Hit-and-run victim legally drunk
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- Hit-and-run victim legally drunk
- A dark event inspires Erdrich’s new novel
- 8-yr-old Indian-American spells history
- Gail Collins: A good day in the Badlands
- Museum and Gallery Listings
- Minnesota Indian tribe buys up land to restore prairie
- Uganda: Procurement Can Become Clean Too
Hit-and-run victim legally drunk
Broomfield Enterprise – Broomfield Enterprise (subscription) – May 30, 2008
In a flier Ursula-Lujan penned for the institute she wrote: “This is an awesome opportunity to learn about our People! Not just historic stuff either it’s actually going to be interesting because WE are deciding what we want to do and what we want to learn about. Georgia Madrid an institute mentor said the young woman will be missed. “It is always a great loss to the American Indian community when an aspiring Native American youth dies so young” Madrid said. Anyone with information on the second driver suspected of hitting Ursula-Lujan is asked to call the State Patrol at 303-239-4583.
A dark event inspires Erdrich’s new novel
San Francisco Chronicle – May 30, 2008
Erdrich whose first novel “Love Medicine” was published in 1984 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award opened the way for other Native American authors said novelist David Treuer an jibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. “In the pantheon (of American Indian writers) she’s at the top” Treuer said. Erdrich grew up in Wahpeton in southeastern North Dakota and is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in northern North Dakota. Like her character Evelina in “The Plague of Doves” Erdrich is of mixed descent — her father Ralph Erdrich is German-American and her mother Rita Gourneau Erdrich is French-jibwe. Her mixed heritage is reflected in Erdrich’s fine features and long gray-tinged hair. The soft-spoken Erdrich appears a bit distracted on this day — she confesses she looks “sort of hopeless and desperate” because of that unfinished science fiction book.
8-yr-old Indian-American spells history
Times of India – May 30, 2008
But nineother of the 30 Indian-American participants made it to the semi finals of the83-year-old competition Thursday by spelling words like “leptocercal”"bizarrerie” and “trochophore” Indian kids have dominated the eventin recent years winning the championship five times in the last nine years. Thelast Indian winner was Anurag Kashyap in 2005 correctly spelling”appoggiatura”. The nine Indian kids among 45 Spellers advancing tothe semifinals were: Easun Arunachalam (steeve) Arushi Jauhari(leptocercal) Shiva Kangeyan (ozostomia) Vaibhav Vavilala (luftmensch) SameerMishra (quadrat) Kavya Shivashankar (bizarrerie) Akshat Shekhar(monophthalmic) Sidharth Chand (purslane) and Jahnavi Iyer(trochophore). In all 288 children in the 8-15 age group from acrossthe US Canada and eight other countries qualified for the gruelling two-daycompetition but only 63 made it to the quarter finals.
Gail Collins: A good day in the Badlands
Sacramento Bee – May 30, 2008
30 2008| Page 7B MUNT RUSHMRE – What do you think inspired Hillary Clinton to get up Wednesday morning after five hours of sleep for an impromptu dash to look at four presidents’ heads carved on the side of a mountain? Maybe it was as her staff claimed: She wanted to do it just for fun. She deserves a break even if it consisted of staring up at the 20-foot-long nose of Thomas Jefferson and discussing beetle infestation in the spruce forests with the American Indian guide while everyone else took pictures of their friends taking pictures of Hillary. South Dakota which along with Montana is going to have the Last Primary on Tuesday is certainly enjoying itself. “It’s like rocket fuel was spread over the state. There’s so much excitement” said the executive director of the state Democratic Party. The people here like Hillary can use a good moment.
Museum and Gallery Listings
New York Times – May 30, 2008
) KEN JHNSN MuseumsAMERICAN FLK ART MUSEUM: ‘ASA AMES: CCUPATIN SCULPTURING’ through Sept. This first show devoted to the American sculptor Asa Ames (1823-1851) is a gem. Its eight carved and painted wood portraits — roughly two-thirds of the work of Ames’s brief maturity — introduce an artist who translated the style of self-taught American portrait painters into three dimensions imbuing their artificiality with the sense of suspended life found in 19th-century photography. A crowded wonderfully bizarre photograph that Ames orchestrated of himself his work and a friend is a poignant tribute to his ambition. 45 West 53rd Street (212) 265-1040… The folk artist Earl Cunningham (1893-1977) romanticized the American landscape without hyperbole. Cunningham didn’t suffuse his paintings with divine light or invoke manifest destiny like the Hudson River School artists; he simply showed the many small interactions of the Atlantic coastal ecosystem — a delicate balance of dock workers harbor pilots fishermen farmers waterfowl and American Indian tribes. Some 50 of his cheerful intensely colored paintings are on view at the Lincoln Square branch of the American Folk Art Museum. Whether you think of Cunningham as a folk artist or a Modernist his paintings display an intuitive grace. 2 Lincoln Square Columbus Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets (212) 595-9533 folkartmuseum.
Minnesota Indian tribe buys up land to restore prairie
KARE – May 30, 2008
By the end of the year the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux tribe hopes to begin restoring 450 more acres near the Twin Cities. Most of it is land that has been farmed since at least the 1880s. Tribal vice chairman Glynn Crooks says the tribe holds the land in high regard and thinks it’s important to return some of it to the way it was years ago. The tribe which has grown prosperous on the strength of Mystic Lake casino in Prior Lake won’t disclose how much it is paying for the land.
Uganda: Procurement Can Become Clean Too
AllAfrica.com – May 30, 2008
The US and UK might provide good examples on how to regulate the lobbying industry. Following the Jack Abramoff influence peddling episode the US passed the Honest Leadership and pen Government Act of 2007. The Abramoff scandal involved the defrauding of American Indian tribes and the bribing of public officials. Like the UK ‘Cash for Questions’ scandal Abramoff and his accomplices illegally offered legislators and their staff gifts including free trips and campaign donations in exchange for votes or support for favourable legislation. The scandal shocked the US political system forcing the retirement of Republican House Majority Leader Tom ‘The Hammer’ DeLay. The Act strengthens the need for public disclosure of lobbying activity. A key clause is the prevention of the revolving door been public office and lobbying.
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