Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Sunrise, logic, exile

A young Cree man's first Mooz kill is an unusual experience [Warning: graphic pic].

A timeline of current US admin "torture logic".

First female Native US attorney airs her concerns.

Unexplained deaths in residential schools haunt native communities.

Human speech may be "older" than is currently believed. Fossil hominid fossils show evidence of hearing related to speech.

AFN a powerful voice

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Sunrise pics [click to enlarge], Rainy Lake/east Fort Frances. CC - Broken Vulture Art. (Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada license):

Sunrise on Rainy Lake and in Fort Frances. Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage Studios.

Sunrise on Rainy Lake and in Fort Frances. Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage Studios.

Sunrise on Rainy Lake and in Fort Frances. Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage Studios.

Sunrise on Rainy Lake and in Fort Frances. Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage Studios.

Sunrise on Rainy Lake and in Fort Frances. Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage Studios.

Sunrise on Rainy Lake and in Fort Frances. Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage Studios.

Sunrise on Rainy Lake and in Fort Frances. Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage Studios.

Sunrise on Rainy Lake and in Fort Frances. Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Broken Vulture Art. Bingorage Studios.

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Arts Education Grants
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Morrisseau revival highlights Red Lake’s Woodland Art Festival.
"... His larger-than-life legacy was further defined by the memories and images of those who knew him intimately in his early years.

Neighbours shared how he terrified them by showing up at the door in a dress, because his wife had hidden his clothes, in a futile effort to keep the restless nomad at home.

They also shared the tale of his $800 taxi ride home to Northwestern Ontario from Expo ‘67 in Montreal, where he’d been asked to create the design for the Indian Pavillion at the world fair..."

Book review, The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic.

Frank BigBear receives $100 000 Bush Foundation Enduring Vision Award.

The Circle Newspaper (Minneapolis) got a web facelift.

Nice blogpost about visit to Native art exhibit.

The Kingston Prize 2009. Canada's National Portrait Competition.

Sunset Gallery; Kenora, Ontario.

MIT-led team finds language without numbers.

New Tim Giago article, regarding "the other view" of The Wounded Knee incident.

Oneida tribal tales emerge transformed. That Indian nation and others are turning to new mediums to tell their enduring stories.

My spirit is beautiful."

Another Native Blog; Indigenous Politics.

Review of Mary Youngblood - First Lady of the Flute.

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Raccoon and Crawfish. An Oneida Indian Legend Comes To Life.



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The 33rd Annual American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco, CA.
"... currently seeking film and video entries for the 33rd annual American Indian Film Festival. As the nation's oldest and most prestigious venue for American Indian film arts and entertainment, the American Indian Film Festival has earned a reputation for both excellence and integrity..."

Black Cloud, the movie's website.

I've posted this call for submission, separately and in it's entirety.
"... Contributions are sought for a book project that provides a Native voice and/or an American Indian Studies approach to teaching key issues surrounding producing, accessing, and using Native American film and media imagery..."

Native composer, Sandy Scofield.
"Sandy Scofield is Metis/Cree/Saulteaux artist/composer based in Vancouver. She has been performing professionally since 1986 and hails from four generations of fiddlers and singers. She recently released her fourth album Nikawiy Askiy (Mother Earth in Cree)..."

Sherman Alexie interview discussing movie, The Exiles.
"... One of only two features directed by the late Kent Mackenzie, "The Exiles" follows a handful of young American Indians (basically playing themselves) over the course of fourteen hours in Los Angeles. Struggling with city living after leaving reservations where life seemed unsustainable, this diverse bunch of excitable characters find themselves oddly out of place..."

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1 comment:

Faemystique said...

wow, the boy killing the bull moose...

where do you come up with all of these stories... that was good... I would guess us Yankees couldn't rival that story easily...

I am very glad your life is as it should be Crusty... as is my own. Thanks for walking awhile with me, even if I may be the only one who keeps coming around... you still appear in my dreams sometimes... and when you do, I wonder how you are.