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  • Skull to Auction at Christie's

    Submitted by Pahinh.Winh on Thu, 01/14/2010 - 21:51

    Hanh mitakuyapi / hello my relatives.  Two mornings ago there was a piece on National Public Radio that the Skull & Bones club at Yale (?) (or is it Harvard?) has put a skull "said to have been used as a ballot box" at Christie's Auction House in NYC.  The skull is "expected to bring $10,000 - $12,000" according to the NPR report.  Since then, there has been no mention of this skull.

    I emailed Christie's & got no reply.  This doesn't surprise me,  since I've had dealings with them in the past & their attitude has been monumentally patronizing & racist every time.  That doesn't mean they should be allowed to get away  with selling human bones, however, especially ours.

    I thought it is illegal to sell human bones, or at the very least that NAGPRA would cover this, but Chrisitie's either believes it is above the law or that we Indns aren't worth consideration.

    I've emailed 2 of theApache tribes, since that's all I could find contact information for, but I hope someone reads this in time & if that skull is Geronimo's, stops the sale.  personally, I'm of the opinion that people who deal in our Peoples' bones should be staked out on a hot day & left to get thoroughly dry.  No matter what, selling skulls is suspicious  behavior for the Skull & Bones club, since they have never done right by us regarding their supposed possession of Geronimo's skull - & who know who else's.

     

    Mitakuye  oiasin / All (are)  my  relatives.

  • Christie's Auctions Skull

    Submitted by Pahinh.Winh on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 20:56

    Hanh mitakuyapi / hello my relatives. 

    On Prairie Public Radio yesterday morning, there was a news story that Christie's Auction House is going to sell a skull from the infamous Skull & Bones Club of Yale (?) or Harvard - whichever one "W" & other such went to for their "university experience".

    We've all heard repeatedly that the Skull & Bones Club claims to have Geronimo's skull..  no mention of whose skull this is, which makes it  far more suspect, to me.  If it were a legitimate sale, I would expect there to be more information that just that 'a skull' is going to be sold.

    Expected price, the report said, will be $10,000 - $12,000.

    Trafficking in human bones should be illegal if it isn't already.  And if this is Geronimo's - or any other Indigenous Person's - skull, selling it at auction is past heinous.  Get after Christie's about this!  Pilamiyaye / Thank you.

  • Auditions in Flagstaff, AZ

    Submitted by Camillemanybeads on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 07:06

    Hi all.  I am holding auditions for a short. No Pay. On January 9th from 1-4 at Taala Hooghan infoshop in Flagstaff, AZ. Message me for directions or more info. Please forward this info to whoever you think might be interested.
    Thanks!
    Camille

  • Merry X-Mas!

    Submitted by AIROS Native Network on Tue, 12/22/2009 - 21:48

    Check out the latest NS-NV X-Mas Blog from Aden Marshall.

     

     

  • 12 Songs of Native X-Mas

    Submitted by Aden on Tue, 12/22/2009 - 21:06

    This is Aden J. Marshall wishing everyone a merry Christmas, happy holidays and a happy new year! We here at Native Sounds - Native Voices would like to invite you to check out our playlist of Christmas music and stories. We have the 12 Nights of Round Dance by Blackstone, a story about little people by Murray Porter,  the Plateros cover of Jingle Bell Rock and much more! So sit back and enjoy the holiday festivities from AIROS.

    12 Songs of Native X-mas

    12 Nights of Round Dance - Blackstone

    Merry Christmas - James Bilagody

    Three Shaman - Robby Bee and Brule

    The First Noel - Bill Miller

    Angels We Have Heard on High - Cherokee National Youth Choir

    12 Days of Native Christmas - Gary Robinson

    Jingle Bell Rock - The Plateros

    Dine Christmas - The Plateros

    Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Cherokee National Youth Choir

    One Holy Night - Robby Bee and Brule

    Joy to the World - Bill Miller

    Check out the times and dates for this show on the livestream

    Aden Marshall

    NS-NV

    Co-Host

  • Congratulations FNCI Grant Winners

    Submitted by AIROS Native Network on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 18:26

    December 7, 2009, SAINT PAUL, MN.  Six grants ranging from $3,000 to $5,000 have been awarded to American Indian/Indigenous musical artist in the sixth round of grant making from First Nations Composer Initiative (FNCI), a program of ACF. The awards are made under the Common Ground Grant Program, generously funded with the support of the Ford Foundation’s IllumiNation portfolio. 
     
    FNCI is dedicated to serving the needs of American Indian/Alaska Native/First Nations/Indigenous makers of new music throughout Indian Country.  FNCI is committed to supporting activities that build careers of Indigenous musicians, including commissions, residencies, performance and production, travel/study, and outreach. 
     
    Please join us in congratulating the following sixth round 2009 Common Ground grant recipients and feel free to visit their web pages: 
     
    Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) New Mexico/Genre: Traditional.   Funding to assist in the production of an original traditional music album. This musical project will be a series of honor songs.  Songs will feature Native flutes, turtle shell and other traditional Mvskoke rattles as well as multiples voices both sung and spoken.  www.joyharjo.com
     
    Shirley Kendall and Maria Williams (Tlingit/Haida) Alaksa/Genre: Traditional.   Funding to assist in developing both a written songbook and a DVD songbook based on Tlingit social songs. The idea behind the songbook is to provide the Tlingit song texts, the cultural contextual information, correct pronunciation and the clan history association with the songs. 

    Cheryl L’Hirondelle (Mestis/Cree-non status) Ontario/Genre: Contemporary/Multidisciplinary.  Funding to assist in developing and creating an audio map of Cheryl’s journeys around Toronto by singing the urban landscape, animals, people and their activities.   www.myspace.com/cheryllhirondelle      www.myspace.com/mgirlmusic 
     
    Shelley Morningsong (Northern Cheyenne) New Mexico/Genre: Contemporary.   Funding to assist with musician and producer fees for new album “Full Circle,” which will consist of songs that encourage healing, awareness and empowerment for the people.     www.shelleymorningsongonline.com 
     
    Murray Porter (Mohawk) Vancouver BC/Genre: Blues.   Funding to assist with musician fees, rehearsal and studio time, mixing and mastering expenses for CD recording project of 12 original blues songs.     www.myspace.com/murrayportermusic 
     
    Janet Rogers (Mohawk/Tuscarora) Victoria BC/Genre: Spoken Word.   Funding to be used to assist with a tour plan for live performance of spoken word works accompanied by violinist Swil Kanim and cellist Cris Derksen and development of video component which will run simultaneously with performance.   www.janetmarierogers.com
     
    Panelist for the sixth round were: 
     
    Dawn Avery (Mohawk descent): As an educator, Dawn helps to nurture future generations of musicians as Professor of Music at Montgomery College where she has produced an annual World Arts Festival for six years. Dawn Avery’s compositions span from orchestral to chamber. Her music can be heard on a new film release (Summer 2008) on Rich Heape Films, entitled, “Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding Schools.” Dawn Avery was recently elected to be on the board of the national organization, American Composers Forum in which she will be on education and curriculum committees as well as the committee for the First Nations Composers Initiative. 
     
    Lisa Long (Muscogee/Creek-Choctaw): began flute studies at the age of 10 in Seminole, Oklahoma and continued her studies with Barbara Davis, a former student of Walfrid Kujala, at Oklahoma City University, where she was principal flutist for numerous orchestral, operatic, and musical theatre performances. Long regularly performs as a chamber musician and soloist.  She is a member of the first Native American chamber orchestra, the Coast Orchestra, and has performed at the National Museum of the American Indian, Kennedy Center, and The American Museum of Natural History, National Gallery of Art and the University of Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. 
     
    Watso (Abnaki): Artist, Community Activist and American Indian business owner.  Watso has been involved in the American Indian arts for well over 20 years and has served on many art’s panels throughout the years.   Although Watso is not a musician he brought to the panel a discerning ear and open mind for music connected to our various indigenous communities.  Watso would like you all to know that he was honored to have been asked to serve as a panelist for the Common Ground re-granting program.
     

           

  • Tonemah Top 5

    Submitted by AIROS Native Network on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 18:05

    The last time award winning singer/songwriter Darryl Tonemah came to Lincoln, he stopped by NAPT and sat down with student assistant Ben Kreimer for an exclusive interview about his life as a successful Native Americana musician and Ph.D psychologist.  The interview is now available for download!  To go along with the release of the new AIROS Native Sounds: Darryl Tonemah podcast interview, it seemed appropriate to post some of our favorite Tonemah songs from each of his albums, as well as a selection from his latest release, Inkblots & Random Thoughts.  Don't forget to check out Tonemah's website.

    Download the MP3 l Listen on the Livestream | Subscribe to the Podcast

    Here are AIROS favorites from each of Tonemah's five CD releases:

    - Pow Wow Snag (One in Every Crowd)

    - Sweet Sunshine (Inkblots & Random Thoughts)

    - There's a Train (Welcome to Your Rainy Day)

    - I Know (The Ghosts of St. Augustine)

    - Twilight (A Time Like Now)

    Let us know what your favorite Tonemah songs are!

  • NAPT's Winter Count

    Submitted by Shirley K. Sneve on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 22:01

    Listen to Shirley read NAPT's 2009 Winter CountNAPT Executive Director Shirley Sneve

    Seasons greetings from NAPT! It’s a time of reflection and preparation for the new year. Lakota people record their reflections through the winter count. Waniyeta wowapi, in our language.

    Winter counts are histories or calendars in which events are recorded by pictures, with one picture for each year.

    This is our 33rd year of bringing listeners and viewers excellent TV and radio programming through public broadcasting and the Internet.

    This year, the picture on the winter count is a TV transmission tower to mark the end of analog broadcasting and the digital conversion.  We bought boxes for our old TV sets or bought a new flat screen HD TV. It already seems like a long time ago.

    But the digital conversion opened new doors for viewers—and for NAPT programming. This year, we released six video documentaries and two Native Radio Theater programs.

    Waila: Making the People Happy by Dan Golding about chicken scratch music of the Southwest.
    Jim Thorpe, The World’s Greatest Athlete by Tom Weidlinger and Joe Bruchac.
    Power Paths by Bo Boudart, Chris Phillip, and Norman Brown. Featured on Independent Lens, it looks at the quest of tribes for renewable energy.
    River of Renewal by Stephen Most and Jack Kohler accounts the damming of the Klamath River.
    To Brooklyn and Back: A Mohawk Journey by Reaghan Tarbell and Paul Rickard. It’s the history of the women behind the Native steelworkers who changed the skyline in New York City.
    For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska by Jeff Silverman tells the story of Elizabeth Peratovich and other Alaska Native civil rights leaders.

    And on the radio, The Red Road, a one woman show by Arigon Starr, and Raven’s Radio Hour, a variety show set in Alaska.Native Radio Theater is a project with Native Voices at the Autry.

    Native Sounds-Native Voices and The Drum are weekly shows that NAPT staff create for Lincoln’s community radio station and the AIROS Native Network—NAPT’s own 24/7 Internet radio station. Web specialist Eric Martin works with students in hosting the program. Sina Bear Eagle and Aden Marshall co-hosted the program until the fall. Sina got an opportunity to study in England, so Tobias Grant took over the microphone. Tobias also carries on a family tradition—he’s NAPT founder Frank Blythe’s grandson.

    In addition to programming, we’ve provided training opportunities and launched new websites for nativetelecom.org, airos.org and visionmaker.org

    NAPT’s mission is to share Native stories with the World, and we’d like you to join us by making a tax deductable contribution.  Click on the donate button on the right hand column on the NAPT website.

    Your support helps make these important Native stories possible. Thanks and happy new year!

  • What's Really Getting Overhauled ?

    Submitted by Pahinh.Winh on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 20:31

    Hanh mitakuyapi / Hello my relatives.  We've all heard (& heard) about the so-called "healthy care system overhaul", anneh?  Hanh / yes.

      But how many people have noticed that it doesn't cover dental care, vision care, acupuncture/acupressure, chiropractic, nutraceuticals, herbal medicine or any of ourTraditional Indigenous health care modalities.  Some overhaul.

      As I read this bill, it's basically a great big boondoggle aimed at maintaining the insurance industry's & the AMA's chokehold on chemical & surgical 'medicine'.

      In short, the overhaul is anything but all-inclusive, & everything about exclusive.  It excludes dental care, vision care, acupuncture/acupressure, chiropractic, nutraceuticals, herbal medicine or any of ourTraditional Indigenous health care modalities.

    Dental care is vital to good health - we are what we eat & what we don't, after all; & if we can't process our food properly, our health suffers.  Acupuncture/acupressure are over 4,000 years old - hardly unproven modalities, and without the ugly side-effects common to m.c. chemical "medicines". Indigenous Traditional Ways have gotten short shrift since Europeans first came to Turtle Island, although in a few parts of this land, our Ways have been treated with respect..  but very few.

    As a lifelong Traditional healer, first trained by my grandmother Pearl, who was trained by her mother & grandmother & they by theirs.... I am profoundly offended by this sham overhaul of the m.c. health care system - particularly since if we don't buy insurance, we would be fined!  I haven't been to a m.c. doctor in something like 10 years, & when I last went, for a severe allergic reaction, they had nothing 'in stock' to treat me!  I ended up buying an OTC treatment from a supermarket.  At 10 o'clock at night.

    When we had "W" & company, we had 'anything goes' & 'those with the  most money got away with the most'.  So people voted in droves for Mr.Obama, mainly - I  believe - in the name of 'hope' (a word no Indigenous Turtle Island language has a word for, I note) - & now we appear to have swung way too far toward socialism & government herding us all in whatever direction.  I wonder where the 'happy medium' went?  It's been a long time since we had anything like it operating in this land.  I miss it.

    But more than anything, I think what's really getting overhauled is us, the People.  Or maybe that's  'keelhauled'....  No matter how I slice it, it isn't good for anyone except insurance companies & the  AMA chemical-surgical 'medico's.  Ever notice that 80% of the word "shame" is sham?

    Mitakuye  oiasin.  All (are) my relatives.

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