Press release:
SAFETY HARBOR, FL: On June 30, 2007, at 10: 00 a.m. an Internment Ceremony will be held at the Safety Harbor Museum of Regional History, 329 Bayshore Blvd. South, Safety Harbor, FL. The general public is invited to observe. This ceremony is in fact a reburial of human remains culturally affiliated with the Seminole Nation. The remains are from the Weedon Island Period (AD 200-400), which is the time period during which the Tocobaga Indian Tribe inhabited this region.
The ceremony will be performed by the Spirit People Intertribal Family which is a multi-tribal family consisting of members representing tribes from across North America, Canada, and South America. Their focus is teaching the community about the diverse history, culture, traditions and ways of the old ones. We should remember that our Tampa Bay area was first inhabited approximately 10,000 – 12,000 years ago.
Following a short private ceremony due to the significance of spiritually returning the person back to earth and into the world that they now reside in, the public will be invited to celebrate and honor all indigenous peoples and their ancestors.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
National Aboriginal Day - Canada
In 1996, Former Governor General Romeo LeBlanc officially declared June 21st as National Aboriginal Day. June 21 was chosen because it is the summer solstice and, for many generations, Aboriginal Peoples have celebrated their culture and heritage on this day. National Aboriginal Day 2007 marks the monumental 11th Anniversary and we are prepared to create an equally special event to celebrate.
National Aboriginal Day is a day for all Canadians to celebrate the cultures and contributions to Canada of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. On June 13, 1996 former Governor General Romeo LeBlanc officially declared June 21 as National Aboriginal Day. June 21 was chosen as a significant date in time when Aboriginal Peoples have traditionally celebrated their culture, tradition and way of life as well the coming of the summer solstice. This celebration of Aboriginal cultures within Canada aims to bring about awareness to the rest of Canadian society, in all aspects of art, music, oral history and traditional games.
The events of National Aboriginal Day within the National Capital Region (NCR) are coordinated and facilitated in conjunction with a National Aboriginal Day committee. The committee is a unique collaboration between six of the primary National organizations reflective of the diversity of Aboriginal people from across Canada. Each organization participates in the planning and execution of the National Aboriginal Day events to ensure that their community's distinct cultures are represented. National Aboriginal Day is an important event as it is represents one of the few collaborative efforts between all of these national organizations demonstrating their commitment to bringing a unified message about Aboriginal people to Canadians through this event.
National Aboriginal Day is a day for all Canadians to celebrate the cultures and contributions to Canada of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. On June 13, 1996 former Governor General Romeo LeBlanc officially declared June 21 as National Aboriginal Day. June 21 was chosen as a significant date in time when Aboriginal Peoples have traditionally celebrated their culture, tradition and way of life as well the coming of the summer solstice. This celebration of Aboriginal cultures within Canada aims to bring about awareness to the rest of Canadian society, in all aspects of art, music, oral history and traditional games.
The events of National Aboriginal Day within the National Capital Region (NCR) are coordinated and facilitated in conjunction with a National Aboriginal Day committee. The committee is a unique collaboration between six of the primary National organizations reflective of the diversity of Aboriginal people from across Canada. Each organization participates in the planning and execution of the National Aboriginal Day events to ensure that their community's distinct cultures are represented. National Aboriginal Day is an important event as it is represents one of the few collaborative efforts between all of these national organizations demonstrating their commitment to bringing a unified message about Aboriginal people to Canadians through this event.
Conference links men's roles and furthering of the culture
by: Jack McNeel / Indian Country Today
PLUMMER, Idaho - It was billed as a Native Men and Culture Conference, but about equal numbers of women were in attendance at the Wellness Center on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation. The conference was organized by tribal member Jon Skwanqhqn, who had attended a similar conference on the Tohono O'odham Nation and had been impressed with the results they had attained. ''I want to get the community back as a whole,'' he said.
Newly elected tribal council member Charlotte Nilson represented the tribe in welcoming those in attendance.
''When we think of awareness, we look to our fathers. The fathers here have to make a better life for children and the community.''
Six panels were assembled to speak on various issues, including wellness, the importance of education and the role of men in passing on customs and traditions, Native ceremony, spirituality and justice issues, and the role of men supporting their families.
While the topics of many panels tended to overlap, the principal message came through with each: Culture and tradition need to be maintained, and fathers must take a leading role in providing teaching and direction to be a positive example for the young.
Bob Sobotta, of the Coeur d'Alene Tribal School, has served many roles in education. He encouraged parents and grandparents to volunteer at schools.
''You're always welcome. Your kids really want and need you. They want to connect with their ancestry and culture. Parents and grandparents can be the main mentors and must provide the spiritual element. Kids need that to hang on to.''
Want the whole story? Click here: http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096415138
PLUMMER, Idaho - It was billed as a Native Men and Culture Conference, but about equal numbers of women were in attendance at the Wellness Center on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation. The conference was organized by tribal member Jon Skwanqhqn, who had attended a similar conference on the Tohono O'odham Nation and had been impressed with the results they had attained. ''I want to get the community back as a whole,'' he said.
Newly elected tribal council member Charlotte Nilson represented the tribe in welcoming those in attendance.
''When we think of awareness, we look to our fathers. The fathers here have to make a better life for children and the community.''
Six panels were assembled to speak on various issues, including wellness, the importance of education and the role of men in passing on customs and traditions, Native ceremony, spirituality and justice issues, and the role of men supporting their families.
While the topics of many panels tended to overlap, the principal message came through with each: Culture and tradition need to be maintained, and fathers must take a leading role in providing teaching and direction to be a positive example for the young.
Bob Sobotta, of the Coeur d'Alene Tribal School, has served many roles in education. He encouraged parents and grandparents to volunteer at schools.
''You're always welcome. Your kids really want and need you. They want to connect with their ancestry and culture. Parents and grandparents can be the main mentors and must provide the spiritual element. Kids need that to hang on to.''
Want the whole story? Click here: http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096415138
Quotes
"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. All things are bound together. All things connect." -
Chief Seattle - Suquamish and Duwamish
Chief Seattle - Suquamish and Duwamish
Today in history -
1579: Sir Francis Drake will land, today, north of San Francisco, probably, at what is called today, Drake's Bay, in California. He will report the Indians to be "people of a tractable, free and loving nature, without guile or treachery."
1654: Today in a meeting between the Swedes and the DELAWAREs in Tinicum (New Sweden, Pennsylvania). DELAWARE Chief Naaman praises the Swedes for their righteous treatment of the native inhabitants.
1654: Today in a meeting between the Swedes and the DELAWAREs in Tinicum (New Sweden, Pennsylvania). DELAWARE Chief Naaman praises the Swedes for their righteous treatment of the native inhabitants.
Honor Sacred Sites Day - National Day of Prayer
The National Day of Prayer to Protect Native American Sacred Places is being observed at the Native American Rights Fund on June 21, 2007. The public is welcome to a sunrise ceremony that will be held on NARF's front lawn beginning at 6:00 a.m. The program is expected to last for one hour with a prayer ceremony, speakers, and a moment of silence to show concern for the sacred places that are being damaged and destroyed today. NARF is headquartered at 1506 Broadway in Boulder , Colorado .
As part of its mission, the Native American Rights Fund advocates for sacred site protection, religious freedom efforts and cultural rights. NARF attorneys and staff participate in local and national gatherings and discussions about how to protect lands that are sacred and precious to Native Americans.
The Native American Rights Fund utilizes its resources to protect First Amendment rights of Native American religious leaders, prisoners and members of the Native American Church, and to assert tribal rights to cultural property and human remains, in compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Why should holy places be protected? How well do existing laws and federal agency regulations protect Native American places of worship? These and other questions will be addressed by NARF attorneys, and committee members who are active in the Valmont Butte, Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark, The Devil's Tower, the Kennewick Man case and the work of the Sacred Lands Protection Coalition, of which the Native American Rights Fund is a member.
As part of its mission, the Native American Rights Fund advocates for sacred site protection, religious freedom efforts and cultural rights. NARF attorneys and staff participate in local and national gatherings and discussions about how to protect lands that are sacred and precious to Native Americans.
The Native American Rights Fund utilizes its resources to protect First Amendment rights of Native American religious leaders, prisoners and members of the Native American Church, and to assert tribal rights to cultural property and human remains, in compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Why should holy places be protected? How well do existing laws and federal agency regulations protect Native American places of worship? These and other questions will be addressed by NARF attorneys, and committee members who are active in the Valmont Butte, Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark, The Devil's Tower, the Kennewick Man case and the work of the Sacred Lands Protection Coalition, of which the Native American Rights Fund is a member.
Tribe's buildings on list of endangered historic sites
By John M. Glionna
CAZADERO, CALIF. — Kneeling in a remote stretch of Sonoma County forest, Reno Franklin used his fingers and an archeologist's trowel to sift through the rich, brown soil where he believes an ancient Indian village once stood.
He was looking for clues to the laborious life his ancestors had once carved out of this land, and he dusted off a tiny obsidian arrowhead, gently and reverently holding the well-chiseled stone up to the sunlight.
The owner of the forestland wants to harvest its redwoods. Franklin said he worried such fragile artifacts would be trampled in the process.
"It's so beautiful, it doesn't even look real," he said of the stretch of woods known as Bohan Dillon Ridge that slopes away to the ocean a few miles away. "How could you not want to protect this?"
Franklin is historic preservation officer for the Kashia band of Pomo Indians, whose history stretches back for thousands of years in this region 100 miles north of San Francisco. Today his fight to protect the tribe's past from developers, looters and vandals received a critical moment in the spotlight.
The nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation released its annual list of America's most endangered historic places, and two Kashia sites — the Regalia House and the sacred Old Round House on the reservation at Stewarts Point Rancheria — were on the list of 11 locations.
Click here to read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-trust14jun14,1,2468903.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=2&cset=true
CAZADERO, CALIF. — Kneeling in a remote stretch of Sonoma County forest, Reno Franklin used his fingers and an archeologist's trowel to sift through the rich, brown soil where he believes an ancient Indian village once stood.
He was looking for clues to the laborious life his ancestors had once carved out of this land, and he dusted off a tiny obsidian arrowhead, gently and reverently holding the well-chiseled stone up to the sunlight.
The owner of the forestland wants to harvest its redwoods. Franklin said he worried such fragile artifacts would be trampled in the process.
"It's so beautiful, it doesn't even look real," he said of the stretch of woods known as Bohan Dillon Ridge that slopes away to the ocean a few miles away. "How could you not want to protect this?"
Franklin is historic preservation officer for the Kashia band of Pomo Indians, whose history stretches back for thousands of years in this region 100 miles north of San Francisco. Today his fight to protect the tribe's past from developers, looters and vandals received a critical moment in the spotlight.
The nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation released its annual list of America's most endangered historic places, and two Kashia sites — the Regalia House and the sacred Old Round House on the reservation at Stewarts Point Rancheria — were on the list of 11 locations.
Click here to read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-trust14jun14,1,2468903.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=2&cset=true
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