Burns: Indian names: Honor or insult?
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- Burns: Indian names: Honor or insult?
- Former SF resident championed Indian non-Indian relations
- New voice old story
- Dwight Burns of Allen: A question of race
- The State News
- Word by word tribes begin to find their voice
- The Magnificent Seven
Burns: Indian names: Honor or insult?
MetroWest Daily News – Feb 24, 2008
ne student questioned whether Joseph was speaking for himself or the majority of Wampanoag when he voiced objections. n the other hand one was enough for teacher Jody Quill a Nauset graduate who stated that Frank James a Wampanoag who taught at the school approved of the logo. So who should be the arbiter as to what is offensive to American Indians? Randy Joseph? Frank James? Nauset High School students? Natick voters? Doug Flutie? The answer is that there is no answer. The question is why do schools continue to struggle over what is basically a simple issue. Using these names and logos is controversial and is offensive to many American Indians. This isn’t about PC; it’s about common sense. This isn’t some language-bending bunch of do-gooders suggesting "Warriors" should be changed to "Passively-challenged.
Former SF resident championed Indian non-Indian relations
Santa Fe New Mexican.com – Feb 24, 2008
Department of Agriculture and as a field investigator for the Council on Indian Affairs. Her research published in the Report on the Navajo supported the creation of community development programs in American Indian communities. She served as a field officer for American Indian programs of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church and helped organize the American Indian Capital Conference on Poverty in Washington D. during the 1960s and 1970s. Later in life she lived in Tucson Ariz.
New voice old story
Columbia Daily Tribune – Feb 24, 2008
“We are the invisible America. You seldom come across Native Americans in books and films… Louis and Kansas City. A year later members of Kipp’s Blackfoot reservation were able to see the symphony when it was performed in Helena Mont. The symphony opened in Montana with traditional American Indian music performed by the chief of Kipp’s tribe. ●When Kapilow met Kipp the men were attending a meeting of tribal leaders. Kapilow was impressed by Kipp who was raised on the Blackfoot reservation and left to earn diplomas from Eastern Montana College the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and Vermont College’s writing program. Kipp was honorably discharged from the Army with the rank of sergeant in 1968. About 20 years later he returned to the reservation to help save his culture.
Dwight Burns of Allen: A question of race
Dallas Morning News – Feb 24, 2008
Middle Seat Guy: You’re really proud of your heritage aren’t you?Me: f course. I love telling folks that I’m a Texan several generations deep. What’s more special is that means black Anglo American Indian and Hispanic culture all mixed up together. We’re not perfect but there’s no doubt that my heart and my roots are right here.
The State News
MSU State News – Feb 24, 2008
“The dance is associated with water and the healing of the earth” she said. “Sometimes people ask me to dance for someone who is ill. ” Traditional American Indian dances such as the jingle dance have only recently been featured during jibwe language weekend. The weekend consisted of a language quiz bowl until the addition of the powwow four years ago said Mindy Morgan an assistant professor of anthropology. Morgan has been involved with jibwe language weekend since its 2001 debut thanks to Helen Roy a faculty member in the American Indian Studies Program. Roy narrated the powwow in jibwe her first language. Captions in English were projected onto a screen behind the dancers throughout the powwow.
Word by word tribes begin to find their voice
Seattle Times – Feb 24, 2008
html DAVIS Calif. — The first time José Freeman heard his tribe’s lost language through the crackle of a 70-year-old recording he cried. “My ancestors were speaking to me” said Freeman of the sounds captured when American Indians still inhabited California’s Salinas Valley. “It was like coming home. Though the last native speaker of Salinan died almost half a century ago more and more indigenous people are finding their extinct or endangered tongues one word or song at a time thanks to a late linguist and some University of California Davis scholars who are working to transcribe his life’s obsession. Driven to record the native languages he saw disappearing all around him John Peabody Harrington spent four decades gathering more than 1 million pages of phonetic notations on languages spoken by tribes from Alaska to South America. When the technology became available he supplemented his written record with audio recordings — first using wax cylinders then aluminum discs.
The Magnificent Seven
New York Times – Feb 24, 2008
Christophe Decarnin is revamping Balmain with Native American Indian and animal prints as well as a surfeit of beads fringe and studs. Who?s afraid of a little boho? At Jeffrey New York and Intermix. Considering they have names like How Are You and I?m Fine Viktor & Rolf?s new line of bags embellished with ribbons bows and the duo?s signature wax seal (up to $2400) could make small talk a real art form.
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