The fourth annual Women Empowering Women for Indian Nations conference is scheduled for July 29-31 at the Mille Lacs Grand Hotel and Casino in Hinckley , MN . This year’s conference features many dynamic Native women leaders and a variety of workshops about critical issues affecting our communities. To view the full conference agenda, go to www.wewin04. org or call conference organizers at 571-323-5641.
Attached is a flyer about three workshops sponsored by the Indian Law Resource Center (www.indianlaw. org)
The New United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – How to Use it Tuesday, July 29, 9am - 5pm
Violence Against Women - Using International Law to Protect our Families Thursday, July 31, 10am -12pm
Effective Public Relations – Using Media to Tell Your Story Thursday, July 31, 10am – 12 pm, repeats 1:45pm – 3:45pm
We encourage you to attend, and ask that you forward this information to your contacts to help promote the fourth annual WEWIN conference.
Thank you,
Valerie Taliman
Director of Communications
Indian Law Resource Center
602 N. Ewing Street
Helena, MT 59602
406/449-2006
www.indianlaw. org
Justice for Indigenous Peoples
At the Prairie Island Community Center at 6:00 on July 2, 2008. Please bring a dish to pass.
See you there.
Sharon
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Enjoy this video starting with “The Talking Circle” used to solve problems like improving Tribal resources.
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Barry Carter barryc@indigenousway.net
There is a war going in the state of Virginia and the United States against Native Americans. Virginia is on the front lines of this war and Prince William county is the front lines in VA.
There are 70,000 Native Americans under attack as I write.
In 2008 over two dozen anti-Native American bills were passed by the Virginia State legislature.
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 Bison are once again roaming free on the prairies of Minnesota.The release of the large animals is part of the state’s sesquicentennial celebration. The bison were released onto 220 acres of land in Washington County Saturday morning.
More than 200 people showed up to see the return of the large animals return to the nature at the Belwin Nature Center in Afton.
Experts say that the Bison are critical to the environment because they spread seed and kill unwanted plants on the prairie.
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KFAI’s Indian Uprising, June 29, 2008 from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. CDT #272
The American Indian Movement (AIM), is an Indian activist organization in the United States. AIM burst onto the international scene with its seizure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 1972 and the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
AIM was co founded in Minneapolis in 1968 by Dennis Banks, George Mitchell, Herb Powless, Clyde Bellecourt, Eddie Benton-Banai, and many others in the Native American community, almost 200 total. Russell Means was another early leader.
In the decades since AIM’s founding, the group has led protests advocating Indigenous American interests, inspired cultural renewal, monitored police activities and coordinated employment programs in cities and in rural reservation communities across the United States. AIM has often supported other indigenous interests outside the United States, as well.
AIM’s original mission included protecting indigenous people from police abuse, using CB radios and police scanners to get to the scenes of alleged crimes involving indigenous people before or as police arrived, for the purpose of documenting or preventing police brutality.
As is true with many national liberation movements (PLO, African National Congress), ideological differences emerged within AIM over the years. In 1993, AIM split into two main factions, each claiming that it was the authentic inheritor of the AIM tradition, and that the other had betrayed the original principles of the movement.
One group, based in Minneapolis, MN and associated with the Bellecourts, is known as the AIM-Grand Governing Council <http://www.aimovement.org> , while the other segment of the movement, led by, among others, Russell Means, was named AIM-International Confederation of Autonomous Chapters <http://www.americanindianmovement.org> - Excerpts: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Movement>
Guest: Steve Blake (Red Lake Ahnishinahbaeotjibway), Director, Twin Cities American Indian Movement
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Indian Uprising is a KFAI Public & Cultural Affairs program relevant to Native Indigenous people, broadcast each Sunday on 90.3 FM Minneapolis and 106.7 FM St. Paul. Volunteer producer & host is Chris Spotted Eagle.
For internet listening, visit www.kfai.org, click Play under ON AIR NOW or for listening later via their archives, click PROGRAMS & SCHEDULE > Indian Uprising > STREAM. Programs are archived for two weeks.
Hello,
I just wanted to take a minute of your time to introduce one my favorite new artist. Her name is Crystal Shawanda and she is truly an amazing talent!
Crystal pours her heart & soul into her music, because it is her lifeline. A Native American, Crystal grew up on the Wikwemikong Indian Reserve in Ontario , Canada . Her last name, “Shawanda” literally translates to the album title, “Dawn of a New Day” – and a new day is what music has given Crystal . CLICK BELOW TO READ MORE
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Tell some time in the middle of July. We will send out a notice asap.
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THIS POSTING READ JUNE 28TH AND IS ACTUALLY TODAY JUNE 27, 2008. SORRY FOR THE MIX UP. HONOR YOURSELF AND GET TESTED TODAY 11 AM TO 2PM.
You are invited to attend National HIV Testing Day on June 27th, 11am to 2pm. at Recovery Resource Center, 1900 Chicago Ave South, MPLS
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MAP IT
Weight Loss Study
Participants are needed to complete a study about exercise and reducing risk for breast cancer. The Women In Steady Exercise Research (WISER) study at the University of Minnesota, is a four-year study examining the effect exercise has on oxidative stress and estrogen levels in women. The study will involve 400 women between 18 and 30, who will participate for six months. Participants will be randomized into a control or exercise group for four months. A free fitness center membership will be provided for exercise participants. All participants will receive $300 upon completion of the study. Visit http://ecommunication.umn.edu/t/41450/2657418/23422/0/ for more information.
Mila Koumpilova, The Forum
Published Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Waubun, Minn.
Sam Rock’s students recently created a marker-on-whiteboar d portrait of the Waubun High teacher riding a toy horse, a feather in his bowl-shaped hat.
The portrait – part cheeky caricature, part tribute – captures Rock’s layered relationship with his mostly American Indian students.
A self-described nerd who teaches Ojibwe, he cracks down on four-letter words at school; in a stern voice, he says things like “Show some class” and “If you want respect, you have to earn it.” He’s also the teacher students confide in about family troubles and peer pressure. They marvel that this man, who like many of them grew up poor on a reservation, who just earned a master’s degree.
“He shows one of us can do it, too,” ninth-grader Aaron Faber said.
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Action Alert today! See below.
Yvette Roubideaux MD MPH
Chair, Awakening the Spirit Team
American Diabetes Association
From: American Diabetes Association MakingNoise@diabetes.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:32 PM
To: Lisa Foster
Subject: Next Step for Special Diabetes Programs
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Donation’s Needed For Our 9th Welcome Home Traditional Pow Wow in 2008.
MMDC
1324 sibley Memorial Hwy
Mendota, MN 55150
————– Forwarded Message: ————–
From: Anthony James <jame0172@umn.edu>
Subject: ATTENTION: Native American Actors
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:56:37 +0000
Hello,
Thank you for talking with me over the phone. I am wondering if you
could forward this to the community:
ATTENTION: Native American Actors
We need 6 actors to portray people in a re-enactment shoot for a cable
television show. The shoot will take place on Thursday June 26th, 2008
at a Twin Cities location TBD. Each actor will be payed $150 for the
shoot. Please send resumes/bios and headshot to Anthony James via email:
jame0172@umn.edu. Thank you.
Anthony James
Whitewolf Entertainment
763-754-5680
Add to Contacts
What: Silent Auction and Reception to benefit the Sexual Violence Center
When: 5:30pm - 8:00pm, July 24th 2008
Where: Solera, 900 Hennepin Ave., Downtown Minneapolis
For more info visit: www.sexualviolencecenter.org/upcomingevents.htm
Misty G. Seeger
Development Associate
612.871.5100, ext.11
mseeger@sexualviolencecenter.org
Sexual Violence Center
3757 Fremont Ave. North
Minneapolis, MN 55412
www.sexualviolencecenter.org
PEACE & DIGNITY RUN – Minnesota Run, June 25-June 28, 2008
The Peace & Dignity Runners are coming in from Canada on Wednesday, June 25th morning, coming in from a stay over at the Roseau River First Nations, crossing the Canada-US "Medicine Line Border". These runners left Eklutna, Alaska on May 1, 2008. On Wednesday late afternoon they will get to Red Lake Nation. On Thursday, they will be in Bemidji taking part in the 7th Annual Healing Pow-Wow at the Bemidji North Country Regional Hospital and then run to the Mississippi Headwaters at Lake Itasca. On Friday morning they will proceed to run to White Earth and on to Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota territories.
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THIS WEDNESDAY JUNE 25, IS REGALIA CLASS AT 6:30. PLEASE BRING A DISH TO PASS. EVERYONE IS WELCOME. SHARON
As many of you may already know I have worked in the pet community for many years. I have worked with and supported many nonprofit & volunteer based humane organizations. For the most part these groups receive pet food donations that meet and or exceede their feeding needs. If you find one in your area that you feel is worthy, donate if you can, volunteer if you are able, but make sure their mission aligns with your personal philosophy on animal/human relationships. Clicking on theanimalrescuesite.com WILL NOT benefit any local shelters or rescue groups. Clicking on this site will finacially benifit the owner of the site and ANIMAL RIGHTS groups.
By clicking on this site you are supporting animal rights groups. Their agendas include No pet ownership, and No eating of meat, and No fishing among other things. If this is your personal agenda click away, if you enjoy keeping a cat or dog around, or intend to grill and enjoy a juicy burger this coming weekend, then you probably do not want to support animal rights groups that have agendas with the intent of changing how you choose to live. The groups listed on this website are also opposed to the use of body parts (feathers, wings, skins, claws, ect) for cultural and religious purposes. What they are not opposed to is getting as much money as they can with what some would consider as deceptive practices.
Gives one somthing to think about.
Kevin M
Action Alert today! See below.
Yvette Roubideaux MD MPH
Chair, Awakening the Spirit Team
American Diabetes Association
From: American Diabetes Association [mailto:MakingNoise@diabetes.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:32 PM
To: Lisa Foster
Subject: Next Step for Special Diabetes Programs
Dear ,
Good news! Thanks to the ongoing support of Diabetes Advocates like you,
yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives voted 355-59 in support of a
Medicare package that included a two-year extension of the Special
Diabetes
Programs. This is a great step, but we’re not done yet!
The Medicare package will be voted on in the Senate tomorrow, so we
need to keep
up the pressure. Please send a letter to your Senators asking them to
vote in
favor of the Medicare package that includes a two-year extension of the
Special
Diabetes Programs at the National Institutes of Health and the Indian
Health
Service.
Thank you for your tireless efforts this week asking Congress to help
us change
the future of diabetes. Please ask your Senators to fight diabetes by
letting
this vote happen and supporting the Medicare package that includes a
two-year
extension of the Special Diabetes Programs. Click on Take Action Now to
send
your letter.
To Take action, go to this link:
https://secure2.convio.net/adap/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr009=9k3zy2m
yd1.app10b&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1282
Quoting Yvette Roubideaux MD MPH <yvetter@email.arizona.edu:
SDPI Reauthorization Update
While those of you at the meeting are hearing this in person, I
wanted to make
sure those of you not at the meeting know that today is an important
day for
SDPI Reauthorization - see below
Yvette Roubideaux MD MPH, Chair, Awakening the Spirit Team
American Diabetes Association
From: American Diabetes Association [mailto:MakingNoise@diabetes.org]
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 2:18 PM
To: Lisa Foster
Subject: The vote on the Special Diabetes Programs is happening
tomorrow!
Forward to a Friend
Dear ,
We mentioned this would be a busy week and we have just found out that
the House
of Representatives is expected to vote on the extension of the Special
Diabetes
Programs tomorrow, June 24th, as part of the Medicare package.
As you know, this legislation will extend vitally important funding
for
research
on type 1 diabetes and funding for research, treatment and prevention
programs
for Native Americans populations who are affected by diabetes in
disproportionate numbers. The bill will come up under a "suspension of
the
rules", a procedure intended to speed up the process and move the
legislation
forward. It also means that two-thirds of the Members need to vote
for
the bill
for it to pass.
Many of you have already written your Members of Congress on this
issue, but
your voice needs to be heard again!
Help us get closer to a cure! Click on Take Action Now to urge Del.
Norton to
vote in favor of the two year extension of the Special Diabetes
Programs.
Take Action Now!
Quoting Alisa.Katai@UCHSC.edu:
Please forward this information to all program staff attending the
June
Grantee Meeting next week!
Dear Grantees:
We are really looking forward to spending some time with you next
week
at the SDPI Demonstration Projects Grantee Meeting, Year 4 Meeting 2.
Here are a few quick miscellaneous notes to assist you in being
prepared
before you get here.
* An updated agenda is attached. Please note that though the
content of the meeting hasn’t changed much, the schedule is different
than previous drafts of the agenda. Please plan accordingly.
* In order to get the most out of the Semi-Annual Progress Report
presentation, please review the progress report in detail in the days
prior to the meeting. Also, please print your own copy of the
General
Progress Report to bring to the meeting so you can easily follow
along
with the presentation. You can download it from the CC website,
under
Publications on the left navigation bar. You can also find your
Grantee-Specific Progress Report at the same location. There will be
ample time for questions and comments following the presentation, so
please make a note of anything you want answered.
* The continuation application and carry-over issues will be
discussed at this meeting. Please come prepared with your questions
on
these two issues.
* Meals reminder: A hot lunch will be provided on Thursday. On
Wednesday, you are on your own for lunch before the meeting and only
beverages will be provided during the afternoon break. The bus
leaves
the hotel at 12:00 p.m., so please plan to eat before then. Please
also
plan to bring your own morning and afternoon snacks for both days if
desired.
* Gamma grantees’ regular Tuesday data submission is still due the
week of the grantee meeting; however you can send in your electronic
submission on any day of that week.
* Weather for the week is predicted to be in the mid-to-high 80s,
dry and sunny.
* Though there is no special evening bus to an area mall just for
grantees this meeting, the hotel runs a free shuttle to the nearby
Northfield Mall. A shuttle schedule will be provided by the hotel at
check-in.
Safe travels, and we look forward to seeing you next week!
Alisa
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Alisa D. Katai, MHA
Project Coordinator, Diabetes Prevention Program
IHS SDPI Demonstration Projects Coordinating Center
Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Bldg/MS F800
delivery: 13055 E 17th Ave, First Floor, Aurora CO 80045
mail: PO Box 6508, Aurora CO 80045
p: 303-724-0288 f: 303-724-0332 Alisa.Katai@uchsc.edu
For general questions or when I’m unavailable, please contact
Meghan Berrier 303-724-0426 meghan.berrier@uchsc.edu
For questions on data and forms, please contact:
Jenn Russell 303-724-1422 Jenn.Russell@uchsc.edu
