State’s Indian students outpace national average
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- State’s Indian students outpace national average
- Darrin Swartz-Larson of McKinney: Has PC become too PC?
- Amritraj-Ram lose in SAIL pen semifinals
- Museum and Gallery Listings
- State news of national interest
- US police point Taser at Kiwi
- Sculptures create a garden of earthy delights in Missouri Botanical…
State’s Indian students outpace national average
Tulsa World – Jun 6, 2008
leadp { font-size:14px; color:#626466; }American Indian students in klahoma are graduating at a far better rate than their counterparts around the nation according to a report released this week. “Diplomas Count: School to College for 2008″ found that 63. 8 percent of klahoma’s American Indian students graduate from high school compared with the national average of 50. The report from Education Weekly funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is available online at www… It places klahoma’s overall graduation rate at about 70. 8 percent just more than the national average. Diplomas Count shows a sizable gap between klahoma’s American Indian high school graduation rate and those of many other states including South Dakota where just three out of 10 Indian students receive diplomas. In klahoma Indian students typically attend public schools but are shepherded through the system and tracked in ways the regular student population generally is not. Title VII and the Johnson ‘Malley federal grant program provide funding to Indian Education programs at public schools. At Union Public Schools which has an American Indian student population of about 1700 the grant programs provide college and career counseling as well as tutoring for Indian students. Cathy Collins director of federal programs for the district said 125 American IndianCM8ShowAd(”336×280″); students graduated from Union this year.
Darrin Swartz-Larson of McKinney: Has PC become too PC?
Dallas Morning News – Jun 6, 2008
It’s not just that the chief and his similarly attired attendants are clueless about how their faux tribal get-ups would offend Native Americans it’s that almost everything they do while covered in mail-order feathers and hides is so well politically incorrect. And by everything I really do mean everything from saying that the black face paint represents darkness and evil to speaking “Indian English” like a character from Bonanza to laughing while their kids clap their hands over their mouths and make “woo woo” sounds. It’s 2002 and if feels as if I’ve stumbled upon some forgotten corner of America that missed the American Indian rights movement of the ’70s and all the awareness that has supposedly followed in the decades since. I don’t know how this is possible because if you somehow missed the Wounded Knee events in ‘73 and the non-acceptance speech made on Marlon Brando’s behalf that same year at the Academy Awards you would have had to have seen at least one Billy Jack movie at some point in your life. The people who told me this seemed to understand that a “me talk like Indian” kind of program wouldn’t appeal to modern dads. That evening as I scrubbed the paint off of my face in a campground bathroom I wondered what about this program wasn’t Indian-themed –perhaps just the s’mores?A year or two later the program did truly end its Indian theme.
Amritraj-Ram lose in SAIL pen semifinals
utlook – utlook (subscription) – Jun 6, 2008
Amritraj and Ram could not match Groth-Ebelthite’s net play and smashing returns to lose 4-6 4-6 at the DLTA Complex. The result ensured that no Indian will figure in the finals of the competition as Indian challenge in the singles has already ended. Later Groth and Ebelthite claimed the doubles title by defeating Mohd. Ghareeb (Kuwait) and I Marchenko (Ukraine) 2-6 7-6 (5) 10-8 in a thrilling final.
Museum and Gallery Listings
New York Times – Jun 6, 2008
) KAREN RSENBERG 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.
State news of national interest
International Herald Tribune – Jun 6, 2008
The Jefferson County commonwealth's attorney is reviewing the shooting. MIDWEST UNINVILLE Ill. (AP) — Preservationists are offering a $2000 reward they hope will lead to an arrest in the possible looting of prehistoric American Indian burial mounds in far southern Illinois. Someone recently dug three holes several feet wide and deep into the side of one of the nine mounds making up the Kincaid Mounds historic site in Massac and Pope counties officials said. Authorities aren't sure if any artifacts or human remains were removed. (AP) — A man accused of hitting his girlfriend on the head with a metal bucket will not be tried on a charge of using a deadly weapon.
US police point Taser at Kiwi
stuff.co.nz – Jun 6, 2008
It started at Alcatraz Island near San Francisco on February 11 and is headed for Washington DC. The 1978 walk in which Mr Lane took part began with 17 participants in San Francisco and ended five months later with a gathering of tens of thousands of people in Washington. That walk helped block a congressional effort to annihilate treaties that protect Indian sovereignty and also helped spur passage of the 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act. "We are walking to protect sacred sites and protect tribal sovereignty" said Mr Lane. He said the walkers should not be intimidated by police who attempt to tell them where they can walk. "If we give in to them we lose sight of who we are. "But Mr Lane said he was not focused on meeting with US politicians when he reaches Washington: "We are not going to be lobbying US Senators and Congressmen we don't give a hoot what they say.
Sculptures create a garden of earthy delights in Missouri Botanical…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Jun 6, 2008
She wanted to be able to build this for people to be able to come over and get married. Besides the Nanas Niki worked in various themes during her career. Her totems featuring cats bulls and birds among other creatures are part of an homage to animals and American Indian culture. Her Black Heroes series includes musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis and athletes including Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan. “She said ‘I want to start doing a series of black American heroes” Zitelli recalled. “People will be able to realize how important they were to the American culture. Some of the sculptures are interactive — and irresistible to children.
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