Youngsters part of preserving American Indian cultural at Red Earth
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- Youngsters part of preserving American Indian cultural at Red Earth
- Sotheby’s wampum belts ‘a drop in the bucket’ of sacred items for sale
- Pimiteoui Pow Wow honors celebrates native culture
- Native Youth Alliance copes with inaugural pow wow adversity
- Kenny Setiao
Youngsters part of preserving American Indian cultural at Red Earth
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“It really tells who you are and where you come from” Harjo said. Seeing children taking part in their cultural traditions also is fun for festival-goers. “(American Indians) have endured a lot of suffering over the years … and the fact that they’re able to maintain their culture and their heritage through their art and their dance is wonderful. And they pass it on to their children” said Gary Borchert who is Cherokee. “They pass on their culture and I think that’s very admirable. ”Borchert and his wife Sharon came from Tulsa to attend Red Earth for the first time. “I think every klahoman should come and observe it and be proud for their state.
Sotheby’s wampum belts ‘a drop in the bucket’ of sacred items for sale
Indian Country Today
As part of her work as tribal attorney for the nondaga Nation she monitors e-Bay and other Web sites of places that might harbor and trade in sacred items that rightfully belong to Indian nations. “It’s amazing the kinds of things they continue to sell not just from North American Indian cultures but from all around the world. To Sotheby’s and some of these other big auction houses they’re just commodities” said ’Loughlin Choctaw of klahoma. She not only monitors the whereabouts of sacred objects but also tries to get them back to their rightful owners. “This is a huge issue. We’re trying but there’s a lot of stuff out there and it seems that we never get much of it back.
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Pimiteoui Pow Wow honors celebrates native culture
Peoria Journal Star
It’s an ingenious culture if you think that they are self-contained and within their environment they were able to extract everything that they needed to live. "Pottery making corn grinding bowmaking wood-carving and other basic life skills of American Indians will be demonstrated. Visitors also can experience fiber art fingerweaving and American Indian dancers with performers in full dance regalia. But besides offering educational outreach to people who are not American Indians Return to Pimiteoui also provides an annual meeting place for native tribes themselves – a place where they can share good times and renew ties with one another. "It’s a time for Native Americans to join in dancing singing and visiting renewing old friendships and making new ones" volunteer Patti Erwin said. "It’s basically a time when you talk to the elders and learn the old ways. People are taught the Native American traditions and their heritage.
Native Youth Alliance copes with inaugural pow wow adversity
Indian Country Today
indiancountrytoday. com%2Fnational%2F46468592. 19 pow wow held in the nation?s capital by the American Indian Society of Washington D. was a source of great pride. But for the founders of the Native Youth Alliance a grassroots organization that strives to improve the health and well-being of young Natives the event was a time of unwanted adversity.
Kenny Setiao
Seattle Times
He attended school every day his senior year — summer and night classes as well as regular school at Seattle’s American Indian Heritage program. He couldn’t catch up fast enough to graduate on time last June but he swallowed his pride and walked back into Seattle’s Cleveland High School this fall a fifth-year senior. Setiao wanted to finish where he’d spent most of his high-school years and leave a positive legacy. At 19 he was older than most of the other students but still threw himself into activities as well as academics becoming a leader in student government and the art club. Setiao told his story to incoming freshmen to show them that it’s possible to go from “zero to hero.
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