Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community

http://amin.umn.edu/naisa2009/index.html

May 21-23, 2009 the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota will host the first meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). This is the third of three meetings that culminated in the creation of a new professional organization for scholars who work in American Indian/Native American/First Nations/Aboriginal/Indigenous Studies. The Native American Studies program at the University of Oklahoma, Norman hosted the first meeting in May of 2007, and the Institute of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia hosted the second meeting in April of 2008.

The American Indian Studies Department at the U of M is excited to host the third meeting. 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the department’s founding – the oldest such program in the country with departmental status. Founded amidst the civil rights struggles of the sixties and early seventies, the department has long been committed to the development of theories and methodologies that reflect American Indian perspectives and it embraces ways of knowing that stand in contrast to the linear analytic Euro-American studies typically found in colleges and universities. The department’s base of formally educated and institutionally trained academicians is being supplemented increasingly by community resource people, including traditional leaders, elders and American Indian artists, writers, film makers, and musicians. Incorporation of such contributors into the teaching program acknowledges unique cultural wisdom and skills that are not typically available in formal, western institutions, but that are nonetheless essential to an understanding of American Indian cultures.

A local host committee of faculty and staff members will arrange accommodations, meeting space, and a set of events that will give conference participants an opportunity to experience the beautiful Twin Cities and U of M campus.

Contact members of the Acting Council if you have questions or concerns.

Desperate, nearly third world conditions inside the United States are often overlooked.   Native Americans are plauged with poverty, hunger and despair. Children are often left poorly clothed and unfed.  Their cries of despair frequently fall on deaf ears. WER understands the desperate conditions that many Native Americans are forced to live in, and is dedicated to improving them. Our work on the Navajo Reservation is part of WER’s "Embraceable Communities" strategy to help children worldwide.

For more information please visit http://www.worldemergency.org/naer.htm 

Black Bear Crossings on the Lake

Maaka De Maakwa Azha Wiiskaad

Free Dinner !

12Noon—3pm

Anyone in need of a hot meal or good company is welcome

1360 N. Lexington Parkway

St. Paul, MN 55117

( Como Lakeside Pavilion)

651-488-4920

 
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The All Nations Arts & Crafts Collective Annual Winter Sale

December 6 & 7, and 13 & 14
All Nations Church
1515 E. 23rd St., Minneapolis 55404

Saturday 10am-4pm; Sunday 1-4pm

Handmade Jewelry, Textiles, Artwork, Natural Body Products, etc., by Native artists and friends

.and, the best coffee and frybread in the Twin Cities!

For more information, contact: Sharyn Whiterabbit, 715-386-3100

You’re invited to attend

Service of Thanksgiving

Wednesday
November 26, 2008Storyteller
Mr. Michael Goze
“Thanksgiving
Yes, we can! Yes we did!”

Mike strives to bring continued growth and enhancement of life to all Native People.
He currently serves at President and CEO of American Indian Community Development Corporation.

He is a former At-Large District Representative for the HoChunk Nation, and Executive Director of the Lifeskills Center for Leadership

Mayflower Community Congregational Church
106 E. Diamond Lake Road,
Minneapolis, MN

MAP IT!

612-824-0761Hosts
All Nations Indian Church and its partner congregations; Calvary Lutheran Church, First Congregational UCC, Mayflower Community Congregation, Messiah Lutheran, Minnehaha United Church of Christ

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Thanksgiving

Dinner

At Pepito’s Restaurant

November 27, 2008

11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m

4820 Chicago Avenue South

Minneapolis, MN 55417

(612)822-2104

Please join us for fun, food, and festivities

We’ll serve a traditional meal that’s free to all

Hope to see you there!

For over 20 years, a group of volunteers have prepared and served a Thanksgiving Dinner to those in need. Pepito’s Restaurant graciously provides the use of their restaurant. Last year we served over 1,000 people. This year we anticipate a huge turnout. Financial donations cover the cost of the food. We need your help! Financial contributions may be sent to: The Amigos, 1660 Highway 100 South, /suite 500, Saint Louis Park, MN 55416. To volunteer call: 952-356-4847.

11/11/2008

Powerless In Parmelee

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Winona LaDuke will be presenting the Anne Pederson Women’s Resource
Center 2008 Koryne Horbal Lecture at Augsburg College on Thursday,
November 20th at 11:00 AM in the Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center.
Augsburg College’s address is 2211 Riverside Ave, Mpls.  Attached is a
poster.  This event is free and open to everyone!  Please join us for
this event.

A campus map can be found at: http://www.augsburg.edu/about/map.html.
The Foss Center where Winona will be presenting is #4 on the map.  Free
parking is in Lot L (by the football field).

WINONA LADUKE’S BIO
ENVIRONMENTALIST - POLITICAL ACTIVIST - WRITER

Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues
of sustainable development renewable energy and food systems. She lives
and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and is a
two time vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader for the Green
Party.  .
As Program Director of the Honor the Earth, she works nationally and
internationally on the issues of climate change, renewable energy, and
environmental justice with Indigenous communities. And in her own
community, she is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project,
one of the largest reservation based non profit organizations in the
country, and a leader in the issues of culturally based sustainable
development strategies, renewable energy and food systems. In this work,
she also continues national and international work to protect Indigenous
plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering.

In 2007, LaDuke was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame,
recognizing her leadership and community commitment. In  1994, LaDuke
was nominated by Time magazine as one of America’s fifty most
promising leaders under forty years of age.  She has been awarded the
Thomas Merton Award in 1996, Ms.Woman of the Year ( with the Indigo
Girls in l997) , and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which in part
she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project. The White Earth Land
Recovery Project has won many awards- including the prestigious  2003
International Slow Food Award for Biodiversity, recognizing the
organization’s work to protect wild rice from patenting and genetic
engineering.

A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she has written
extensively on Native American and environmental issues.  She is a
former board member of Greenpeace USA  and is presently an advisory
board member for the Trust for Public Lands Native Lands Program as well
as a boardmember of the Christensen Fund. The Author of five books,
including Recovering the Sacred, All our Relations and a novel- Last
Standing Woman, she is widely recognized for her work on environmental
and human rights issues. .

More information about Winona and what she is involved in. . . .
http://nativeharvest.com/
http://www.speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=79
http://www.honorearth.org/aboutus/composition/staff/winona.html
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/laduke_winona.html

Videos of a couple of Winona’s lectures . . .
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5457902744333882976
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6122716298868119754&hl=en

Jennifer Simon
American Indian Student Services
Augsburg College
2211 Riverside Avenue
Campus Box #307
Minneapolis, MN 55454
(612) 330-1144
Fax (612) 330-1695
simonj@augsburg.edu

11/10/2008

Request For Donations On Pine Ridge

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To: MINN-IND@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: FW: Michael Moore’s comments

Subject: Michael Moore’s comments

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Friends,

Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair.

In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea. The racists were present throughout the campaign and in the voting booth. But they are no longer the majority, and we will see their flame of hate fizzle out in our lifetime.

There was another important “first” last night. Never before in our history has an avowed anti-war candidate been elected president during a time of war. I hope President-elect Obama remembers that as he considers expanding the war in Afghanistan. The faith we now have will be lost if he forgets the main issue on which he beat his fellow Dems in the primaries and then a great war hero in the general election: The people of America are tired of war. Sick and tired. And their voice was loud and clear yesterday.

It’s been an inexcusable 44 years since a Democrat running for president has received even just 51% of the vote. That’s because most Americans haven’t really liked the Democrats. They see them as rarely having the guts to get the job done or stand up for the working people they say they support. Well, here’s their chance. It has been handed to them, via the voting public, in the form of a man who is not a party hack, not a set-for-life Beltway bureaucrat. Will he now become one of them, or will he force them to be more like him? We pray for the latter.

But today we celebrate this triumph of decency over personal attack, of peace over war, of intelligence over a belief that Adam and Eve rode around on dinosaurs just 6,000 years ago. What will it be like to have a smart president? Science, banished for eight years, will return. Imagine supporting our country’s greatest minds as they seek to cure illness, discover new forms of energy, and work to save the planet. I know, pinch me.

We may, just possibly, also see a time of refreshing openness, enlightenment and creativity. The arts and the artists will not be seen as the enemy.

Perhaps art will be explored in order to discover the greater truths. When FDR was ushered in with his landslide in 1932, what followed was Frank Capra and Preston Sturgis, Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck, Dorothea Lange and Orson Welles. All week long I have been inundated with media asking me, “gee, Mike, what will you do now that Bush is gone?” Are they kidding? What will it be like to work and create in an environment that nurtures and supports film and the arts, science and invention, and the freedom to be whatever you want to be? Watch a thousand flowers bloom! We’ve entered a new era, and if I could sum up our collective first thought of this new era, it is this: Anything Is Possible.

An African American has been elected President of the United States!

Anything is possible! We can wrestle our economy out of the hands of the reckless rich and return it to the people. Anything is possible! Every citizen can be guaranteed health care. Anything is possible! We can stop melting the polar ice caps. Anything is possible! Those who have committed war crimes will be brought to justice. Anything is possible.

We really don’t have much time. There is big work to do. But this is the week for all of us to revel in this great moment. Be humble about it. Do not treat the Republicans in your life the way they have treated you the past eight years. Show them the grace and goodness that Barack Obama exuded throughout the campaign. Though called every name in the book, he refused to lower himself to the gutter and sling the mud back. Can we follow his example? I know, it will be hard.

I want to thank everyone who gave of their time and resources to make this victory happen. It’s been a long road, and huge damage has been done to this great country, not to mention to many of you who have lost your jobs, gone bankrupt from medical bills, or suffered through a loved one being shipped off to Iraq. We will now work to repair this damage, and it won’t be easy.

But what a way to start! Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States. Wow. Seriously, wow.

Yours,

Michael Moore

MichaelMoore.com

MMFlint@aol.com

Elder’s fundraiser

Monday November 3, 2008

11:00 – till food is gone

· $5.00 Ham dinner, potatoes and gravy, peas, and cake for dessert

· $3.00 Chili and fry bread dinner

· Bake sale! Cookies, cakes, etc………..

Where: Little Earth Gym

2501 Cedar Avenue

The event at the school is Friday, Oct. 31st
9:30 - noon

> The Multicultural Indigenous Academy will be hosting a
> traditional celebration honoring the ancestors who have
> passed on called the ” Dia De Los Muertos“.  Some
> of the honored include Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman,
> Vernon Bellecourt and friends and family of the school….
>
> Our event will begin at 9:30ish am and run until lunch.  We
> will have some traditional Mexica Danzantes and the
> students’ offrenda presentations and a few cultural
> craft activities.
>
> We are located at 133 E. 7th St. Downtown St. Paul between
> Jackson and Robert Sts.