TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation has received a three-year grant to provide treatment and recovery options for Cherokee citizens seeking to recover from substance abuse.
The Access to Recovery grant will be used to fund a new program, entitled “Many Paths,” through the Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health department.
“This program will give our people a choice in their treatment and recovery at all levels,” said Dr. John Gastorf of Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health Services. “Not only will those seeking treatment have a choice in their options of providers, but they will be taking an active voice in their path to recovery.”
The program will allow participants to choose from different levels of treatment, from conventional medical providers to faith-based and traditional healers. All providers must attend Native American cultural sensitivity courses as well as meet the requirements established by the Cherokee Nation and by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which is administering the grant.
The Many Paths program will operate under a voucher structure, wherein patients in the program will be issued vouchers for their level of care. The program will begin with 20 screening sites across the Cherokee Nation and other areas in eastern and central Oklahoma.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Crafting a cultural revival
By: Lisa Nicita
Elders within the Gila River Indian Community are seeing fears of a lost culture fade as the success of a reservation resort reinvigorates interest in traditional Native American art.
Younger residents, once uninterested in learning cultural centerpieces such as language, stories and crafts, are realizing that becoming a reservation artisan could be a profitable career path.A conscious effort of corporate and cultural integration among the Pima and Maricopa tribes and the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa has played a major role in showing community artisans that there is big interest in their culture.
From the turquoise and coral jewelry that beckons behind showcase glass in the gift shop to throws rolled in each of the 500 guest rooms, the work of community artisans is on display at the resort.
Children's artwork hangs on a wall near the resort's coffee shop. A community member, who doubles as a burly security guard for the resort, designed the menus placed in front of hundreds of diners at the gourmet Kai restaurant. Corporate conventions also can request, for a fee, custom-designed lanyards for all of their convention members, beaded by the community's children to benefit the Boys & Girls Club.
"The resort has allowed us to spark interest again," said Ginger Sunbird Martin, the resort's cultural theme manager.
Want to know more? Click here: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1024nativeamerican1024.html
Elders within the Gila River Indian Community are seeing fears of a lost culture fade as the success of a reservation resort reinvigorates interest in traditional Native American art.
Younger residents, once uninterested in learning cultural centerpieces such as language, stories and crafts, are realizing that becoming a reservation artisan could be a profitable career path.A conscious effort of corporate and cultural integration among the Pima and Maricopa tribes and the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa has played a major role in showing community artisans that there is big interest in their culture.
From the turquoise and coral jewelry that beckons behind showcase glass in the gift shop to throws rolled in each of the 500 guest rooms, the work of community artisans is on display at the resort.
Children's artwork hangs on a wall near the resort's coffee shop. A community member, who doubles as a burly security guard for the resort, designed the menus placed in front of hundreds of diners at the gourmet Kai restaurant. Corporate conventions also can request, for a fee, custom-designed lanyards for all of their convention members, beaded by the community's children to benefit the Boys & Girls Club.
"The resort has allowed us to spark interest again," said Ginger Sunbird Martin, the resort's cultural theme manager.
Want to know more? Click here: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1024nativeamerican1024.html
Yahoo Falls monument to be removed
By: Janie Slaven
YAHOO FALLS — McCreary County is about to have one less historical marker.
Officials with the Daniel Boone National Forest announced last week their intention to remove the black granite monument erected under mysterious circumstances last year at the entrance to Yahoo Falls.
The monument commemorates the 1810 Massacre at Yahoo Falls. There are just two problems.
One, it is illegal to erect any monument on U.S. Forest Service land without permission.
Two, DBNF officials question whether the event actually took place.
Forest Archeologist Chris Jenkins said Friday that officials had contacted several suspects so that the monument could be removed privately to no avail.
“No one has taken responsibility,” Jenkins said.
There's more here: http://www.mccrearyrecord.com/local/local_story_255155553.html
YAHOO FALLS — McCreary County is about to have one less historical marker.
Officials with the Daniel Boone National Forest announced last week their intention to remove the black granite monument erected under mysterious circumstances last year at the entrance to Yahoo Falls.
The monument commemorates the 1810 Massacre at Yahoo Falls. There are just two problems.
One, it is illegal to erect any monument on U.S. Forest Service land without permission.
Two, DBNF officials question whether the event actually took place.
Forest Archeologist Chris Jenkins said Friday that officials had contacted several suspects so that the monument could be removed privately to no avail.
“No one has taken responsibility,” Jenkins said.
There's more here: http://www.mccrearyrecord.com/local/local_story_255155553.html
Lock of Sitting Bull's hair returned
A US museum has decided to return a lock of hair and leggings worn by legendary American Indian chief Sitting Bull after learning that they were stolen by an army doctor at the time of his death more than 100 years ago.
"As part of doing research on our collection as part of the repatriation law, we realised how these objects had been acquired and they hadn't been acquired properly,'' said Bill Billeck, director of the National Museum of Natural History's Repatriation Office.
"That's the reason why it has triggered us to do this work and to look for family members,'' he said.
Sitting Bull was a Lakota chief best known for defeating General George Custer in the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana.
He was killed on December 15, 1890, two weeks before the Battle of Wounded Knee, the last major battle between US forces and American Indians.
The lock of hair was braided and narrow, about 40cm long, and the wool leggings were a traditional type worn by Indians of the period, Mr Billeck said.
After Sitting Bull's death, his body was taken to a military fort where an army doctor, Horace Deeble, took the hair and leggings and six years later sent them to the museum for display.
Read more here: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22438294-5005962,00.html
"As part of doing research on our collection as part of the repatriation law, we realised how these objects had been acquired and they hadn't been acquired properly,'' said Bill Billeck, director of the National Museum of Natural History's Repatriation Office.
"That's the reason why it has triggered us to do this work and to look for family members,'' he said.
Sitting Bull was a Lakota chief best known for defeating General George Custer in the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana.
He was killed on December 15, 1890, two weeks before the Battle of Wounded Knee, the last major battle between US forces and American Indians.
The lock of hair was braided and narrow, about 40cm long, and the wool leggings were a traditional type worn by Indians of the period, Mr Billeck said.
After Sitting Bull's death, his body was taken to a military fort where an army doctor, Horace Deeble, took the hair and leggings and six years later sent them to the museum for display.
Read more here: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22438294-5005962,00.html
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