Oregon Daily Emerald - 16.05.07
Award-winning poet, novelist and essayist Sherman Alexie came to campus Monday night as part of a tour promoting his latest novel, 'Flight.' Before a packed crowd in Columbia 150, Alexie spoke to University students and fans in the community about everything from his fear of flying on airplanes to the secret to a good marriage.
"I am terrified of flying," Alexie admitted. "I can see the headline now: 'Native American writer dies promoting 'Flight.' With a big picture of a plane on fire. The only thing I can think is it'd really help book sales." This was only the beginning of the audience's constant laughter, which lasted for the entire hour-and-45-minute lecture.
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Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007
Ausstellung: The myths behind the masks
Sandusky Register - 16.05.07
The Sandusky Cultural Center's latest exhibit allows visitors to experience Native American culture.
The exhibit, Sharing Myths: Contemporary Art from the First Peoples of the Northwest Coast, features a variety of Native American art, including a totem poll-style carved talking stick, more than 40 masks and intricately-carved boxes.
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all american patriots - 16.05.07
May 15, 2007 -- PHOENIX - Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne opened the first-ever National Native American Economic Policy Summit with a video-taped message to over 500 tribal leaders, federal officials and leaders of Native organizations encouraging Summit participants to “work together collaboratively to formulate policy recommendations that will improve the quality of life in America’s diverse and growing indigenous communities.”
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May 15, 2007 -- PHOENIX - Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne opened the first-ever National Native American Economic Policy Summit with a video-taped message to over 500 tribal leaders, federal officials and leaders of Native organizations encouraging Summit participants to “work together collaboratively to formulate policy recommendations that will improve the quality of life in America’s diverse and growing indigenous communities.”
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Veranstaltung: Indianische Kräuterkunde
Landkreis Darmstdt - 16.05.07
Darmstadt-Dieburg - In einem Gespräch mit John H. Summers, einem Cree-Indianer aus Kanada, und anhand eines Films haben die Teilnehmer des Seminars die Gelegenheit, die Lebensphilosophie und das überlieferte Gesundheitswissen der Indianer kennenzulernen. Im Anschluss können Fragen und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten auch mit der Heilpraktikerin Karin Becker diskutiert werden.
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Darmstadt-Dieburg - In einem Gespräch mit John H. Summers, einem Cree-Indianer aus Kanada, und anhand eines Films haben die Teilnehmer des Seminars die Gelegenheit, die Lebensphilosophie und das überlieferte Gesundheitswissen der Indianer kennenzulernen. Im Anschluss können Fragen und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten auch mit der Heilpraktikerin Karin Becker diskutiert werden.
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Dienstag, 15. Mai 2007
Centuries later, Hehakawin moves to final resting grounds
Rapid City Journal - 15.05.07
Ceremony held as American Indian bones are buried west of Custer.
By Mary Garrigan, Journal staff
CUSTER -- More than 70 years after her bones were unearthed in a cave near Argyle in the southern Black Hills, a funeral procession of sorts for a young American Indian girl named Hehakawin wound its way from the Forest Supervisor's office in Custer to her final resting place 15 miles west of town on Monday.
Another winning historical performance by Adam Beach in HBO’s Wounded Knee
capebretonpost.com - 15.05.07
LOS ANGELES (AP) — He wasn’t nominated for an Oscar for his role as a Native American Marine in “Flags of Our Fathers,” but Adam Beach still feels like a winner.
“Just to hear that people were upset that I didn’t get nominated really means a lot,” he says of critics enthralled by his haunting portrayal of Ira Hayes, one of the Marines seen raising the flag on Iwo Jima in the prize-winning Associated Press photo snapped during the Second World War battle.
“I’ve never had to wait for an award to look at my accomplishments,” he says. “I’ve always had the hearts and smiles of Native American people to tell me, ‘You’ve won us.’ That’s my award.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — He wasn’t nominated for an Oscar for his role as a Native American Marine in “Flags of Our Fathers,” but Adam Beach still feels like a winner.
“Just to hear that people were upset that I didn’t get nominated really means a lot,” he says of critics enthralled by his haunting portrayal of Ira Hayes, one of the Marines seen raising the flag on Iwo Jima in the prize-winning Associated Press photo snapped during the Second World War battle.
“I’ve never had to wait for an award to look at my accomplishments,” he says. “I’ve always had the hearts and smiles of Native American people to tell me, ‘You’ve won us.’ That’s my award.”
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One in three Native American women suffers sexual assault
FinalCall.com - 15.05.07
WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - Native American women are at least 2.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted in their lifetimes as other women in the United States, according to a report released Apr. 25 by Amnesty International.
At least one in three Indigenous women is raped or otherwise subjected to sexual violence during her lifetime, according to the 113-page report, the latest in a series produced by the London-based group’s Campaign to Stop Violence Against Women.
At least 86 percent of reported rapes or other sexual assaults against Indigenous women are committed by non-Indian men who are rarely prosecuted or punished, according to the report, “Maze of Injustice: The Failure to Protect Indigenous Women from Sexual Violence in the USA.”
The failure to pursue justice in such cases is due to a number of factors, the report noted, including chronic under-funding of police and health services, and a “complex maze of tribal, state and federal jurisdictions that is so confusing that it often allows perpetrators to evade justice entirely.”
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