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2008 September/October On the Wind (News)
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 Eel Ground School in Canada uses technology to boost achievement among its young students; Steven Alvarez, renaissance man. Also, other important news in the arts, education, the environment, business, politics, sports, health and other realms of life in Indian Country. By Daniel Gibson.
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2008 January/February Viewpoint
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Uncooking the Books: The Fed’s Trust Fund Mess
The federal government owes tribes and Indian individuals billions of
dollars in lost trust fund monies derived from Indian land resource
extraction and lease fees. By Elouise Cobell (Blackfeet).
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Yo Soy Indio (I Am Indian)
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  We explore the sometimes difficult but culturally rich personal and
social territory found in the mixing of Spanish and Indian people in
the Americas, with a focus on the United States/Mexico borderlands. By
Ruben Hernandez (Yaqui/Latino). Illustrated with works by various
artists.
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Sacred Ground
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 American Indians consider the land a living entity and believe certain
places have powerful spiritual forces associated with them. Many sacred
places are threatened by inappropriate development today, while some
have been permanently protected. Read about the significance of holy
places and the battles to save them from
housing tracts, strip mining, chemical plants and other assaults.
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1999 Fall
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 ON THE COVER
A generation has passed since the
Indian occupation of Alcatraz. Adam Fortunate Eagle, now 70, holding
the peace pipe used in ceremonies launching the occupation, was among
the thousands involved. Photo by Linda Sue Scott.
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Native American Tribes Restore Endangered Wildlife
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 Return of the Wild
Many
Native American tribal governments are embarking on ambitious ecological restoration
programs to protect endangered wildlife on their reservations. We visit the Nez Perce gray
wolf recovery project, the Yakama Nation shrub-steppe program for
sage-grouse, the Iowa Tribe’s eagle aviary, and the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs’ chinook salmon effort. Plus details on six other
endeavors. By Ben Ikenson.
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The Art of Translation: Native American Theatre in the Global Community
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By Rhiana Yazzie (Navajo)
As an emerging playwright, in the spring of 2004 I was fortunate to have the opportunity through the California Arts Council, for my one-act play, The Long Flight, to be translated into Spanish and given a staged reading for an international audience at the 30th International Theatre Institute’s World Congress in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The experience not only broadened my view of world theatre but also my understanding of the role theatre plays in specific communities.
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2006 March/April
By Site Editor
| Published 03/1/2006
| Political Issues , Mexico , Actors/Film , Pottery , Wood Carving , Textiles/Weaving , 2006 , Metis , Mixtec , Zapotec , Tohono O'odham , Paiute
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Rosario Rivera Gutierrez (Zapotec), 14, from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
in the southern portion of the state of Oaxaca, is dressed in her
finest to go to a Vela, a traditional fiesta in honor of a patron saint
or virgin. The Zapotec women of the Isthmus wear elaborately hand
embroidered skirts and huipiles (short tunics) with oversized flowers
that fill every inch of cloth. The women’s heavy gold necklaces and
earrings made of solid gold centenario coins are a show of wealth and
prestige. A faux braid wrapped with brightly colored ribbons crowns her
outfit.
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Book Review: Ishi's Brain
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 Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian
By Orin Starn; W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.; New York, NY; 2004; 320 pages; $25.95 clothbound Reviewed by Debra Utacia Krol (Salinan/Esselen)
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Taking Back Our History: Valerian Three Irons
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Most graduate students earn master’s degrees by attending classes for two or three years and then writing a big research paper. Valerian Three Irons is not most graduate students. Oh, sure, he’s had to go to class, and he has to write a thesis. But his specially-designed degree program has also required that he spend time in the First World and the Third World, traveling to New York for meetings, London for classes and research and to the slums of Jamaica to fulfill the service requirement for his degree.
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Alcatraz: Taking Back "The Rock"
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 Alcatraz:
Thirty years ago this fall American Indians took back "The Rock," and along with it control of their future.
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Chief Offenders
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 The Washington Redskins just won the pro-football jackpot. No, not the Super Bowl. The team has gone home with the highest bidder for a record-breaking $800 million, the top price ever paid for a commercial sports franchise. The team made other big news this year, also off the field and involving lots of cash. A federal panel of judges decided April 2 to cancel trademarks for the team\'s name, long despised by Native Americans.
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Eastern Cherokee
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Just west of Cherokee, North Carolina, a grass-capped dome of earth rises gently from bottom land along the Tuckasegee River. Look closely-it\'s easy to miss. The dome, or mound, used to be much higher, but it has been plowed over many times by farmers, ground down the way eons of wind and rain have smoothed the Great Smoky Mountains looming close by.
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Gifts from the Whales
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 Clad in his white hunting parka, Malik braced one Sorrel boot against the wooden sled. He grabbed the rope that wove back and forth atop a load of camping gear, and with a mighty tug tied everything down. Then he turned his face into the east wind. "I feel really good today," the Iñupiat Eskimo hunter said, smiling. "A whale is coming. I can feel it. Someone is going to catch a whale today."
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1989 Fall
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Natives of Siberia, U.S.S.R., play centuries-old rhythms on walrus-hide drums. Photo by Paul Schurke.
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1989 Spring
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Aztec customs and culture still pervade and, in many ways, dominate the
lives of two million or more Nahuatl-speaking people of central Mexico.
Photo by Michael Moore.
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