Saturday, February 09, 2008

sunsets, snow, spew and steel

Apparently, the Mohawk Nation News website has been hijacked. Will update, when more info. is available

MNN

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Some random Pither's Point Park pics. A few nice sunset shots (against the pulp/paper spew). [Pics click to enlarge.]
Just a reminder: Pics on my site are released under a Creative Commons Share-alike,Attribution,Non-commercial license (check out the sidebar).
Short form: Please credit for use on your site and link back, don't sell without agreement.

Pither's Point Park. Bingorage Studios. Broken Vulture Art.

Pither's Point Park. Bingorage Studios. Broken Vulture Art.

Pither's Point Park. Bingorage Studios. Broken Vulture Art.

Pither's Point Park. Bingorage Studios. Broken Vulture Art.

Pither's Point Park. Bingorage Studios. Broken Vulture Art.

Pither's Point Park. Bingorage Studios. Broken Vulture Art.

Pither's Point Park. Bingorage Studios. Broken Vulture Art.

Pither's Point Park. Bingorage Studios. Broken Vulture Art.
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New powwow grounds proposed for Rapid City, South Dakota.
"the proposed facility would include a circular performance area with a stage and lighting. That structure would hold about 500 people and could accommodate between 1,000 and 2,000 people with the addition of city-owned bleachers.
East of the performance area would be an "outdoor living-history re-enactment area" and an art market..."

Amusing story at PrairieMary; BET ON THE BLACKFEET GRANDMA.

2008 NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH SERVICES LITERATURE AWARD

Call for arts; Derivative Composition, March 321, 2008.
"VSA arts is seeking visual artists with disabilities whose work is inspired by the performing arts.
Work must have a visual component. Eligible media include, but are not limited to two- and three-dimensional art"

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Why would a classroom be brought to tour a police station? Presumably; to see how police officers work, to present police work as a viable career and, in our modern day, present police officers as real people doing jobs and not as enemies to be avoided and feared.

However, the lesson rendered to a Thunder Bay, Ontario class last November, probably presented itself thusly: "Do not trust the pigs. They manufacture reasons to illegaly detain you; especially if you are Native."

Oops. Nice work officers.
"touring the city police station last November with his Dennis Franklin Cromarty Secondary School classmates when he was taken aside and questioned after a plainclothes officer spotted him wearing a Warchief Native Apparel sweatshirt, a brand apparently favoured by some native street gangs...
legal counsel believes the decisions made after the Thunder Bay Police Services' investigation were flawed, from the decision to label the uniformed officer's role as "relatively minor" to the failure to follow procedure set out in the Police Services Act.
"A police officer stood by and watched a fellow officer wrongfully detain, and then illegally search a youth. Such condemnation on the part of a police officer constitutes a neglect of duty and discreditable conduct..."

Warchiefz Native Apparel and their Myspace page.

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