"The ground on which we stand is sacred ground. It is the blood of our ancestors." -
Chief Plenty Coups - Crow
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Today in history -
1541: Today, de Doto's expedition meets the CASQUI Indians near modern day Helena, Arkansas. There has been a drought in the area, and the padres offer to help. A large cross is erected and the Spaniards join in prayer. Soon it starts to rain. The CASQUIs will become allies of the Spanish.
1767: The Governor of Louisiana issues an order today. The order recognizes the CHITIMACHA Indians, and instructs the commander at Manchac to treat them with proper deference.
1767: The Governor of Louisiana issues an order today. The order recognizes the CHITIMACHA Indians, and instructs the commander at Manchac to treat them with proper deference.
Battle over Sitting Bull
Descendant opposes plans for memorial, wants reburial at Little Bighorn
By The Associated Press
STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. - You have to travel back in time to get from the nearest town to the chipped and wind-whipped little stone face that peers out over the Missouri River and the endless plains beyond.
The drive from Mobridge, S.D., across the river takes you from the Central Time Zone into the Mountain, and if you turn off the main road and clatter four miles down a winding path, you find it - a modest monument on a lush green bluff.
This simplicity is striking because of what lies beneath: The remains of Sitting Bull, the Sioux chief said to have foretold the defeat of Lt. Col. George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
But it is more striking because of the state of extreme disrepair that befell the resting place of one of the best-known American Indians in history for half a century, until just two years ago.
It was shot and spat at, and worse. On the surrounding grounds bonfires burned and shattered beer bottles glittered. Someone tied a rope around the feather rising from the head of the bust, rigged it to a truck and broke it off.
The site is on what is called fee land, within the boundaries of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe but privately owned, and two years ago two men - one white, the other a tribesman - paid $55,000 for it and began cleaning it up.
They have plans for a $12 million monument complex they hope will honor Sitting Bull's memory with the dignity missing for so long, and let new generations learn about him.
But these plans, like Sitting Bull himself, are not so simple. And they have torn open a wound over who will control the great Sioux chief's legacy.
Read more here: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/18/news/state/25-sitingbull.txt
By The Associated Press
STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. - You have to travel back in time to get from the nearest town to the chipped and wind-whipped little stone face that peers out over the Missouri River and the endless plains beyond.
The drive from Mobridge, S.D., across the river takes you from the Central Time Zone into the Mountain, and if you turn off the main road and clatter four miles down a winding path, you find it - a modest monument on a lush green bluff.
This simplicity is striking because of what lies beneath: The remains of Sitting Bull, the Sioux chief said to have foretold the defeat of Lt. Col. George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
But it is more striking because of the state of extreme disrepair that befell the resting place of one of the best-known American Indians in history for half a century, until just two years ago.
It was shot and spat at, and worse. On the surrounding grounds bonfires burned and shattered beer bottles glittered. Someone tied a rope around the feather rising from the head of the bust, rigged it to a truck and broke it off.
The site is on what is called fee land, within the boundaries of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe but privately owned, and two years ago two men - one white, the other a tribesman - paid $55,000 for it and began cleaning it up.
They have plans for a $12 million monument complex they hope will honor Sitting Bull's memory with the dignity missing for so long, and let new generations learn about him.
But these plans, like Sitting Bull himself, are not so simple. And they have torn open a wound over who will control the great Sioux chief's legacy.
Read more here: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/18/news/state/25-sitingbull.txt
Top Native American writers get together for a three-day UA symposium
By GENE ARMSTRONG
For the first time in Tucson, a stellar roster of Native American poets will gather to share their poetry, creative ideas and thoughts on the literary arts and language with each other and with audiences at the Native Voices Symposium, scheduled for next weekend at the University of Arizona.
The symposium, featuring revered author Leslie Marmon Silko as keynote speaker, also will include such noted writers as Luci Tapahonso, Sherwin Bitsui, Simon Ortiz, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Rex Lee Jim, Danny Lopez, Joy Harjo and Laura Tohe, among others, teaching classes and workshops, reading from their work and sitting in on panel discussions June 14-16.
According to a press release, the symposium is designed to celebrate "linguistic and cultural diversity, and it explores how languages--endangered indigenous languages in particular--are not just preserved but invigorated by poetry, storytelling, bookmaking and literary pursuits."
The symposium is the result of a collaboration of the University of Arizona Poetry Center and the 28th annual American Indian Language Development Institute, a four week residential summer program for teachers of Native American students.
Click here to find out more: http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Books/Content?oid=97028
For the first time in Tucson, a stellar roster of Native American poets will gather to share their poetry, creative ideas and thoughts on the literary arts and language with each other and with audiences at the Native Voices Symposium, scheduled for next weekend at the University of Arizona.
The symposium, featuring revered author Leslie Marmon Silko as keynote speaker, also will include such noted writers as Luci Tapahonso, Sherwin Bitsui, Simon Ortiz, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Rex Lee Jim, Danny Lopez, Joy Harjo and Laura Tohe, among others, teaching classes and workshops, reading from their work and sitting in on panel discussions June 14-16.
According to a press release, the symposium is designed to celebrate "linguistic and cultural diversity, and it explores how languages--endangered indigenous languages in particular--are not just preserved but invigorated by poetry, storytelling, bookmaking and literary pursuits."
The symposium is the result of a collaboration of the University of Arizona Poetry Center and the 28th annual American Indian Language Development Institute, a four week residential summer program for teachers of Native American students.
Click here to find out more: http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Books/Content?oid=97028
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