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An Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America
February 22, 2003 - Issue 81
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We Salute
Dr. Harold G. Begay
Dr. Begay is a nationally recognized researcher for work in the
neuroscience-multiple intelligences area and a longtime advocate for Native
American gifted and talented student activity.
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We introduce another of our regular contributors ... Dorreen Yellow Bird.
Dorreen is a community journalist for the Grand Forks Herald. Her beat
includes insight stories and story assignments. She also writes bi-weekly
columns and some editorials. She is a member of the Grand Forks Herald
editorial board.
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Our Featured Artist:
Helen Jane Simeonoff
Helen Jane Simeonoff was born October 23, 1941 in Kodiak, Alaska to William
Simeonoff, Jr. (Sugpiaq/Russian) of Kodiak, Alaska and Alexandra "Alice"
Chernikov Channa Knagin Simeonoff Spracher of Afognak, Alaska. She graduated
from Kodiak High School in 1959, studied art in San Diego, California, and
learned watercolor painting at the University of Alaska-Adak in 1983. For 20
years she worked as a legal secretary, and then joined the staff of the
Anchorage Police Department for 6 years. In 1993, she left the department to
become a full time artist, her current profession. Today she lives in
Anchorage. Helen is probably the only Sugpiaq female artist earning her
income solely from the sale of watercolor paintings.
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700 Gather for Inupiaq Celebration
In the time before time, the Inupiat neither drummed nor danced. Seeing their
desperate plight, Eagle Mother had her son teach the people to build a large
gathering house, to make drums to fill the hall with sound, and to create
songs and dances that celebrate life.
Ever since, residents of Alaska's northern coast have congregated in
midwinter to share the bounty of their world during three days of dancing,
storytelling, Inupiaq games and feasting.
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Thunderhawk - The Great Cross Country Adventure - Part 4
by Geoff Hampton
Writer Geoff Hampton shares this story that should delight both young and old.
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C.H. Cooke's Diary of a Trip Up the Chippewa River in 1868; Indians Wary in
Trading
submitted by Timm Severud (Ondamitag)
This is the third installment of diary kept by C. Cooke, now of Mondovi,
when, he Professor Shadrach A. Hall, and George Sutherland made a canoe trip
up the Chippewa River in the spring 1868.
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'Unity' Serves All Journalists of Color
When the West opened up to settlers, many tribes were pushed almost to
extinction.
There are those who say the tribes would have fared much better if they had
united - the Sahnish, Dakota, Hidatsa, Mandan, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Lakota and
others - and formed one force against encroaching non-Natives.
Perhaps we would have held the spread east of the Mississippi, they say. Most
tribes held to their own nations, their own prejudices and even fought
against each other.
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Half the Lesson About Indian Education
Several issues back, in Indian Country Today, we lauded the advances Native
America has made in the field of education. It took decades of lobbying for
congressional monetary support, of innovative administration and
decision-making and of institution building to make these gains. There have
been hundreds of Native students who have excelled in their college careers
and moved on to on-rez and off-rez professions. In these things we can take
heart. This is "Indian education" as we envisioned it.
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The Exercise of Fancy Dancing*
(with apologies to Sherman Alexie)
Last October I experienced one of those 'eureka' moments that might fit more
with the likes of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, or even Bill Gates
than to a middle-aged gray-haired woman - writer-wannabe, like me. It
happened in the middle of a round dance in the Leavenworth Penitentiary gym
where I had the honor of participating in the Fall Spiritual Gathering of the
Native American Inmates. My partner, a respectful and handsome young man was
taking me through an arch of human arms when it came to me: This is aerobic
exercise, Indian style!
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The Moment of Truth
"The Moment of Truth" is a term that has been used in so many ways by so many
different people over the last fifteen years that it has almost become
nebulous. It's business implication is that the "moment of truth" relates to
a "make it" or "break it" scenario that is related to successful customer
service.
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Creation Story
"When I was a small boy the wise men of the tribe used to call all of us
youngsters together in the evening and relate to us the lore and legends that
they themselves had learned in the same manner from their wise men when they
were young, for this was the only way the legends and stories of our people
could be kept alive. The story I will tell you now is of how the Indian came
to the earth and how he gets to what you call heaven."
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Lakol Wounspe Stresses Culture, Values
Only during the Lakota Nation Invitational tournament would the answer to a
Knowledge Bowl question be, "What is peji hop-hop?"
In case you're not fluent in Lakota, peji hop-hop is a contemporary word for
"grasshopper." Students and adults alike will probably remember that from the
Lakol Wounspe competition, held Thursday in conjunction with the girls LNI
tournament here.
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Ron and Don Show to Make Historic Broadcast from Nunavut
Februry 14, 2003-A star-studded cast of Canadian hockey players and CBC
broadcasters are in Iqaluit this weekend to film the fourth-annual Hockey Day
in Canada.
Ron MacLean, the host of Hockey Night in Canada, arrived in the city on Feb.
10 to admiring fans and a CBC North camera crew. Before rushing to his hotel,
the ever-accommodating MacLean stopped for photos with well-wishers.
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Navajo Builds Community on Ship
ABOARD THE USS CONSTELLATION - On a cluttered desk deep in the bowels of this
massive aircraft carrier cruising the Persian Gulf, Jeff Baloo keeps a small
flag of the Navajo Nation where he grew up.
Fringed in gold, it's smudged from 15 years aboard a series of Navy ships.
For Baloo, the flag represents something virtually unknown in the modern
Navy: a community of Navajos on a single ship.
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An Old Indian Chief
CUMBERLAND, Wis. Aug. 8 - Probably the most remarkable Indian character in
northwestern Wisconsin in the present time is an old Chippewa Chief,
generally known as "Little Pipe". His age is not definitely known, but
according to the best information obtainable, Chief Little Pipe is now in his
108th year. He is still in robust health, and stands six feet tall, is very
erect, weighs 180 lbs. and is robust as a roebuck. He is known to have
resided in this region for the past seventy years, and through tradition tell
us that previous to 1825 his hunting grounds were near Fairbault, Minnesota,
yet the Indian records of the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation would indicate
that he was born in northwestern Wisconsin about the year 1788.
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Oneidas Give $5,000 to UW-Oshkosh Teaching Program
The Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin recently donated $5,000 to a
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh program aimed at educating more American
Indian teachers.
The Indian Teachers for Indian Children program, which begins a fifth year in
April, is running out of money because state funding is being eliminated due
to budget cuts. The program only has enough money to continue through the end
of this year. One-year costs for the program are about $27,600.
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Culture Torchbearer Helps Bring People Together
Cea Anderson was an adult before she embraced her Alaska Native heritage, but
she has made up for lapsed time in the past decade.
In addition to promoting Alaska Native and American Indian cultures through
personal performances throughout the community, Anderson represents a host of
local talent in the traditions of indigenous people from Ireland, India,
Ecuador, Peru, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.
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Princeton Students Volunteer Time in Bell
BELL- Most college students spend Christmas break eating, sleeping, or
spending time with family, but eighteen students from Princeton University
volunteered a week of their time to help the residents of the Bell community..
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This Date In History
Recipe: Mardi Gras Madness
Story: Iktomi and the Ducks
What is this: Wood Duck
Craft Project: Newspaper Beads
This Issue's Web sites
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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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