It seems that there is trouble on the Lac Du Flambeau reservation. A standoff in the tribal offices, accusations of missing money and actual losses in a smorgasboard of casino investments.
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Change "Strait of Georgia" to "Salish Sea"? That's a fine idea. But if this province is serious about changing place names born of its colonial past, then the first place to start is a spot in northern B.C. that signs tell us is "Squaw Lake"...
"Grants are made in two funding areas, the visual arts and the expressive arts. Visual arts awards support exhibitions and installations of contemporary American Indian art, as well as publications and critical writing. The expressive arts category supports the creation and presentation of new works with an emphasis on collaboration."
Design a flag for Canada's National Aboriginal Solidarity Day, win money and trip to fabulous Winnipeg!!! Open to Canadian youth, 12-17; deadline May 16, 2008.
It's that time again, Income-Tax season; are you eligible for exemptions (Canadian)?
"... On top of the Bighorn Range in Wyoming, a desolate 9,642 feet high and only reachable during the warm summer months, lies an ancient Native American construction -- an 80' diameter wheel-like pattern made of stones..."
"The new version of Silver Hand determines an artist's eligibility not by blood quantum -- meaning one's degree of Native ancestry -- but by enrollment in an Alaska Native tribe. The amendments also build in civil penalties for misuse of the Silver Hand symbol, strengthening the government's ability to enforce the law."
"... a new technique for examining ancient cooking pots has produced the earliest directly dated examples of domesticated corn (maize) being consumed on the South American continent. Their discovery shows the spread of maize out of Mexico more than 9,000 years ago occurred much faster than previously believed and provides evidence that corn was likely a vital food crop for villages in tropical Ecuador at least 5,000 years ago..."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Playing with an older piece, digitally speaking. This is one of the first paintings that incorporated papier mache.
This beaded medallion is another of my Mum's collection. A generic T-bird motif; the pink beads showing the deterioration of an applied colouration (as opposed to coloured glass) over time. Artist unknown.
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I've posted scans of these pics, before, but not with the new scanner. So, click for the larger detail and see them better.
Scorpodile Hawktail (and One Bad Bunny)
Orca Crashes the Crack-Penguin(TM-Broken Vulture Art) Martini Party.
Hand Rattle
Rawhide/antler rattle with "loomed beadwork" "fan".
"... turbines manufactured with WhalePower blades would be capable of capturing energy where the wind is less strong, as conventional turbines tend to stall when wind speeds fall too low. Not only would this improve the business case for individual wind farms, it broadens the natural geography suitable for large-scale wind generation."
"... WRDF now operates as an independent, non-profit community development financial institution serving the Wind River Indian Reservation..."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to make a radio show, from CBC radio program "Spark".
"If museums have a future at all, it has to be a future together with Indian country," said Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, curator of anthropology. He described Denver as the "epicenter of contemporary Native American society" because of the presence of many surrounding tribal nations and the metro area's more than 25,000 Indian residents. Hundreds of pounds of buffalo meat donated by the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of South Dakota were being prepared for nearly 1,000 guests at the annual feast..."
You have a year to get it together, but only a couple months until deadline. 14th Native American Film + Video Festival. New York, NY; March 26 - 29, 2009. Deadline is August 15, 2008.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Sioux Narrows bridge is [finally] finished. The former bridge was known as the "longest single span wooden bridge in the world" [although a quick google search found several others claiming this title] and a well-known local landmark, so the government naturally decided to rip it out and replace it with something that vaguely resembles it... only taking five years to finish the project.
"Hope said "Brother" is not a definitive statement about Tlingit identity, instead it offers a segmented glimpse at one family's struggle for dignity amidst the clash of old and new generations."
"... she led a series of demonstrations and protests at the base and once set up a tent village on its airstrip. When they were removed by soldiers, she took the plight to local and national media, demanding the peace of her people be reinstated. This was the first step into the world of activism for the 62-year-old Innu Elder, who has made it a personal mission to remind her people about the history of their land."
"I was so moved by it," Joseph-Weil says. "And there was something about her photo that just mesmerized me, that I suddenly said: 'I have to sing her. How can I sing her?'" Along with award-winning composer Benjamin Boone, a fellow Fresno State professor, she is working to put Ascencion Solorsano's oral history into a piece called Ascencion. They're calling it an "ethno-historical cantata."
Another Native Blog, Attawapiskat.Com; currently focused on the need for a new school in Attawapiskat.
"Angel Mounds State Historic Site will showcase the work of four acclaimed Native American artists in "The 4 Winds" Native American Fine Arts Bazaar, running Friday through March 30."
"Native leaders from a remote Northwestern Ontario reserve were sent to jail in handcuffs yesterday for opposing mining on their traditional lands... A few hours later in the Ontario Legislature, New Democratic Party Leader Howard Hampton blamed the court decision on the McGuinty government's "complete and utter failure" to consult aboriginal communities about mineral exploration..."
"I am an enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation of Ada, Oklahoma. I am very interested in the success of Native Americans in higher education and serve on the board of Oregon Indian Education Association, as well as, on the OCIPSE board."
"... I turn the corner and see him, the Indian guy onstage. He’s taller than me. His skin is much darker. His black hair is twisted into perfect braids. I’m jealous. I mean, yes, I’m a handsome guy, but the man onstage is gorgeous. He looks far more Indian than I do..."
"...the bones of about 60 people, some up to 2,500 years old, will be buried in a casket about 30 metres from where they were found, overlooking the scenic harbour at Poets Cove..."
A group of aboriginal leaders from a remote northwestern Ontario community will learn today whether they will be sent to jail over a long-standing dispute concerning drilling rights in a First Nations territory.
"Crystal still works very hard every day to stay true to her roots and the path that has been laid out for her. Always the consummate professional. She writes, performs,records, produces and plays guitar. Crystal is already a seasoned veteran of the road and the entertainment industry with four independent studio albums to her credit."
"The mission of NWCA Gathering is to bring together artists and facilitators who work in the indigenous northwest coast style of art: to foster dialog; to develop connections; to explore new materials and techniques; to inspire new work; and to create a community that is inclusive and thoughtful, and that honors tradition while moving into the 21st Century."
"This exciting exhibition features the work of 32 contemporary California Indian artists and authors exploring themes of family history, ancestral homelands, spiritual traditions, contemporary life and personal identity through a variety of media including poetry, painting, basketry, printmaking, photography and sculpture."
"In February 2008... One of the hardest hit areas was the Rosalie, Alabama community, destroyed by an F4 tornado... It is the mission of F4 Art Storm to raise the $18,000 needed to purchase a tornado warning signal for Rosalie, Alabama. F4 Art Storm' will be an art and craft exhibition on Saturday May 3, 2008 planned and hosted by students at the University of Minnesota - Duluth..."
"(b. 1979) Tlingit/Aleut Multi-Disciplinary Artist Born in Sitka, Alaska, Nicholas Galanin has struck an intriguing balance between his origins and the course of his practice. Having trained extensively in 'traditional' as well as 'contemporary' approaches to art, he pursues them both in parallel paths..." (Deborah Everett)
Cool new feature at Google; Google Sky. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A peyote-stitch "cellini-spiral" necklace, with several glass bead types: transparent bronze silverlined (#10), cobalt blue silverlined (#6 & #10), opaque scarlet (#6 & #10) and transparent turquoise silverlined (#6).
My trusty scallop-shell bead dish.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The non-beading kitty.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Teal, pink, scarlet, transparent red silverlined glass beads and amber-coloured 'teardroip' earrings. On auction, at Red Nation Society.
Rainbow pastel and cobalt blue coral-stitch -under faceted crystal- earrings.
Cobalt blue and transparent, silverlined pink coral stitch, under brass bead earrings.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The local pulp yard weigh station.
Peaceful protests in Tibet getting the Chinese treatment. They have actually closed Mount Everest (their side), probably until the olympic torch passes.
This is a great, pulsing song, from Alternative Tentacles Records; featuring a collaboration of Jello Biafra and NoMeansNo.
"Just as Morrissey is the best current lyricist about relationships, no one can touch Biafra in his scathing social parody and insight. And when Nomeansno get really unleashed on "The Myth is Real - Let's Eat" (with the most pulverizing three chord Ramones riff heard since "Bad Brain" or "I've Gone Mental") the music takes on the glorious stomp of greatness..."
"The Thorburn/Buechel exhibition, a collection of Native American art and images, will be on display in the South Dakota Art Museum through Feb. 22, 2009."
"Renee Sans Souci (Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and Iowa) is a poet and educator. As a child, Renee was strongly influenced by the images and struggles of Native people during the 20th century. Her poetry and writing reflect the thoughts and feelings of being Native in this contemporary time period of the 21st Century..."
"Métis artist Rosalie Favell is a well-known photographer whose work has appeared in numerous solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in venues stretching from Glasgow, Scotland to Santiago, Chile"
"• friends, written by Marcie Rendon (White Earth Ojibwe), is a vibrant vignette about three generations of Native women who have a conversation about friendship, motherhood and lice. • Last Summer with the Pigeons, written by Rhiana Yazzie (Navajo), discloses the adventures of a few Dakota children and their discovery of a lost baby pigeon at a time when the skies were filled with billions of passenger • The Creature Rises, written by Sara Parker (Mandan-Hidatsa/Cree), discloses the evils of an electric company’s plot to steal uranium from the reservation by enlisting the aid of a female cashier as a spy."
17 ways to get bloggers to write about you. Article by Cory Doctorow, of BoingBoing. I think that I will begin to separate the artworks on my own blog from the linkie-posts (like this) in order to make them more link-friendly for others; per #3:
"Have a link for everything. Don't have a single page with ten items on it. Blogging a link to the top of your fifty-screen-long page with a blurb about something halfway down generates 200 e-mails from readers who can't find the referenced item."
"a charitable organization with a national focus that educates adults about how to help prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peyote-stitch "Cellini Spiral" beadwork necklace with glass and turquoise beads. [Pics click to enlarge]
"... one of the recipients of the 2008 Fargo Film Festival's Bill Snyder Award, claiming the Best Documentary Feature and Best Native American Voices Documentary Feature awards for her movie Maria Tallchief."
"The innovative theatre presentation draws on interactive tools to give participants an opportunity to direct the story line and see the consequences of their choices..."
"... is a professional community based non-profit organization dedicated to the vitalization of the Anishnaabeg Culture, Language and Heritage, through education and the sharing of original creative expression with Native and Non-Native people."
"... During the week of December 17-19, 2007, we traveled to Washington DC and withdrew from the constitutionally mandated treaties to become a free and independent country. We are alerting the Family of Nations we have now reassumed our freedom and independence with the backing of Natural, International, and United States law..."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Sigler's Infected, gets the paper treatment, April 1, 2008.
"... large opportunities lost because of the money poured into the war. "For a fraction of the cost of this war," said Mr. Stiglitz, "we could have put Social Security on a sound footing for the next half-century or more."
An American wood-processor now refuses to accept wood harvested from the "Whiskey Jack Forest,, that is under claim and logging protest by Grassy Narrows First Nation.
"... A second lawsuit against Poole was filed in June of 2005 by Jane Doe 2 an indigenous female. This complaint alleges that Poole sexually abused her for 8 years beginning when she was 12. The complaint states that Poole impregnated Jane Doe 2 at age 14 and then told her to "get rid of the baby" and to blame the pregnancy on her dad.
I was always surprised whenever I spoke about the abuse of Indian children by Catholic priests and nuns by how often people that came up to speak to me after my talk were from Alaska or Canada. It seems that the abusers in those two regions were not as adept at covering up their crimes as were the priests and nuns of the lower 48, or maybe it was because the American people in the lower 48 just plain refused to accept the idea that a priest or member of the clergy could sexually, mentally and physically abuse Native American children."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some new peyote stitch (flat, ruffle & tube varieties) earrings and bracelets. [Pics click to enlarge.]:
Nominate a Canadian artist [under 40], for the Sobey Art Award. March 30, 2008 deadline.
"The curatorial panel creates a list of five artists from each region; these are selected from the list of nominated artists, and based on their professional knowledge of their regions and of the national art scene. The curatorial panel then meets and chooses one representative from each region to be included on the national shortlist to be announced on May 20, 2008. The panel will choose the winner on October 1, 2008."
"According to 16th Century textual accounts, blue was the color of sacrifice for the ancient Maya... Human sacrifices were also painted blue before they were thrown into the Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá. In addition, blue was used on murals, pottery, copal incense, rubber, wood and other items thrown into the well... Maya Blue is resistant to age, acid, weathering, biodegradation and even modern chemical solvents. It has been called "one of the great technological and artistic achievements of Mesoamerica."
"Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods... The problem is that none of it is true. Margaret B. Jones is a pseudonym for Margaret Seltzer, who is all white and grew up in the well-to-do Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles..."
"The deal, which was signed Thursday, but is being kept under wraps until later this week, will see half of the royalties from the Vancouver Organizing Committee go toward funding national aboriginal youth programs around art, culture, sport and skills development..."
A Canadian evangelist is "taking credit" for screwing the Canadian Film Industry. In a hidden legislative bill, there is now an instrument to retroactively deny funding to any film that "somebody [who?]" finds offensive. That means that some loony, conservative sh*tbag will be able to demand that government grants/other funding be returned, after a movie is made, if he/she/it finds it "offensive". Not a done deal, yet; but disturbing. The conservative federal minority government is really beginning to show its banjo-plucking, hayseed... oh, never mind.
"Draft guidelines would give the Heritage Minister the clout to deny tax credits to projects deemed "offensive" by an independent committee that includes members of the Canadian Audio-Visual Certification Office and the Department of Justice. Several powerful arts groups say the changes violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms."
"... representatives of the international Indigenous community to the American Northwoods to meet with the area tribes, regional activist community and university students to discuss environmental issues from an Indigenous viewpoint."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Very cool animation of cell activity (previously posted).
"[Der Spiegel article] "The continental drift that we observe on the surface of the Earth has its counterpart in the Earth's mantle," explains the professor... "Old, cold plates are pushed down into the Earth's mantle on the continental edges," he explains. "At this point they collect large amounts of iron. You can imagine it as something similar to water condensation." Weighted down by the iron, the plates sink farther and farther into the hot, molten rock until they reach the inner sanctum of the Earth's mantle..."
Bingo-Rage was an inside joke between my Mum and I. She was a diehard, loyal bingo player who passed away a few years ago. Her jones wasn`t the multimillion dollar jackpots bleeding Las Vegas dry, it was the insatiable $50 inside square and the lascivious, yet demure thousand dollar jackpot.
I could always tell when she had missed a big pot; holding onto a card that only needed two more numbers, when the ballcount was only at 36. Or, some such compelling position. She then watched twenty-two balls dance by, sometimes right next door; but fail to light on her stoop. She was steamed.
I smile and declare ``another clear, cut case of Bingo Rage. Tut, tut...``
That earned a harumph and we would run our post-Bingo routine: analysis of the night`s lineup and remembrances of triumphs past.
Unless noted; ideas, images, pics and text are creations of Eric C. Keast / BingoRage Studio (formerly Broken Vulture Art). Clear link to BingoRage.com w/ "Bingorage" in link text fills my standard for Creative Commons attribution.
No commercial use without informing and paying the artist, thank you. :)
