Native American Day at Philipse Manor Hall « Result #1 on Aug 17, 2009, 9:55am »
Join us for the weekend during the Quadricentennial celebrations! Every event, lecture, and tour is free to the public, during which our focus will be on the American Indians.
New York, NY (1888PressRelease) August 17, 2009 - Autumn 2009 marks the anniversary of Henry Hudson’s ventures into the area, but also begs the question: Who was already here? Explore the answer at Philipse Manor Hall’s Native American Day on September 12 from 12-3 p.m. Discover the rich history and legacy of the native population of the area through crafts, storytelling and the reading of artifacts.
Archaeologist and educator John Kraft, of Lenape Lifeways, will erect both an artifact-filled lean-to and a museum exhibit that help explore the lives of the Lenape/Delaware Indians. Examine tools, weapons, clothing and musical instruments while discussing the family life, dwellings, diet, spiritual beliefs and technology of the Lenape.
Taino speaker, storyteller and poet Bobby Gonzalez, who has performed in venues from Carnegie Hall to the Museum of the American Indian, will present an ongoing interactive storytelling session, Ancient Legends of the Lenape Indians. Gonzalez will perform The Beginnings of Turtle Island, The Boy Who Lives with the Bears and The Origin of Corn.
Artist Arthur Kirmss links the heritage of Algonquian American Indian groups with arriving Europeans by demonstrating the practice of making wampum shell beads as it was done in the 17th century! The beads would become a medium of exchange for New Amsterdam as Europeans adopted and re-branded the beads into currency.
Make some time during the day for two lectures on seafaring folk, as delivered by Site Manager Kimberly Flook. At 1 p.m. she’ll present Henry Hudson and the Shaping of New York, and at 3 p.m. the child-oriented Pirates: Myth and Legend will be presented.
Continue enjoying Philipse Manor’s activities the following day, when we offer our annual Hudson River Valley Ramble! Join us on Sunday, September 13th from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. as we walk along the original path of the lower Nepperhan/Saw Mill River and Hudson River waterfront. Visit the Palisades cliffs, Gateway Murals, Hudson Waterfront Sculpture Garden and 9/11 Memorial, as well as other monuments, buildings and art along the way.
All events during this weekend are free of charge and open to all ages. For further information, please call 914-965-4027 or visit our event information website: philipsemanorhall.blogspot.com.
Philipse Manor Hall, a high-style Georgian manor house, was the seat of a 52,000-acre estate and home to three generations of the Lords of Philipsburg Manor. Built between c. 1680 and 1755, it is the site around which the City of Yonkers grew and developed. Philipse Manor Hall is located at 29 Warburton Avenue, at Dock Street, in Yonkers, and parking is available on site. The historic site is one of six state historic sites and 12 parks administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation – Taconic Region: www.nysparks.com.
Native Americans Prepared Themselves « Result #2 on Aug 17, 2009, 9:54am »
Native Americans Prepared Themselves for Life and Death
When it comes to reforming the mess we euphemistically call "health care" the biggest obstacle is MONEY. One would have had to live in a cave in Montana not to know that there is something very wrong with America's health care system.
You don't have to be a Republican, Democrat, or an Independent to understand that when there are 47 million people living in a country that likes to brag about having the "best health care system in the world" do not have health insurance, we have a real problem.
The daily assault upon the proposed health care plan set forth by the Barack Obama administration by radio talk show hosts has reached a fever pitch. Led by Laura Ingraham and Rush Limbaugh, and fed by the people calling their shows to echo the opinions of the hosts, the distortions of the actual health proposals have become laughable. First, the radio shows used a clever but age-old ploy and began calling health care reform "Obamacare." Put the onus on the President of the United States and stand back.
So far I have not heard one person without health insurance attack the president's health care plan. You can bet that those making the most noise are all fully covered with fat health insurance policies. Besides the conservative radio talk show hosts there are insurance companies, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies up to their necks in spending millions to stop the very idea of health care for all Americans. There are about five lobbyists for every member of Congress on Capitol Hill, not only lobbying to gain the support of these elected officials in voting against Obama's health care plan, but contributing millions into the campaign coffers of these elected officials. This, we must suppose, is the American way.
Let's take a look at what they are saying.
Number one: President Obama does not want to euthanize your grandma. His plan offers senior citizens access to a professional medical counselor to provide them with information on preparing a living will and on other issues that come up near the end of life. In the old culture of Native Americans, the elders not only prepared themselves to live, but they also prepared themselves to die.
Number two: Democrats are going to do away with private insurance and force you on to a government run plan. Actually, the Obama plan would increase your choices of insurance companies not decrease them. And if you are happy with your present coverage, you can keep it.
Number three: Obama wants to implement socialized medicine. Obama's reform will do away with some of the aspects of rationing health care such as discrimination for pre-existing conditions, insurers who cancel coverage when you get seriously ill, gender discrimination, and lifetime and yearly limits on coverage.
Number four: Obama is secretly planning to cut Medicare benefits. Reform plans will not cut Medicare benefits. It will save money by cutting billions in overpayment to insurance companies and eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. These reforms are a badly needed.
Number five: Obama's health care plan will bankrupt America. The bailouts of the banks and auto industry nearly did that without Obama's help. Actually, America needs health care reform now in order to prevent bankruptcy. The rising cost of health care is bankrupting individuals and families, small businesses and is dragging down the American economy. We now spend $2 trillion per year on health care and it is projected that the average family premium for health care will rise to more than $22,000 in the next decade. Who can afford that?
The shouting matches at the town hall meetings members of Congress are holding across the country to discuss Obama's health care plan get us nowhere. What is needed now is quiet and intelligent dialogue. If there are indeed all of the dreadful consequences built into Obama's plan, talk about them, and just don't shout down those who would pursue meaningful conversation.
When hospitals and doctors turn away needy patients because they do not have an insurance policy, something is really rotten. Every American should be entitled to health care when they are ill. Health care for only those able to afford it is damaging America's image around the world.
I have always received the best of care from the Indian Health Service hospitals and clinics on the Indian reservations and in the urban settings. The health care I receive at the Indian Hospital in Rapid City and the care I received at the Indian Hospital on the Pine Ridge Reservation has been top notch. And for politicians to use the Indian Health Service as a bad example of government run health programs is wrong. It is these very politicians who vote down the badly needed money to sustain and improve the health care of the First Americans that is wrong.
The health care mess in America is not going away until those opposed to a reasonable health care plan stop the tactics of fear and take a hard, realistic look at its shortcomings and advantages. Health care should not be only for those who can afford it.
30 swift foxes to be transplanted « Result #3 on Aug 16, 2009, 10:24am »
30 swift foxes to be transplanted to Fort Peck Indian Reservation
By Associated Press - 08/16/09
BILLINGS (AP) — Officials in Montana plan to transplant about 30 swift foxes to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in an effort to boost fox numbers by linking populations of the small predator in Canada, South Dakota and Wyoming.
The foxes will be captured from areas near Whitewater and Chinook in north-central Montana and moved to the reservation in eastern Montana next month.
Leonard Bighorn, a wildlife technician for the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes, says ultimately the goal is to establish a corridor from Canada to Texas.
“I just think they’re an awesome animal,” Bighorn told the Billings Gazette. “The Crow and Northern Cheyenne tribes are talking about trying to do this work also, which would be awesome to establish this corridor and fill in this loop that used to go from Canada to Texas.”
Swift foxes only weigh about 5 pounds but can run up to 25 mph. Their diet consists of small mammals, such as rodents and rabbits.
The foxes are nocturnal, spending most of their time underground in burrows to avoid predators such as coyotes, red foxes and raptors.
Swift foxes are native to the Great Plains but were killed off by poison intended for coyotes and wolves. Also, native prairies went into agricultural production, eliminating habitat for prairie dogs, ground squirrels and rabbits that the foxes prey on.
The foxes are now found in less than 40 percent of the their former range, and Montana officials estimate only about 500 are in the state.
“Swift fox were pretty abundant in the days of Lewis and Clark,” said Ryan Rauscher, a native-species biologist with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks in Glasgow. “But quite a while ago (1969) they were declared extirpated in Montana.”
But efforts have been made to restore populations.
“It’s thanks to these tribes that we have the swift fox population growing in this state,” said Jonathan Procter of Defenders of Wildlife. “The tribes have really been the leaders in the restoration of swift foxes across the Northern Plains.”
Money for the work is coming from a $247,000, three-year grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the tribes are contributing in-kind services.
Powwow held to confront Native American stereotype « Result #4 on Aug 16, 2009, 10:23am »
Powwow held to confront Native American stereotypes
KENT — It was a day of unity and a celebration to demolish negative stereotypes of American Indians at the ninth annual Daniel Nimham Intertribal Pow Wow at Veterans Memorial Park yesterday.
Gil “Cryinghawk” Tarbox, organizer of the two-day event and a member of the Nimham Mountain Singers, a Native American music group, said the event was beneficial to the community.
“Native Americans have been seen as savages, but we have a very rich culture,” he said. “We come together and solve problems and we are misunderstood about our spiritually.”
Cheyanne Alberti, whose grandmother was part of the Lakota Sioux tribe in South Dakota, warmly greeted people as they entered the festival. She wore American Indian regalia with blue and yellow beads with her hair in two long braids.
“Powwows are important because it teaches people that Native Americans are like everyone else,” she said. “When you watch TV they are always the bad guy.”
A powwow is a gathering of North America’s people. The word derives from the Narragansett word “powwaw,” meaning “spiritual leader.”
The event included singing, dancing and the selling of Indian products such as clothes, moccasins, jewelry, art and crafts, soaps, music and animal furs.
Beth Hayes and her husband, Gary, of Lake Luzerne sold handmade goods while they nodded their heads to Native American drumming.
“You hear those drums?” she asked. “The drums are Indian drums — not that dun dun dun dun. That’s Hollywood Indian drums. This celebrates our heritage and dispels many of those Hollywood stereotypes.”
Her husband, Gary, laughed.
“And no one ever does this,” he said as he opened his mouth and took his hand and hit it continuously, making the “ahh ahh ahh”-sound that television has shown Indians making.
Tarbox said the festival also serves other important purposes: Educating the community about Kent’s Wappinger tribe, raising money for the monument honoring the tribes of the Wappinger confederacy and Daniel Nimham, one of its leaders, and remembering American Indian veterans.
The Wappingers descended from ancestors who were forced to part with their lands during the preceding century, and who lived in Putnam and Dutchess counties.
Nimham, chief of the Wappinger Indians, was the most prominent Native American of his time living in the Hudson Valley. He was killed by British forces in the Revolutionary War.
Mike Bennett, a radio personality at WHUD 100.7 FM, gave out prizes and hosted a raffle. Named an honorary American Indian and given the name “Mooeen,” meaning “bear,” by Tarbox, he said he was happy to take part.
“Native Americans get the short end of every stick,” he said. “Anything that supports a monument of Native Americans, I am here.”
John Curzio and his dad Mario of Stormville examined some of the Hayes' goods. The 12-year-old decided to buy a piece of gray rabbit fur.
“I have come many times,” he said. “I like the history of the Native Americans.”
Henry Muenala is an American Indian musician of the South American group Chacras, born in Ecuador. He sold his CDs, handmade leather bracelets and antaras, Peruvian musical instruments with a series of pipes arranged vertically.
“It brings together my culture from every country,” he said.
As women and girls did the Fancy Shawl Dance, a traditional intertribal dance, Tarbox looked on and smiled.
Dig uncovers Native American village in East Tenn. « Result #5 on Aug 15, 2009, 5:44pm »
GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Archaeologists say they have discovered what they believe to be a Native American village near the site where a new bridge is being built over the Nolichucky River in Greene County. Matt Gage, senior archaeologist with the University of Tennessee Archaeological Research Laboratory, told the Greeneville Sun that they have found evidence of food storage facilities, pottery fragments and evidence of tool-making.
The newspaper reported Saturday that Gage estimated the village dates back 2,000 to 3,000 years.
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Minn. Native American groups get $14.6M in grants « Result #6 on Aug 14, 2009, 7:36pm »
WASHINGTON (AP) - Six Native American groups in Minnesota will share $14.6 million in federal grants to improve their housing stock, promote energy efficiency and create jobs.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the grants on Wednesday.
The groups getting the most money are the White Earth Reservation and the Leech Lake Reservation. Both are getting $3 million.
The Fond du Lac Band of Chippewa in Cloquet will get $2.6 million. The Bois Forte Reservation, the Grand Portage Reservation and the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in Redwood Falls will each get $2 million.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Native American children tour historic Poway site « Result #7 on Aug 14, 2009, 7:35pm »
Native American children tour historic Poway site
By Pat Kumpan August 11, 2009
Echoes of the past blended with voices of a new generation recently when Viejas Indian children explored a Poway hillside.
It’s not any hill, but one that has special meaning, once the home of their ancestors, the Kumeyaay Indians.
At the base of the hill sits the Kumeyaay-Ipai Interpretive Center at 13104 Ipai Waaypuk Trail (formerly Silver Lake Drive).
The recent visitors, between ages 3 and 18, skipped, explored the crevices of old boulders, and ground nuts into round holes in the rocks, called morteros, just as previous generations did before them.
Viejas tribal leaders provided the cultural experience, giving the kids a hands-on connection to their past, said Christine Foster with the Viejas Educational Center.
The nonprofit Friends of the Kumeyaay has worked with the City of Poway and San Pasqual tribal elders, such as Dorothy Tavui, to preserve and improve the Poway site.
Last Thursday, Tavui told youngsters a story about a coyote, wildcat, a mountain lion and other critters, injecting Kumeyaay words throughout.
Keeping with the cultural mood of the day, it’s important to hear the words, to keep them alive, she said.
Adults were just as intrigued with what they saw during the recent visit, said Richard Bugbee, who teaches ethnobotany, the “ins and outs” of the botanical riches left behind by his ancestors.
A visitor had only to look at a Kumeyaay hut, known as an ewaa, made of willow branches and cattails to see a botanical connection — plants that existed hundreds of years ago and still thrive today.
Inside the hut, children sat and listened to Johnny “Bear” Contreras, a well-known sculptor, whose art work is on display outside Poway’s City Hall.
Contreras, who lives on the San Pasqual Indian Reservation, encouraged his listeners to express their culture through art.
“We’re part of the living culture,” Contreras said. “We need more Native American art.”
Through art, the artist is saying, “hear me,” he added.
He told of the Kumeyaay of yesterday — how they lived and searched for food from the hills to the sea.
After generations before them were asked not to speak their native language, a new generation has a chance to enhance the Kumeyaay culture, he said.
Jeremiah Silver Nagle, 17, enjoyed the artist’s perspective, especially regarding music, he said.
“It’s cool that other people get to learn about our culture (by visiting the Kumeyaay-Ipai Interpretive Center),” he said. “and, for me to learn where my ancestors lived and thrived.”
Athena Barrett, 10, learned a lot of plants are edible.
“The Kumeyaay would eat almost any plant,” she said. “I tried some beans today, but they were bitter.”
But, she learned a few things not only by tasting, but by watching and listening.
For details about the center, which is open Saturdays from 9 to 11:30 a.m., call 858-668-1292.
Idabel, Okla.—The Museum of the Red River’s newest exhibit, “Plains Beadwork,” opened Tuesday to display dozens of examples of beautiful, utilitarian artistry from Sioux, Cheyenne and Kiowa tribes.
“We have a little over 80 pieces in this exhibit and all of them are from the Plains. We’ve sort of divided it up into things from the northern Plains, central Plains, and southern Plains that have different styles,” said Daniel Vick, assistant curator and keeper of collections at the museum.
Clothing, moccasins, containers, horse equipment and cradles are among the items on display, showing a wide variety of what incorporates beadwork. “Almost anything can be beaded,” Vick said.
Items come from the Museum of the Red River’s own permanent collection, which numbers about 18,000 objects. “It seems to be growing all the time,” said Vick.
Plains Indians used a few different styles in their beadwork, he said. Most tribes used enlarged geometric designs and curvilinear, floral designs.
“And then there’s also what’s known as pictorial representations, so there might be something like a horse or a figure on horseback, something more realistic,” Vick said.
Before contact with Europeans, Native Americans used beads made of shell, bone, or stone, he said. The beadwork on display consists of glass beads, most of which are called seed beads and are 1 to 3 millimeters in diameter, he said. He said they were introduced around the 1840s.
“It would have been part of the fur trade,” Vick said about their acquisition, noting the high point of using seed beads was from 1880 to 1920. Much of what the Museum of the Red River has in its collection dates from that time, he added.
“Beading is still going on today so we have some pieces that are just a couple of years old,” explained Vick.
“Beads were sort of a symbol of wealth for a lot of the nomadic tribes,” he said, because they could be easily shown and carried from place to place.
The exhibit runs through Oct. 4. A seminar titled “Masters of the Craft: Plains Beadwork” will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 5. To sign up, call the museum.
(Admission is free to the Museum of the Red River. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. More information: 580-286-3616 or www.museumoftheredriver.org.)
Digging begins on American Indian burial site « Result #9 on Aug 13, 2009, 11:02pm »
Digging begins on American Indian burial site in Carriage Town
by Scott Atkinson | The Flint Journal Thursday August 13, 2009, 5:54 PM
FLINT, Michigan — The excavation of an accidentally found American Indian burial site started today.
With a group of volunteers, the Ziibiwig Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways is helping the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe look for the remains of their ancestors so they can perform a proper burial.
During today's dig, more than 50 Korean English Teachers from Central Michigan University's English Language Institute aided the dig.
The dig began with volunteers clearing away the vegetation so the underlying dirt could be sifted through screens. By noon, at least one large bone had been found.
Working with her fellow volunteers, Okkyoung Park loaded dirt into her screen and shook it back and forth, letting the loose dirt fall away. She hadn't found anything yet, but remained hopeful.
Native American Artists Exhibit at Thorne « Result #10 on Aug 13, 2009, 11:00pm »
KEENE, N.H., 8/5/09 - Recent works by Native American artists will be showcased in Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art, one of two exhibits to open September 12 to November 24 at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College. The exhibit will include works by six artists who engage in contemporary art rather than what is traditionally considered Native American art. A public reception for Migrations and another exhibit, Downstream: Current Works on Water by Six Artists, will take place Friday, September 11, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Thorne Gallery.
The six Native American artists, whose prints are in the Thorne exhibit, worked on the Migrations project at The University of New Mexico's Tamarind Institute, a world-renowned center for fine art lithography. Each artist collaborated with professional printers at Tamarind and at Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts in Pendleton, Oregon, to create prints. Artists Steven Deo (Creek/Euchee), Tom Jones (Ho Chunk), Larry McNeil (Tlingit/Nisgaa), Ryan Lee Smith (Cherokee), Star Wallowing Bull (Chippewa/Arapaho), and Marie Watt (Seneca) represent a wide spectrum of Native American cultures and experiences.
"Each of the Migrations artists has experienced the fluid boundaries of culture, and their work embraces both the modern and the traditional," wrote Tamarind director Marjorie Devon in the introduction to the book about the exhibit. The title of the exhibit, "Migrations," reflects the "diverse implications of movement: between one time and another, between cultures, between places, between artistic mediums, between obscurity and limelight."
In conjunction with the Migrations exhibit, Native American artist J. J. Kent will perform on Wednesday, September 16, at 8 p.m., in the Mabel Brown Room in KSC's Young Student Center. Kent, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, specializes in Native American history, story telling, and flute music. He is a speaker, musician, and educator who travels to various educational settings to spread his understanding of his Native culture. He was a nominee at the 2005 Native American Music Awards and the 2004 Indian Summer Music Awards. The Kent performance is co-sponsored by the KSC Campus Commission on Diversity and Multiculturalism and Common Ground Multicultural Club, a student organization.
Exhibited in the same gallery as Migrations will be Downstream: Current Works on Water by Six Artists. Christine Destrempes, Janet Fredericks, Amy Jenkins, Mary Lang, Nathalie Miebach, and Marjorie Ryerson use water as inspiration and metaphor in a variety of innovative media to address the importance of clean drinking water to everyone on earth.
Reopening September 12-27 will be the summer exhibits Keene State College - Celebrating Our Centennial 1909-2009: 100 Years of Academic Community and Photographs by Andy Warhol and Other Gifts to KSC.
The gallery is open from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday through Wednesday, and noon to 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday. It will be closed Wednesday, November 11, for Veterans Day. The exhibits and reception are free and open to the public. Located on Wyman Way on the Keene State campus, the Thorne Gallery is accessible to people with disabilities. To request accommodations for a disability, please call the Thorne Gallery at least two weeks before your visit. For more information, call 603-358-2720 or visit www.keene.edu/tsag.
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