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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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Alaska Journeys
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 From the dense rain forests and slowly retreating glaciers of the south, to the massive mountain ranges and wide rivers of the interior, to the flat, frozen tundra and icy seas of the extreme north, Alaska is unsurpassed in variety and beauty of scenery. It is also home to some of the planet's most fascinating wildlife, whether your interest is birds, sea mammals or bears. And it is peerless in the diversity and abundance of its Native cultures.
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Northwest Meets Southwest
By Lois Sherr Durbin
| Published 03/1/2001
| Tlingit , Tewa , Pueblo , Navajo , Hopi , Haida , Lifeways , Wood Carving , Jewelry/Lapidary , Cultural Items , May/June
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 As Haida Chief Jim Hart and his wife, Rosemary, waited at the Vancouver airport in British Columbia, Canada, last September to greet their guests-a group of Navajo and Pueblo artisans-they were concerned about the rain.
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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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1998 Summer
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In the Inupiat hunt of a bowhead whale, Jo Jo Brower is an equal to her
husband, whaling captain Arnold Brower of Barrow, Alaska. She prepares
for the hunt a year in advance, remembering that a bowhead will give
itself to a whaling crew headed by a captain and a wife who work hard,
share with all, treat the flesh with respect and who are humble
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2004 March/April
By Site Editor
| Published 03/1/2004
| US Travel , 2004 , Creek , Tlingit , Haida , Athabascan , Iñupiat , Nunamiut , Inuit , Blackfeet , Cherokee , Indian Gaming
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Join
us as we journey to the diverse lands, people and events of “Indian
Country” throughout North America. Photos (top to bottom): Paul Hugo
(Nunamiut) in Anaktuvuk Pass; Native Hawaiians on Oahu; Barona Valley
Ranch golf course; Potawatomi Casino lobby.
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2001 January/February
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Painter Steven Yazzie (Navajo), whose Heard Museum mural, “Fear of a
Red Planet: Relocation and Removal 2000,” narrates the horror and hope
of Arizona’s First Peoples.
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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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2001 May/June
By Site Editor
| Published 05/1/2001
| Navajo , Hopi , Aleut , Inuit , Iñupiat , Athabascan , Haida , Tlingit , Anishinaabe , Passamaquoddy , Penobscot , Tewa , Micmac , Ojibwe , Tsimshian , Maliseet , Diné , 2001
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Northwest Meets Southwest
Southwestern
Native artists travel to the Pacific Northwest homelands of the Haida
people, and a group of Haida artists travels to the Southwest, to trade
new methods of creating art, forging bonds of friendship and
discovering their common natures.
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