City of Mendota Heights and Green River Greening invite you to join us in celebrating and dedication the installation of the interpretive markers.
Tail Feather Woman
http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200906090030/NEWS01/106090013
The Native American boarding schools run by religious orders and the federal government more than 100 years ago were designed to assimilate Indians into white America. Efforts to populate these schools ripped young children from their families and their cultures and left bitter memories of boarding schools in Native American communities. But one story of perseverance at such a school was uncovered recently by a St. Cloud State University adjunct history professor who researched a local boarding school with the nation’s pastime as a backdrop.
Hello friends:
The Claybuddies are having our annual Art in the Garden – Pottery sale on Saturday & Sunday, May 30 & 31, 10:00am to 5:00pm. It will be held at 4309 44th Avenue South in Minneapolis (as usual).
This year, we will have 10 artists participating and hope you will be able to stop in to have a look and visit with us. Please see the attached postcard, We are looking forward to seeing you!
P.S. Please forward to your friends who might be interested in coming!
Please visit online
www.chalchiutlicue.org
tele: 612.600.8272
Friday May 29, 2009
Environmental Justice Summit 9am – 3:30pm
Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center
179 Robie St.
Saint Paul, MN 55107
Saturday, May 30, 2009
March for Water & Ceremonia Chalchiutliecue 11am-4pm
March starts at the Minneapolis American Indian Center
1530 East Franklin Ave, Mpls, MN 55407
Saturday, May 31, 2009
Offering of Flowers Ceremony 9am
Fiesta at the Beach 12pm
Fort Snelling State Park, Hwy 5 and Post Road
Saint Paul, MN 55411
Special Thanks to our Sponsors and Partners: Capitol Region Watershed, Clear Way MN-Quitplan, Mississippi Water Management Organization, Eco Education, St. Cloud State University, ce Tempoxcalli, Multicultural Indigenous Academy, El Colegio, MN Transitions Charter School, & the Neighborhood House.
My name is Gina Yellow Eagle I am a member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe.
I’m also a Sales Rep for Native American Office Products & Supply also known as NAOPS. I can offer you office furniture below retail price. We also have a full line of office supplies from our 2009 catalog. With free delivery for purchases over $50.00. We have 54 warehouses nationwide. If you place your order by noon, you will receive your order the next day. We supply every thing from pens to office cleaning supplies. We promise customer service, not empty promises. With over 31 years in business we take pride in excellent customer service. We have been designated a Buy- Indian company.
We are 100% Indian owned. SBA nominated and also a preferred vendor for the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin.We except purchase orders, credit cards, and BPA’
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Check out our website at www.naops.com
Native American Office Products & Supply Gina Yellow Eagle – Sales Representative gyelloweagle@naops.com
Ph: (800) 445-0108
Fax:(800) 562-3868
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CAN-DO NEWSLETTER – May 13, 2009
We want to thank everyone for participating CAN-DO’s $5 Dollar “Challenge for Change”
We started this challenge on March 3rd as a “social experiment”. We were not prepared for such an amazing response- In just 8 weeks your $5′s turned in to $2,745. CAN-DO’s $5 Dollar “Challenge for Change” proves just how easy it can be to execute a project from concept-to-completion without the “red tape”- AND have it completed in a reasonable time frame.
Currently, we are just $6,000 short of our $18,000 budget to build a 60 x 30ft community greenhouse for the Crow Creek Indian Reservation and we need your help to get there. We can build it in just 8 days utilizing community volunteers and the entire process will be broadcast live via VirtualVolunteer.tv. Be there with us to experience the impact of your donations!
Run as a community co-operative, the greenhouse will be the sole source of fresh produce on the reservation for hundreds of families year round. In addition to providing much needed nutrition, the greenhouse will ALSO function as a community revitalization project, bringing young and old together with a solid, positive, common goal. This will be more than just a source of food, it will be a source of pride and an opportunity to promote self reliance.
Some history on Crow Creek:
The Crow Creek Indian Reservation is located in Ft. Thompson South Dakota. This is the nation’s poorest county where the average annual income is around $5000 with a staggering 80% rate of unemployment. The majority of the residents are under the age of 18. The living conditions are what most would consider deplorable. During the harshest winter months many residents are unable to pay their electric bills, leaving them without any electricity. Imagine trying to feed your family without even the basics, without a refrigerator or a freezer. They are forced to survive on processed, high fat foods. This type of eating causes abnormally high rates of diabetes, asthma, and childhood obesity.
This greenhouse will give the residents a healthier choice of diet year round and impact the residents of Crow Creek for a lifetime.
We are so close to reaching our goal! If you haven’t yet taken the challenge, please do! SEE how far $5 can go. Invite friends, family, co-workers - Imagine if you could get just a few people to follow you and take this challenge? Are you up for it?
With your help, together we can revitalize a community and help restore a culture right here at home!
Take & Pass On CAN-DO’s $5 Challenge for Change at www.can-do.org.
Thank you!
The CAN-DO Team
CURRENT PROJECT: CROW CREEK INDIAN RESERVATION, SOUTH DAKOTA
With our proven approach to providing lasting solutions with full accountability, efficiency and results, CAN-DO will approach the operation at the Crow Creek Reservation on a local level. Dedicated to listening to the voice of the people, the plan starts by raising the nation’s awareness of the urgent human right abuses taking place on the South Dakota region. It is crucial that while funds are being raised the immediate survival needs of the community are effectively being met. The project is a call to action – we need everyone’s help to make it happen.
PROJECT CROW CREEK – REVITALIZATION PLAN – 2009 (pdf)
http://www.nativecircle.com/nakoma.htm
Nakoma is an artist, writer, lecturer, singer and
traditional dancer. His beautiful art which is so
perfectly teamed with his words of wisdom, will
do much more than just hang on a wall. It will
teach, inspire & move you for years- We promise.
http://amin.umn.edu/naisa2009/#committee
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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.
Hello to All My Relatives,
As a supporter of Danza Mexica Cuauhtemoc of the Twin Cities area, I am forwarding this information on the 5th Annual Chalchiutlique Environmental Summit & Cultural Celebration, May 29 -31, 2009. I participated in last years celebration and had the privilege of dancing in Ceremonia Chalchiutlique with the danzantes to honor all water.
This is an awesome conference and beautiful Mexica ceremony. Please forward to all your contacts. Tlazocamati! Thank you!
Sincerely,
Renee Sans Souci
Shonge Xube Wau
Manitou Ishti Duhmoo Quay
(Sacred Horse Woman)
Omaha Nation
Check out my blog: http://sacredhorsewoman.blogspot.com
| “The dances are prayers.” |
| –Pop Chalee, TAOS PUEBLO |
| When we dance to the drum we pray to the Creator and attract the heartbeat of the earth. We never dance without reason; every dance has a purpose. We dance for rain; we dance for healing; we dance for seasons; we dance for joy; we dance for our children; we dance for the people; we dance for courage. The drum plays to the beat of the heart, to the beat of the Earth. The drum connects us to the Earth while we dance our prayers. |
The White Buffalo Prophecy tells of a time when a white buffalo calf would be born, and that birth would signal a time of Great Healing for All Nations. That white buffalo calf – the first of many - was born in Janesville, Wisconsin in 1994. Her name was Miracle.
It is in the spirit of the White Bison Prophecy, that we call upon all peoples to join us in signing this petition supporting a US apology and healing for the widespread abuse of Native American children at the nearly 500 schools funded by the US government to assimilate Native American people.
There is a growing body of evidence that the trauma Native American children carried home with them from the schools is an underlying cause of the suicides and substance abuse-related deaths that are killing young Native people today in alarming numbers.
This petition will be hand delivered to Washington, D.C., following a 6,800-mile, cross-country journey by White Bison to 23 present and former Indian school sites (http://www.wellbrietyjourney.org/). The vision is to promote awareness, dialogue and forgiveness for what happened at the schools so that we can collectively heal from this tragic chapter in United States history.
This petition calls upon the President of the United States to issue a formal apology for what the US government allowed to happen to Native American children at the schools and for the intergenerational trauma that is still negatively affecting Native individuals, families & communities to this day.
White Bison, Inc., is a non-profit organization that for the last 20 years has provided culturally-relevant assistance and resources to
Filmmaker Chris Eyre recently visited an American Indian school in Oregon . Part Cheyenne and part Arapaho, the award-winning director asked the young students to name their heroes.
A hand went up. The first hero named was P. Diddy.
“That’s great,” Eyre said. “I like P. Diddy. I listen to his music sometimes. Well, I’m thinking of a native hero. Who are your heroes?”
Another hand went up. The next hero was Tiger Woods.
“That’s getting closer,” Eyre told them. “OK, that’s getting there.”
He believes these students and the rest of the country will get even closer after seeing the five-part “American Experience” documentary series “We Shall Remain.” Directed by Eyre and Ric Burns, these 90-minute PBS films explore history from the American Indian perspective.
The first installment, the Eyre-directed “After the Mayflower,” begins in 1620 with the arrival of English settlers in New England . It airs at 9 p.m. Monday on WVIZ Channel 25 and WEAO Channel 49.
TV PREVIEW
American Experience
What: “We Shall Remain” is a five-part documentary series about the Ameri can Indian experience.
When: 9 p.m. Monday (remaining chapters air at 9 p.m. Mondays through May 11).
Where: PBS (WVIZ Channel 25 and WEAO Channel 49).
The remaining four installments air at the same time on Mondays through May 11: “Tecumseh’s Vision” (April 20), focusing on the Shawnee leader’s attempts to create an independent American Indian state; “Trail of Tears” (April 27), examining the story of the Cherokee Nation; “Geronimo” (May 4), looking at the Apache leader; and “Wounded Knee” (May 11), documenting the 1973 standoff. Channel 49 will air its ” One State — Many Nations: Native Americans in Ohio ” at 10:30 p.m. Monday, following the premiere of “After the Mayflower.”
“It’s hard to get away from the tragedy when you tell this kind of story,” Eyre said. “But I think there are so many heroes within the characters here. . . . This is not a series about oppression.”
It is a series about getting away from the usual stereotypes of American Indians being presented as either fierce warriors or peaceable lovers of the land.
“American history is often presented in extremes, either a bright story of freedom, an opportunity, or a dark one of dispossession and subjugation,” said Mark Samels, executive producer of “American Experience.” “It’s seldom that simple. Nowhere is this more true than in the story of Native Americans.”
Burns, the writer and director behind such PBS projects as “The Way West” and ” New York : A Documentary Film,” grew up in Michigan , eight miles from the town of Tecumseh . As a boy, he had no idea why the town was named Tecumseh.
“Tecumseh, I believe, is a hero just not to Native Americans, but should be seen as a hero to all Americans,” Burns said. “The story of Tecumseh is a story of a man in the generation after the Revolution who upheld the principles of the Revolution — love of country, love of liberty, the love of the right to self-determination.”
The challenge for Burns is to make the history heartfelt and accurate: “You don’t want to just replace a kind of counterhistory for history. You want to get at the truth . . . Every one of our programs, up to the ears, was absolutely vetted for accuracy and plausibility . . . As a filmmaker, I have to say that the biggest challenge for any project is bringing the past alive . . . It’s dead until that spark leaps from the past and from the dry documents and the statistics, and is reignited in somebody’s heart.”
Monday May 11th 3pm
American Indian Family Center
579 Wells Street
St. Paul, MN 55130
Everyone is welcome
Please bring a dish to share, and an item or two for the giveaway
Please call with any questions
651-793-3803
(MNRRA) has announced that there will be no further public meetings planned concerning the disposition of the Coldwater Spring property. A further meeting had been announced for mid-April, but that meeting will not take place. The decision appears to be the result of what happened at the Open House on February 23, 2009, at which some of those attending insisted on speaking publicly on the various issues involved in front of all those gathered, rather than speaking individually to the officials present. The decision was announced in an email to several of those interested in what happens to the Coldwater/Bureau of Mines property.
more at www.minnesotahistory.net
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Someone just told me about this YouTube video, “Left in the Cold” about folks having their power turned off in the winter on Crow Creek. When is the genocide of the Dakota People going to stop? That is a death sentence in those conditions, especially for the young and the sick. If you feel moved to send this out, I’m sure you can frame it in the best way, so I thought I’d just send you the info. Check it out:
Saturday, April 25th
Pilot Knob Restoration Event
North of Highway 13 at Acacia Blvd. and Pilot Knob Rd.
Mendota heights, MN
8:30am-12:30pm
Please contact Mark Turbak volunteer programs manager for more information.
mturbak@greatrivergreening.org
651-665-9500
The Reduce Tobacco Abuse Program (Division of Indian Work) is recruiting Native American youth to help with an advocacy project to make Minneapolis parks and recreation areas tobacco free.
With your help, we can:
1. Assess the Minneapolis community. You will find out who makes the decisions and what types of recreation facilities exist.
2. Develop the policy request. Take the information you’ve gathered and create a policy request that tells decision makers what you want them to do!
3. Build policy support. Educating community members and decision makers about the issue will help them understand your point of view! You can write letters to the editor and attend community events to distribute materials.
4. Collect cigarette butts at your community’s recreational facilities to use as evidence. Show decision makers the problem firsthand!
5. Present policy request to decision makers. Participate in your local community government by attending a park commission or city council meeting!
6. Help implement the new policy. Educate your community about the new tobacco-free policy, and look for ways to spread the tobacco-free sports message!
Food, drinks, and incentives will be provided. Trainings times and dates (All times 4pm- 6pm) March 19 April 2 & 16 May 7 & 21 June 4 & 18. This is a collaboration effort from youth programs within Minneapolis and the Tobacco – Free Youth Recreation (Association for Nonsmokers-Minnesota).
Most group sessions will be held at Northpoint Health & Wellness 1313 Penn Ave N Minneapolis , MN . Other sessions will take place at the Division of Indian Work building.
Questions or to request a registration form contact:
George Spears
Program Coordinator
Reduce Tobacco Abuse Program
“The Most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don’t have any” (Alice Walker)
Division of Indian Work
1001 East Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Office: (612) 722-8722 ext. 376
Fax: (612) 722-8669
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