tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21832996233089859582011-08-16T05:06:09.143-05:00Every single part of Turtle Island is deserving of our respect. Let it be so.Spirit People Intertribalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15699550346285696843noreply@blogger.comBlogger5701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2183299623308985958.post-64002748262308536342008-01-02T06:38:00.000-05:002008-01-02T06:40:28.083-05:00

Anadarko (from Nädä'ko, their own name). A tribe of the Caddo confederacy whose dialect was spoken by the Kadohadacho, Hainai and Adai. The earliest mention of the people is in the relation of Biedma (1544); who writes that Moscoso in 1542 led his men during their southward march through a province that lay east of the Anadarko. The territory occupied by the tribe was southwest of the

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By: Mike NowatzkiWillard Yellow Bird says he wanted to buy a home in his native North Dakota.Yellow Bird, an Arikara from White Shield on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, ended up in Moorhead instead because he and his wife were able to get a low-interest mortgage through a program offered by her tribe, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa.“The only stipulation was we had to live in Minnesota,” he

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Associated PressLEWISTON -- Anglers in northcentral Idaho continue to protest the recent decision by the Nez Perce tribe to start gill net fishing for steelhead on the Clearwater and Snake rivers.The group Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife is holding meetings to protest the move.Jason Hollibaugh says time and money have gone into restoring runs of wild steelhead.All that could be damaged if the

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Associated PressJUNEAU, Alaska (AP)- A Juneau man has donated four ancient stone objects, including tools and a carved seal head, to the Sealaska Heritage Institute.Ronald Haffner donated a maul, a bowl, a grinder and a carved stone seal head to the institute. Institute President Rosita Worl, an anthropologist, said the items will be displayed at Sealaska Plaza in Juneau after they are

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Our Mission: Four Directions Solidarity Network unites a grassroots movement of both native and non-native people from the four directions to support the sovereignty of indigenous nations, the preservation and restoration of traditional culture, and return to a sustainable relationship with our relations, and our Mother, the Earth.A Unique History: Preparation for the Four Directions Solidarity

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CRAZY HORSE – “As we approach 60 years of carving the mountain, this is an absolutely wonderful way to celebrate and to help continue our progress,” exclaimed Ruth Ziolkowski, President/CEO of the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, at the Thursday, Dec. 20, press conference announcing a $5 million dollar matching gift. “This very generous challenge grant will help advance the dream started by

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By: Tim GiagoThe mainstream media and common ignorance has convinced some Native Americans that being a mascot for American sporting teams is OK; that it is all right to be ridiculed, mimicked and degraded for the sake of satisfying white and black sports fans.Mascots usually consist of lions, tigers and bears, oh my. They are bison, bulldogs, and horses either led out on the field on leashes or

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By: Chet BrokawPIERRE, S.D. (AP) - For centuries, members of the Lakota, Cheyenne and other American Indian tribes have been climbing Bear Butte to fast and hold religious ceremonies.Colorful prayer cloths hanging from trees line the path to the top of the mountain, which rises about 1,300 feet above the surrounding plain.But often, and especially in August, the serenity of the site is disturbed

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"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century. When it was first published in 1971, both reviewers and the reading public responded first with shock, then a deep sense of shame, calling it "shattering" (Washington Post), and "heartbreaking" (The NewYork Times). It

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The Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890 (which was originally referred to by the United States army as the Battle of Wounded Knee -- a descriptive moniker that remains highly contested by the Native American community) is known as the event that ended the last of the Indian wars in America. As the year came to a close, the Seventh Cavalry of the United States Army brought an horrific end to the

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Ramona Bennett is a longtime and prominent leader from the Puyallup tribe. A pioneering activist on behalf of Indian fishing rights, she co-founded the Survival of American Indians Association in 1964, an organization that helped bring local “fish-ins” to national prominence. Bennett was elected to the Puyallup Tribal Council in 1968, and elected as Tribal Chairwoman in 1971, a position she held

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Associated PressThe Lower Brule Sioux Tribe will get a $74,000 federal grant to build a Narrows Earthlodge Interpretive Center near the Missouri River.The Narrows is a huge bend in the river. Travelers can walk about 1.5 miles across the gap to each the other side or travel 25 miles around the bend on the water.The grant, which was announced by U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., will be used for a

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As posted at Muskogee Phoenix.comTAHLEQUAH — The Cherokee Nation will be offering a Cherokee language course online through the tribe’s web site beginning Jan. 7.The Cherokee Nation began offering language classes online in 2003. Since then, approximately 1,000 students register each session. Students from all over the world, including France, Australia, Spain, Mexico, Germany and Canada have

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By: Nick ColemanHistory is not just in books. It's also found in tears.Twenty years ago, I watched a group of Dakota Indians stand by a trench dug in the prairie dirt alongside St. Cornelia's Church on the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in Redwood County.There were men I had known for years: Ernest Wabasha, Dave Larsen and the late Amos Owen, a Dakota spiritual leader. They had come to bury 31

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By: Stephanie WoodardRENO, Nev. - Longtime Republican strongholds in the Midwest and West appear to be up for grabs in the upcoming presidential election, and Native people are emerging as the key swing vote, according to Democratic Party political strategist Celinda Lake. Speaking for the party, Lake has said, ''We cannot win these key battleground states without a turnout in the Indian vote.''

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By: Kevin WosterTIMBER LAKE - On a day when racial lines seemed nonexistent, the people of the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation - Native American and white - came together to mourn Cpl. Tanner O'Leary.The 23-year-old native of Timber Lake and Eagle Butte was laid to rest Thursday afternoon in a private cemetery on the family ranch south of Timber Lake. But family, friends and others - who in

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By: Dale WetzelBISMARCK — The state Board of Higher Education has endorsed Chancellor William Goetz’s plan to meet with Sioux tribal leaders to discuss the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname.The meetings would begin what Goetz described as an “orderly, deliberative process” of deciding whether it may be possible to keep UND’s nickname and American Indian head logo in the

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By: Karen HerzogMUSCODA, Wis. — A bison herd bunches up big and dark against the snow-covered prairie as members of the Ho-Chunk Nation in pickup trucks and tractors form a line behind the imposing beasts.The bison anxiously eye the men and the machines.But a spiritual connection explains why American Indian and bison have come face-to-face on this cold December day. While trucks and tractors

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The Caddo are a nation, or group of tribes, of Southeastern Native Americans who, in the 16th century, inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma. The Caddo historically consisted of three confederacies of at least twenty five different tribes and spoke a variety of dialects of the Caddoan languages. Today the Caddo are a cohesive

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By: Jim SuhrMADISON, Ill. (AP) - An independent pollution control agency has rejected environmentalists' claims that a planned landfill could desecrate possible burial grounds near the ruins of a once-thriving prehistoric city.The Illinois Sierra Club and American Bottom Conservancy failed to show that Madison's approval process for a landfill near the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site was ''

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By: Jakob HanesEmory Sekaquaptewa was at once a visionary and a realist — a combination few are blessed with, but a paradoxical trait that produced a lasting legacy.Not everyone can look back and say they wrote their nation's first dictionary and helped revive a language that faced extinction, but those are just a few of the things he accomplished in his lifetime.Sekaquaptewa was a professor, an

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By: Heidi Bell Gease"Long ago, thousands of years ago ..."With those words, Phillip Wright began telling the story of the first sun dance song. He told how a grandpa and the grandson he was caring for -- "a little guy, about this tall," he gestured -- had to flee for their lives as enemies approached.As the enemy drew closer, "grandpa sent his voice up to Tunkasila," Wright said, asking that he

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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. - Cherokee

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Oren Lyons (b.1930) Oren R. Lyons is a traditional Faithkeeper and chief of the Wolf Clan and a proud and accomplished Native American who works tirelessly towards the issues concerning Indigenous peoples in the United States and the world. He is a member of the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, (Haudenosaunee) consisting of Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga

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By: Ben NearyDENVER (AP) — The future of a Northern Arapaho man who shot a bald eagle for use in his tribe's Sun Dance two years ago now rides on the eventual decision of a federal appeals court.Winslow Friday, 23 of Ethete, Wyo., listened Monday as lawyers representing him and his tribe sparred with a lawyer from the U.S. Department of Justice before a panel of judges at 10th U.S. Circuit Court

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By: Shannon ShawPAWHUSKA, Okla.—The Osage Nation came to the aid of hundreds of families without power Dec. 9, after an ice storm hit Oklahoma, making national headlines.The ice storm started the night of Dec. 8 and continued for two days, hitting the southern part of Osage County with an estimated inch to an inch and a half of ice and the northern part of the county with a half-inch of ice,

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As posted by Native American TimesFloyd Red Crow Westerman, Sisseton-Wapheton Dakota musician, actor, and activist, passed away at 5:00 a.m. PST, at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles after an extended illness. He was 71.Westerman, who began his career as a country singer, appeared in over 50 films and televison productions, including Dances with Wolves, Hidalgo, The Doors, and Poltergeist,

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By: Chet BrokawPIERRE, S.D. (AP) — For centuries, members of the Lakota, Cheyenne and other American Indian tribes have been climbing Bear Butte to fast and hold religious ceremonies.Colorful prayer cloths hanging from trees line the path to the top of the mountain, which rises about 1,300 feet above the surrounding plain.But often, and especially in August, the serenity of the site is disturbed

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By: Jodi RaveBEAR SOLDIER, S.D. - When Donaven Yellow of Wakpala, S.D., joined the Spirit Riders, he pledged to ride four years in the Big Foot Memorial Ride, a nearly 300-mile journey dedicated to the Lakota ancestors who died in one of the nation's most horrific massacres.On Saturday, he began the fourth journey across the South Dakota prairie with 44 riders who will spend the next two weeks

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By: Bobbie WhiteheadFORT LEE, Va. - As a soldier in Iraq, Theresa Blue Bird found the spiritual and mental strength she needed to survive the harsh conditions there. Then, assisting in running a U.S. Army Departure Air Control group in Iraq, Blue Bird helped many of her Army brothers and sisters on their final journey to the United States.As the soldiers left, Blue Bird burned sage and prayed

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"And I told them if the children die, there would be no keepers of the land. They didn't listen.And I told them if they destroy the sky, machines would come and soon destroy the land. They didn't listen . . .And I told them not to dig for uranium, for if they did, the children would die. They didn't listen, they didn't listen, they didn't listen to me.And I told them if the children die, there

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By: Paul DeMainFloyd Red Crow Westerman, 71, of Palm Springs, California walked on during the earlier morning hours of December 13, 2007.Funeral services and burial to be held in Sisseton, South Dakota are pending. Plans for a memorial service in California are also being made.Westerman had been battling health issues complicated by leukemia for weeks in critical condition at Cedars-Sinai

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Charles Albert "Chief" Bender (May 5, 1884 - May 22, 1954) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball during the first two decades of the 20th century. He is also a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.Bender was born in Crow Wing County, Minnesota as a member of the Ojibwa tribe - he faced discrimination throughout his career, not least of which was the stereotyped nickname ("Chief") by which he is

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By: Paige DickersonPORT ANGELES - With soft rags and acetone, two Nor'wester Rotary Club volunteers and two city workers on Tuesday wiped away paint that defaced a City Pier mural of the Klallam village of Y'ennis.The four men, Doc Reiss and Ted Groves with the Rotary Club and Brian Flores and Leon Leonard with the city of Port Angeles, removed the black paint which on Thursday night was sprayed

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The U.S. Forest Service faced skeptical questions from a federal appeals court on Tuesday about the use of reclaimed sewage in the sacred San Francisco Peaks in Arizona.Under the Bush administration, the agency approved the expansion of a ski resort in the Coconino National Forest. The Arizona Snowbowl wants to use reclaimed wastewater to make snow and attract more visitors.The Navajo Nation, the

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By: Sarah PhelanNative American spiritual leader Marshall "Golden Eagle" Jack admits he was just a kid in 1969 when a group of American Indians occupied Alcatraz Island. They claimed that the island's reclassification as surplus property following the 1963 closure of Alcatraz Prison entitled them to take possession of the iconic island.But Jack says he knows enough people from the American

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Urshel was born at the Phoenix Indian School and is of Ute/Pima descent. He is a member of the Pima Salt River Community Indian Tribe. When Urshel was just two years old, his family moved to a working ranch on the Ute Reservation in Utah. It was on this ranch that he, along with two sisters and a brother, spent their growing up years.In 1956, planning to make the military his career, he joined

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TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — It’s the most wonderful time of the year to open your heart and your home to a child in need, by becoming a Cherokee Nation foster parent."Every child deserves the safety and security of a loving home,” said Chad Smith, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. “If there is a place in your life to help care for a child placed with Indian Child Welfare (ICW), I really encourage

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Bringing the Past and Future TogetherIn August 2002, the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation embarked on an ambitious project; to begin buying back a portion of its ancestral lands in the “Little Texas” Community of NE Alamance County, North Carolina. This was called the Occaneechi Homeland Preservation Project.For the first time in over 250 years, the Occaneechi own land again as a Tribe, to be

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By: Jodi RaveBOZEMAN - Montana State University president Geoffrey Gamble represents a rare form of leadership in academia when it comes to embracing a Native presence on campus.Gamble was selected to lead MSU as the college's 11th president in 2000. One of the most remarkable steps he's taken was the appointment of Henrietta Mann as a special adviser in his cabinet. Mann, a Southern Cheyenne

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The Karankawa Indians lived along the Texas coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Their territory was from the west end of Galveston Island down the coast to where Corpus Christie is today. There were several bands, or maybe even several tribes. We are not sure, because much of the history of the Karankawa is lost. No one bothered to study them in any detail while they were still around to study. Making

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Cherokee prophecyThere are two dogs (Alpha and Beta Canis Majori) who guard the path to the land of souls. To get past the dogs one should bring food. Be warned, if you give food to the first dog (Alpha) he will let you pass, but if you fail to save some food for the second dog (Beta) you will be trapped between them forever.

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Associated PressSHIPROCK The Navajo Nation operates much like an independent country, but when it comes to fashion and music it's as American as New York City.That's the theory two young fashion designers bet on when they dropped out of college to start a line of edgy, graffiti-inspired clothing."Mainly we started to find extra money to pay bills, but it turned into this rapidly growing clothing

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Associated PressMementos of Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull dating from 1890 were returned to his family yesterday at a ceremony in a quiet corner of the Smithsonian"s National Museum of Natural History."I appreciate from my heart what the Smithsonian has done," said Ernie LaPointe, Sitting Bull"s great-grandson."My great-grandfather stood for the freedom of the land, he stood for his people, and

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Ojibway legend...Many, many years ago when the world was new, there was a beautiful river. Fish in great numbers lived in this river, and its water was so pure and sweet that all the animals came there to drink.A giant moose heard about the river and he too came there to drink. But he was so big, and he drank so much, that soon the water began to sink lower and lower.The beavers were worried. The

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Paula Gunn Allen was the daughter of a Lebanese-American father and a Pueblo-Sioux-Scots mother. She was raised near Laguna and Acoma Pueblo reservations and was influenced by the matriarchal Pueblo culture. She received both her BA in English and her MFA in creative writing from the University of Oregon, and a doctorate in American studies, with a concentration in Native American literature,

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Disclaimer: Spirit People Intertribal does not in any way advocate or support the sale of or collection of North American Indian Artifacts. The following is for informational purposes only. This piece was found on this website: http://www.native-languages.org/composition/native-american.htmlWith a long history that dates back long before the first European settlers arrived on North American

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By: Ryan SchusterA T-shirt produced by a North Dakota business attempting to poke fun at the UND Fighting Sioux logo controversy has inflamed tensions on an already sensitive issue.The shirt, which Jamestown, N.D.-based Originals Inc. began printing about a week ago, includes the words: "No Sioux Logo No Sioux Casinos!" It also features UND's Indian head logo with the words: "Hostile and Abusive

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"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." -Crowfoot - Blackfoot

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December 15, 1890 - Chief Sitting Bull is murdered outside his home at Standing Rock, NDDecember 16, 1882 - The Hopi reservation is established in ArizonaDecember 18, 1971 - Alaskan Native Claims Act is signed into lawDecember 26, 1862 - 38 Dakotas are publically hanged in largest mass execution in U.S. historyDecember 29, 1890 - Wounded Knee massacre of Big Foot's Lakota. In less than ten

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By: Konnie LeMayWASHINGTON - It begins beautifully with Pulitzer Prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa.Starting with the famed author of ''House Made of Dawn'' is, of course, a great way to begin anything, but especially what is probably the largest gathering of contemporary Native writers on one compact disc.''Pulling Down the Clouds: Contemporary Native Writers Read Their Work'' is an

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By: Mary Ann GwinnSEATTLE (MCT) - Seattle author Sherman Alexie has won the National Book Award for his highly autobiographical novel for young people, ''The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.''Alexie got the news the night of Nov. 14 at the awards ceremony in New York. He won for best book in the young people's literature category. In his acceptance speech, Alexie, an author of 19

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"When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, theWarriors of the Rainbow will come to save them." -Chief Seattle - Suquamish/Duwamish

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A legend - origination unknownThere was an Indian Chief who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest.. in turn.. to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.The first son went in the Winter, the second in the Spring, the third in Summer, and the youngest son in the Fall.When they had all gone and come back, he

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By: Jerry ReynoldsWASHINGTON - Congressmen, Navajo leaders and federal agency leaders alike heard the grim legacy of past uranium mining on Navajo lands and learned of nuclear industry efforts to stockpile uranium mining permits for future use.Midway through a roundtable on uranium mining, hosted by Rep. Tom Udall, D-N.M., Nov. 8, the solution seemed to become obvious to everyone at once: first

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By: Shadi RahimiSAN FRANCISCO - In the three decades since Mohawk student Richard Oakes first dove into the ice-cold waters of the San Francisco Bay and set off a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island, thousands have returned to honor those who ignited a national movement.This year, as the sun rose above the blue-green waters still tinged with black from a 58,000-gallon oil spill in early

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"I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in his sight. It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows. We are poor . . . but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die . . . we die defending our

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By: Brian DaffronOKLAHOMA CITY - As the state of Oklahoma celebrates 100 years of being admitted into the Union, many cities and towns throughout the state are having different types of celebrations. Some include parades and festivals. Other activities include all-star country music concerts headlined by Oklahomans Vince Gill and Toby Keith. Other activities may include ''Land Run'' recreations

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Tribe allows access to Gila River ReservationBy: Kerry Fehr-SnyderAHWATUKEE - At first blush, it looks like the most hopeful sign for South Mountain Freeway foes in years.But the Gila River Indian Community wants to make it clear that allowing the state Transportation Department access to its land doesn't mean that the community has reversed its objection to building the proposed 22-mile freeway

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Disaster leaves La Jolla Indian Reservation with almost nothingBy: David KellyA pitiless firestorm - one of the many that swept over Southern California - was especially cruel to the La Jolla Indian Reservation clinging to the southern slopes of Mount Palomar.Residents described hellish flames sweeping over lush hills and valleys, burning 94 percent of the reservation and destroying 59 of its

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Abenaki legend...A long time ago, when the Indians were first made, one man lived alone, far from any others. He did not know fire, and so he lived on roots, bark, and nuts. This man became very lonely for companionship. He grew tired of digging roots, lost his appetite, and for several days lay dreaming in the sunshine. When he awoke, he saw someone standing near and, at first, was very

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Black Kettle - CheyenneFew biographical details are known about the Southern Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, but his repeated efforts to secure a peace with honor for his people, despite broken promises and attacks on his own life, speak of him as a great leader with an almost unique vision of the possiblity for coexistence between white society and the culture of the plains.Black Kettle lived on

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Staff report: Indian Country TodayWASHINGTON - The House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation Nov. 13, introduced by Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., that encourages the designation of the Friday after Thanksgiving as Native American Heritage Day. The Native American Heritage Day bill, H.J. Res. 62, encourages the establishment of a day to pay tribute to American Indians for their many

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by: Brian DaffronOKLAHOMA CITY - Within the shadow of Oklahoma's state Capitol and Jim Thorpe Building, more than 300 people of different tribes and nationalities gathered Nov. 16 at State Capitol Park to honor those ancestors whose forced sacrifices of land and life helped create the state of Oklahoma 100 years ago.''Oklahoma was the great experiment of hoping to absorb the Indian - to be

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Handsome Lake or Ganioda'yo (1735 – 10 August 1815) was a Seneca religious leader of the Iroquois people. He was also half-brother to Cornplanter. Before his emergence as a prophet, Handsome Lake fought in Pontiac's Rebellion (against the British) and the American Revolutionary War (against the Americans). After struggling with alcoholism and an apparently near-fatal illness in 1799, Handsome

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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) is a Federal law passed in 1990. NAGPRA provides a process for museums and Federal agencies to return certain Native American cultural items -- human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony - to lineal descendants, culturally affiliated Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations.The

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Associated PressOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - About 500 Indians and their supporters marched on the state Capital today to protest their treatment during 100 years of Oklahoma statehood.Chanting "No Justice, No Peace" the tribal members say they want to draw attention to the fact that Oklahoma was once their land.Donna Reiner (RINER) of the Delaware-Caddo Tribe says the land was taken from Indians in land

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By: Lindsey CollomA member of the Hopi Indian tribe could be the first Native American to serve as the U.S. attorney for Arizona.President Bush on Thursday nominated Diane J. Humetewa, who has spent most of her career as a federal prosecutor and is currently the senior litigation counsel and tribal liaison with the Arizona U.S. Attorney's Office.Humetewa, 42, said she was "extremely honored" by

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What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S., has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose.One of the very proponents of an American Indian Day was Dr. Arthur C. Parker, a Seneca Indian, who was the director of the Museum of Arts and

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Few non-Indians have witnessed a Green Corn Dance, a special spiritual event held at undisclosed South Florida locations each spring. Most Native Americans have a similar event within their cultures, stemming from traditional expressions of gratitude to the Creator for providing food.At the Green Corn Dance, Seminoles participate in purification and manhood ceremonies. Tribal disputes are also

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SAN FRANCISCO - Dennis Banks, Floyd ''Red Crow'' Westerman, Kris Kristofferson and Peter Coyote will participate in a benefit concert, ''Music for Mother Earth,'' Nov. 3 at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium. The event will bring together American Indian leaders and high-profile celebrities with the aim to raise funds and awareness for the Longest Walk II: A Walk Across America for the

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By Rebekah SungalaFARMINGTON - For American Indians, the white buffalo represents unity. Kenahkihinen, whose name means "watch over us," was born at Woodland Zoo last year on Nov. 12.In celebration of his first birthday, tribes from across the United States came together Sunday to pay reverence to the white buffalo. Kenahkihinen, joined by his mother and two other buffalos, came out of their

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November 2, 1972: Approximately 500 Native Americans occupy the Bureau of Indian Affairs offices in Washington, D.C.November 14, 1944: The National Congress of American Indians is founded.November 16, 1990: The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act is enacted.November 17, 2000: U.S. gold coin is minted commenorating SacajaweaNovember 20, 1969: Native Americans occupy

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As Cree people, we were given the gift of being named for the four parts ofhuman beings. Nehiyawak, we were called.It means being balanced in the four parts that are found in the four directions ofthe Medicine Wheel. These four parts for human beings are the spiritual,physical, emotional and mental aspects of the self. We need to try and balancethese four parts that were given to us, to function

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Sally was driving home from one of her business trips in Northern Arizona when she saw an elderly Navajo woman walking on the side of the road. As the trip was a long and quiet one, she stopped the car and asked the Navajo woman if she would like a ride. With a silent nod of thanks, the woman got into the car. Resuming the journey, Sally tried in vain to make a bit of small talk with the

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Welcome to Native Spirit. We are proud to provide you with an opportunity to take a step into the culture and dances of Native America. The southwest has become one of the few places in the world where people can come to appreciate and learn about the original inhabitants of this beautiful land we have come to share.Through our entertaining as well as educational presentations you will see dances

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As the only Native American in Congress, Rep. Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma) is constantly educating his colleagues about tribes and Indian policy.Cole, a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, likes to tell fellow members that they swore to uphold tribal sovereignty when they took their oath of office. The U.S. Constitution recognizes tribes in the same clause as states and foreign nations."A tribe

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Simon Ortiz is a contemporary Native American writer who continues to be a strong voice in literature today. His many writing accomplishments include creating poems, short stories, essays, and children’s books.Biographer A. Walton Litz recounts that as a child, Ortiz would listen closely to adults telling traditional stories and gossip and through this fascination with stories was given the

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Lawton_In the history of the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame there have been no Native Americans on the list - until now. Master Gunnery Sergeant Vernon Tsoodle joins the elite list of honorees. 7News' own Neely Tsoodle talked with her uncle in a very special interview. The entire family is proud of Vernon's many accomplishments, both in his personal and military life. But no accomplishment is

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by: Gale Courey ToensingAKWESASNE, N.Y. - The BIA has recognized the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe's existing governing body and its tribal court in a ruling that supports the tribe's $2.8 billion claim against Harrah's Entertainment Inc.In an Oct. 31 decision, BIA Eastern Region Director Franklin Keel said the Indian agency affirmed the Mohawks' three-chief system as the tribe's representative body

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Associated PressSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: U.S. and Puerto Rican archaeologists say they have uncovered what they believe to be one of the most important pre-Columbian sites found in the Caribbean, containing stones etched with ancient petroglyphs and graves that reveal unusual burial methods.The stones at the site in southern Puerto Rico form a large plaza measuring some 130 feet by 160 feet (40

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Cheyenne legend...A long, long time ago the Cheyenne warriors had not learned yet how to use eagle for their war ornaments. One of their men climbed a high mountain; there he lay for five days, crying, without food. Some powerful being, he hoped, would see him and come to him, to teach him something great for his people.He was glad when he heard a voice say, "Try to be brave, no matter what comes

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"I like living in this community, and I like being Choctaw, but that's all there is to it. Just because I don't want to be a white man doesn't mean I want to be some kind of mystical Indian either. Just a real human being." -Beasley Denson, Secretary/Treasurer of the Choctaw Tribal Council, 1988

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By Aimee DolloffINDIAN ISLAND, Maine — The attention Monday from media and other Penobscot Nation members was almost more than World War II veteran Charles Shay could handle."I’ll be glad when all this is over," he said modestly while waiting in his living room on Indian Island for the arrival of Francois Gauthier, consul general of France in Boston.Gauthier traveled to Maine on Monday to

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Press release:The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian opens two new tribal community exhibitions in the "Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories" exhibition; the Blackfeet Nation of Browning, Mont., and Chiricahua Apache of Mescalero, N.M. Both exhibitions were developed in collaboration with tribal community curators and National Museum of the American Indian’s curator Emil

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By Diana GraettingerPLEASANT POINT, Maine — Passamaquoddy Peaceful Relations teaches women and girls that they don’t have to be the victims of violence.The reservation has been offering victim services since 1999, but Passamaquoddy Peaceful Relations is attacking the problem head-on under the leadership of its program coordinator, Nancy Soctomah.The Passamaquoddy believe there is a precolonial

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by: Eva ThomasLOS ANGELES - Over the last decade, a virtual who's who of American Indian theater artists has worked with Native Voices at the Autry. From Canadian playwright Drew Hayden Taylor, Ojibway, to up-and-coming playwright Larissa Fast Horse, Sicangu Nation, Native playwrights are finding a home to develop works for the stage.Native Voices at the Autry is a professional Los Angeles-based

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by: Brian DaffronCACHE, Okla. - Alexander Mathews carries a high and rare distinction in the Pawnee Tribe.Considered to be the first Pawnee to see hostile action in World War II the day immediately following Pearl Harbor, he is currently one of only two tribal members for whom the Pawnee Prisoner of War Song can be sung.Mathews' story, however, is even rarer, as he is a survivor of the Bataan

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Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, 1922 -First Woman to Lead Florida's SeminolesShe was born in 1922 in a little place east of Lake Okeechobee called Indiantown. At that time, Indiantown had 100 Native Americans and 75 White residents. Soon she moved to the Dania Indian Reservation near Hollywood, Florida. There she began her study of English so she could not only understand her Seminole world, but also the

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Associated PressSHAKOPEE, Minn - The Shakopee City Council voted unanimously Monday to appeal a Bureau of Indian Affairs ruling that says the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community can transfer about 750 acres it owns into a tax-exempt trust.The vote came just hours after Scott County officials decided not to appeal the ruling, saying they'd rather negotiate with the tribe than pursue

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For over thirty-nine years the Fernandeño Tataviam Tribe through a non-profit, has provided social services to the American Indian community. The word pukúu derives from the Fernandeño Tataviam language meaning "ONE." Pukúu, Cultural Community Services is a not-profit organization that strives to strengthen the continuity of the American Indian community.Pukúu offers temporary aid to low-income

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By: Curt BrownAfter a meeting Monday with tribal leaders and American Indian advocates, KQRS Radio said it will apologize for comments made on Tom Barnard's highly popular "Morning Show" that linked high suicide rates on the Red Lake Indian Reservation with incest and genetics.KQRS-FM (92.5) said it will hire Indian interns and invite members of the Red Lake Chippewa and Shakopee Mdewakanton

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"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they did." -Red Cloud - Lakota

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October 5, 1877 - Chief Joseph (Nez Perce) surrenders to General MilesOctober 7, 1988 - The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act is signedOctober 10, 1918 - The Native American Church is incorporation in OklahomaOctober 12, 1494 - Christopher Columbus initiates the enslavement of Native AmericansOctober 14, 1964 - Billy Mills (Lakota) wins the 10,000 meter race at the Tokyo OlympicsOctober 26, 1882 - U.S

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Associated PressANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Human remains estimated to be more than 10,000 years old will be returned to southeast Alaska Tlingit tribes 11 years after they were found in a cave in the Tongass National Forest.It's the first time a federal agency has conveyed custody of such ancient remains to indigenous groups under the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, U.S

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By: Gale Courey ToensingOKEECHOBEE, Fla. - When back-to-school time rolled around this year, elementary school students at the Seminole Tribe of Florida's Brighton Reservation had a choice: return to the public schools in the nearby towns of Okeechobee and Moore Haven, or enroll in the tribe's new charter school on the reservation.On the first day of school Aug. 20, 146 students chose Pemayetv

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A Walpi LegendIn the long ago, the Snake, Horn, and Eagle people lived here (in Tusayan) but their corn grew only a span high and when they sang for rain, the Cloud god sent only a thin mist. My people lived then in the distant Pa-lat Kwa-bi in the South.There was a very bad old man there. When he met any one he would spit in their faces. He did all manner of evil. Baholihonga got angry at this

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Doug Hyde was born in Hermiston, Oregon, in 1946. The lore of his Nez Perce, Assiniboine, and Chippewa ancestry came to him from his grandfather and other elders who carefully instructed him through legends of animal characters the morals of his people as well as the ways of Mother Earth and the creation of man.He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, during

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By: Steve Karnowski - Associated PressMINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Vernon Bellecourt, who fought against the use of Indian nicknames for sports teams as a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, died at age 75.Bellecourt passed away Oct. 13 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital of complications from pneumonia, said his brother, Clyde Bellecourt, a founding member of the American Indian rights

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By: Michael Hill - Associated PressALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A lawyer advocating the Onondaga Nation's claim to a massive swath of land running down the middle of New York state assured a federal judge Oct. 11 that the tribe does not intend to evict anyone, but wants to wipe away a historic stain.That contention was countered by Assistant Attorney General David Roberts, who argued the 4,000-

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