School fights to revive native Canadian language.
"... The number of speakers, they're dying off all the time, like every year," said Elva Jamieson, who learned the language as a child from her family, but wasn't allowed to speak it at school. "It gets lonely when you don't have someone to talk to."
Jamieson is a teacher at the Gaweni:yo High School, part of the same Cayuga language immersion program that also includes Jacobs' kindergarten class, as well as a parallel Mohawk language program..."
How do you grow a glacier? Tribal peoples of the Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountains may have a method. Marriage.
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Progress on the "ruffled peyote stitch" necklace, from previous posting.
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New bracelet, with same stitch.
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Human Culture Subject To Natural Selection, Study Shows. By studying and comparing "functional, versus decorative" features of polynesian canoes, scientists have found statistical evidence for an evolutionary analogy that seems intuitive, but has "lacked the numbers". The article uses "natural selection" in the title, but the type of selection is debatable.
"Statistical test results showed clearly that the functional canoe design elements changed more slowly over time, indicating that natural selection could be weeding out inferior new designs. This cultural analysis is similar to analyses of the human genome that have been successful in finding which genes are under selection..."
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Winnipeg artist, KC Adams, is participating in a show, ANTHEM- Perspectives on Home and Native Land, at the Banff Centre; Walter Phillips Gallery. February 16 - May 11, 2008.
[Quote from Ryan Rice] "Each artist explores the idea of “anthem” through a wide-angle lens, broadening the national discourse to include not only colonial histories, but also distinctive and multicultural liberties that take various forms..."
Clues to another South American pre-Columbian civilisation is being unearthed in the coastal desert of Peru.
"... people learned a new way of life here in the valleys. Culture grew more complex. Trade flourished. Coastal people brought shellfish — the shells Haas found in the desert — and took back squash and cotton. And they brought their labor to help build the mounds. It was massive architecture on a scale never seen before in the New World..."
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Is your printer, spying on you?
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