Gallup Independent - 08.05.07
WINDOW ROCK — Navajo Nation Delegate Leonard Tsosie has high hopes for the future of technology on the reservation and in rural areas across the state.
"Just think if Navajo, Anglo and Hispanic children who live in rural areas of the state had wireless laptops, how much better they would do in school and in life," he says.
His vision is nothing new.
"When Leonard Tsosie first ran for a New Mexico State Senate seat in the early 1990s he had a plan, a vision and a determination to make a difference in New Mexico tribal communities," Jeanne Whitehorse, the New Mexico tribal librarian at Crownpoint, said.
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Tribal-language teaching struggles
Billings Gazette - 08.05.07
BOZEMAN - Verda King gets excited when she talks about teaching youths in a nearby public school how to speak the Cheyenne language from her office at the Dull Knife Community College.
"This class has done a marvelous job," King said of her 12 students. "We've translated nursery rhymes, like Humpty Dumpty. And it's been fun. We've learned Cheyenne songs, and I'm learning my own language."
She's teaching 12 students in an elementary school in Colstrip by satellite from a tribal college classroom on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana.
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BOZEMAN - Verda King gets excited when she talks about teaching youths in a nearby public school how to speak the Cheyenne language from her office at the Dull Knife Community College.
"This class has done a marvelous job," King said of her 12 students. "We've translated nursery rhymes, like Humpty Dumpty. And it's been fun. We've learned Cheyenne songs, and I'm learning my own language."
She's teaching 12 students in an elementary school in Colstrip by satellite from a tribal college classroom on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana.
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'Nova' unearths new insight on Pocahontas legend
The Oreginian - 08.05.07
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"The past is not dead. It is not even past."
I never tire of that William Faulkner quote, proved anew in the "Nova" documentary "Pocahontas Revealed," written and produced by Matthew Collins, and produced and directed by Kirk Wolfinger and Lisa Quijano Wolfinger. They use old documents and maps, meticulous re-enactments and insights from historians and archaeologists at work now.
The Pocahontas legend is, by definition, one of America's oldest. She was a key figure in the founding of Jamestown, Va., the first successful British settlement in the New World. The Jamestown fort was built and barely survived starvation, ravaging illness and hostile locals, exactly 400 years ago.
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A special day at Acoma
Gallup Indipendent - 08.05.07
SKY CITY, PUEBLO OF ACOMA — An exchange of gifts was the highlight of a special ceremony Sunday afternoon at the Sky City Cultural Center and Haak'u Museum, as 175 tribal officials, staff and representatives of the National Trust for Historical Preservation cemented a partnership expected to last for decades to come.
On a cold, blustery day, under a 40 feet by 70 feet white tent, Richard Moe, president of the National Trust, presented Pueblo of Acoma Gov. Jason Johnson with a memorial plaque indicating Sky City is now an historical preservation site, which will allow additional funding for preservation of historical artifacts and cultural items. Johnson then presented Moe with a traditional Acoma blanket and an Acoma pot, representing the tribe's pledge to honor its membership in the National Trust. Moe promptly shouldered the blanket saying he was cold, to the excited approval and much applause from those attending the ceremony.
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SKY CITY, PUEBLO OF ACOMA — An exchange of gifts was the highlight of a special ceremony Sunday afternoon at the Sky City Cultural Center and Haak'u Museum, as 175 tribal officials, staff and representatives of the National Trust for Historical Preservation cemented a partnership expected to last for decades to come.
On a cold, blustery day, under a 40 feet by 70 feet white tent, Richard Moe, president of the National Trust, presented Pueblo of Acoma Gov. Jason Johnson with a memorial plaque indicating Sky City is now an historical preservation site, which will allow additional funding for preservation of historical artifacts and cultural items. Johnson then presented Moe with a traditional Acoma blanket and an Acoma pot, representing the tribe's pledge to honor its membership in the National Trust. Moe promptly shouldered the blanket saying he was cold, to the excited approval and much applause from those attending the ceremony.
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Jamestown-Jubiläum: Indianer werden übergangen
n-tv - 08.05.06
Die Vereinigten Staaten gedenken in diesen Tagen mit Pomp und Prominenz der Gründung von Jamestown in Virginia vor 400 Jahren. Auch Virginias Indianer erinnern sich - allerdings an wenig Gutes.
Während in den Geschichtsbüchern die erste dauerhafte englische Siedlung in Amerika als "Wiege der USA" verewigt ist, verbinden die Ureinwohner des Kontinents mit ihr eher den Anfang vom Ende ihrer Jahrtausende alten Art zu leben. "Eine ganze Nation wurde ausgelöscht", sagt der Häuptling des Chickahominy-Stammes, Stephen Adkins. "Eine Nation, die Freundschaft schließen wollte mit den Fremden, und die dann durch die Hand derselben Fremden starb."
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Die Vereinigten Staaten gedenken in diesen Tagen mit Pomp und Prominenz der Gründung von Jamestown in Virginia vor 400 Jahren. Auch Virginias Indianer erinnern sich - allerdings an wenig Gutes.
Während in den Geschichtsbüchern die erste dauerhafte englische Siedlung in Amerika als "Wiege der USA" verewigt ist, verbinden die Ureinwohner des Kontinents mit ihr eher den Anfang vom Ende ihrer Jahrtausende alten Art zu leben. "Eine ganze Nation wurde ausgelöscht", sagt der Häuptling des Chickahominy-Stammes, Stephen Adkins. "Eine Nation, die Freundschaft schließen wollte mit den Fremden, und die dann durch die Hand derselben Fremden starb."
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Die Hardrock-Indianer
rbbonline - 08.05.07 - 10:08
Amerikas Ureinwohner, die Indianer, nehmen wir hier in Europa heute im Wesentlichen als verarmte und alkoholkranke Minderheit wahr. Doch es gibt noch eine andere Realität: Einige Stämme mischen gar im Big Business der Vereinigten Staaten mit, nutzen clever Gesetzeslücken und erwirtschaften das große Geld mit Spielkasinos in ihren Reservaten.
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Amerikas Ureinwohner, die Indianer, nehmen wir hier in Europa heute im Wesentlichen als verarmte und alkoholkranke Minderheit wahr. Doch es gibt noch eine andere Realität: Einige Stämme mischen gar im Big Business der Vereinigten Staaten mit, nutzen clever Gesetzeslücken und erwirtschaften das große Geld mit Spielkasinos in ihren Reservaten.
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American Indian women help train Macedonian border guards
People's Daily Online - 08.05.07 - 10:06
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Three American Indian women officers launched on Monday a training course for Macedonian border guards to help them fight illegal movements in border areas, news reaching here from Skopje reported.
The training is being carried out by the members of "Shadow Wolves," an elite unit of Native American trackers who are attached to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Makfax, Macedonia's independent news agency, said.
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