By: Mary Pierpoint
LAWRENCE, Kan. - When Linda Sue Warner, Comanche, returned to Haskell Indian Nations University this past spring as its new president, she determined that Haskell was a ''new'' school despite the history of the institution and began looking at how the university needed to change. Her goal is to build a school around cultural values.
''I'm not the same person I was when I was here before and I am guessing neither are the people who work here,'' Warner said. ''So now everything is fresh and new. When I see familiar faces it is like meeting them for the first time - all new.''
Warner said she was happy to see that Haskell had identified its core values: accountability, respect, cooperation and honesty.
''When I saw that those core values had already been identified, I knew I could build a school around that,'' Warner stated. ''I want those core values to permeate around the school. When people meet me and then walk away, I want them to know that I am going to be accountable, respectful, cooperative and honest with them.''
During her work with the Tennessee Board of Regents, she was an associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. What this means for Haskell is a president who has experience in literally all levels of the university. The normal career track for people in Warner's former position is to be named chancellor at a large university within the state of Tennessee. But for Warner, the chance to work with Indian people again was the real golden ring.
Read more here: http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096415680
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Native 'Rituals' displayed in Boehm Gallery
By: Michelle Caspole
Palomar College's Boehm Gallery is currently hosting an exhibit called "Rituals," featuring artwork of Native American dance and other aspects of Native American life. "
The recent remodel of the gallery has offered a relaxing space for the tone of the artwork," said Boehm Gallery Director Joanna Bigfeather.
Bigfeather, a descendent of the Apache tribe herself and hailing from New Mexico, has been the director since January and an instructor of American Indian studies for the past two years."
People have misconceptions about what Native American artists create, they think we only do traditional work like baskets or jewelry making," Bigfeather said. "[Artist] Gerald Clarke has combined the art he's used, the image of the basket mixed with new technology, to display and send a message."
There's more here: http://media.www.the-telescope.com/media/storage/paper749/news/2007/09/17/Entertainment/Native.rituals.Displayed.In.Boehm.Gallery-2972365.shtml
Palomar College's Boehm Gallery is currently hosting an exhibit called "Rituals," featuring artwork of Native American dance and other aspects of Native American life. "
The recent remodel of the gallery has offered a relaxing space for the tone of the artwork," said Boehm Gallery Director Joanna Bigfeather.
Bigfeather, a descendent of the Apache tribe herself and hailing from New Mexico, has been the director since January and an instructor of American Indian studies for the past two years."
People have misconceptions about what Native American artists create, they think we only do traditional work like baskets or jewelry making," Bigfeather said. "[Artist] Gerald Clarke has combined the art he's used, the image of the basket mixed with new technology, to display and send a message."
There's more here: http://media.www.the-telescope.com/media/storage/paper749/news/2007/09/17/Entertainment/Native.rituals.Displayed.In.Boehm.Gallery-2972365.shtml
Two Tribal Exhibitions At National Museum Of American Indian
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian opens two new tribal community exhibitions in the “Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories” exhibition; the Blackfeet Nation of Browning, Mont., and Chiricahua Apache of Mescalero, N.M.
Both exhibitions were developed in collaboration with tribal community curators and National Museum of the American Indian’s curator Emil Her Many Horses (Oglala Lakota). This is the first time that new tribes have been rotated into the permanent galleries since the museum’s opening.
More than 30 objects will be displayed, including the actual 1855 Treaty of Lame Bull on loan from the National Archives to be displayed for six months and then replaced with a replica for preservation purposes and a porcupine-quilled shirt, the type that might have been worn at the time of the signing of the 1855 Treaty. Featured objects from the museum’s collections include items from a lodge (tipi), such as a parfleche bag made of rawhide and used for storing clothing, a woman’s beaded dress from 1890 and several other historic and contemporary objects.
To read more about it click here: http://www.huliq.com/34508/two-tribal-exhibitions-at-national-museum-of-american-indian
Both exhibitions were developed in collaboration with tribal community curators and National Museum of the American Indian’s curator Emil Her Many Horses (Oglala Lakota). This is the first time that new tribes have been rotated into the permanent galleries since the museum’s opening.
More than 30 objects will be displayed, including the actual 1855 Treaty of Lame Bull on loan from the National Archives to be displayed for six months and then replaced with a replica for preservation purposes and a porcupine-quilled shirt, the type that might have been worn at the time of the signing of the 1855 Treaty. Featured objects from the museum’s collections include items from a lodge (tipi), such as a parfleche bag made of rawhide and used for storing clothing, a woman’s beaded dress from 1890 and several other historic and contemporary objects.
To read more about it click here: http://www.huliq.com/34508/two-tribal-exhibitions-at-national-museum-of-american-indian
Atakapas say culture still alive
By: Mike D. Smith
BEAUMONT, Texas — Thousands of years before Southeast Texas was even a concept, strong men and women fished its waters, hunted its game, walked its forests and thrived off raw nature. They were the Atakapas, the group that history says traded with colonists and helped them fight wars before vanishing in the early 1900s.
But Texans and Louisianans claiming to be of Atakapan descent who say the culture is alive and well are mounting an effort to scratch their ancestral name off the federal government's extinct cultures list.
The Atakapas were hunters and gatherers who occasionally roamed from present-day southern Louisiana, through Southeast Texas to Matagorda Bay, said Pam Wheat, executive director of the Texas Archaeological Society.
"What's pretty amazing is that they did what they did and survived as long as they did by using their natural resources," Wheat said.
The Smithsonian Institute sent linguist Albert Gatschet to the Gulf Coast during the late 1800s to write an Atakapan language dictionary before the last known native speakers died, McNeese State University history professor Ray Miles said.
Gatschet found a native speaker in Lake Charles, La., but gave up after he couldn't trace the language's origin. The project stalled until anthropologist John Reed Swanton came along in the 1930s.
"By the time he (Swanton) came here, he claimed there was only one person left that could speak the Atakapan language," Miles said.
Swanton finished the dictionary that today is in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
"He basically said they were an extinct people," Miles said. "That was the perception in Washington, D.C., and that perception is going to be very difficult to break down."
The whole story can be found here: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5139005.html
BEAUMONT, Texas — Thousands of years before Southeast Texas was even a concept, strong men and women fished its waters, hunted its game, walked its forests and thrived off raw nature. They were the Atakapas, the group that history says traded with colonists and helped them fight wars before vanishing in the early 1900s.
But Texans and Louisianans claiming to be of Atakapan descent who say the culture is alive and well are mounting an effort to scratch their ancestral name off the federal government's extinct cultures list.
The Atakapas were hunters and gatherers who occasionally roamed from present-day southern Louisiana, through Southeast Texas to Matagorda Bay, said Pam Wheat, executive director of the Texas Archaeological Society.
"What's pretty amazing is that they did what they did and survived as long as they did by using their natural resources," Wheat said.
The Smithsonian Institute sent linguist Albert Gatschet to the Gulf Coast during the late 1800s to write an Atakapan language dictionary before the last known native speakers died, McNeese State University history professor Ray Miles said.
Gatschet found a native speaker in Lake Charles, La., but gave up after he couldn't trace the language's origin. The project stalled until anthropologist John Reed Swanton came along in the 1930s.
"By the time he (Swanton) came here, he claimed there was only one person left that could speak the Atakapan language," Miles said.
Swanton finished the dictionary that today is in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.
"He basically said they were an extinct people," Miles said. "That was the perception in Washington, D.C., and that perception is going to be very difficult to break down."
The whole story can be found here: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5139005.html
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