2002 Archives

Indigenous Political Prisoner, Leonard Peltier, has organized his annual gift drive for the children of the Pine Ridge Lakota Nation in South Dakota. This is one way Leonard continues his humanitarian work for his people despite his incarceration.

Help Leonard Peltier reach out beyond the bars that imprison him.

The Navajo police lieutenant from 14 Tony Hillerman novels has been altered for television. But his creator is pleased with what he sees.

On this Veteran’s Day, as we prepare to embark on yet another war, it’s
becoming increasingly clear that the aging right-wingers of yore are
determined to leave a legacy of “Dominance” to their descendants and the
world. It behooves us, we aging left-wingers, to answer their “Clarion Call”
with a call to leave a legacy of our own.

Spirit is a touching movie I had to go and see four times. This is the story of the Wild West as told from the heart of a mustang stallion during the encroachment of the Euro-Caucasians in the natural world west of the Mississippi.

Please, could you thank Shannon Yellow Horse from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota for the beautiful bone choker that she made?

Spirits are being awakened for the first time in 60 years.

I can see it in the faces of those around me, Blackfoot Indians from both sides of the border, gathering on Canada Day at a ranch in northern Montana to celebrate the return of a vital link to their past.

KEYWORDS: Windtalkers American Indian movies Indian sterotypes movie reviews movie review Native-themed movie war movie AUTHOR: Rob Schmidt, Blue Corn Comics “Windtalkers” is arguably the biggest Native-themed movie since “Smoke Signals,” which was arguably the biggest since “Pocahontas.” But critics are saying it’s something of a bomb–and they don’t mean “da bomb.” Comments from some […]

Do not accuse MGM of taking advantage of the current war climate to market
this film. The original release date was supposed to be June 29, 2001. The
surviving codetalkers are not getting any younger, and if the general
public is going to hear about them, it is past time.

KEYWORDS: Gathering of Eagles Custer SD South Dakota peace retreat prayer vigil American Indian spirituality Canyon Calm vision of Lakota leader Black Elk Black Hills religions and spiritual beliefs sacred fire terrorism in America talking-stick circles purification lodges music storytelling traditional singing dancing AUTHOR: Lynn Taylor Rick, Staff Writer, Rapid City Journal At perhaps no […]

KEYWORDS: reading education conference U.S. Department of Education’s Reading First Initiative successful readers five critical areas of reading instruction American Indian and Alaska Native students SOURCE: Alliance for Education and Community Development, Inc. Press Release To be held at: The Westin at Horton Plaza 910 Broadway Circle San Diego, CA 92101 Phone (800) WESTIN-1 AUGUST […]

The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs granted final recognition this afternoon to a single Eastern Pequot tribe, effectively telling two rival factions of Indians to work together if they want to open a casino in southeastern Connecticut.

ROSEBUD — The Lakota Studies staff at Sinte Gleska University has been
reviving a lost art as they host a Tipi Making Project on the Rosebud Indian
Reservation.

Keywords: Leonard Peltier AIM NYM american indian activists native american activist leonard peltier appeal Source: The Associated Press, FARGO, N.D. The Associated Press FARGO, N.D. — American Indian activist Leonard Peltier has appealed a judge’s decision to uphold the two murder sentences imposed on him in 1977. Peltier claimed he never had the chance to […]

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LIMA, Peru (AP) – Explorers have found the extensive ruins of an Inca village, complete with human remains, sprawled spectacularly across a mountain in southern Peru, the expedition leaders said Monday.  The ancient settlement clings to the slopes of a rugged peak in a region of the Andes Mountains where the Incas hid after the […]

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Skins (Drama, color, no rating, 1 hour 27 minutes)

A story of conflict and eventual reconciliation between two Oglala Sioux brothers, “Skins” exposes the largely invisible reverse side of American prosperity by humanizing the scourge of alcoholism in dirt-poor Indian communities.

Author: Karen Klinka, The Oklahoman DALE — Students at J.D. Jackson Elementary School in Dale think they are among the hundreds of young letter writers who persuaded General Mills to put Jim Thorpe’s likeness on Wheaties cereal boxes. Grace Thorpe, 80, daughter of the legendary Oklahoma-born athlete, says the Dale students may be right. Thorpe […]

“Waasa Inaabidaa…We Look In All Directions” is a powerful in-depth portrayal of the second largest tribe in North America: the Anishinaabe/Ojibwe (Chippewa) nation.

The six-part series invites viewers through a portal of rich historical and contemporary scenes, never before seen on television, to experience Ojibwe life in the upper Great Lakes region.

Keywords: Anishinaabe nation Ojibwe Indians Chippewa tribe television programming TV documentary historical and contemporary scenes never before seen on television Ojibwe life in the upper Great Lakes region Ojibwe culture from pre-contact to contemporary times WDSE-TV Duluth/Superior public television environment education family systems economic survival leadership governance ojibwa language ojibwe oral tradition health medicine tribal […]

Keywords: native american artist jewelry makers american indian art Made a lot of mistakes, stumbled, fell, got bloodied some in the rough and tumble, competitive world of art. But just maybe THIS journey is almost at it’s end. Tommorrow(Sat 03-09-2002)have an appointment with a local art gallery to begin negotiation to show my art therein…AHO! […]

Author: Matt Baney, Argus Leader FLANDREAU – In a hundred diminutive towns like this, scattered in every corner of the nation, there are high school basketball teams frolicking through unusually successful winters. When such a charmed season bursts into being, it beguiles most anyone caught in its wake. Old memories are awakened and dusted off. […]

The popular prime-time situation comedy “Dharma and Greg” chronicles the life of the mismatched couple of the New Ager, Dharma and her attorney husband, Greg. In a recent episode, viewers were treated to vignettes of Dharma and Greg’s lives prior to their meeting, and how they just missed meeting each other numerous times—proof that theirs was a love meant to be.

This episode also features Navajo actress Geraldine Keams as a sweat-lodge leading medicine woman—and she literally has the last laugh on the couple.

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Keywords: environment global impact Dakota Minnesota and Eastern Railroad Surface Transportation Board Powder River Basin in Wyoming Great Sioux Nation Treaty land Cheyenne River Valley air pollution Pine Ridge Reservation Rosebud Reservation South Dakota Oglala people Author: Charmaine White Face ‘Nearly Universal Opposition’ was one of the headlines in a newspaper describing the people’s response […]

While the numbers reported by the Census are higher, the Census Bureau did a very poor job in counting Indians. I worked as a tribal liaison for the Census Bureau in the Los Angeles region and I saw that little than lip service was given to the Indian Census count.

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In a letter dated December 18, 2001, The DEA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Diversion Control, Laura Nagel, noted that the agency is purposing to “delete all references to the ‘Native American Church’ and to ‘members of the Native American Church’ in the regulation.”

Inupiat Eskimos from the North Slope of Alaska questioned the validity of Presbyterian leader Dr. Tom English’s generalization that Presbyterians are opposed to opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to energy exploration.

Author: James HagengruberBillings Gazette Staff Writer Keywords: Indians fight racism Winona LaDuke native american quotes Indian Country tribal politicians Little Big Horn College Crow Agency Chief Dull Knife College Lame Deer Crow and Northern Cheyenne reservations buy posters wolf poster animal art free wolf picture. Fight racism by studying hard and speaking up, former vice-presidential […]

Author: Steve Young

Last summer, in the countryside near Oglala, Leonard Little Finger held a lock of hair in his hands and knew the agony of Wounded Knee.

He and six others had just returned from New England, where they had claimed a lock that reportedly had been cut from the scalp of his great-great-grandfather, Chief Big Foot, more than a century earlier at the Wounded Knee massacre.

AUTHOR: Patrick Z. McGavin Bristling with anger, humor and a deep sadness, Chris Eyre’s second feature “Skins” is a torrent of moods, feelings and scorched fury. In examining a struggle of acceptance and reconciliation between two brothers, the film acknowledges a culture whose scarred past and uncertain future remain inchoate and incomplete. “Smoke Signals,” Eyre’s […]

Source: WorldSong Entertainment PRNewswire/ Press Release The World Largest Concert, recently taped on November 1 & 2, 2001 at the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, Utah, is led by the International Youth Choir of Utah, and features special guest Native American (Jicarilla Apache) singer-songwriter Matthew Andrae (WorldSong Entertainment Co-Founder), performing songs for peace. WASHINGTON, […]

The show “Across Borders: Beadwork in Iroquois Life” at the George Gustav Heye Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian lays to rest any idea that the tourist items were mostly made-for-the-trade tchotchkes.

Done with a vital design sense and extraordinary handcraft, they are part of a long line of Iroquois beadwork that goes back hundreds of years to a time when beads made from shells and bird bones were used instead of the tiny glass cylinders first brought to North America by European explorers in the 16th century.

AUTHOR: Rob McDonald Spokesman Review The Colville tribes completed a deal this week to purchase a veneer and lumber mill in Omak that closed 18 months ago. The reopening of the mill is expected to be a big boost to the Okanogan County economy, which is in dire straights. Colville Indian Power and Veneer will […]

Source: Stephen Hunt
The Salt Lake Tribune

The Utah Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether non-American Indians can use peyote legally during religious ceremonies.

SOURCE: Press Release
Indian Trust.com

WASHINGTON, D.C. ­ Thomas N. Slonaker, the senior official entrusted by Congress with overseeing reform of the Individual Indian Monies (IIM) trust, told a federal judge today that two Interior Department Secretaries and their top aides filed misleading reports with the court and did virtually nothing in the past two years to comply with orders from Congress and the judge to provide Indian trust beneficiaries with an accounting of their money. 

When a filmmaker’s directorial debut is as noteworthy and successful as Chris Eyre’s 1998 award-winning Smoke Signals, it raises a high level of expectation for his next project as well as some trepidation.

SOURCE: Victor Rocha Just a reminder that ABC/DISNEY is still looking for Native Actors for their showcase. So far both Fox and ABC are setting up showcases. From what I hear at SAG, the other networks are following along. This is a wonderful opportunity to develop a data base for Native Actors. So if you […]

WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Representative Tom Udall, D-N.M., a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, applauded President Bush for signing legislation into law that incorporates his effort to extend a direct housing loan pilot project for Native American veterans.

WHEN:February 9, 2002

WHERE: University of California, Los Angeles School of Law

Keynote Speaker: Lyle Marshall, Chairman, Hoopa Valley Tribe

AUTHOR: Jerry ReidOneida Nation In a major effort to increase the presence of Native Americans on television, NBC and the Oneida Nation have established a talent search for Indian actors, comedians and writers. Information and updates about this uniqueopportunity are now available on a new web site. Oneida Nation Homelands – The Four Directions Talent […]

AUTHOR: Sadie Jo SmokeyThe Arizona Republic © 2002 The Seattle Times Company Shan Redhouse-Baldwin grew up wondering why Native Americans on TV had blue eyes. “We used to have a lot of questions for my mom,” says Redhouse-Baldwin, 28, a Navajo who grew up in Arizona and Utah. “They used to film Westerns in Monument […]