2007 Archives

To Whom it May Concern;

12:30 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day I was listening to my was favorite radio station WGRR here in Cincinnati when I heard the following re-broadcast from Chris and Janeen morning show.

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Navajos showed up on three television channels simultaneously the last Sunday in October, and the spurt of Navajo celebrity isn’t over yet. Billy Luther’s documentary “Miss Navajo” aired Tuesday, Nov. 13, on PBS. And Elsa Johnson, a Navajo cultural consultant for the film and television industry, recently worked on an episode of Morgan Spurlock’s “30 Days” filmed on the reservation, and said that show is set to run in January on FX.Continue to Navajos showcased on TV →

Norman Akers (Osage), Mario Martinez (Yaqui), Larry McNeil (Tlingit), Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Flathead Salish) and Marie Watt (Seneca) -- artists who often utilize traditional American Indians motifs in unexpected ways -- were selected by the U.S. State Department and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian to have their work showcased overseas in U.S. embassies worldwide, introducing foreign audiences to the richness and variety of contemporary American Indian art.

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The wildfires roaring across Southern California have burned more than
17,200 acres of land on the Yuina, Rincon, La Jolla, San Pasqual and Pala
reservations, said Jim Fletcher, superintendent for the BIA in southern
California.

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Collect Campbell’s soup labels and other proof of purchase from Campbell’s products and they will offer rebates to help the children of Pine Ridge Reservation Elementary school with free educational and athletic equipment.

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The 4th Annual Southwest Native American Film Festival will beheld at the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) and the Coconino Center forthe Arts (CCA), Oct. 5 and 6 in Flagstaff, Arizona. The film festival is a unique showcase ofcontemporary Native American video, film and animation made by Indigenousfilmmakers from throughout the Southwest. This year’s festival will feature 25 films, including a special screeningof the festival’s feature film “Mile Post 398,” with director Shonie De LaRosa and members of the cast…