Odessa, FL – Spirit People’s early Fall Powwow is expected to continue the success of their first powwow held last September at J.B. Starkey Ranch in Odessa, FL. That event drew an estimated 2,500 visitors from 15 different tribes featuring: Cherokee, Mohawk, Apache, Lakota, Shawnee, Choctaw, Comanche, Seminole, Creek, Oneida, Seneca, and others.
This will be the 2nd annual fall powwow for Spirit People Intertribal, a multi-cultural organization which focuses on the teachings of our people. The three-day event will run from Friday, September 21 through Sunday, September 23.
“There is nothing that promotes understanding of my people throughout the general populace quite like a powwow. It builds a bridge to all non-Indian peoples where we can see each other in a sacred way,” claims Pam Davison, also known as Waterbird.
“The Powwow gives us the opportunity to expose the community to Indian culture and life, the living history that is still a part of American society.”
“To dance in offering of our gratitude to Great Spirit for this life, to celebrate our culture and ancestral traditions, to learn, and to grow,” Davison said.
Storytelling, flute playing, and other artists will be among the vendors and educators who will travel from as far away as Canada to visit Starkey Ranch off of State Road 54 in Odessa. The gate opens at 10 am with activities beginning around 1 pm each day. Everyone attending on Friday will receive a free hotdog and chips. Visitors are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Featured Artist - Jesse Hummingbird
Jesse T. Hummingbird, 3/4 Cherokee and tribal member of the Cherokee Nation, was born in 1952 in Tahlequah, OK. This well known Cherokee artist has won awards for his paintings at major shows across the country. He most recently won the best of division for painting at the Heard Museum Indian Market; second place in painting at the SW Arts Festival in Indio, CA.
Jesse won Best of division in two dimensional art at the Albuquerque Indian Art 2000 exposition; and 1st place in painting and etching categories at the SWAIA Indian Market in Santa Fe. Jesse was the Inter Tribal Ceremonial poster artist in 1992 and the Bien Mur poster artist in 1999. He has published three children's coloring books with The Book Publishing Company, Summertown, TN.
In 1996 he was named artist of the year by the Indian Arts and Crafts Association and received a fellowship from SWAIA that same year. Jesse was featured in an article in the 1999 fall issue of Native Artist magazine. Interviews and his images have been featured in several published books.
He recently was commissioned by Indian Motorcycle to complete one of his figures on the new Indian motorcycle...... a painting he titled "Spotted Dog and His Ride."
Jesse paints in the traditional flat style of the Oklahoma Natives with acrylic on canvas for his bright contemporary original paintings. The geometric faces in his paintings are an outgrowth of his popular mixed media masks.
Check it out! http://www.nativeart.net/artist.php?ucode=txiv2r
Jesse won Best of division in two dimensional art at the Albuquerque Indian Art 2000 exposition; and 1st place in painting and etching categories at the SWAIA Indian Market in Santa Fe. Jesse was the Inter Tribal Ceremonial poster artist in 1992 and the Bien Mur poster artist in 1999. He has published three children's coloring books with The Book Publishing Company, Summertown, TN.
In 1996 he was named artist of the year by the Indian Arts and Crafts Association and received a fellowship from SWAIA that same year. Jesse was featured in an article in the 1999 fall issue of Native Artist magazine. Interviews and his images have been featured in several published books.
He recently was commissioned by Indian Motorcycle to complete one of his figures on the new Indian motorcycle...... a painting he titled "Spotted Dog and His Ride."
Jesse paints in the traditional flat style of the Oklahoma Natives with acrylic on canvas for his bright contemporary original paintings. The geometric faces in his paintings are an outgrowth of his popular mixed media masks.
Check it out! http://www.nativeart.net/artist.php?ucode=txiv2r
Lumbees push for legislation
By: Venita Jenkins
WASHINGTON — Lumbee Tribal Chairman Jimmy Goins on Wednesday tried to convince a congressional committee that the administrative path to federal recognition is broken and that legislation is the only way his tribe will obtain that status.
The tribe has a long, unhappy history with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which oversees the recognition process, Goins said. He said the bureau has an institutional bias against nonrecognized tribes and should not be in charge of processing the petitions of groups seeking federal status.
“The mission of the BIA is to serve and protect the interest of federally recognized tribes,” he said. “This being so, it is not fair to either the BIA or non-federally recognized tribes to expect the BIA to also pass on the status of other Indian groups.”
Goins made his comments to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. He suggested that an independent commission determine whether tribes receive recognition.
Want to know more? Click here: http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=272789
WASHINGTON — Lumbee Tribal Chairman Jimmy Goins on Wednesday tried to convince a congressional committee that the administrative path to federal recognition is broken and that legislation is the only way his tribe will obtain that status.
The tribe has a long, unhappy history with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which oversees the recognition process, Goins said. He said the bureau has an institutional bias against nonrecognized tribes and should not be in charge of processing the petitions of groups seeking federal status.
“The mission of the BIA is to serve and protect the interest of federally recognized tribes,” he said. “This being so, it is not fair to either the BIA or non-federally recognized tribes to expect the BIA to also pass on the status of other Indian groups.”
Goins made his comments to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. He suggested that an independent commission determine whether tribes receive recognition.
Want to know more? Click here: http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=272789
Indian site sold to couple
By: James Buescher
YORK COUNTY, Pa. - "We're still here, and we're watching."
American Indian groups couldn't stop the auction Thursday of land that includes important archaeological sites related to the Susquehannock tribe. But the presence of about 20 Indians, some with homemade signs, sent a clear message to any potential buyers who might have plans to develop the parcel.
In the end, the 26-acre Leibhart property at 534 Boat House Road in York County's Lower Windsor Township was sold Thursday to a Dover couple, Teresa and Donald Grove, for $1.51 million.
The property, just across the Susquehanna River from Lancaster County, includes a historic three-story farmhouse and three dozen lots that are rented for riverside recreation, bringing in about $37,000 per year, according to auctioneer Bradley K. Smith.
There's more here: http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/209752
YORK COUNTY, Pa. - "We're still here, and we're watching."
American Indian groups couldn't stop the auction Thursday of land that includes important archaeological sites related to the Susquehannock tribe. But the presence of about 20 Indians, some with homemade signs, sent a clear message to any potential buyers who might have plans to develop the parcel.
In the end, the 26-acre Leibhart property at 534 Boat House Road in York County's Lower Windsor Township was sold Thursday to a Dover couple, Teresa and Donald Grove, for $1.51 million.
The property, just across the Susquehanna River from Lancaster County, includes a historic three-story farmhouse and three dozen lots that are rented for riverside recreation, bringing in about $37,000 per year, according to auctioneer Bradley K. Smith.
There's more here: http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/209752
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Quotes
"Of all the created things or beings in the universe, it is the two-legged men alone, who if they purify and humiliate themselves, may become one with —or may know— Wakan-Tanka." -
Black Elk - Oglala Lakota
Black Elk - Oglala Lakota
The Two Blind Old Women
Apache legend -
Two old women were once cooking a pot of mush which two mischievous boys were trying to steal. Both were blind, so one sat on each side of the fire.
They kept their sticks waving back and forth above the pot, to prevent any one from taking advantage of their blindness and taking the vessel or its contents.
The boys found an empty pot, which they substituted for the one on the fire. Finding that the pot now had an empty ring when struck by their sticks, the old women concluded that the water had boiled away, and the mush must be sufficiently cooked.
"Let us smoke while it cools," said one.
"Very well," said the other, and they began to smoke alternately the single pipe in their possession. As they smoked they kept the sticks waving to and fro above the empty vessel.
The boys took the pipe from the hand of one old woman as she was passing it to the other.
"You are smoking all the time," said the second woman.
"I gave you the pipe long ago," said the first.
"You did not," said the second.
Just then the boys struck the first woman in the mouth, and she, thinking it was the other woman, struck her companion, who, of course, retaliated, and they proceeded to belabor one another with their staves.
When they were tired of fighting they went to eat their mush; each thought the other had eaten it, which set them to fighting again.
Two old women were once cooking a pot of mush which two mischievous boys were trying to steal. Both were blind, so one sat on each side of the fire.
They kept their sticks waving back and forth above the pot, to prevent any one from taking advantage of their blindness and taking the vessel or its contents.
The boys found an empty pot, which they substituted for the one on the fire. Finding that the pot now had an empty ring when struck by their sticks, the old women concluded that the water had boiled away, and the mush must be sufficiently cooked.
"Let us smoke while it cools," said one.
"Very well," said the other, and they began to smoke alternately the single pipe in their possession. As they smoked they kept the sticks waving to and fro above the empty vessel.
The boys took the pipe from the hand of one old woman as she was passing it to the other.
"You are smoking all the time," said the second woman.
"I gave you the pipe long ago," said the first.
"You did not," said the second.
Just then the boys struck the first woman in the mouth, and she, thinking it was the other woman, struck her companion, who, of course, retaliated, and they proceeded to belabor one another with their staves.
When they were tired of fighting they went to eat their mush; each thought the other had eaten it, which set them to fighting again.
Do you know...
Robert Eugene Megginson -one of only about 12 Native Americans who hold a PhD in mathematics, Robert Megginson grew up in a family who was interested in math. His British father held a bachelor’s degree in physics and math and his maternal grandfather, an Oglala Lakota often gave the young Megginson math problems to solve.
Math was not Megginson’s first degree, however. He received his bachelor’s degree in physics and worked for a private firm for eight years as a computer systems software specialist. In 1977 he returned to college and received his master’s degree in statistics and his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Illinois. Dr. Megginson then joined the faculty of Eastern Illinois University and later the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His field of study is the study of multi-dimensional (Banach) spaces.
For the past decade Dr. Megginson has spent his time working to solve the problem of the under-representation of minorities in the field of mathematics. In 1992 he developed a summer program for high school students at the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The purpose of the program is to keep the students interested in mathematics and related fields and encourage them to pursue college degrees in these areas.
Dr. Megginson has mentored many minority students and in 1997 received the U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. The American Indian Science and Engineering Society awarded Megginson its Ely S. Parker Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. In 2001 he was named to the Native American Science and Engineering Wall of Fame. He continues to live and teach in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
He's also listed in 100 Native Americans Who Shaped American History.
Math was not Megginson’s first degree, however. He received his bachelor’s degree in physics and worked for a private firm for eight years as a computer systems software specialist. In 1977 he returned to college and received his master’s degree in statistics and his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Illinois. Dr. Megginson then joined the faculty of Eastern Illinois University and later the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His field of study is the study of multi-dimensional (Banach) spaces.
For the past decade Dr. Megginson has spent his time working to solve the problem of the under-representation of minorities in the field of mathematics. In 1992 he developed a summer program for high school students at the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The purpose of the program is to keep the students interested in mathematics and related fields and encourage them to pursue college degrees in these areas.
Dr. Megginson has mentored many minority students and in 1997 received the U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. The American Indian Science and Engineering Society awarded Megginson its Ely S. Parker Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. In 2001 he was named to the Native American Science and Engineering Wall of Fame. He continues to live and teach in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
He's also listed in 100 Native Americans Who Shaped American History.
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