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2007 January/February
By Site Editor
| Published 01/1/2007
| US Travel , Painting , Beadwork , Cultural Items , Jewelry/Lapidary , 2007 , Colville , Navajo , Oglala , Sioux , Lakota , Kiowa
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Virginia
Boone (Navajo) collects wild plants in Arizona for Medicine of the
People, the company she operates with her husband, Leonard Marcus. She
is one of the small but growing number of Native Americans beginning to
find their way back to traditional Native uses of plants for health and
healing.
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2006 November/December
By Site Editor
| Published 10/31/2006
| Music , Cultural Items , Photography/Graphics , 2006 , Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs , Diné , Comanche , Quechua , Yaqui , Sioux , Seminole , Muskogee , Apache , Tlingit , Haida , Pueblo , Dakota , Blackfeet , Navajo , Cherokee
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Musician and flutemaker Bryan Akipa (Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux) seen here
holding a five-hole, old-style Dakota flute he created around 1984 from
eastern aromatic red cedar he gathered from the Badlands of South
Dakota. Photo by Don Doll, J.S.
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Tradition! Arts and Crafts Revived
By Gussie Fauntleroy
| Published 12/1/2005
| Yokut , Ute , Tlingit , Sioux , Shoshone , Paiute , Navajo , Muskogee , Haida , Diné , Creek , Cree , Confederated Tribes of Umatilla , Choctaw , Cherokee , Gussie Fauntleroy , Wood Carving , Textiles/Weaving , Cultural Items , November/December
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 For many Native artisans, it was the memory of a grandmother’s deftly moving fingers, or a grandfather’s quiet words, that stirred up a powerful desire to learn and carry on an ancient skill perhaps in danger of being lost to the modern world. In some cases, the effort of a single artist—who taught someone else, who then taught someone else—has revived and preserved important ancient Native crafts.
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Rez Biz: Growing Native Economies
By Rob McDonald
| Published 11/1/2003
| Science & Technology , Business , Non Profits , Daniel Gibson , November/December , S'Klallam , Dogrib , Inupiaq , Colville , Kumeyaay , Zuni , Yaqui , Wintu , Sioux , Hochunk , Mashantucket Pequot , Potawatomi , Oneida , Caddo , Choctaw , Chippewa
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 Despite
the recent relative economic success of casino gambling on some Indian
reservations throughout America, Indian Country and Native individuals
generally remain low on the nation\'s economic ladder...
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Rodeo! Cowboys in Indian Country
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 It seems like oil and water, fire and ice—opposites never meant to bond-or an oxymoron, like "jumbo shrimp," but Indian cowboys, or cowboy Indians, are not a figment of our wild imagination. Throughout the Americas, from the pampas of Argentina to the grasslands of Alberta, Indians can be found on horseback, as "cowboy" as any lanky Anglo-American in south Texas pushing through the rough chaparral.
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1999 Winter
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1999 World Champion northern
traditional dancer Tom Christian (Sioux) shows off his son, Thomas Jr.,
on Father’s Day at the Red Bottom Celebration in Montana. When he isn’t
dancing, Tom shares his cultural knowledge with the Poplar, Montana
public school district.
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1993 Winter
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Forty cedar dugout canoes representing 20 tribes participated in the
centennial celebration of Washington’s statehood. Mandi Jones stands in
the bow of the Port Gamble S’Klallam canoe as it arrives in Seattle.
Photo by Alan Berner.
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1990 Fall
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A team runner, Dave Little Bear of Kyle, South Dakota, pushes himself
past Mato Tipila Paha (the Bear Lodge, also known as Devil’s Tower)
during the Sacred Hoop 500-Mile Run. Photo by Eric Haase.
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1990 Spring
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Silhouetted against the cold winter sky, the Big Foot Riders continue
their spiritual journey, honoring those who have gone before. Photo by
Eric Haase.
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2003 May/June
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Walela
Cherokee
hummingbirds Rita Coolidge (left), Laura Satterfield and Priscilla
Coolidge (right) form the trio Walela, one of the finest sets of voices
in music today. Photo by Jill Jarrett.
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2003 July/August
By Site Editor
| Published 07/1/2003
| 2003 , Comanche , Tewa , Sioux , Salt River Pima-Maricopa , Iroquois , Hochunk , Choctaw , Chickasaw , Anishinaabe , Haida , Pueblo , Navajo , Apparel/Fashion
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Native
American fashion sheds its modest garments in favor of a dazzling
wardrobe of novel apparel, such as this dress in bias-cut silk by
Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo). It features Zuni Pueblo dragonfly
designs that illustrate how the insect brought rain to the Earth, with
the short top representing rain clouds and the tie the falling rain.
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2004 November/December
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Ron His Horse Is Thunder (Hunkpapa Lakota), the great great grandson of
Sitting Bull, is filling a major position in today’s battlelines
involving the future of Native culture and life as president of Sitting
Bull College in Fort Yates, N.D. on the Standing Rock Resevation.
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