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2007 March/April Table of Contents
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Potter Jody Naranjo (Santa Clara Pueblo) of New Mexico displays one of
her remarkable works created using age-old traditional materials and
techniques, but finished in her own, unique style. She will be among
the featured artists demonstrating their work for visitors in the
initial Santa Fe Detours “Roads to Yesterday” tour this coming September.
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Flutes & Flutemakers
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 Like
eating and praying, conveying feeling through music is an essential
human activity. The first instrument, no doubt, was the voice. Soon
percussive and simple wind and stringed instruments echoed and mingled
with the music of the elements: the wind in the trees, the sounds of
water, and the deeper songs of rocks and the earth itself...
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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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Splendor in the Glass
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 “You’re turning, turning. Softly. Okay, stop. Blow. Stand by in three, two, one. Torch it!”
Dancing?
Cooking? No, but to artists such as Tony Jojola and his team of
assistants, the art of glass-blowing is as choreographed as a dance and
demands the precision timing of a chef preparing crème brûlée. Native
American glass art
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2006 July/August
By Site Editor
| Published 07/1/2006
| Antiquities , Painting , Glass , Beadwork , Pottery , Cultural Items , Sculpture , Basketry , 2006 , Seminole , Paiute , Choctaw , Chippewa , Chickasaw , Tlingit , Aleut , Hopi , Pueblo , Navajo , Cherokee
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Benjamin Harjo, Jr. (Shawnee/Seminole) has an infectious sense of mirth
and creative energy, which he pours into his award-winning paintings,
both large and small. Photo courtesy Ackerman McQueen.
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Basketry: Weaving New Life into Ancient Forms
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 Basketry is arguably humankind’s oldest art form. From time immemorial, women and men of the Americas have bent, twined and coiled root, grass and branch into superlative art. Weavers crafted more than just baskets for storing and preparing food, though—they also wove clothing, hats, baby carriers and gambling trays for daily use, gifts, ceremonies and trading.
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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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2005 November/December
By Site Editor
| Published 10/31/2005
| Literature , Cultural Items , 2005 , Diné , Yokut , Ute , Shoshone , Paiute , Muskogee , Creek , Cree , Confederated Tribes of Umatilla , Navajo , Cherokee
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Wayne Price (Tlingit) of Haines, Alaska holds one of the traditional
small paddles once used by hunters to sneak up on their prey that Price
fashions today as a fine arts item—just one of the many handmade and
once obscure crafts making a comeback through the efforts of Native
artisans throughout the continent.
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2005 July/August
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Floyd
Red Crow Westerman (Dakota), star of numerous movies and television
shows, wears a 19th-century Crow war shirt of indigo-dyed wool trade
cloth with ermine fur drops, and holds a Crow tanned-hide rifle case,
circa 1890, with Venetian seed beads.
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1996 Spring
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Mickey Tiger (Seminole) displays a traditional “patchwork” garment she is making in this historic photo, circa 1936.
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2005 January/February
By Site Editor
| Published 01/5/2005
| Painting , Katsinas/Kachinas , Jewelry/Lapidary , 2005 , Bannock , Maidu , Yaqui , Shoshone , Seminole , Luiseño , Choctaw , Hopi , Pueblo , Lakota , Navajo , Cherokee
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This
spectacular dancer, Susan Armijo (Mexica), a member of the Aztec-styled
dance and music troupe America Indigena, led by flautist Xavier Quijas
Yxayotl, enthralled audiences last March at the Heard Museum Guild
Indian Fair & Market and will return for this year’s event.
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NMAI Opens at Long Last
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 As the golden sun rises over the U.S. Capitol, its first rays strike the gentle slope of the National Museum of the American Indian's shallow dome. It then illuminates the graceful curve of an extreme cantilever sheltering the outdoor welcoming area. This fluid, curvilinear building, reminiscent of a Western mesa, is not only golden by reflection, but intrinsically, as the rough-hewn Kasota stone retains its warm amber hue after the sun has passed. Click on "Full Story" to view entire Table of Contents.
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Walela: Cherokee Sisters Sing Their Way to Stardom
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 On February 9, 2002, Walela—the trio of Rita Coolidge, her sister Priscilla Coolidge and Priscilla's daughter Laura Satterfield—sang for their biggest audience, an estimated 4 billion people worldwide, at the opening ceremonies of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games, alongside musicians Robbie Robertson and Jim Wilson.
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Native Scientists Taking Off
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Native Americans are renowned as great artists. Their history as proud and courageous warriors is well known. And they are with equal measures of romanticism and reality revered as mystics exploring the edges of human consciousness and being. But today, laboring in obscurity, they are also electrical, aeronautical, software and materials engineers, research biologists, oil geologists, hydrologists, doctors of medicine, inventors and even astronauts.
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Lloyd Kiva New
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 Lloyd Kiva New’s artistic vision and pragmatic approach set the course for many renowned cultural institutions, including the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, the Heard Museum of Phoenix, the Plains Indian Museum of the Buffalo Bill Historic Center in Cody, Wyoming, and the soon-to-be-opened National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
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Eastern Cherokee
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Just west of Cherokee, North Carolina, a grass-capped dome of earth rises gently from bottom land along the Tuckasegee River. Look closely-it\'s easy to miss. The dome, or mound, used to be much higher, but it has been plowed over many times by farmers, ground down the way eons of wind and rain have smoothed the Great Smoky Mountains looming close by.
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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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1997 Spring
By Site Editor
| Published 03/12/1997
| 1997 , Flathead , Maidu , Oneida , Kuna , Iroquois , Cheyenne , Anishinaabe , Crow , Tlingit , Cherokee
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Wilma Mankiller, former principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of
Oklahoma, is one of 12 women featured in a poster series, “Native
American and Hawaiian Women of Hope,” by photographer Hulleah J.
Tsinhnahjinnie (Seminole/Creek/Diné).
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1996 Fall
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Standing on the site of the forthcoming National Museum of the American
Indian in Washington, D.C. are (left to right) John Colonghi (Aleut),
campaign director, and W. Richard West (Southern Cheyenne), founding
director.
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1995 Summer
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Mark Lopez works on the bas-relief sculpture of the main altarpiece of
the San Xavier del Bac Mission just south of Tucson, Arizona. Photo by
David Burckhalter.
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1993 Fall
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Geronimo, played by Wes Studi (Cherokee), leads his band across the
Arizona desert in a new film from Columbia Pictures. On his left is
Ulzana, played by Victor Aaron. Photo by Sam Emerson.
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1991 Winter
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Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse (Lakota) in the role of Smiles A Lot in the film Dances With Wolves.
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1989 Fall
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Natives of Siberia, U.S.S.R., play centuries-old rhythms on walrus-hide drums. Photo by Paul Schurke.
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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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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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2002 November/December
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Astronaut John Herrington (Chickasaw)
The first Native American tribal member in space blasts off November
10. And a look at the national organization that has played a pivotal
role in their careers—the American Indian Science and Engineering
Society. Photo courtesy NASA.
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