Perhaps things are not quite as bad as the wailing would suggest.
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Native Artstuff:
Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination. National Museum of the American Indian; Through September 3.
You lucky ducks down in the Mini-Apple... Puppet Rampage 2007! Twin Cities, July 17-22.
A new photo exhibit at the Allan Houser Gallery in Downtown Santa Fe.
"The Allan Houser organization has announced that is hosting an exhibit of noted photographer Lee Marmon’s photo session with Allan Houser from early 1991. Marmon, one of America’s best known and acclaimed Native American photographers spent a day with Houser following the sculpture and painting master’s process. The result is a unique portrait of a one of the world’s best known artists at ease with his work and with the photographer."
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I knocked-over the Bass Trickster sculpture and had to repair it, so I have started to make some major additions, as well. Pics click to enlarge:
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Latest incarnation of Krustayn Versus Mecha Sasquatch:
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Random News, resources and stuff:
If you have a favourite internet radio station, you may want to contact your political reps to help save it. Save Net Radio
Eastern tribes investing in Lacrosse.
Standing Silent Nation PBS look at South Dakotan Sioux farmer trying to get out of poverty by farming industrial h3mp, under the assumption of tribal sovereignty, and the government crackdown that followed.
An Obit for Manitoba Native activist, Dave Brophy
"I bring terrible news that Dave Brophy, member of the Winnipeg Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement, member of the New Socialist Group, and dear friend, has suddenly died. I first met Dave at a political study group in Winnipeg in the summer of 2004. He had been a supporter of the blockade against clearcutting in Grassy Narrows territory since its inception in December 2002. He was clearly outraged by injustices that he had witnessed in building solidarity with the Anishinaabe people of Grassy Narrows, and was struggling to come to grips with what history and theory can teach about strategies for social change that could address oppression and environmental destruction. He came to the conclusion that the system of profit and competition that is capitalism is the root of these destructive forms. His knowledge of indigenous communal traditions inspired him to fight for an alternative society..."
3'rd century salt miner found preserved, in Iranian salt mine.
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