		Living Traditions
Silver Medal Finish, Golden Destination: Proud Coach On Lacrosse Homecoming For Six Nations Even after a hard defeat, Rich Kilgour did Sunday what he'd been doing with eloquence, all week.		S. D. Nelson Author/Illustrator S. D. Nelson is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the Dakotas. "My people are known as the Sioux or Lakota. During the 19th century they were renowned as the Horse People of the Great Plains. My ancestors were also the people of the Buffalo, for the Buffalo gave them most of their food, their warm robes, and the lodge skins of their tipis. My people followed great herds of them across the vast grasslands beneath an endless blue sky."

About This Issue's Greeting - "Keshi"

"Hello" is "Keshi" in Yuni. it is pronounced "kay-shee." Zuni is a language of the Zuni people, indigenous to western New Mexico and eastern Arizona in the United States. It is spoken by around 9,500 people worldwide, especially in the vicinity of Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, and much smaller numbers in parts of Arizona. Unlike most indigenous languages in the US, Zuni is still spoken by a significant number of children and, thus, is comparatively less threatened with language endangerment. Edmund Ladd reported in 1994 that Zuni is still the main language of communication in the pueblo and is used in the home (Newman 1996).

Nature's Beauty: Green Heron	This Issue's Favorite Web sites	A Story To Share: Heron And The Hummingbird







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