American Indian artifacts theft suspect released from jail
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- American Indian artifacts theft suspect released from jail
- Autry Southwest museum feud has echoes of Western duel
- Study: American Indians Discriminated Against in Rental Market …
- American Indian and Western Art
- Letter from India Journey to India Is Inside the Mind
- Univ. woos Native American students
- Wells Fargo to help fund research into Asian American business …
American Indian artifacts theft suspect released from jail
Salt Lake Tribune
During a Tuesday hearing in U. District Court in Salt Lake City Shumway appeared to wipe away tears as Alba explained the conditions of her release which include a requirement that she take care of any American Indian artifacts she possesses. Shumway was indicted June 10 along with 23 others as part of a 2 ½-year federal investigation of excavating buying and selling of ancient pottery seed jars pendants and other items found in burial and other sites on public and tribal land in southeastern Utah. Most of the defendants resided in San Juan County including physician James Redd 60 who killed himself June 11. A week later another defendant Steven Shrader 56 of Santa Fe N.
Autry Southwest museum feud has echoes of Western duel
Los Angeles Times
By Bob Pool July 2 2009It could have been a scene right out of a Gene Autry horse opera — a cowboys-versus-Indians-style faceoff potshots being fired by both sides a hero riding to the rescue in the final reel. That seems to be the plot line of the drama that is playing out between backers of the Autry National Center of the American West in Griffith Park and those of the Southwest Museum a few miles away in Mount Washington. The Autry museum wants to double its size and display some of the Southwest’s American Indian artifacts as a way of broadening and diversifying its depiction of the early American West. Whoa say Southwest’s supporters. They contend that the loss of exhibits and an accompanying diminished role for the museum will lead to the demise of the 95-year-old hillside landmark — which is the city’s oldest museum. The proposed $95-million Autry project would add 25000 square feet of new gallery space four classrooms and several children’s rooms to its site at the Los Angeles Zoo parking lot next to the 5 Freeway. From the beginning the focus of the Southwest Museum has been Native American culture.
Study: American Indians Discriminated Against in Rental Market …
KARE
American Indian renters were discriminated against some 29 percent of the time last year according to the study conducted for the Housing and Urban Development Department by the private Washington-based think tank the Urban Institute. It was the first time HUD had commissioned research on discrimination against American Indians. Findings were based on testing conducted off tribal lands in three states with relatively high populations of that group: New Mexico Montana and Minnesota. Data previously released by HUD found that Hispanic renters were discriminated against 26 percent of the time while rates were less for blacks (22 percent) and Asians (21 percent).
American Indian and Western Art
Maine Antique Digest
The tap ran hot and cold during Cowan’s sale of American Indian and Western art in Cincinnati hio on April 4. Some things buyers wanted; some things they didn’t. "The auction did well overall" said Danica Farnand a specialist in American Indian arts at Cowan’s. "There were certain areas that did strong-Navajo weaving and beadwork. Early Eskimo pieces did well; the more contemporary stuff was a bit soft to say the least.
Letter from India Journey to India Is Inside the Mind
New York Times
We packed our suitcases with things they couldn’t get for themselves: Jif peanut butter Hellmann’s mayonnaise Gap khakis. These imports sketched a subtle hierarchy in which they were the wanting relatives and we their benefactors. My cousins in India would sometimes ask if I was Indian or American. I saw that their self-esteem depended on my answer. “American” I would say because it was the truth and because I felt that to say otherwise would be to accept a lower berth in the world. What it meant to be American was to be free to invent yourself to belong to a family and a society in which destiny was believed to be human-made. I looked around in India and saw everyone in their boxes not coming fully into their own replicating lives lived before.
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Univ. woos Native American students
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Thirty-one Native Americans made the trek from New Mexico to College Park as a part of a week-long tour of the Washington area joining 10 Native American students from Baltimore to share cultural experiences and prepare for the college application process. But for university officials the visit had an added bonus. The 41 Native American high school students equal half the university’s American Indian population and Dottie Bass the assistant director for outreach and programming in the ffice of Multi-Ethnic Student Education acknowledged the visit served as an important opportunity to recruit. As of last year the university enrolled 82 Native American undergraduate students (less than one percent of the student population) and did not have any Native American professors. Student groups drew attention to Native Americans’ plight at the university through several protests last spring when two classes with American Indian themes were canceled. Dustin Richardson former president of the American Indian Student Union said these small numbers sometimes make it hard to be a Native American student at the university. “It becomes a little frustrating when you see a Redskins logo during football season and it can also be frustrating when a professor makes a racial comment during class” Richardson said.
Wells Fargo to help fund research into Asian American business …
Dallas Morning News
com Wells Fargo & Co. on Thursday said it will invest $208000 in the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation for a national research study about the characteristics and interests of business owners in the six largest Asian American ethnic groups: Chinese Asian Indian Filipino Korean Vietnamese and Japanese.
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