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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Many Indians say, 'no thanks' to Thanksgiving
Posted on Thursday, November 22 @ 13:09:02 PST (1151 reads)

AUTHOR: Anju Kaur

Desiree Shelley's family has observed Thanksgiving for generations, but that doesn't mean she doesn't understand the protests of fellow Indians who don't.

A native of Baltimore, Shelley has roots in the Monacan tribe of Virginia. Her father is part Monacan, a tribe that was "Christianized" shortly after the Jamestown colonization in the early 1600s, she said.

"Even if some American Indians celebrate (the holiday), there is a prevailing feeling of hurt for a lot of people," Shelley said. "We have all been assimilated and colonized. We have lost our history, our language and our culture. What do you expect?"

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: The Mother Blessingway Ceremony
Posted on Tuesday, September 18 @ 00:13:26 PDT (2664 reads)

A Mother Blessing is one form of the Navajo Blessingway ceremony. It is a ritual for the expectant mother. A Mother Blessingway is a gathering of only women who get together, tell (positive) birth stories, give the expectant mother emotional support and pamper her a bit (brush her hair, wash her feet, massage her).

The tone, content, and intent of a blessingway can vary greatly, but generally, the modern event involves songs, food, and the giving of symbolic gifts and good wishes to the mother. In less spiritual practice, a blessing way is similar to a baby shower and is held for a pregnancy other than a woman’s first.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Alaskan natives kill whale wounded in hunt 120 years ago
Posted on Tuesday, August 07 @ 00:48:40 PDT (1982 reads)

Native Alaskan hunters have found part of a 19th century weapon embedded in the shoulder of a bowhead whale, leading scientists to believe the animal was wounded in a hunt almost 120 years ago.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Meaning of Prayer or Dance Fans Explained
Posted on Monday, December 19 @ 18:10:28 PST (8523 reads)

AUTHOR: Patrick Scott, Dine (Navajo)

As told to us by our elders, these fans are quite significant to the Native Americans. They are used in the Native American Church to sing and to pray with. They are also used in Pow Wows to dance with.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Pueblo Wedding Vase Ceremony
Posted on Friday, October 14 @ 07:35:01 PDT (7546 reads)

To celebrate the wedding ceremony indigenous people of the Southwest and Southeast used a pottery jar or pot with a handle on each side and two spouts, called a 'wedding vase'.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Greetings from the Great White North: Winter celebrations heat up chilly nights
Posted on Saturday, December 11 @ 02:53:00 PST (5664 reads)

Greetings from the Great White North: Winter celebrations heat up chilly nights... KEYWORDS: cultural gathering Alaskan Native Heritage Center December 18 events storytelling dance games alaskan native crafts trapping language Kicaput Dancers Fireweed Dancers Yup'ik language Cup'ik people Alaska Native dance ANHC Cultural Education Program Haida language Dena'ina Athabascan language classes Eskimo Doll Ornaments Athabascan Beading recreated Indian village Alaskan Native history culture traditions

Natives from all over the country are invited to enjoy the snow-covered grounds of the Alaskan Native Heritage Center for programming that will highlight fun and educational activities that traditional and contemporary Alaska Natives experience. Winter Celebration is on December 18th from 10am to 5pm.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Clothing, footwear and territory of the Caribou Inuit
Posted on Wednesday, November 10 @ 05:59:29 PST (17285 reads)

Keywords: Caribou Inuit cariboo inuit CARIBOU INUIT caribou eskimos District of Keewatin Chesterfield Inlet Baker Lake Rankin Inlet Whale Cove Arviat Hudson Bay Paallirmiut southern Keewatin Aivilingmiut historical clothing contemporary clothing parkas Kamiks kamiks Iglulik Inuit saaluqitiq kubluuq ipirausiq Ekuma Parr cariboo Cariboo CARIBOO

Caribou Inuit live in the District of Keewatin in the communities of Chesterfield Inlet, Baker Lake, Rankin Inlet, Whale Cove, and Arviat.

They hunt primarily caribou, which provides materials for their food, clothing, shelter, and tools.

Fish is also a major food resource, and some coastal families hunt sea mammals.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Native American Gathering Educational Program On Nov. 5
Posted on Wednesday, October 27 @ 01:42:33 PDT (4163 reads)

Native American Gathering Educational Program Is Nov. 5... KEYWORDS: Chattanooga Indigenous Resource Center Native American Gathering at the River cherokee culture Muscogee culture Cherokee cultures Nov. 5 Tennessee Riverpark's West Pavilion Muscogee (Creek) Nation Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Eastern Band of Cherokees Chattanooga Tennessee native american gathering in November traditional Muscogee foods Seminole patchwork and its meaning musical instrument making contemporary American Indian visual arts storytelling traditional Cherokee pottery making gourd carving beadwork Seminole history and culture Seminole Trail of Tears

Students, parents, teachers and all people interested in Native American and local history will have an opportunity to experience the Muscogee and Cherokee cultures up close Friday, Nov. 5 at the Tennessee Riverpark's West Pavilion.

The Chattanooga Indigenous Resource Center and Library (CIRCL) will host the Native American Gathering at the River, an interactive, educational program ex ploring the cultures, both past and present, of the people who first inhabited the region.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Time is Now to launch New Tribal Economies
Posted on Sunday, October 10 @ 15:57:57 PDT (5886 reads)

Anonymous writes AUTHOR: Terrance H. Booth, Sr., Director
Native Nations Sustainable Alliance

A. David Lester, Executive Director, Council on Energy Resources Tribes (CERT) writes, “Indian business is not about money, it is about expressing our deeply held Indian Values in economic terms, to allow us to serve one another. Money is not the goal, money is a means, to allow a person to live according to our Indian ways.” (1) The late Ira C. Booth, Tribal Historian, Tsimshian quotes “Tribal Economic Development in reality would be a re-discovery of who we are as tribal people.”

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Fact vs. fiction regarding Indigenous Red Nations and people
Posted on Saturday, May 22 @ 11:52:12 PDT (13534 reads)

Anonymous writes INDIGENOUS RED NATIONS AND PEOPLES
Fiction and Fact

Much the same as foreign, european-based, white “immigrants” - currently called “Americans” - dislike the word “honky”, and African “blacks” disagree with the word “negro”, Indigenous Red “Indian” Nations and Peoples must be afforded the same respect - not to be associated with the following misconceptions. Discard everything you have been “taught” so far in your life, as the following information are probably facts you have never been allowed or fortunate to have heard about. So hang on and open your mind – which can also bring you true happiness! Read on for the real facts.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Mdewakanton Dakota tribe restoring lost traditions
Posted on Sunday, November 09 @ 22:01:45 PST (5538 reads)

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AUTHOR: Renee Ruble

MORTON, Minn. - Gripping a cane tightly, Ernest Wabasha slowly reached to touch a pair of heavy iron shackles hanging from his mantel - the same shackles his great-grandfather, the legendary Chief Wabasha, wore during a forced march across the southwestern Minnesota plains a century ago.

A portrait of Chief Wabasha hung nearby, surrounded by the strong faces of the Wabasha line before and after. The most recent are photos of Ernest and his son, Wabasha No. 6 and No. 7.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Celebrating an Indian summer
Posted on Sunday, October 12 @ 04:33:10 PDT (11887 reads)

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AUTHOR: Richard B. Williams (Oglala Lakota)

Lately we have heard the phrase "Indian summer" used frequently to describe our stretch of good weather. Most of us are taking advantage of the warm weather rather than contemplating the etymology of the term "Indian summer." However, a study of the phrase is an eye-opening look into our nation's history. After years of asking elders and prominent Indian historians, I stumbled across an article written by a leading American Indian author from an Eastern tribe who explained the origins of "Indian summer."

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: How many indigenous American languages are spoken in the United States? By how m
Posted on Monday, February 17 @ 23:50:56 PST (13752 reads)

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The following tables list 154 indigenous American languages which are still spoken in the United States, the number of speakers, and where the speakers are located. Table 1 arranges the languages alphabetically, while Table 2 arranges them according to number of speakers.

Note: *The oldest Makah tribal member and the last person fully fluent in the Makah language, died at her home Monday, August 21, 2002, at age 100.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Multicultural elders share wisdom with school children
Posted on Monday, January 27 @ 17:54:40 PST (5563 reads)

A crowd of students gathered at the feet of Navajo elder Franklin Kahn, who is a participant in a special program designed by the STAR School to bring adult volunteers from the community into the classroom. At the charter school on Leupp Road east of Flagstaff, volunteers share stories of their lives, their culture, the geography and history of the area. School staff hopes that through this program, multicultural students will learn to better understand and be more tolerant of each other's differences, and to appreciate the similarities.

Kahn's life is a testimony to this goal.

Kneeling in the center of the circle of children, Kahn explained why he had asked the students to form a circle.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Blackfeet tribe immerses students in language to reclaim lost culture
Posted on Monday, January 27 @ 15:59:25 PST (10328 reads)

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AUTHOR: Fred Tasker, Knight Ridder Newspapers

(BLACKFEET RESERVATION, BROWNING, MONTANA)- "Tsa nii ksistikowatts sa-ahsi?" teacher Shirley Crowshoe asks her class of elementary students sitting in a circle on a thick rug in a bright, modern classroom. "What kind of day is it outside?"

Jessie DesRosier, 13, is quick to raise his hand: "Sugapii ksisko, ahstosopo," he says. "Nice day, cold wind."

Jessie is one of a handful younger than 60 in the 15,000-member tribe on this isolated reservation who can speak its native language. He's one of 31 students in a total immersion school in the Blackfeet language and culture set up by Darrell Kipp, Harvard-trained historian of the Blackfeet Tribe, and teacher Dorothy Still Smoking.

They created it because too few Blackfeet children knew the tribe's language and customs.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Drought Hits Tribal Plant Rituals
Posted on Thursday, August 01 @ 16:03:33 PDT (14189 reads)

KEYWORDS: Tribal Plant Ritual Hopi Indians religious ceremonies First Mesa Native Americans wild tobacco relieving stress corn pollen communicating with holy people sacred herbs medicine plants Navajo medicine men culture four sacred peaks ceremonial plants Apache religious leaders Navajo Medicineman's Association Inc pray for rain sage snakeweed jimson weed Fort Apache Reservation

SOURCE: Associated Press

PHOENIX -- As the gatherer of wild tobacco for the Hopi Indians' many religious ceremonies, Delfred Leslie had never really worried about where he would find the next crop.

The pungent leaves usually abound within a couple of hours of his home on the tribe's isolated First Mesa in northeastern Arizona.

This year, however, drought and wildfires in the Southwest have taken a huge toll on the natural materials that Native Americans use in their ceremonies.

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Culture-> Tribal Customs: Elk-teeth dress is epitome of Crow status and style
Posted on Monday, April 15 @ 11:47:49 PDT (29442 reads)

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AUTHOR: James Hagengruber, Billings Gazette

Before the invasion of silk, sequins and designer labels, the highest fashion west of the Mississippi was the elk-teeth dress.

There was no mistaking the status of a Crow woman wearing her tribe's signature gown of blue or indigo trade wool covered by 500 elk canine teeth. They wore their wealth on their sleeves. Because only two teeth from an elk are suitable, each dress represented years of hunting and hard work.

Note: The elk-teeth dress is often worn in the women's traditional dances at northern pow wows today.

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