Tuesday, March 11, 2008

spring broke

Has Winnipeg done economic and social violence to Shoal Lake #40 First Nation? [flash presentation]

Shoal Lake #40 homepage.

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LittleWarriors.Ca
"a charitable organization with a national focus that educates adults about how to help prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse."

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Information clearinghouse, Wikilkeaks, asking for boycott of domain name registrar, for censorship and privacy issues.

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Peyote-stitch "Cellini Spiral" beadwork necklace with glass and turquoise beads. [Pics click to enlarge]

Peyote-stitch Cellini-Spiral beadwork necklace with glass and turquoise beads. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage studio.

Peyote-stitch Cellini-Spiral beadwork necklace with glass and turquoise beads. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage studio.

Peyote-stitch Cellini-Spiral beadwork necklace with glass and turquoise beads. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage studio.

Peyote-stitch Cellini-Spiral beadwork necklace with glass and turquoise beads. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage studio.

Peyote-stitch Cellini-Spiral beadwork necklace with glass and turquoise beads. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage studio.

Peyote-stitch Cellini-Spiral beadwork necklace with glass and turquoise beads. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage studio.

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Fargo Film Festival interview with documentary moviemaker Sandra Osawa
"... 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."

Aboriginal plays deliver vital messages to students.
"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..."

Talented Native artist -Richard Kamalatisit- left mark on art world

Another Native Blog, In-Shuck-ch's Space.

"In The Spirit" Northwest Native Art Market & Festival. June 28-29, 2008. Application deadline for art vendors is April 21, 2008.

Norval Morrisseau to be honoured at Aboriginal Achievement Awards

Interview/article about Joanne Bird.

De-ba-jeh-mu-jig ("Storytellers" in Cree & Ojibway) Theatre Group
"... 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."

Another Native Blog, Metis Bare Facts.

Republic of Lakotah. Still declared independent.
"... 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..."

Slideshow and audio, Crow "hand game".

Tim Giago article, "Disenfranchising the Oglala Lakota People".

Cool "steampunk" -styled bear skull, at MissMonster's livejournal.

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Scott Sigler's Infected, gets the paper treatment, April 1, 2008.



One of my fave podcasters. Dig the Sigler Spew.

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Hebrew University researcher: Moses was tripping at Mount Sinai.

PDF Text of the scholar's article. [Link may be time limited.]
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NY Times article, The $2 Trillion Nightmare.
"... 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."

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